Mr. Frahn is a Partner in the Firm’s Litigation Department.  His areas of practice are intellectual property and antitrust. 

Mr. Frahn has first-chaired multiple jury trials.  He has tried numerous complex, high-technology cases, including trial wins for Cisco and other clients in patent cases tried to verdict.  Mr. Frahn regularly represents Apple, Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm, Elpida, Xilinx, Daiichi Pharmaceutical, SAP, and Human Genome Sciences in patent and other litigation.  Mr. Frahn’s antitrust experience includes a number of cases for technology clients, including achieving favorable results for Elpida in criminal and multi-district civil litigation relating to the alleged price-fixing conspiracy in the Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) industry.  He currently represents Chimei Innolux and Elpida in connection with ongoing investigations and litigation in two of the largest criminal price-fixing investigations in history.  Mr. Frahn also represents leading investment banks and private equity funds.  For his pro bono work, Mr. Frahn received the 2010 Pro Bono Advocate award from Legal Services for Children.

Mr. Frahn began practicing law in Simpson Thacher’s New York office and was one of the founding members of the Palo Alto office in 1999.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in 1989 and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.  He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of California and New York, in the 2nd, 9th and Federal Circuits, and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Publications

•	The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
•	"Finding Limits of Industry Standards to Prove Infringement," in IP Law360 on November 3, 2010
•	"Urging Reasonableness in Spoliation Law," in the Daily Journal on October 19, 2010
•	European Court of Justice Finds In-House Legal Advice Not Protected by Legal Professional Privilege
•	"KSR v. Teleflex: A New Flexible Regime for Obviousness," in Nonobviousness and Patents: Issues and Implications
•	"Ethical Implications of Open Source Strategies," in Open Source and Free Software 2009: Benefits, Risks and Challenges in Today’s Economic Climate
•	"The Changing Landscape of Patent Remedies after eBay," in Patent Remedies: Contemporary Approaches
•	The Heightened Pleading Standard of Twombly Applies to All Federal Civil Claims
•	First U.K. Criminal Charges Are Brought Against Cartel Participants Following DOJ Plea Agreements in the U.S.
•	EU Commission Dawn Raids Companies for Alleged Gun-Jumping Violations
•	In re Seagate: A New Standard for Willful Patent Infringement
•	The European Court of First Instance Upholds the European Commission’s Finding that Microsoft Abused its Dominant Position
•	eBay: The Final Word?
•	The Changing Landscape of Patent Remedies after eBay
•	Supreme Court Holds That Minimum Resale Price Maintenance is Not a Per Se Violation of Antitrust Law
•	Supreme Court Rules that IPO Litigation is Immune from Antitrust Scrutiny
•	KSR v. Teleflex: A New Flexible Regime for Obviousness
•	Microsoft v. AT&T: Limiting the Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Patent Law

Speaking Engagements

•	Lori Lesser to Co-Chair, and Lesser and Buzz Frahn to Speak at PLI’s Open Source and Free Software 2011: Benefits, Risks and Challenges October 28, 2011
•	Lori Lesser to Co-Chair, and Lesser and Buzz Frahn to Speak at PLI’s “Open Source and Free Software 2010: Benefits, Risks and Challenges” Conference on November 17, 2010 in New York City and December 8, 2010 in San Francisco October 22, 2010

Admissions

•	U.S. Supreme Court
•	U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of California
•	U.S. District Court Northern District of California
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
•	U.S. District Court Central District of California
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
•	California
•	New York

Education

•	Vanderbilt University Law School, 1996 J.D. Order of the Coif; Vanderbilt Law Review, Articles Editor 1995-1996
•	University of Virginia, 1989 B.A. Echols Scholar