Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Drew Holmes is a partner, trial lawyer, and registered patent attorney in San Francisco.  Drew represents companies at trial, in litigation, at the International Trade Commission, before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and in arbitration in a variety of disputes relating to patents, trade secrets, copyrights, employee mobility issues, contracts, licensing, and other complex commercial issues.  Drew also has counseled clients on internal investigations.

Drew has cross examined witnesses at trial and in international arbitration, argued in federal courts around the country, deposed technical experts as well as apex corporate executives, and argued as lead counsel before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office's Patent Trial & Appeal Board.  Drew has experience with a wide variety of technology including graphics processing/architecture, semiconductors, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, streaming, digital rights management, content delivery systems, payment systems, network security,  financial/banking business methods, light emitting diodes, integrated circuits, small molecule drugs, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, casino/gaming machines and systems, and various consumer electronics.  Drew’s litigation and trial successes have been widely covered in both industry and legal press including Law360, Courthouse News, Network World, and TechDirt, among others.

Drew holds a degree in molecular and cell biology with a specialty in neural circuits from U.C. Berkeley, and he graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from U.C. Hastings College of the Law, where he was the senior production editor of the Hastings Law Journal and was admitted into the Thurston Honors Society.

Drew continues to be active at U.C. Berkeley, and currently sits on the board of a charitable foundation that recognizes and awards scholarships to leaders in the U.C. Berkeley undergraduate community.