Ms. Gold has a complex commercial litigation practice with particular focus on intellectual property, contract, and licensing disputes. She has represented clients in fields as diverse as biotechnology, financial services, athletic shoe design, ultrasound, semiconductors, and computer cryptography software. Her litigation experience includes cases involving patent infringement, patent licensing, partnership dissolution, contract and licensing disputes, trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement defense, non-competition agreements, and business torts. She recently returned from an extended leave of absence from the firm, during which time she served as Associate General Counsel to Cylink Corporation, a Silicon Valley company manufacturing computer cryptography equipment, software, and Public Key Information (“PKI”) systems. While at Cylink, Ms. Gold was involved in all aspects of in-house legal work, including contract and license negotiations, corporate governance issues, mergers and acquisitions, employment, and intellectual property.

Ms. Gold’s recent clients include Toshiba Corporation, Charles Schwab & Company, Varian Medical Systems, and Healtheon Corporation (now WebMD). Her recent experience includes the following matters:

• Lexar v. Toshiba Corp. et. al. Lexar has filed suit against Toshiba Corporation and two of its United States subsidiaries alleging misappropriation of trade secrets relating to NAND Flash memory products. Ms. Gold has day-to-day responsibility for coordinating Toshiba’s defense of the case. Both parties have asked for trial dates by the end of 2003.
• Charles Schwab & Co. v. Advent . When Advent notified mutual clients that it intended to stop its support for a Schwab/Advent interface and migrate them to a new Advent product, Schwab sued in San Francisco Superior Court to enforce the terms of its development agreement with Advent. Schwab obtained a preliminary injunction shortly after the case was filed, requiring Advent to continue its support while Schwab developed a replacement interface. The case was eventually settled before trial.
• Healtheon/WebMD v. Fotsch . Ms. Gold represented Healtheon in this dispute with one of its former officers, a Vice President who founded a rival medical website based on a business opportunity he had been pursuing for Healtheon. Shortly after the case was filed, Healtheon obtained a temporary restraining order and writ of attachment, requiring the defendant to return over 15 boxes of materials he had taken from Healtheon. The case was settled before trial.
• SRI v. Advanced Technology Laboratories, Inc . Ms. Gold represented research institution SRI in this patent dispute, which was litigated through summary judgment, two trials, and two appeals. The case resulted in a $35 million judgment for SRI, based on a finding of willful infringement and the resulting trebling of damages.
• Ms. Gold was born in Westwood, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1984, and her Masters in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. Ms. Gold was pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at Berkeley and had completed all of the requirements for that degree except a dissertation when she entered Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Ms. Gold graduated from Boalt in 1991, where she received the Stephen Finney Jamison Award for oral advocacy, and the McBaine Moot Court Award for best brief. She joined Morrison & Foerster’s Palo Alto office in 1991, and became Of Counsel to the firm in 1999, after the birth of her first child.