Pretty impressive legal resume for Brandon Baum, glad he's on our side:

Brandon Baum combines a superb understanding of high technology with extensive jury trial experience. His forte is distilling and simplifying complex concepts to make them accessible to judges and juries. Brandon has served as lead counsel in patent cases, Markman hearings, mediation, and arbitrations, and has first-chaired numerous jury and court trials. He has litigated disputes in a wide array of technologies.

Since 2002, Brandon has served as an adjunct professor at U.C. Hastings, teaching an upper-division course in Patent Litigation. He also serves on the ADR panel of the Northern District of California as a court-appointed Early Neutral Evaluator and Mediator for intellectual property cases. Brandon was an IP partner in the Palo Alto office of Mayer Brown from 2005-10, and before that was a partner in the patent litigation group at Cooley LLP.

Representative matters include:

• Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., 2009 WL 102808 (N.D. Cal.) Representation of YouTube/Google in its efforts to obtain DMCA “notice and takedown” requests to the YouTube website.
• Island IP, LLC v. Promontory Interfinancial Network, LLC (S.D.N.Y.) Prosecution and defense of parallel patent litigations involving competing business method patents for bank deposit services.
• Intelligraphics. Inc. v. Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) Representation of Marvell Semiconductor in a case involving allegedly infringing software incorporated into Marvell’s wireless 802.11 chips.
• Tegic Communications, Inc. v. Zi Corporation (N.D. Cal.) Represented Zi Corporation against patents allegedly covering predictive text entry software used in the Nintendo Wii.
• Cryptography Research v. VISA International (N.D. Cal.) Representation of VISA against patents allegedly covering cryptographic protection of smartcards.
• FusionArc, Inc. v. Pay by Touch (N.D. Cal.) Representation of biometric payment system provider.
• University of Texas v. Kyocera Wireless, et al., 533 F.3d 1362 (Fed. Cir. 2008) Represented wireless handset manufacturer against patent covering predictive text entry.
• IpVenture v. Prostar Computer, et al. (C.D. Cal.) Represented laptop computer maker against patent on methods for thermal and power management of computers (ACPI).
• Nazomi v. ARM Ltd. (N.D. Cal.) Represented patentee on patent for Java™ acceleration hardware for embedded devices.
• Procter & Gamble v. Clorox (S.D. Ohio) Represented Clorox against article of manufacture patent for P&G’s Febreze.
• Nvidia v. Microsoft (S.D.N.Y.) Represented nVidia in 5-day arbitration concerning the performance and pricing of graphics chips used in the Xbox.
• IPLearn cases (N.D. Cal) Represented patentee asserting e-learning software patent portfolio against major e-learning companies.
• Perfect 10 v. iBill, 340 F.Supp.2d 1077 (C.D. Cal. 2004) Obtained summary judgment for online payment provider against copyright infringement allegations.
• In re Red, 96 Fed.Appx. 229 (5th Cir. 2004) Successful trial and appeal of bankruptcy matter.
• Evergreen, et al. v. GATX, 52 Fed.Appx. 940 (9th Cir. 2002) Trial over alleged aircraft design defect.

Education

• University of California, Hastings College of Law, J.D., 1985 (Comm/Ent Law Journal)
• University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1982

Memberships

• American Bar Association, IP Law Section
• Intellectual Property Owners Association, Litigation Committee
• IEEE Computer Society
• AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell
• Who’s Who in the World (Marquis)
• Palo Alto “Legal Eagle of the Year” for 2009

Publications/Presentations

• 10 Mistakes That Will Kill Your Patent in Litigation (2011).
• Top 10 Issues for Patent Litigators in 2011 (2010).
• Attorneys’ Fees under Section 285: A Double Standard in Patent Litigation (2010).
• Supreme Court to Review Standard For Proving Induced Patent Infringement (2010).
• Prefiling Considerations, Practising Law Institute (2010).
• Offshoring Your IP: Unanticipated Intellectual Property Issues, BNA/CITE (2010).
• The Importance of Preservation, The Recorder/Law.com (2010).
• International Tax Reporting & Compliance, BNA/CITE (2010).
• Advanced Patent Licensing: What You Need to Know Before Licensing Your Patent, Practicing Law Institute (2009).
• Rethinking Litigation Strategy in a Down Economy, IP Litigator (2009).
• Don’t Mess With Texas: Transferring Venue to California, New Matter, State Bar of California (2009).
• Ownership of Employee Inventions/Works, SVAGC Annual All Hands Meeting (2008).
• Infringement Issues For Claim Drafters, Practicing Law Institute (2008).
• Markman Hearings: Where the Rubber Meets the Road, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Patent Litigation Course (2007).
• Pre-filing Considerations: Ten Things to Ponder Before Filing a Patent Infringement Action, Practicing Law Institute, 906 PLI/Pat 355 (2007).
• Defending Against a Patent Assertion, Practicing Law Institute, 851 PLI/Pat 263 (2005).
• Doing Deals: The 12 Traits of Successful Negotiators, Books24x7 (2005).
• Preserving Confidentiality, Strafford Publications (2005).
• Non-Disclosure and Confidential Agreements: A Detailed Look at NDAs, ISBN: 1596220295 (2004).
• Self-Defense in the Battle over Vicarious Liability on the Internet, ABA Annual Meeting (2004).
• Golden Rules of Patent Litigation, IP Worldwide (2002).
• Leading Intellectual Property Lawyers: Best Practices for Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, ISBN: 1587621606 (2001).