Steven P. Basileo

Steven P. Basileo has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of business litigation, including high-stakes antitrust, business tort and contract matters.

Steven also has extensive experience litigating a broad range of intellectual property matters, including patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and licensing disputes involving a wide range of technologies, including flash memory, dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), semiconductors, processors, field-programmable gate arrays, cell phones, televisions, computer monitors, disk drives, navigation technology, network security protocols, wireless networks, computer peripherals and software codecs. 

Steven is deeply experienced in:

• Business litigation, including contract, business tort and antitrust matters
• Intellectual property litigation

Steve’s notable experience includes his representation of:

• The Yucaipa Companies in litigation arising out of the attempted purchase of the assets of The Weinstein Company.

• A former executive of a global payment processing company in pursuing claims for breach of contract arising from the executive’s departure from the company, resulting in a multimillion-dollar settlement.

• Next Century Partners, a leading real estate company that owns and develops notable resort and hotel properties, in multiple disputes with Webcor and several of its subcontractors concerning the $1.5 billion retrofit of the Century Plaza Hotel and the construction of two new 40-story condo towers.

• SK hynix, as lead antitrust law strategist and trial team member, in defense of a $12 billion antitrust claim involving an alleged international DRAM price-fixing cartel; obtained a complete defense verdict.
• Bausch Health (formerly Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.), as lead trial counsel, in arbitration concerning an IP licensing dispute; obtained an eight-figure arbitral award and the dismissal of a counterclaim.
• Bausch Health (formerly Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.), as second-chair trial counsel, in an international arbitration concerning intellectual property contributed to a public-private joint venture; obtained a nine-figure arbitral award and the dismissal of a nine-figure counterclaim.
• Advanced Micro Devices in AAA arbitration concerning an eight-figure IP licensing dispute; obtained summary judgment dismissing all claims.
• IBM in a massive series of patent infringement actions involving 18 patents covering a broad array of disk drive technologies.
• Samsung in patent infringement actions involving a range of technologies, including network security protocols, navigation software and configurable CPU registers.
• International Rectifier Corporation in a patent infringement action involving MOSFET technology.
• Top Victory Electronics in patent infringement actions involving various technologies relating to television and computer monitor chipsets.
• Belkin Corporation in a patent infringement action involving signaling technology for computer peripherals.
• An institutional investor in a securities fraud action involving a failed internet startup; obtained a multimillion-dollar settlement.
• An international bank, as lead counsel, on the appeal of an eight-figure state court award in a breach of contract matter; the judgment was affirmed.
• An international bank, as lead counsel, in a multimillion-dollar breach of contract action; obtained summary judgment.

Thought Leadership

• Author, "Lexmark International, Inc. v. Impression Products, Inc. – The Latest on Patent Exhaustion," March 16, 2016

Member, Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association

Member, Antitrust Section of California State Bar