David Simantob (Partner-Los Angeles) and David Morrow (Of Counsel-Los Angeles), after briefing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, obtained affirmation of an order of the U.S. District Court granting our insurer client’s motion for summary judgment and denying the insured’s motion for summary judgment, finding there was no duty to defend or indemnify in connection with an underlying action. In a Memorandum Decision, the Ninth Circuit affirmed that the Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition exclusions in our client’s policies applied to preclude coverage for an entire action involving not only presumptively excluded IP misappropriation, copyright violations and unfair competition claims but also allegedly covered disparagement and breach of a settlement agreement. In enforcing the insurer’s Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition exclusions according to their plain meaning, and broadly excluding coverage for an entire suit if it includes any IP or unfair competition claims, the court provided the first appellate decision in the country to uphold its particular IP and unfair competition suit exclusions.