Hosie Rice LLP

George F. Bishop

One Market, Spear Tower
22nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: 415-247-6000
Fax: 415-247-6001
Email: gbishop@hosielaw.com

Complex commercial litigation, with emphasis on intellectual property and antitrust.

• University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. summa cum laude 1976
  Phi Beta Kappa
• University of Chicago, J.D. 1979

Mr. Bishop specializes in intellectual property and antitrust litigation. His practice also covers a broad array of commercial litigation, including business tort and contract cases, class actions, corporate governance, and state and federal regulatory matters.

Mr. Bishop began his legal career in 1980 with the San Francisco law firm of Furth, Fahrner & Mason, where he was a partner from 1987-2000. Mr. Bishop and the firm represented antitrust plaintiffs and defendants in some of the largest and most significant antitrust cases in the country. These began with the successful defense of the Kellogg Company in the watershed Federal Trade Commission "Shared Monopoly" case, in which the FTC sought to break up Kellogg and other ready-to-eat cereal makers based upon a novel theory that a concentrated industry could constitute a shared monopoly. His diverse commercial litigation practice at his previous firm included representing California wineries in trials and regulatory matters.

Mr. Bishop joined the predecessor to Hosie Rice LLP in 2000. He and his partners represented Burst.com in its successful patent and monopolization suit, Burst.com v. Microsoft Corp., and represented the State of Hawaii in its price-fixing lawsuit against major state gasoline retailers, Earl Anzai, Attorney General for the State of Hawaii v. Chevron Corp., et al. Mr. Bishop also represents high-technology clients in intellectual property matters in areas including streaming video, payment card security, cellular location, web conferencing and other Internet technologies, and continues to represent clients in a broad array of commercial litigation.