Bryan Wilson is a litigation partner in the Palo Alto office of Morrison & Foerster, where he began working after graduating from Stanford Law School in 1988. Bryan’s practice encompasses a wide variety of civil litigation, working with companies at all stages of maturity.

In the intellectual property area, Bryan has handled many trade secrets and patent cases. Recent representative trade secrets cases include defending Restoration Hardware in a trade secrets case brought by Williams Sonoma, Inc., defending Integratus, Inc. against trade secret misappropriation claims brought by Veritas, Inc., defending Phoenix Biosciences Inc. in a state court suit brought by Kumetrix, Inc., and prosecuting a claim of trade secret misappropriation by Open Harbor, Inc. Representative patent cases including defending semiconductor equipment manufacturer AST Elektronik, Inc. in a case involving rapid thermal processing equipment and processes, defending consumer electronics seller PQI USA, Inc. in a case involving flash memory cards, and defending Ecolab, Inc. in cases involving food processing techniques.

Most recently, Bryan defended Silicon Genesis Corporation in a case brought by a competitor in District Court in Massachusetts. A jury invalidated the major claims of the patent that were asserted against Silicon Genesis. The verdict was upheld, and the other side’s petition for rehearing was denied, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in December 2003.

Bryan has also worked on a wide variety of securities matters, including insider trading cases, internal investigations, and fraud claims.

Bryan has extensive experience in arbitration proceedings in forums including the American Arbitration Association, JAMS/Endispute, and private arbitration proceedings. Most recently Bryan led a team that represented a plaintiff in a breach of contract action in a AAA arbitration proceeding and was awarded its full demand, including attorneys’ fees. In another recent case Bryan represented a defendant in a private arbitration proceeding in which the plaintiff was awarded only five percent of its multi-million dollar damages claim.

In addition handling litigation and trial matters, Bryan works closely with the firm’s corporate lawyers and clients to advise clients on how to avoid or resolve disputes without resort to litigation.

For the past several years, Bryan has served as a Judge Pro Tem and arbitrator for the Santa Clara County Superior Court. He has written on a variety of topics including protective orders, recent court decisions involving trade secrets law, and aspects of the attorney-client privilege.

Bryan is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. Before entering law school he worked for the Save San Francisco Bay Association and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.