Patent Law

IP Associate - Law Firm - Los Angeles, Calif.

By Dennis Crouch

 The Los Angeles office of Morrison Foerster has an immediate opening for an Intellectual Property associate with 3-4 years of experience.  Patent litigation experience is required, and a technical degree in either Computer Science or Electrical Engineering is strongly preferred.  (Patent Bar is a plus.)  Excellent academic credentials, strong writing skills and excellent interpersonal skills are also required.  We are willing to pay relocation costs.  

Contact:
Interested applicants should contact the firm via email at: LAAttyRecruit@mofo.com or by mail below. Morrison & Foerster is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Nisha Pecolatto 
Morrison & Foerster LLP 
555 W. Fifth Street, Suite 3500
Los Angeles, CA  90013

Fax: (213) 892-5454

Additional Info:
Employer Type: Law Firm
Location: Los Angeles, California

The Firm ? About MoFo

Morrison & Foerster is a global firm with over 1,000 lawyers across 18 offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia.  Founded in 1883, the firm remains dedicated to providing our clients, which include some of the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and technology and life sciences companies, with legendary service.  Our attorneys share high standards; a commitment to excellence and a passion for helping our clients succeed.

The Firm ? About MoFo Los Angeles

The Los Angeles office of Morrison & Foerster was opened in 1974 and is currently comprised of more than 100 lawyers who provide domestic and international clients with a complete array of litigation, business, and labor services.  In addition, our lawyers have developed particular expertise in highly specialized practice areas and emerging industries unique to Southern California.

The Practice ? Intellectual Property Litigation

Morrison & Foerster offers clients a world class litigation practice on the protection of patents and other intellectual property.  The firm has one of the largest intellectual property practices of any general practice firm, with approximately 350 lawyers providing a full range of services, including representation in patent and trademark prosecution, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and business and licensing transactions.  The firm?s intellectual property litigators have won high-stakes cases involving disputes over key patents and other intellectual property for clients such as Altera Corp., Apple, EchoStar, Novartis, Novell, University of California, and Yahoo!.  

Morrison & Foerster?s intellectual property litigation practice is known for its excellent courtroom skills, its ability to analyze the key issues in a case and develop a novel solution.  In Managing IP?s latest rankings of the top law firms in this field, Morrison & Foerster was one of only a small number of full-service firms (as opposed to IP boutiques) included in the Top 25 based on volume of U.S. contentious and non-contentious matters.  The firm?s practice is ranked by independent observers as one of the top intellectual property practices in the world.  In 2007, the firm?s Intellectual Property practice earned the Tier 1 ranking by Chambers USA and US Legal 500 ranked it as a leading firm for patent litigation and patent prosecution non-contentious/transactional.  

Morrison & Foerster works closely with clients from the earliest stages of their technical development, offering valuable advice about how to protect their inventions and ideas in view of business strategies.

The firm is often called upon to advise clients on complex licensing, patent clearance, and adversarial matters, as well as to provide strategic business counsel regarding the development of products or technologies that may allegedly infringe patents held by competitors or require the negotiation of royalty payments.  The firm?s teamwork approach ensures that litigation clients whose cases include scientific or other complex issues will benefit from the integration of the firm?s patent prosecution practice with its IP litigation practice.  Clients can rely on the firm?s deep and talented pool of litigators, including many of the most renowned trial attorneys in the U.S., who are based in all of the firm?s major offices.

Lawyers in our Los Angeles office practice in the fields of business litigation, including patents and other intellectual property, antitrust and unfair competition, and dispute resolution for technology companies.

These attorneys have represented several foreign and domestic companies in patent litigation in U.S. courts and before the International Trade Commission (ITC).  Additionally, we have handled a large number of copyright, trademark and unfair competition matters on behalf of domestic and international clients, including a leading CD/DVD replicator, a Big Five accounting firm, a major telecommunications company, an airline, a major toy manufacturer and a number of Japanese electronics and food products companies.

These include jury and bench trials, arbitrations, and numerous Federal Circuit appellate arguments.   Currently, attorneys are involved in many patent infringement actions involving software and consumer electronics technologies, including spreadsheet and database software, billing software, voice over the Internet, microprocessors used in television, post-production video editing technologies, and various medical devices.

Full post as published by Patent Law Jobs by Patently-O on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).