Mr. Comer is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s San Diego office. His practice focuses on patent litigation. He also has extensive experience in litigating licensing, copyright, trademark, and trade secret cases. He has appeared in trial courts in Orange County, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston, in arbitrations with JAMS and AAA, and in appeals in the Federal Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, the California Court of Appeal, and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. He is an instructor at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

• Represents General Atomics and Carolina Liquid Chemistries in a declaratory relief case filed against Axis-Shield of Norway for noninfringement of four patents relating to homocysteine assays. Won two motions for summary judgment of noninfringement. Axis-Shield has appealed to the Federal Circuit.
• Represents General Atomics in the District of Colorado in a patent infringement suit brought by Competitive Technologies. Succeeded in getting the U.S.P.T.O to reexamine the patent and the district court to stay the case.
• Coordinated the defense of Acon Laboratories in sixteen patent infringement cases brought by Inverness Medical Switzerland in the U.S., U.K., and Germany for alleged infringement of nine U.S. patents and their European counterparts relating to immunoassays. Although Inverness had won a preliminary injunction prohibiting Pfizer from selling its e.p.t product, it never succeeded in stopping Acon’s operations. Inverness ultimately agreed to acquire Acon.
• Defended Syntron Bioresearch against claim of patent infringement by Abbott Laboratories. Second-chaired a three-week jury trial, which resulted in a verdict of noninfringement on all claims.
• Represented the Regents of the University of California and two professors in dispute over rights to invention relating to plasmon resonant particles.
• Represented Syntron in trade secret and trademark case against former employees accused of stealing monoclonal antibodies, hybridoma cell lines and production processes. Co-chaired trial that resulted in $12.5 million judgment and a permanent injunction.
• Led the defense of H.J. Heinz in trade secrets case involving machinery for making Weight Watcher’s Pizza.
• Defended H.J. Heinz against an individual who claimed to have invented and patented the "trap cap" used on Heinz ketchup bottles. Case was dismissed on summary judgment.