Brian W. Anderson is a litigation associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, the Intellectual Property Practice Group, and the Class Action Practice Group.  Mr. Anderson’s practices focuses on civil litigation in various substantive areas of law as well as intellectual property counseling, particularly trademark and copyright matters.

Representative litigation experience:

• Asserted nearly two dozen patents on behalf of a preeminent biopharmaceutical company in two different parallel suits, successfully opposing a critical preliminary injunction and helped navigate both cases to favorable settlement
• Represented one of California’s largest farms in a labor dispute against an absent union
• Represented a technology company in seeking reconsideration of a decision from the United States Supreme Court on constitutional grounds
• Provided legal advice to a Southern California municipality regarding a dispute with a mobile electric scooter rental service
• Provided key damages analysis for one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies in a patent dispute which resulted in a favorable settlement
• Represented the manufacturer of highway safety devices in a string of half-a-dozen products liability suits, simultaneously
• Conducted an investigation into an incident regarding a possible oil spill on behalf of large energy company
• Helped navigate a large university to settle complaints from dozens of individual plaintiffs regarding alleged unlawful actions by one of its employees
• Represented through trial a top electronics company facing antitrust complaints attacking the core of its business model

Representative trademark experience:

• Asserted design patent and trademark claims on behalf of a mobile phone accessory company
• Counseled international non-profit on various domestic and international trademark filings
• Counseled emerging financial services firm on risks associated with proposed firm name
• Responded to inquiry from an examining attorney at the Patent and Trademark office on behalf of a large university after initial refusal of trademark registration

* Includes experience from prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Mr. Anderson has also spoken on issues of trademark and copyright including presentations to the Intellectual Property Section of the Orange County Paralegal Association and to groups of attorneys and small business owners.

Mr. Anderson earned his law degree in 2017 from the UCLA School of Law where he was the Deputy Chief Managing Editor of the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. During law school, Mr. Anderson also served as International Chair of Student Chapters, overseeing all student chapters of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, worldwide. He graduated in 2014 from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was a dual major in International Relations and Russian. Having lived in Ukraine for two years, Mr. Anderson maintains conversational Russian language skills.  Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Anderson was an associate with Irell & Manella LLP.

Mr. Anderson is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as well as the United States District Court for the Central District of California.