Benjamin Ahn

Benjamin Ahn represents corporations facing complex commercial, antitrust, and intellectual property disputes in all stages of litigation.

Prior to joining Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, Benjamin was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

While at Cornell Law School, Benjamin served as the online editor for the Cornell Law Review. He also served as president of the International Arbitration Society and vice president of the National Security Law Society.

Benjamin is a founding member of the Ithaca Tenants Legal Hotline (formerly, Ithaca Housing Hotline), a service that provides free legal advice to tenants on issues including lease disputes, housing conditions, and evictions.

Benjamin is fluent in Korean.

Notable Cases

• Aerospace start-up Zunum Aero Inc., winning a jury verdict finding Boeing liable for $81.3 million for misappropriating substantial trade secrets related to the development of electric and hybrid-electric aircrafts. Post-verdict proceedings are ongoing.
• A spirits conglomerate in a Section 1782 petition and, separately, in defending a commercial tort action.
• A security monitoring company in patent litigation in the Eastern District of Texas as part of a broad set of patent litigations spanning five jurisdictions and involving more than 40 patents.
• A technology start-up in antitrust litigation in the mobile app space.

Writings

• “Relationship Between Human Mammaglobin mRNA in Peripheral Blood and Overall Survival in Breast Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” Journal of Oncology Translational Research (2016) (co-author)
• “Effects of Renal Replacement Therapy in Patients Receiving Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Meta-Analysis,” The Annals of Thoracic Surgery (2015) (co-author)
• “Incidence, Prevalence, Survival of Moyamoya Disease in Korea, a Nationwide, Population-Based Study,” Stroke Journal (2014) (co-author)