White & Black legal performed superbly on a complex and sensitive engagement. Tom and his team educated us on the relevant risks and helped guide the actions towards a calm resolution. Responses were very efficient and drafting was carefully worded such that little effort on our part was required at each iteration. I highly recommend W&B for sensitive patent work.
Adrian Tate – CEO, NAG
Background
A team led by Tom Carver at White & Black was recently able to extract a retraction of a threat regarding patent litigation proceedings, made in unusually public circumstances. Often threats are made in correspondence directly to the secondary infringers but in this case, the patentee had prominently displayed a poster on its booth at an international industry conference. The matter was resolved by an open letter of retraction from the patentee, together with a payment from the patentee to Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).
About the Client
NAG provides industry-leading numerical software and technical services to banking and finance, energy, engineering, and market research, as well as academic and government institutions. World-renowned for the NAG® Library – the most rigorous and robust collection of numerical algorithms available – NAG also offers Automatic Differentiation, Machine Learning, and Mathematical Optimization products, as well as world-class technical consultancy across HPC and Cloud HPC, code porting and optimization, and other areas of numerical computing. Founded more than 50 years ago from a multi-university venture, NAG is headquartered in Oxford, UK with offices in the UK, US, EU and Asia.