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Irvine – April 7, 2025: The Daily Journal has named Crowell & Moring’s Kent B. Goss and Jon Gurka as Top Intellectual Property Lawyers in California in 2025. The annual list recognizes California lawyers who have made significant contributions to intellectual property law over the past year.

Crowell & Moring elected 12 new partners effective January 1, 2025. The firm also promoted four lawyers to the senior counsel and 25 associates to counsel.

Crowell & Moring ranked nationally in 21 practice areas in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” In addition, the firm was ranked in 36 metropolitan categories.

Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that firm client BMW Group has achieved a zero-payment dismissal with prejudice in two cases brought by Infogation Corporation (“Infogation”) against Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (“BMW AG”) and BMW of North America, LLC (“BMW NA”) involving U.S. Patent Nos. 10,107,628; 8,898,003; 8,406,994; and 6,292,743 (“Patents-in-Suit”), before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Managing Intellectual Property has recognized four Crowell & Moring attorneys and practices in its 2024 IP Stars guide. The guide, which is in its sixth edition, “brings together the world’s foremost law firm and corporate trademark experts, allowing the wider community to benefit from their insight, experience and perspectives.”

Judy He, a Chicago-based counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Patents Group, has been named to the American Bar Association’s 2024 “On the Rise” list. The awards honor young ABA members “who exemplify a broad range of high achievement, innovation, vision, leadership, and legal and community service.”

Jon Gurka joins Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Department, bringing nearly three decades of intellectual property law experience, with a focus on complex patent litigation.

Crowell & Moring ranked nationally in 20 practice areas in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” In addition, the firm was ranked in 39 metropolitan categories.