Amy H. Candido - California - Lawyer Profile

Position:

Partner

Address:

2475 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA, 94304

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Telephone:

+1 650 251 5030

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Rating:

Litigation Star

Jurisdiction:

California

Practice area:

Intellectual property

Biography

Amy Candido is Head of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. An accomplished trial lawyer, she has secured victories in numerous high-stakes, complex trade secret, patent, and other IP matters across a variety of industries, including the internet, mobile, computer hardware and software, semiconductor, networking, storage, aerospace, gaming and life sciences sectors. Her successes in courts around the country include obtaining a defense jury verdict in a trade secret case seeking over $450 million in damages in the District of Delaware, securing three defense jury verdicts in Eastern District of Texas patent cases collectively seeking more than $1 billion in damages, and winning a $238 million plaintiff’s jury verdict in a complex patent and breach of contract trial over satellite technology in the Southern District of California. Amy’s trial victories have been recognized by Benchmark Litigation, The National Law Journal, The Recorder, Daily Journal and Managing IP, among others. She was recently named among Daily Journal’s “Top Intellectual Property Lawyers” and “Top Trade Secret Lawyers,” and recognized as a “Recommended” Practitioner in World IP Review’s Global and USA Trade Secrets Rankings. Amy serves on the Steering Committee of the Sedona Conference’s Working Group on Trade Secrets and is a recognized thought leader in the IP space.

Updated Oct 2025

Recent matter/case highlights

Secured a nationwide, one-year preliminary injunction for Frontdoor that bars Frontdoor’s former employee from working for a competitor in breach of his non-compete agreement.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, after taking on the case just six weeks before trial, Amy secured a complete defense jury verdict of $0 for Inhibrx Biosciences and co-founder Dr. Brendan Eckelman in a high-stakes trade secrets case seeking over $450 million in damages regarding bispecific immuno-oncologic antibody treatments for cancer.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Amy obtained rare rulings imposing a pre-discovery trade secret identification requirement and granting dismissal of trade secret claims for failure to plead reasonable measures in the District of Oregon for defendant Convoy, Inc., leading to a favorable confidential settlement.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Amy obtained a complete defense jury verdict of invalidity and non-infringement in a patent infringement lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas involving AI software for use in internet advertising, defeating plaintiff’s claim for $128 million in damages.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Amy secured a jury verdict of $283 million for plaintiff Viasat in a complex patent and breach of contract lawsuit in the Southern District of California involving high-speed broadband satellite technology.