He represents small and large companies in litigation involving complex science and technology, including pharmaceuticals and other life sciences, telecommunications, aerospace, speech recognition and consumer electronics. Mr Skiermont was lead trial counsel for the patent owner and exclusive licensee in a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Apple’s Siri personal assistant of infringing a natural language processing patent owned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The case was settled on the eve of trial with Apple paying $25 million for a non-exclusive licence. Mr Skiermont is also counsel for the Coalition for Affordable Drugs in its novel strategy challenging several patents that prevent generic competition to branded pharmaceutical products.