George M. Newcombe is a Partner in the Firm's Litigation Department and Head of the Palo Alto office.  Mr. Newcombe's practice is focused on servicing the litigation needs of companies in Silicon Valley, including patent and other intellectual property litigation, commercial arbitration, securities litigation, among other matters.  Representations have included Intel Corporation, Oracle Corporation (Special Litigation Committee), Levi Strauss & Co. (Audit Committee); JDS Uniphase, Agilent Technologies, Inc., NEC Corporation, Olympus Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Avistar Communications.

Mr. Newcombe has been a partner at the Firm since 1983.  He received his B.S. magna cum laude in Chemical Engineering in 1969 from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1975, where he was a James Kent Scholar and a founding editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.

Mr. Newcombe is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association, the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council and the Defense Research Institute.  He is a Director the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center, a Director of the American Ditchley Foundation, a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School and a member of the Board of Overseers of the New Jersey Institute of Technology.  He is an Associate Member the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is admitted to practice in California, New York, New Jersey, numerous federal district courts and appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court.  Mr. Newcombe is Co-Chair of the PLI Annual Conference on How to Conduct Markman Hearings and he is a frequent lecturer in patent law and litigation issues.

Honors/Associations

•	American Law Institute
•	Association of the Bar of the City of New York
•	American Bar Association, Sections on Litigation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust Law
•	Federal Bar Council
•	American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Associate Member
•	Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Director, 1991-Present
•	Columbia Law School, Board of Visitors
•	New Jersey Insitute of Technology, Board of Overseers, 1998-Present
•	American Ditchley Foundation, Director & Secretary
•	The Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center, Director

Publications

•	Supreme Court Hears Its Second Significant Preemption Case This Term
•	The Supreme Court Revisits the Preemption of State Law Consumer Protection Claims
•	Prospective Relief for Patent Infringement in a Post-eBay World
•	The Supreme Court Limits Punitive Damages Award In The Exxon Valdez Case To 1:1 Ratio To Compensatory Damages
•	Supreme Court Bars State Common Law Claims Challenging Medical Devices with FDA Pre-Market Approval
•	In re Seagate: A New Standard for Willful Patent Infringement
•	eBay: The Final Word?
•	The Changing Landscape of Patent Remedies after eBay
•	KSR v. Teleflex: A New Flexible Regime for Obviousness
•	Microsoft v. AT&T: Limiting the Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Patent Law
•	"Claim Construction in the Post-Phillips Landscape: A Review of Post-Phillips Jurisprudence and the Road Ahead" in IP Litigator, November/December 2006, Volume 12, Number 6, pp. 32-38.
•	The Supreme Court Rejects Automatic Permanent Injunctions in Patent Cases in eBay v. MercExchange
•	Strategies and Techniques for Dealing with the Strike Suit: Approaches to Ward Off Disaster

Speaking Engagements

•	Simpson Thacher Attorneys to Speak at Los Angeles Directors Roundtable April 21, 2008
•	Simpson Thacher Presents Major Changes in US IP Law to Overflow Audiences in Korea and Taiwan November 1, 2007

Admissions

•	New Jersey 1975
•	New York 1976
•	California 1999
•	U.S. District Court District of New Jersey 1975
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1976
•	U.S. District Court Northern District of New York 1996
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York 1989
•	U.S. District Court Western District of Texas 1985
•	U.S. District Court Central District of California 1999
•	U.S. District Court Northern District of California 1999
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of California 1999
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit 1975
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit 1986
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit 1992
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit 1998
•	U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit 1995
•	U.S. Supreme Court 1987

Education

•	Columbia Law School, 1975 J.D. James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Founding Editor, 1974-1975
•	New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1969 B.S.Ch.E. Magna Cum Laude; Tau Beta Pi