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Apr. 14, 2016
Charles E. Townsend, Jr., one of Silicon Valley's pioneering intellectual property litigators, died on April 5.
Bay Area litigator is widely regarded as instrumental in bringing back jury trials in patent suits
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Charles E. Townsend, Jr., one of Silicon Valley's pioneering intellectual property litigators, died on April 5. He was 96.
Co-founder of Townsend and Townsend with his older brother, Stephen, in the late 1950s, Townsend was among a small, yet instrumental group of IP lawyers that pushed for jury trials in patent cases in an era in which such cases were predominately deci...
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