Turner Boyd Seraphine brings decades of experience litigating and trying intellectual property cases. Our lawyers have been partners at large law firms and have successfully litigated against their former colleagues from those firms. Our focus on IP cases and experience in the forums where those cases are most commonly litigated brings true value to our clients.

  • In 2008, Julie Turner and Karen Boyd founded Turner Boyd to fill a void in the IP litigation space. By then, each had over a decade of “BigLaw” experience and had made respective names for themselves in the California IP litigation world.

    But, neither Julie or Karen believed the BigLaw model was the best way to serve the interests of clients and attorneys. They sought to create a firm where benefits were mutual and impactful.

    Julie and Karen formed Turner Boyd with the goal of offering superb client counseling by savvy tech litigators at the high level of excellence to which they were accustomed while ensuring these lawyers worked in an environment where diversity was valued, flexibility was accepted, and passion for the law was common. Creating Turner Boyd allowed them to recruit motivated, talented and committed Partners and Associates while offering these attorneys a respectful, flexible work environment that helped each of them flourish.

    In 2023 the firm’s name changed to Turner Boyd Seraphine, with the addition of Jennifer Seraphine as a named partner in the firm. Jennifer joined Turner Boyd in 2012, after having been a partner in Jones Day’s intellectual property group in the firm’s New York and San Francisco offices. Jennifer has been instrumental in furthering the firm’s philosophy of strategic thinking, client focus and team building, and continues to grow the firm as one of its leading attorneys.

  • Turner Boyd Seraphine’s partners bring partner experience from BigLaw firms:

    • Founding partner Karen Boyd was formerly a partner at Fish & Richardson

    • Jennifer Seraphine was formerly a partner at Jones Day, in both its New York and San Francisco offices

    • Megan Olesek was formerly a partner at Kenyon & Kenyon and DLA Piper

    • Marc David Peters was formerly a partner at Morrison Foerster

    • Andrew Thomases was formerly a partner at Ropes & Gray and Skadden Arps

    • Keeley Vega was formerly an associate at Fish & Richardson

  • Turner Boyd Seraphine’s representative clients include:

    • ASUSTeK (computer hardware)

    • Canva (design platform)

    • HP Inc. (PCs and printers)

    • Juniper Networks (networking hardware and software)

    • Natera (cancer and prenatal screening)

    • Nurix (therapeutic drugs)

    • Rearden LLC (facial performance motion capture)

    • Pebble Beach (golf resort)

    • RingCentral (VOIP)

    • Simple Wishes (pumping bras)

    • Truven Health Analytics, formerly part of IBM Watson Health, now Merative (health data analytics)

    • Vincent Systems (upper limb prosthetics)

  • Turner Boyd Seraphine practices in district courts across the United States, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and before the International Trade Commission.

    We have deep experience in the district courts where patent litigation is most frequently brought, including in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, in the District of Delaware, in and our home court the Northern District of California.

  • Turner Boyd Seraphine routinely finds itself on the “other side of the v.” from some of the biggest firm names in intellectual property, including:

    • Davis Polk

    • Fish & Richardson

    • Goodwin Proctor

    • Irell & Manella

    • Kilpatrick Townsend

    • Klarquist & Sparkman

    • Knobbe Martens

    • McCarter & English

    • Quinn Emanuel

    • Weil Gotshal

    • Wilson Sonsini

WE LISTEN

We work closely with our clients to clearly understand their goals, whether in a particular litigation or regarding how IP issues fit within their overall business strategy. We listen and ask questions to ensure that the work we do fits within the overall strategy and philosophy of the clients we represent.

WE PLAN

We favor a proactive strategy, even when representing defendants. It may sound basic, but we are constantly surprised that other firms overlook the benefits that a thoughtful approach at the outset of a matter can bring to a case, both in terms of efficiency and substantive success.

WE ARE CREATIVE

We certainly know the BigLaw playbook – we have plenty of BigLaw experience – but we think there is real value in knowing when to deviate from those plays, resulting in greater efficiency and bigger wins.

WE LIKE OUR CLIENTS

We enjoy representing inventors, innovators, and all-around good people who are contributing their ideas to the world. We avoid representing negative influences in the patent sphere. We believe in what our clients do and make, and that comes through in our representation. At the end of the day, we stand up proudly to speak for our clients—and when we do, our respect for them, their inventions, and their products is a big part of what comes through.

WE WORK TOGETHER

We are a small firm, and we like each other. We also like to talk, including about our cases and legal strategy. Our clients benefit from this collegiality, having the experience and ideas from team members who collaborate with one another.