Richard Hung is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office, where his practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling.
Mr. Hung has litigated a wide variety of complex technology matters for clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts. His patent litigation matters have spanned technologies such as internet search and advertising, digital rights management and encryption, programmable logic devices, electronic books, and anticancer therapeutics. A registered patent attorney, Mr. Hung also frequently advises clients on strategic offensive and defensive patent assertions. Current and former clients include Altera, Apple, Discovery Communications, Fujitsu, Medtronic Spine, and Yahoo!.
Mr. Hung earned dual bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and economics from Stanford University in 1995, and he received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1998. In law school, he was a James Kent Scholar, a moot court editor and judge, and a recipient of the Carroll G. Harper Prize for excellence in intellectual property. Before joining the firm, Mr. Hung clerked for the Honorable Paul Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Hung is a member of the California bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.