Jesse Cheng

Jesse Cheng’s practice is focused on patent, trade secret, trademark, and contract cases involving complex technologies. Throughout his career, Jesse has handled cases covering a wide range of products, such as smart phones, digital televisions, networking and communications hardware, solid-state storage arrays, EDA technology, FPGAs, graphics processors, memory devices, image processing and compression algorithms, web-based software, automated surveillance, self-driving cars, and ultra-short pulse lasers. Jesse has also worked on internet-related cases involving issues such as cybersquatting, trademark infringement and unfair competition, and represented clients in patent office proceedings including inter partes reviews (IPR).

Jesse's recent work includes:

• Representing a leading content and video streaming company in a case involving unfair competition and the legality of fixed-term employment contracts under California law
• Defending leading providers of microcontrollers, FPGAs, and memory chips in multiple patent cases
• Defending the world’s largest provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools in a multi-patent dispute over FGPA-based hardware emulators used for verifying chip designs. Jesse was responsible for developing and implementing non-infringement and invalidity strategy for four asserted patents, all of which were decided favorably at summary judgment. The case settled following appeal
• Representing a leading provider of enterprise storage arrays in a competitor case involving solid state storage. The case was decided favorably at trial with an award of more than $14 million in damages. Separately, Jesse also represented the same company in two cases involving its authentication products. Both cases were terminated favorably after claim construction and summary judgment of non-infringement
• Representing a provider of ceramic medical implants in a trademark case over the color pink. Jesse’s team successfully argued that the pink color was a natural result of a functional attribute, and thus could not serve as a valid trade dress. The case has been appealed on other grounds
• Representing a biotechnology and pharmaceutical company in a case before the Business Litigation Section of Massachusetts State Court. The client alleged breach of contract, unfair competition, and misappropriation of trade secrets relating to a partner/competitor’s unauthorized use and patenting of its lipid nanoparticles for delivering RNA. The case settled favorably one week before trial
• Defending a leading technology company before the International Trade Commission in a multi-patent case over image compression technology used in the company’s laptops and mobile devices. Jesse leveraged his prior work in image processing to develop and implement successful strategies for non-infringement, invalidity, license, and exhaustion. After a hearing and briefing, the full Commission determined there was no violation by our client

• Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Windmill School, Portola Valley, CA.