Andrew E. Monach has a trial and arbitration practice, with special emphasis on intellectual property and other commercial disputes involving high-technology clients. Mr. Monach's recent patent litigation practice includes plasma display, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, biotechnology, chemical, semiconductor processing, and medical device cases. His civil jury trial practice also has included several complex fraud cases, disputes between electric utilities and independent power producers, securities and breach of fiduciary duty litigation, and other commercial disputes. He also represents clients in disputes concerning software development and software copyright infringement and technology licensing. He is a lecturer in continuing education and trial practice courses for lawyers.

Mr. Monach received his B.A. degree from Stanford University in 1976, where he was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979. Mr. Monach associated with Morrison & Foerster in 1979 and became a partner in the firm in 1985. From November 1984 to March 1985, he served as a Deputy Public Defender trying serious felony cases in the San Francisco Public Defender's office.

For several consecutive years, Mr. Monach has been selected as a Northern California "Super Lawyer" in Intellectual Property Litigation.

• Pioneer v. Samsung and Hitachi Plasma Patent Licensing v. LG Electronics.
  Currently representing two major manufacturers of plasma televisions as plaintiffs and counterclaim defendants in multiple patent infringement suits.
• White v. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Obtained summary judgment of non-infringement for Hitachi GST on hard disk drive patent.
• JSR, Inc. v. Tokyo Ohka Kogyo, Inc. Represented defendant in patent infringement suit involving multiple patents covering photoresists (chemicals and methods used in semiconductor fabrication). Final judgment entered in favor of client following several successful motions for summary judgment on maximum damages period, invalidity, and non-infringement.
• Lucent Technologies v. Aspect Communications and Aspect Communications v. Lucent Technologies. Represented Aspect in defending and asserting patent infringement actions involving call center equipment, call routing software, and computer-telephony integration. Represented Aspect in acquiring patent portfolio and asserting patents in counter-suit. Litigation resolved by cross-license following assertion of counter-suit.
• Teknowledge v. Trilogy Software. Represented defendant in patent action involving product configuration software. Summary judgment of invalidity entered in favor of client.
• Anwar, et. al., v. Arterial Vascular Engineering, et. al. Represented defendants in case alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, state securities law violations and other tort and contract claims relating to formation and royalty buyout for successful medical device company. Case settled on confidential terms after three weeks in jury trial.