Law360, New York (August 12, 2009, 3:12 PM ET) -- Gary E. Weiss is the managing partner of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP North America, based in the Silicon Valley office, and chair of the firm's intellectual property group.

Weiss has represented clients such as Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Affymetrix Inc., Agilent Technologies Inc., Applied Materials Inc., CNET Networks Inc., Facebook, Genentech, Lucent Technologies, Handspring Inc., Harris Corporation, Juniper Networks, Siebel Systems Inc. and Wind River Systems Inc. in civil and criminal matters involving trade secrets, inevitable misappropriation, industrial espionage and employee raiding.

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