Managing Associate
Silicon Valley
Harrison Geron is a managing associate in the Silicon Valley office and a member of Orrick’s Intellectual Property Group. Clients value Harrison's ability to couple out of the box thinking with grounded technical and legal knowledge. His work as an associate has directly lead to major wins in federal and ITC matters for his clients.
Harrison efficiently handles all facets of intellectual property cases including motion practice, trial work, depositions, and discovery, including leading teams for analysis of productions involving millions of documents. He also acts as a primary technical resource and strategist.
Harrison innately understands his clients and their needs. He is currently a co-founder at a startup based on disruptive technology that he and his team invented. His innovation and leadership has lead to 7-figures of revenue and a 9-figure valuation within the company's first year.
Harrison is dedicated to studying and advocating at the intersection of law and technology. For fun, he co-authored a comment to the FCC that was cited by major industry players and organizations in the reply-period and by the FCC in its subsequent order involving net neutrality. This comment led to the paper "Title Zero": Ending the Infinite Loop of Classifications for Broadband Via a Technology Agnostic Definition, which won an award after peer review at TPRC49 and was published in the California Law Review.
Harrison graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law with the BCLT Technology Law Certificate and Pro Bono Honors with highest distinction. At Berkeley Law he served as Senior Executive Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and Co-President of the Space Law Society. Before law school, Harrison worked at a boutique patent firm in the San Francisco Bay Area where he aided in the drafting of patents. Harrison also brings experience in complex litigation, having worked at a plaintiff-side class action firm during law school. He holds a BS/BA from Loyola Marymount University in Economics/Political Science and a Minor in Natural Science/Physics. He further studied post-baccalaureate at Santa Clara University in Physics.
337-TA-1351 (ITC)
Defense of a major software company in a multi-patent case brought by a non-practicing entity which resulted in a favorable settlement.