Mr. Pichler is Of Counsel in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP and a member of the firm’s Technology Transactions Group. His practice focuses primarily on commercial transactions involving technology and intellectual property. Among other things, Mr. Pichler advises companies in the computer and IT, semiconductor, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries with respect to in- and out licenses, complex cross licensing arrangements, development, collaboration, manufacturing, supply and distribution agreements, and other transactions.

Mr. Pichler has specific expertise in international intellectual property and commercial law including European Union and German law. He is admitted to practice in New York, California, and Germany and has advised clients from the United States and abroad in a variety of international transactions and with respect to global intellectual property protection strategies.

Mr. Pichler served as adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where he taught International Intellectual Property Law and has published several books and articles in the field of intellectual property and technology law. In 2005/2006, Mr. Pichler took an academic leave from Morrison & Foerster to serve as the Global Engelberg Fellow from Practice at the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy at New York University’s School of Law where he conducted research on issues surrounding the patent exhaustion and implied license doctrines.

Mr. Pichler received his law degree (J.D.) from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 1995. He also holds a J.S.M. (Master of the Science of Law) degree from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. (Dr. iur.) from the University of Münster, Germany. He joined Morrison & Foerster in 2000.