Richard S.J. Hung

Partner

San Francisco, (415) 268-7602

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Education

Stanford University (B.A., 1995)
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Stanford University (B.S., 1995)
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Columbia Law School (J.D., 1998)

Practices

Patent Litigation

Intellectual Property Litigation

Information Technology

Bar Admissions

California
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Clerkships

Hon. Paul Michel, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit

Smartphone Litigation

Member of team that successfully tried a high-profile smartphone case leading to a jury verdict of over $1 billion.

Unified Messaging Solutions v. VMware, Inc.

(Northern District of Illinois) Represented VMware in a patent infringement suit brought by a non-practicing entity alleging infringement by VMware’s Zimbra webmail product.

Augme Technologies LLC v. Yahoo!, Inc.

(Northern District of California) Representing Yahoo! in a patent infringement suit involving Internet display advertising and media playback. Summary judgment of non-infringement on Augme’s two patents has been granted in Yahoo!’s favor, and Augme has stipulated to infringement of one of Yahoo!’s patents. The case is currently on appeal.

Discovery Communications, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.

(District of Delaware). Represented Discovery Communications in a patent infringement suit against Amazon.com alleging infringement by Amazon’s Kindle of Discovery’s patents for e-book reader technology. The case settled after a favorable claim construction ruling.

Medtronic Spine LLC v. Cozmed, LLC

(Northern District of California) Obtained consent judgments of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation against infringers in a matter involving balloon kyphoplasty.