Jennifer L. Barry

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Jennifer L. Barry

services assisting auto dealerships with Latham & posting advertisements to Craigslist. Watkins LLP Craigslist Inc. v. DealerCMO Inc., 16- cv01451, (N.D. Cal., filed March 23, San Diego 2016). DealerCMO was accused of improperly Practice: Intellectual swapping in new cars on postings in property litigation which the original vehicles had sold and not paying the required fees for new Specialties: Internet and postings. The parties agreed in October digital media, trademarks, to a stipulated judgment and permanent copyright, trade secrets injunction that included $1.75 million in damages and attorneys’ fees for Craigslist. Barry also represented Craigslist in a suit against 3taps Inc. that alleged the company scraped Craigslist data and made it available to different sites. In arry relishes the opportunity to 2015, 3taps and other companies agreed help internet giants and mobile to pay $3.1 million, and a permanent B applications navigate a legal injunction was entered. Craigslist Inc. v. landscape featuring statutes that didn’t 3taps Inc. et al., 12-cv03816, (N.D. Cal., contemplate how businesses would use June 30, 2015). new technology. “What is of paramount importance is on confidential terms, Barry said the “I find it very challenging, but also very that Craigslist’s users and their users’ litigation raised interesting questions exciting, to see how we can apply old law postings are treated with the respect that about employees’ use of cloud storage to new scenarios,” said Barry, global co- they should be shown,” Barry said. services for work-related materials. chair of Latham & Watkins’ intellectual Barry has represented the ride-hailing The former Lyft COO had used Dropbox property litigation practice. “It has been app Lyft Inc., including in a suit against the to store some work documents, but when a very interesting ride.” company’s former chief operating officer he closed the Dropbox account following Her representation of Craigslist who left for rival Uber Technologies Inc. his departure, the materials stored there Inc. has forced Barry and her team to The complaint alleged breach of could no longer be recovered, Barry said. confront a wide array of legal issues, and contract and breach of fiduciary duty Lyft had a pending motion for spoliation they have achieved positive outcomes for stemming from the former officer’s of evidence when the case settled. the prominent client. alleged copying and retention of Lyft’s “A company needs to be very careful in The company filed a federal infringement, confidential information.Lyft Inc. v. dealing with the departure of an employee dilution, cybersquatting and breach of Travis VanderZanden, CGC-14-542554 who leaves to work for a competitor,” contract lawsuit against DealerCMO Inc. (S.F. Super. Ct., filed Nov. 5, 2014). Barry said. for use of its CRAIGSMAX brand to offer Though the suit ultimately settled — Lyle Moran