Biography: Competition

Bob Taylor is a senior counsel in Arnold & Porter's San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. Mr Taylor concentrates his practice on intellectual property, antitrust, and related fields of law. He has tried a number of such cases to juries and before the International Trade Commission. He has briefed and argued most of the appeals in such cases.

For more than 30 years, Mr Taylor has served as lead counsel in dozens of antitrust and patent disputes involving a wide range of technologies and industries. These include microprocessors, liquid chromatography devices, DNA arrays, gene sequences, genetic expression of proteins, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and processes, network switching equipment, digital memory devices, accelerator chips used for high-speed computer graphics, microfiltration devices, elastomer chemistry used in erasable ink, digitally programmable hearing aids, processes and catalysts for making polypropylene, automotive electronics products, petroleum products, zeolite desiccants, surgical devices, communications satellites and contact lenses.

He has also served as lead counsel in various other types of intellectual property cases that included copyright and trade secret claims related to software, medical devices, video games, fabric design, and time management organisers.

Mr Taylor has published and lectured extensively on antitrust and patent law issues, including the legal relationships between antitrust law and intellectual property rights.