United States District Court for the Northern District of California

United States District Court for the Northern District of California
(N.D. Cal.)
Location	Phillip Burton Federal Building (San Francisco) More locations Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building (Oakland) San Jose Eureka / McKinleyville
Appeals to	Ninth Circuit
Established	August 5, 1886
Judges	14
Chief Judge	Richard Seeborg
Officers of the court
U.S. Attorney	Ismail Ramsey
U.S. Marshal	Mark Kolc (acting)
www.cand.uscourts.gov

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (in case citations, N.D. Cal.) is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma. The court hears cases in its courtrooms in Eureka, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose. It is headquartered in San Francisco. Cases from the Northern District of California are appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Because it covers San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the Northern District of California has become the presumptive destination for major federal lawsuits (such as large class actions and multi-district litigation) involving "Big Tech" defendants. ^[1] These cases usually involve patent law and intellectual property law (such as copyright law and DMCA issues as well as trademark law and trade secret law) - especially in the semiconductor, telecommunications and software industries and other high technology areas, antitrust law, securities law, and technology law in general (e.g., cybersecurity, Internet law, computer law and cases involving software).