Andrew Perito is a trial lawyer for Morrison Foerster, focusing on intellectual property litigation.

Andrew has significant experience representing clients in patent infringement actions and related Patent Office proceedings, including day-to-day management of cases from inception through trial and appeal. His cases have spanned a variety of technical areas, such as genomics research tools, medical devices, high-speed printing, web security and encryption, database programming and interface design, web search and advertising, ecommerce, audio, video, and mobile telecommunications, and optical routing. In one competitor case, Andrew led summary judgment arguments over multiple days that resulted in summary judgment of invalidity due to anticipation or obviousness of all asserted claims--more than forty claims across four medical device patents.

Andrew has also handled intellectual property disputes involving trade secret, trademark, copyright, and employee mobility issues, including internal investigations, arbitration, and litigation. And he has represented defendants in multiple actions under California’s Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act, including at multi-week evidentiary hearings and trials in which he handled direct and cross examinations of dozens of witnesses and multiple technical experts.

In the criminal defense space, Andrew has served as assigned counsel under the Criminal Justice Act and represented privately-retained clients in defending against juvenile, misdemeanor, and federal felony charges, including handling of related civil claims.

Andrew earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and finalist in the Jerome Michel Mock Jury Trial competition. During law school, Andrew was a judicial extern for the Honorable Barbara S. Jones at the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York and for the Honorable Sonia M. Sotomayor, then at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was also a Criminal Defense extern with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. Andrew received an A.B. in government from Harvard College.