Brett Schuman is the chair of the firm’s San Francisco office and the former head of the Litigation Department for Goodwin's California offices. He is a partner in the firm’s IP Litigation Group, focusing his practice on patent and other IP litigation in all of the federal and state courts in California, the Eastern District of Texas, the Eastern District of Virginia, the District of Delaware, and in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Schuman’s patent litigation practice comprises patent cases on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants across the technology industry. He serves as lead partner and lead trial counsel in patent infringement litigation matters involving mobile phone technology, broadband communications technology, semiconductor fabrication and circuitry, wearables and pharmaceuticals. He has also served as lead counsel in several litigations involving patent license agreements. He also is admitted pro hac vice with respect to numerous post-grant review proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”), and he has argued in final hearings there.
Mr. Schuman’s practice also comprises copyright and trade secret litigation, including trade secret litigation relating to employee mobility and trade secret litigation between competitors. Mr. Schuman also counsels clients regarding trade secret and related matters where there is no litigation pending.
Mr. Schuman also is co-chair of the firm’s Cannabis practice.
Mr. Schuman’s recent work includes representing:
*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.
Prior to joining Goodwin in 2014, Mr. Schuman was a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in San Francisco, where he led that firm’s litigation practice in its San Francisco and Palo Alto offices and was deputy leader of its IP practice. Before beginning his private practice, Mr. Schuman served as a law clerk to the Honorable Alan B. Handler of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey.
Mr. Schuman was named by IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2017 as one of the world’s leading patent litigators.
(cum laude)
(Phi Beta Kappa)
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