Bilal Malik represents clients in all facets of commercial litigation. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Bilal served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Dale A. Drozd of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Before that, he served as a litigation fellow with the ACLU of Northern California.
Bilal earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley. During law school, he served as a judicial extern for Judge Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, as a law clerk with Muslim Advocates, and as a certified law student with the East Bay Community Law Center’s Youth Defender Clinic.
We defended Dexcom in the District of Delaware where Abbott asserted a dozen patents targeting Dexcom’s G6 continuous glucose monitoring technology. The Keker team narrowed the case to four patents prior to trial, including by invalidating an Abbott patent at summary judgment, and excluded Abbott’s expert testimony regarding reasonable royalty damages. Following a two-week trial, the jury invalidated another Abbott patent and found two were not infringed. The Court also declined to let the Jury consider damages on the remaining patent, cementing a defense victory for the Keker trial team.
On behalf of Instacart, we have successfully defended against numerous class and collective actions across the country alleging that that shoppers who use Instacart’s technology platform should be classified as employees rather than independent contractors. We have won a number of early dispositive motions in these cases, including motions to compel individual arbitration and to enforce class and collective action bars.
The Daily Journal has named Keker, Van Nest & Peters's trial win for Real Intent among the 2024 Top Verdicts in California. Read more
Keker, Van Nest & Peters partners Bob Van Nest, Sharif Jacob, Sophie Hood and Ryan Wong reflect on the firm’s biggest trial wins which earned its place among Law360’s 2024 Trials Groups of the Year. Read more
A Keker trial team, led by Bob Van Nest, successfully defended Real Intent, Inc. in a San Jose federal court, achieving a favorable outcome in a complex breach of contract case. After securing a decisive copyright fair use ruling in August 2024, they convinced the jury to award only nominal damages, far less than the claimant’s demands. Read more
Law360 has reported that a Delaware federal jury has cleared Dexcom, represented by Keker, Van Nest & Peters, of infringing two glucose monitor patents owned by an Abbott Laboratories unit, while finding infringement of one that was not willful. It hung on a fourth. The trial was overseen by Third Circuit Judge Kent A. Jordan in the U.S. District of Delaware, who decided a second trial will be held to determine any damages. Read more