Mr. Kramer is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Department. His practice concentrates on complex commercial litigation and trials, with a particular focus on intellectual property matters, including patent litigation and negotiations for high-technology clients. He has handled cases for clients in a broad range of technology industries, including computers, networking, and semiconductors. Mr. Kramer has represented numerous corporations in intellectual property disputes and trials, including Altera Corporation, EchoStar Corporation, Denon Electronics, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp., Funai Electric Co. Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Synaptics Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation. Mr. Kramer has represented both plaintiffs and defendants.
Mr. Kramer received his B.A., cum laude, in 1982 from Lawrence University and his J.D., cum laude, in 1987 from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as notes and comments editor of the Wisconsin Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He is a member of the intellectual property sections of the American Bar Association and California Bar Association. He is a frequent author and speaker on intellectual property issues, and is routinely listed in San Francisco Magazine as one of Northern California’s Super Lawyers in Intellectual Property Litigation.