Mr. Londen’s is a trial lawyer with almost 30 years of experience in patent litigation and other areas of complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts at the trial court and appellate levels. He has also handled many commercial arbitration matters arising from merger and acquisition transactions. In addition, he has led significant cases involving public education, civil rights, and other public interest matters.

Mr. Londen has been recognized for his work, including listings as one of The National Law Journal’s 2006 “Top 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America,” in The Best Lawyers in America (2006-2008), as a recipient of the 2005 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award for Civil Rights from California Lawyer Magazine, and as one of the “Ten Best Lawyers in the San Francisco Bay Area” by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003.

Mr. Londen’s cases include:

• Anvik v. Nikon
  Morrison & Foerster is defending Nikon against patent infringement claims regarding lithography machines used in fabrication of flat panel displays. Mr. Londen is lead counsel for Nikon. The case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Sarei v. Rio Tinto
  Morrison & Foerster obtained the dismissal, on constitutional grounds, of mass tort claims against mining giant Rio Tinto Corporation. The claims, asserted in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles under the Alien Tort Statute, are based on events on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, where civil strife in 1989 closed the company’s copper mining operations there and lasted until a U.N.-brokered peace in 1997. Mr. Londen argued the dismissal motion and the appeal to three-judge and en banc panels of the Ninth Circuit, where the matter is pending.
• Nikon v. ASML
  After Nikon lost an action it had brought in the International Trade Commission, Nikon retained Morrison & Foerster as trial counsel in a companion action in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Morrison also supervised related litigation in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Mr. Londen led the Nikon team together with Harold McElhinny. The dispute settled in November 2004 after defendants ASML and Carl Zeiss SMT, A.G. agreed to pay Nikon $145 million. Decisions from this action are published at 308 F.Supp. 3d 1039 (2004) and 222 F.R.D. 2d 647 (2004).
• Williams v. State of California
  Mr. Londen was co-lead counsel for a class of all students in public elementary and high schools in the State of California with too few textbooks and instructional materials, crowded, unsafe, or unhealthy school facilities, and too few qualified teacherASML and Carl Zeiss SMT, A.Gs. After four years of litigation and months of settlement negotiations, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the State Legislature enacted five statutes to implement a settlement recognizing new standards for schools and securing approximately $1 billion in funding for implementation.
• AMERCO Consolidated Derivative Litigation
  Morrison & Foerster and Mr. Londen represent the corporation in derivative litigation at the trial court level and in the Supreme Court of Nevada, recently obtaining the dismissal of the consolidated cases.
• Leica v. Nikon
  With Mr. Londen as lead counsel for Nikon, Morrison & Foerster successfully defended Nikon in a patent infringement case involving microscope design in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
• Estate of Hillblom
  Morrison & Foerster represented the executor of the estate of a founder of DHL Corporation in the Probate Court of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. For the last year of the proceedings, Mr. Londen served as lead counsel for the executor in the main probate proceeding and over thirty collateral lawsuits and arbitrations in multiple jurisdictions, involving hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, bringing all of the proceedings to a successful close.
• ITC Investigation of Altera
  Participated in the successful defense of Altera Corporation in an International Trade Commission investigation and hearing based on allegations of patent infringement involving programmable logic integrated circuits.
• Action Technology v. Novell
  Obtained a summary judgment for Novell in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, and an affirmance in the Federal Circuit, on patent infringement allegations brought by the assignee of a patent related to groupware software.
• Target Therapeutics v. Boston Scientific
  Representing the patentee in a patent infringement case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California involving interventional neuroradiological catheters, Morrison & Foerster obtained a preliminary injunction against two large competitors of the patentee. One of the competitors then agreed to acquire the patentee while the case was on appeal.
• Northern Telecom v. Samsung
  Morrison & Foerster and Mr. Londen represented Northern Telecom in a successful case in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco asserting claims of infringement of a fundamental patent on plasma etching technology in semiconductor fabrication.

Mr. Londen is the President of the Consortium for the National Equal Justice Library in Washington, D.C., and the President of the Public Interest Clearinghouse in San Francisco. He has served as Co-Chair of the National Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights Under Law, a founder of Lawyers for One America, Chair of the California Commission on Access to Justice, Chair of Californians for Legal Aid, Chair of the Legal Services Section of the State Bar of California, and Chair of the Legal Services Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He is a member of a number of other nonprofits’ boards of directors.

Mr. Londen has received awards for his public interest work from organizations including the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the State Bar of California, the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Center for Youth Law, California Rural Legal Assistance, the San Francisco Eviction Defense Collaborative, and the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Mr. Londen was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1953. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1975, magna cum laude, and his J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1978. He is a member of the bars of California and Arizona. He served as law clerk to the Honorable William W Schwarzer, U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California, during 1979 and 1980. In 1980, Mr. Londen associated with Morrison & Foerster. He became a partner of the firm in 1984.