Morrison & Foerster represents a broad cross-section of the hardware industry, including manufacturers and marketers of computer
systems and peripherals; consumer electronics; data storage systems; displays; and electronic components. The firm represents
hardware companies at all stages of their growth, from newly formed start-ups to worldwide technology companies.
The firm has handled a wide range of matters for hardware clients, including venture capital financing; IPOs and other capital
market transactions; mergers and acquisitions; strategic alliances and joint ventures; complex financial transactions, such
as vendor finance programs; protection of intellectual property; labor and employment; real estate, land use and environmental;
and tax.
Morrison & Foerster has more than 60 attorneys and patent agents with advanced degrees (Ph.D., M.S., M.A.) in technology areas
including material science, electrical engineering, semiconductor design, and computer science and computer engineering.
The firm’s technology transactions practice represents clients both in the U.S. and internationally in the acquisition, disposition,
licensing and outsourcing of computer hardware. Morrison & Foerster’s litigators represent hardware sector clients in matters
such as antitrust; consumer class actions; intellectual property litigation; product liability; and securities litigation.
Among Morrison & Foerster’s hardware industry clients are Apple Computer, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Nikon, Ricoh and Seagate
Technology.
