Krista M. Hosmer

Associate
khosmer@sommerspc.com
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Krista is an attorney in Sommer Schwartz' Business Litigation department. Krista has extensive experience representing entities in intellectual property, complex commercial business, trade secrets and employment litigation. In addition, Krista has successfully prosecuted and defended a wide variety of contract disputes, consumer protection claims, civil rights violations, and real property disputes. When Krista is not engaged in the practice of law, she devotes much of her time to Special Olympics and Breast Cancer Awareness/fundraisers.

Education:
Wayne State University Law School, JD
Albion College, BA

Areas of Practice
Business and Commercial Litigation
Intellectual Property Litigation

Bar Admissions
State of Michigan
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Honors and Awards
Wayne State University Law School - Order of the Coif
Wayne State University Law School - Law Review Associate Editor
Wayne State University Law School - Recipient of the Norman Leemon Award

Representative Matters
Flo Healthcare Solutions, LLC v. Rioux Vision, Inc., U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division - Represented a Georgia manufacturer of mobile clinical workstations in its lawsuit against a South Carolina corporation for willful patent infringement.

Specialty Vehicle Acquisition Corp. v. Am. Sunroof Corp., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan - Obtained a permanent injunction on behalf of Plaintiff SVAC prohibiting Defendants American Sunroof Corporation and Dmitri Chevtsov from using, displaying, advertising, copying, imitating and/or infringing upon Plaintiff's trademarks. In addition, secured an Order requiring Defendant American Sunroof Corporation to transfer its <ASCusa.com> domain name to Plaintiff.

Indep. Bank Corp., et al. v. Walder, et al., Ionia County Circuit Court, Michigan and Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois - Represented a publicly traded Michigan bank in related state court cases in Illinois and Michigan on the Bank's multimillion dollar indemnification claim for accounting improprieties, misrepresentations, and breaches of the merger agreement against former shareholders of a Chicago-based company acquired by the Bank. Also defended the Bank against the former shareholders' claims that the Bank failed to pay the required merger consideration. Negotiated a settlement for the Bank resulting in the dismissal of the claims of the former shareholders and a $2,800,000 payment to the Bank by the former shareholders.

RoMan Eng'g Serv., Inc. v. Orsette, Oakland County Circuit Court, Michigan - Represented a leading provider of expert welding services in its trade secrets case against a former employee.