Confluence Law Partners

Recent Publications and Speeches

Interview: Law360, Q&A With Confluence Law Partners’ David Bohrer, October 6, 2009

David C. Bohrer, Matthew R. Lynde, PhD and Elizabeth M. N. Morris, The Shifting Sands of Price Erosion: Price Erosion Damages Shift by Tens of Millions of Dollars Depending Upon the Admissibility of Pre-Notice Eroded Prices, 25 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 723 (2009)

David C. Bohrer, Do Patent Cases Reward One Inventor for the Contributions of Many?, Daily Journal (San Francisco and Los Angeles editions), July 29, 2009

David C. Bohrer, Trolling for Efficiency, Daily Journal (San Francisco and Los Angeles editions), June 24, 2009

David C. Bohrer, Big Firms’ Inefficient Cost Structures Bind Them to the Billable Hour, Daily Journal (San Francisco and Los Angeles editions), June 15, 2009

Panelist: Implementing Alternative Fees, Davis, Wright and Tremaine partner meetings, March 19, 2009

Panelist: 2008 Intellectual Property Roundtable, sponsored by California Lawyer, San Francisco, CA, November 3, 2008

Lecture: Intellectual Property Law Enforcement, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, CA, September 7, 2006, September 6, 2007 and September 4, 2008

Lecture: Asserting Patent Rights: Life After Knorr-Bremse, eBay, Sandisk, KSR . . . and now Seagate, Association of Corporation Counsel Litigation Committee, Palo Alto, CA, September 17, 2007

Panelist: 2006 Intellectual Property Roundtable, sponsored by California Lawyer, San Francisco, CA, December 16, 2005

Lecture: Demonstration of a Closing Argument: Tips From a Patent Trial Lawyer, Practicing Law Institute “Patent Litigation 2005” Seminar, Chicago, IL, November 29, 2005

Lecture: Knocking the Eagle Off The Patent Owner’s Shoulder: Chiron Holds That Jurors Don’t Have To Be Told That Patent Is Presumed Valid, Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel, Palo Alto, CA, March 18, 2005

David C. Bohrer, Knocking the Eagle Off The Patent Owner’s Shoulder: Chiron Holds That Jurors Don’t Have To Be Told That Patent Is Presumed Valid, 21 Santa Clara Computer and High Tech L.J. 259 (2004)

David C. Bohrer and Michael I. Frankel, The Question Left Unanswered in WMS Gaming: What Is the Algorithm?, Intellectual Prop. & Tech L.J. vol. 16, no. 4 (April 2004)

Lecture: Steal This Software, ver 2.0, Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel, Palo Alto, CA, November 21, 2003

Lecture: Steal This Software, ver 1.0, Bay Area General Counsel Group, San Francisco, CA, June 3, 2003

Lecture: False Advertising Claims, A Primer on the Law, presented to numerous clients across the country