Morrison & Foerster maintains one of the most active semiconductor practices of any international law firm, with extensive
experience in all aspects of the semiconductor and semiconductor equipment industries.
The firm’s attorneys represent a wide variety of integrated circuit device and component companies, semiconductor core and
semiconductor intellectual property vendors, electronic design automation tool vendors, independent device manufacturers,
merchant fabs and foundries, manufacturing services companies, fabless design companies, packaging, assembly, and test houses,
semiconductor tooling and equipment companies, electronics manufacturing services, and OEMs and systems vendors that purchase
and integrate semiconductor products.
The firm has helped structure, negotiate, and document numerous transactions in the semiconductor area, including the licensing
of semiconductor patents and other key intellectual property. The firm has more than 60 attorneys and patent agents with advanced
degrees (Ph.D., M.S., M.A.) in technology areas such as material science, physics, electrical engineering, semiconductor design,
and computer science and computer engineering.
In addition, the firm has represented and advised semiconductor industry clients in a range of other matters, including joint
ventures and strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private equity and venture capital investments,
and litigation.
The firm’s semiconductor industry clients include Advantest, Altera Corp., Cavium Networks, Credence Systems Corp., DSP Group,
Fujitsu, Intel, Matsushita, Micrel, Novellus, PMC-Sierra, SDL Corp. (now part of JDS Uniphase Corp.), Siliconix, Synopsys
and Toshiba.
