Mr. Buxton is an associate in the San Diego office of Morrison & Foerster LLP. His practice focuses on patent litigation and prosecution. His experience spans a wide range of technology, encompassing software development, medical instrumentation, image and signal processing, wireless communications, and satellite broadcasting.

Since joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Buxton has been involved in numerous high technology cases, including:

Broadcast Innovation v. EchoStar Communications Corp. Mr. Buxton was a member of the team defending EchoStar in a patent infringement case filed in the District Court for Colorado with respect to data broadcasting and conditional access patents. The Court declared the conditional access patent invalid after ruling in EchoStar's favor that the asserted claims were indefinite under 35 U.S.C. Section 112.

TIVO v. EchoStar Communications Corp. Mr. Buxton was a member of the team defending EchoStar in a patent infringement case filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas with respect to the time warping and storage of MPEG-2 video streams in receiver boxes. Mr. Buxton’s analysis involved examining not only the hardware elements of the Echostar settop boxes, but also reviewing the TIVO and Echostar source code responsible for operating the devices.

Acacia Media Technologies v. EchoStar Communications Corp . Mr. Buxton is a member of a joint defense team defending cable and satellite broadcasters in a patent infringement case filed in the District Court of California with respect to the compression and transmission of video to receiver units. The MPEG-2 algorithm is a specific importance in this case.

McKesson Information Solutions v. Bridge Medical, Inc. Mr. Buxton was the key technology member of the team analyzing the Bridge software systems compared to the asserted McKesson patents. Mr. Buxton’s analysis also included becoming intimately familiar with the origins and operations of handheld and tablet hardware and software, including wireless operations in an 802.11 network.

Tandis Research, Inc. v. Chipcards, Inc. Mr. Buxton was responsible for reviewing the allegedly infringing smartcard assembly equipment, combining electrical, mechanical, and software engineering aspects.

QLogic Corp. v. Emulex Corp. Mr. Buxton worked with the Emulex engineers to analyze storage area networks (SANs) and fibre channel switches allegedly infringing. This analysis involved analyzing circuit diagrams and the electrical properties of individual transistors and diodes.

In addition, Mr. Buxton is proficient in nearly all major programming languages, which he utilizes in cases involving source code review.

Mr. Buxton received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in a double major of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1995, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1997. He then went on to earn his Masters of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Juris Doctorate from Northwestern University Law School in 2002.

Prior to starting with Morrison & Foerster, he founded a software development company, which grew to service clients internationally in a wide range of applications under the ten years of his direction. Mr. Buxton’s company developed a wide range of applications on a variety of Microsoft and Apple operating system platforms. As the chief architect of all the software applications, Mr. Buxton has intimate knowledge of all Microsoft operating systems, Visual Studio, Office Products, SQL Server, Access, and Microsoft application communications features and protocols.

Mr. Buxton is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).