About Julie Turner

Since 1997, Julie Turner has been representing both plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property and commercial litigation matters. She has litigated numerous patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases involving a wide range of electronics, software, and pharmaceutical technologies. She has also represented clients in antitrust, defamation, contract and business tort cases. Ms. Turner has significant trial experience, having first-chaired multiple trials without a defeat.
 

Ms. Turner received her J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. She graduated in the top 10% of her law school class and is a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Ms. Turner was a member of the High Technology Law Review and the California Law Review, where she served on the executive committee. Ms. Turner also received the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law and the Jurisprudence Award in Patent Law.

Prior to founding The Turner Law Firm, Ms. Turner was a partner at Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder LLP. Ms. Turner is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the American Inns of Court.

Ms. Turner’s law school comment – "The Non-Manufacturing Patent Owner: Toward a Theory of Efficient Infringement," 86 Calif. L. Rev. 179 (1998) – has been cited numerous times, including in law school textbooks, and is required reading in the intellectual property class at Stanford Law School. This comment argued that a court should not automatically presume irreparable harm or issue a permanent injunction to a prevailing patentee who is not himself employing or commercializing the patent. The comment urges for a new judicial approach where the courts assess actual harm to the patentee, rather than relying on a presumption of harm, as well as harm to society resulting from the failure to commercialize. Many of this comment's recommendations were adopted by the Supreme Court in the case of eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange LLC, 547 U.S. ___, 126 S. Ct. 1837 (2006).

Ms. Turner also co-authored with Robert Galvin and Anne Ortel, an article exploring vicarious liability for employers based on unauthorized copyright infringement by employees. This article was published as "The Risks to Corporations from Employees' Online Piracy," in Building and Enforcing Intellectual Property Value: An International Guide for the Boardroom (Globe White Page), 2003.