Alison Tucher has a complex commercial litigation practice with an emphasis on intellectual property matters. She has handled patent cases for a variety of technology clients, licensing cases, trademark actions, and a range of other commercial disputes.
Ms. Tucher's cases are in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, district courts around the country, and California courts. Her trial practice at Morrison & Foerster has resulted in numerous successes, some with precedential results. For example, in In re EchoStar 448 F.3d. 1294 (Fed. Cir. 2006), she successfully established the scope of work-product immunity for opinion counsel's papers.
In her career as a criminal trial lawyer, Ms. Tucher tried 19 criminal cases to juries in Santa Clara County. She later won the freedom of a man wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he did not commit.
While earning her B.A., Ms. Tucher was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and recipient of the Harry S. Truman and Herschel Smith Scholarships. In law school, she was elected to the Order of the Coif, and was also a Book Review Editor for the Stanford Law Review.
Ms. Tucher currently teaches Trade Secret Law at Stanford Law School.