JULIE TURNER
PARTNER EMERITUS
turner@turnerboyd.com
650.521.5930
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• University of California, Berkeley Law School, J.D., Order of the Coif, top 10%, 1997
• Barnard College, B.A.
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Presentations
• Copyright Damages Take Flight: An Exploration of Copyright Damages in the Wake of Oracle v. SAP and Mattel v. MGA, San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property Inn of Court (April 2011)
• Recent Developments in Patent Remedies, Adv. Pat. Law Inst., Santa Clara (2008)
• Remedies: Damages, Injunctions, and the Pendulum Swing, Adv. Pat. Law Inst., San Jose (2007)
Publications
• Patent Claim Construction: Principles and Doctrines, in How to Prepare & Conduct Markman Hearings, Practicing Law Institute (2007)
• The Risks to Corporations from Employees’ Online Piracy, in Building and Enforcing Intellectual Property Value: An International Guide for the Boardroom (Globe White Page), with R. Galvin and A. Ortel (2003)
• The Non-Manufacturing Patent Owner: Toward a Theory of Efficient Infringement, 86 Calif. L. Rev. 179 (1998)
Julie Turner became partner emerita in 2017, and now lives in Valencia, Spain. She represented both plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property and commercial litigation matters over the course of her 20-year career. She litigated patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret cases involving a wide range of electronics, software, consumer goods, and pharmaceutical technologies. She also represented clients in antitrust, First Amendment, defamation, contract, and business tort cases. Ms. Turner first-chaired ten trials without a defeat. Ms. Turner was named a “Super Lawyer” by Northern California Super Lawyers from 2009 to 2017.
Ms. Turner received her law degree in 1997 from U.C. Berkeley School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. While in law school, Ms. Turner was a member of the High Technology Law Review and the California Law Review, where she was elected to the executive committee. Ms. Turner received the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law and the Jurisprudence Award in Patent Law. Between college and law school, Ms. Turner worked in the area of international business and trade.
Before founding Turner Boyd LLP in 2008, Ms. Turner was a partner at Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder LLP, an associate at Cooley Godward LLP, and a solo practitioner.