Mr. Schwartz is a partner of Morrison & Foerster LLP and a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions Group. His practice concentrates on the representation of companies in business transactions and counseling involving intellectual property and technology, including licensing, development agreements, distribution and commercialization activities, joint ventures, and outsourcing and other services arrangements. He was co-head of Morrison & Foerster’s Intellectual Property Group from 1990 to 1997, served as managing partner for operations of the firm from 1997 to 1999, and has been back in full-time practice since 2000.

Mr. Schwartz has been particularly active on transactional and counseling matters relating to computers (including hardware and both open source and proprietary software), communications equipment (including wireless communications devices, television set-top boxes and infrastructure, and Internet-based telephony and television), semiconductors and other electronic devices, the Internet, electronic commerce, and other advanced information technology. For example, he represented Novell in its patent arrangement and strategic relationship with Microsoft relating to open source software, in the formation of Open Invention Network, a company formed by Novell, IBM, Philips, Red Hat and Sony to promote the Linux operating system by using an innovative model for patents, and in Novell’s dispute with The SCO Group concerning Unix-related copyrights; Sprint Nextel in its agreements with Qualcomm, Motorola and other companies in connection with the development, licensing, and deployment of technology for the next generation of Sprint Nextel’s wireless telecommunications services; Nokia in its planned joint venture with Sanyo Electric to combine the two companies’ CDMA mobile phone businesses; Chartered Semiconductor in its arrangements with IBM for the development and licensing of semiconductor manufacturing technology and related foundry activities; Qwest in a variety of intellectual property and information technology matters, including the intellectual property and technology aspects of Qwest’s sale of its Dex directory publishing business in a $7.05 billion leveraged buyout, Qwest’s agreements with IBM and Hewlett-Packard for the establishment and outsourcing of Internet services facilities, and Qwest’s strategic relationship with BellSouth; Time Warner Cable in the establishment and licensing of standards for next-generation digital cable television in the U.S., including negotiations with Sun Microsystems and Microsoft; Eagle River Investments, Craig McCaw’s investment company, in the acquisition of a controlling interest in ICO Global Communications (and the related restructuring of arrangements with Hughes Network Systems and NEC to supply infrastructure equipment for the ICO system); Teledesic in its agreements with Motorola and other vendors for the planned development of the Teledesic low earth orbit satellite network; and Fujitsu in its microprocessor-related technology arrangements with Intel and the establishment of its $1 billion joint venture with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for the development and manufacture of flash memory devices.

He also has represented numerous other clients in patent licensing matters, including Altera, BEA Systems, DoubleClick, Matsushita/Panasonic, Stanford University, Toshiba, and Yahoo!. In addition, he has represented various other entities, including Advent Software, Atmel, Bank of America, Charter Communications, IPWireless, Reliance Communications, Saba, Sanrio, Silicon Genesis, Trilogy Software, and Visa, in connection with information technology and intellectual property matters.

Mr. Schwartz is listed in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories as a leading information technology lawyer and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America as a leader in the field of information technology law.

Mr. Schwartz has spoken widely on information technology and intellectual property issues. For example, he has lectured annually in the MBA program at Oxford University, and has been a visiting fellow of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. He also has lectured at the University of California (Boalt Hall) School of Law, Stanford Law School, University of Southern California Computer Law Institute, Licensing Executives Society and American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Mr. Schwartz received his B.A. degree, with high honors, from Amherst College in 1976. He studied Japanese language and history from 1976 to 1977 at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He then worked in Tokyo and Hong Kong as a reporter and editor for the Asian edition of The Wall Street Journal from 1977 to 1980.

He received his J.D. degree, with honors, in 1983 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review. He then served as a law clerk to Judge John D. Butzner, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He joined Morrison & Foerster in 1984 and became a partner of the firm in 1990.