Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs
Accolades | February 13, 2026
The AmLaw Litigation Daily
In a closely watched patent case in the decentralized finance community (or DeFi, for those of you in the know), a team led by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partners Josh Krevitt and Stuart Rosenberg and Latham & Watkins partner Patricia Young scored a defense win for Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation. U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl in Manhattan this week granted their motion to dismiss infringement claims brought by Bprotocol Foundation and LocalCoin Ltd. under two related patents for a “constant product automated market maker” system. The judge found that the patents are directed at the unpatentable abstract idea of calculating currency exchange rates to perform transactions. The Gibson Dunn team representing Uniswap Labs includes partners Kate Dominguez, Ben Hershkowitz and Brian Rosenthal, of counsel R. Scott Roe and associates Ryan Jin and Evan Kratzer. The Latham team representing the Uniswap Foundation includes Gabriel Bell, Sean Gloth and Di Ai.
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