Andrew Bridges defends innovators and their companies in important battles typically involving new technologies or business models, often when a company’s or an entire industry’s future is at stake. His practice includes complex litigation, high-stakes counseling, and policy advice in Internet, copyright, trademark, advertising, unfair competition, consumer protection, trade secret, and commercial law matters.

Among his major litigation successes are:

Defending Diamond Multimedia in RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia (challenge to MP3 players)
Defending Google in Perfect 10 v. Google (Amazon.com)(challenge to search engine)
Defending MasterCard in Perfect 10 v. VISA and MasterCard (challenge to payment processing for alleged infringers)
Defending ClearPlay in Huntsman v. Soderbergh (challenge to DVD replay filtering software)
Enforcing Bare Escentuals’ rights against Intelligent Beauty (trademark and false advertising)
Representing Richard O’Dwyer (UK university student) in avoiding extradition from UK and prosecution in US for operating linking site
Representing owner of dajaz1.com in recovering domain after seizure by Homeland Security in Operation In Our Sites
Defending Fitbit in Fitbug v. Fitbit (challenge to company name and brand)
Defending Giganews in Perfect 10 v. Giganews (challenge to Usenet service provider; obtained award of $6.5 million in attorneys’ fees for prevailing defendants)
Defending SoundCloud in Average Joe’s Ent’t v. SoundCloud (claims against sound recording platform by music label and publisher)

He received the California State Bar Intellectual Property Section Vanguard Award (private practice category) 2014, and National Law Journal honored him as an IP Trailblazer in 2017. He received his law degree from Harvard; an M.A and B.A. from University of Oxford (Merton College) in philosophy and ancient history; and a B.A. from Stanford in Greek and Latin.