Ken Brakebill is a partner in the Litigation Department of Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office. Mr. Brakebill is engaged in a general commercial litigation practice. He has been involved in a broad array of complex litigation matters, predominantly intellectual property disputes, and also a range of other matters including securities, construction, insurance coverage and consumer class actions. He has extensive trial experience.

Mr. Brakebill has spent a significant amount of his time representing technology company clients in industries such as semiconductor chip design, semiconductor chip manufacturing, computer networking and enterprise infrastructure software. Clients have included Altera Corporation, BEA Systems and Novellus Systems. These representations have included patent infringement actions, copyright-related matters, breach of contract actions, and cases involving tortious interference with contract and unfair business practices claims. Recently, Mr. Brakebill has also represented public companies in internal investigations and SEC investigations.

Mr. Brakebill has been involved in a number of trials representing plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state court. Recently, he participated in a trial in the United State District Court, Northern District of California, which resulted in a unanimous jury verdict for the firm’s client, a $36 million judgment and a permanent injunction order. In that case, the jury found that the defendant infringed the semiconductor chip designs of the firm’s client and tortiously interfered with its software license agreements. Mr. Brakebill’s other recent trial work has included the successful resolution of a patent infringement action between two semiconductor chip designers in the Northern District of California; and a $5 million damages award on behalf of a semiconductor equipment manufacturer in a breach of contract action against a competitor.

Mr. Brakebill received his A.B. degree, with honors, in 1991 from Stanford University, where he was also a Rhodes Scholar Finalist. Mr. Brakebill received his J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings, in 1997, after completing his third year of law school at Harvard Law School. At Hastings, Mr. Brakebill was a member of the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal , which in 1996 published his note, “The Application of Securities Laws in Cyberspace: Jurisdictional and Regulatory Problems Posed by Internet Securities Transactions.”

Mr. Brakebill joined the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster LLP in 1998 as a litigation associate after serving one year as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert G. Flanders, Jr., of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.