Mr. Overson is currently the head of the 175-attorney Litigation Department in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office. His practice has focused on complex litigation involving technological, scientific, and medical issues.

Recently, he successfully defended a laser company in a 3-month trade secret and patent jury trial in Silicon Valley. In 2007, after achieving a favorable arbitration ruling, he obtained a settlement of over $50 million on behalf of a GPS company in a trade secret and licensing dispute. He represented Chiron Corp. in an arbitration pertaining to its patent on a diagnostic test for HIV. The case settled after the hearing with Chiron receiving payments of over $100 million. He currently is defending Bayer Healthcare in two separate patent cases involving blood glucose monitors. In the case brought by Abbott Laboratories, the Court granted Bayer's summary judgment motion on the issue of laches.

Mr. Overson has also represented a blood product manufacturer, an analog circuit chip maker and several software companies in patent litigation.

Mr. Overson graduated from Reed College in 1988, and received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1991. He also studied at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin, Germany, and is fluent in German.

• Represented GlaxoSmithKline in a false advertising class action case involving a cold sore medication.
• Achieved a settlement of over $9 million for client in a case involving accounting fraud.
• Defending 3M, obtained the first order excluding a medical expert’s opinion for lack of a scientific basis in breast implant litigation in the state of California, resulting in a nonsuit.
• In Alvarez v. Fountainhead, 55 F.Supp.2d 1048 (N.D.Cal. 1999), obtained a preliminary injunction ordering a preschool to train its staff to accommodate a 4-year-old boy with asthma.