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Brian C. Cannon Brian C. Cannon Quinn Emanuel 555 Twin Dolphin Dr. Suite 560 Redwood Shores California 94065 work(650) 801 5000 briancannon@quinnemanuel.com Download vCard Silicon Valley Office Tel: 650-801-5000 Fax: 650-801-5100 briancannon@quinnemanuel.com Practice Areas Intellectual Property Litigation Education Cornell Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1994) Cornell Law Review Editor Order of the Coif Cornell University (B.A., Biology, 1991) Publications and Lectures "Patent Litigation," 2004 PLI Conference "Intellectual Property Due Diligence and the Emerging Company," Venture Capital Rev. (Spring 2001) "Towards a Clear Standard of Obviousness for Biotechnology Patents," 79 Cornell Law Rev. 735 (1994) Prior Associations Shearman & Sterling, Menlo Park Partner, 2004-2005 Fish & Neave, Palo Alto Partner, 2003-2004 Associate, 1997-2003 Law clerk to the Hon. John L. Coffey, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1995-1996 Admissions The State Bar of California; The State Bar of New York; The State Bar of Illinois	Send to a friend Biography Brian Cannon's focus is intellectual property litigation, in particular patent infringement actions. He has litigated and tried numerous patent and trade secret cases, involving medical devices, laser scanning microscopes and semiconductor processing techniques. He was formerly a partner at Shearman & Sterling, and before that, Fish & Neave. Representative Clients Becton Dickinson Bio-Rad Nellcor Palm Roche Molecular Systems Samsung Symyx Notable Representations Represented Palm Inc in defeating a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction filed against it for trademark infringement. Represented Symyx in defeating temporary restraining order related to trade secrets. Represented medical device company successfully asserting its immunoassay patent portfolio against competitors in United States District Courts and private arbitrations. Currently representing Roche Molecular Systems in a patent case involving HIV diagnostic kits. Co-authored an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Time-Warner Inc., IAC/Interactive and Viacom Inc. in KSR International v. TeleFlex, No. 04 1350, decided April 30, 2007, concerning the standard for obviousness for patents. Co-authored an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Affymetrix, Inc. and Professor John Barton in support of petitioner in Laboratory Corp. of America v. Metabolite Labs., No. 04-607, decided July 24, 2006, concerning the patentability of DNA gene patents. Co-authored an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Time-Warner Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Google Inc. and others in support of petitioner in eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange, No. 05-130, decided May 15, 2006, concerning the Federal Circuit's automatic injunction rule in patent cases.

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