Sean DeBruine is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He has represented clients in patent, copyright and trade secret disputes involving a variety of technologies, including microprocessor, memory and communications semiconductor devices, computer software, Internet infrastructure and business methods, personal computer system design, and disk drive electronic and mechanical designs. He has also handled a number of general commercial and contract disputes. He has appeared at trials in U.S. District Court, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Court of International Trade, and in appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In other instances, Sean has counseled clients and negotiated with opposing parties to resolve disputes without recourse to costly litigation.

Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Sean was partner in charge of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Silicon Valley office. He was also of counsel to Fenwick & West, LLP and an associate at Cooley Godward LLP and at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati LLC. Before entering the legal field, he held a number of management positions with Charles Schwab Corp.

Sean received his A.B. in 1982 and his J.D. in 1993, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the State Bar of California and its Intellectual Property and Litigation Sections, as well as the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the Bar Association of San Francisco. He is admitted to practice before a number of U.S. district courts, the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 9th and Federal Circuits.