Bruce J. Wecker

Experience

Antitrust/Competition

• O’Bannon v. NCAA – Trial and appellate victory ending the NCAA’s agreement to deny student-athletes compensation for the use of their names, images, and likenesses. $40 million settlement reached with defendant Electronic Arts, Inc.
• Kellogg Company - Shared Monopoly Case – (Federal Trade Commission, D.D.C.) – FTC sought to establish the power to regulate highly concentrated industries under Section 5 of the FTC Act even where no collusion was proven. The FTC sought to break Kellogg into four companies based on the claim that it had shared a cereal monopoly with three other major cereal manufacturers through parallel, non-collusive activity. The FTC ultimately dismissed the case, after the administrative law judge ruled in Kellogg's favor on nearly every disputed issue of fact.
• Southern Pacific Comm. Co. v. AT&T – (U.S. District Court, District of Columbia; U.S. District Court, Northern District of California). Case alleging monopolization of long distance telephone service for the founder of Sprint service in a parallel case to the Department of Justice case that resulted in the breakup of the AT&T and the Bell System.
• Sullivan v. National Football League – (U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit). The former owner of the New England Patriots NFL Franchise challenged the league's policy forbidding public ownership of member clubs.

Intellectual Property

• Burst v. Microsoft – Alleging theft of trade secrets and breach of a non-disclosure agreement, as well as patent infringement and antitrust violations relating to streaming media.
• Privasys, Inc. v. MasterCard International Inc. – Alleging patent, trade secret and contract claims for a start-up technology firm developing a electronic payment card with a programmable magnetic stripe.
• Fullview v. Microsoft – Alleging infringement of 360º camera patents.
• Apple, Inc. v. Burst.com – Alleging patent infringement based on features of the iPod and iTunes products.
• BackWeb Technologies v. Microsoft – Alleging patent infringement for feature including in the Windows operating system.
• BackWeb Technologies v. Symantec, Sybase – Alleging patent infringement for products to automatically update software for enterprise customers.
• Implicit Networks v. Microsoft, HTC, Oracle, Sun, IBM, and others – Alleging patent infringement of application server, data processing and graphical user interface patents.