Denis R. Salmon is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property Group.
For more than 25 years, Mr. Salmon has been lead counsel for technology companies in the Silicon Valley and throughout the United States in the trial of cases involving critical intellectual property issues. His patent and trade secret litigation experience includes widely-reported cases for clients in the wireless communications, semiconductor, software and internet industries as well as for medical device and life sciences companies. Examples of notable successes on behalf of technology clients include a recent victory before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, which issued an en banc opinion overruling its past precedents on patent liability for U.S. products sold abroad. Key victories for clients he has represented include the invalidation of a portfolio of patents which had previously been widely licensed, judgments in the trial court and on appeal in landmark cases that established patent exemptions for medical products, successful enforcement of patents before the International Trade Commission, and the defense of a Silicon Valley software company in a case that established an important trade secret law precedent in the California Supreme Court.
Mr. Salmon is frequently invited to speak on intellectual property and technology law topics for audiences ranging from law schools in the San Francisco Bay Area to the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the American Business Trial Lawyers Association. He has repeatedly been ranked and selected by numerous publications, including Chambers USA, the Legal 500, IAM Patent Litigation, Super Lawyers, Law Dragon and the Daily Journal, as one of the leading intellectual property lawyers in the United States.
Mr. Salmon served as Chair of the pro-bono organization Silicon Valley Campaign for Legal Services and has received the Guardian of Justice award from the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County. He graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota law school.
Affiliations
American Intellectual Property Law Association; Federal Circuit Bar Association; American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section. Co-chair, Silicon Valley Campaign for Legal Services.