Jeffrey M. Theodore is a partner in BraunHagey & Borden LLP. Jeff litigates and tries complex commercial and intellectual property disputes and has been recognized as one of California’s top trade secret lawyers (Daily Journal’s 2024 Top Trade Secrets Lawyers).
Jeff has handled some of the largest trade secret misappropriation suits in the United States. Jeff authored and presented the defense-side damages case and obtained a jury verdict of zero trade secret damages – despite a finding of liability – in a $600 million trade secret jury trial. Jeff recently obtained pre-discovery summary judgment to defeat a fact-intensive patent inventorship and trade secret misappropriation suit in bet-the-company competitor litigation in the food tech space. In the copyright context, Jeff briefed and argued the summary judgment motion that for the first time stripped a cable internet provider of its Digital Millennium Copyright Act “safe harbor” defense to contributory copyright infringement liability – leading to an eight-figure infringement jury verdict.