Lily Li
Lily Li is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice and Head of Litigation in the Palo Alto office. She represents technology companies in high-stakes patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, and licensing disputes, as well as complex commercial matters.
With an engineering background, published research in artificial intelligence, and prior in-house semiconductor leadership experience, Lily brings technical fluency and seasoned judgment to complex disputes and has led and tried bet-the-company cases. Her practice spans state and federal courts, the International Trade Commission, arbitration tribunals, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and cross-border proceedings. She has experience in technologies including semiconductors, artificial intelligence, software and hardware systems, autonomous driving, aviation, wireless communications, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals.
Before entering private practice, Lily served in an in-house leadership role at a semiconductor company, leading patent prosecution, licensing strategy, and global intellectual property portfolio development.
She maintains an active pro bono practice focused on human rights and educational equity. She helped lead the team in Cayla J. v. State of California, which secured a historic $2 billion settlement addressing pandemic-related learning loss.
Lily earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and conducted graduate research in artificial intelligence, publishing in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. She is admitted to practice in California, before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Experience
Samsung Display v. BOE
Defended BOE in multi-patent competitor cases involving OLED display technology (Eastern District of Texas)
Confidential Arbitration
Represented a licensor against a large manufacturer in complex, cross-border IP licensing disputes
Innovative Foundry Technologies v. TSMC et al.
Defended TSMC in a multi-patent case involving semiconductor manufacturing and design technology (District of Delaware & International Trade Commission)
GlobalFoundries v. TSMC et al.
Defended TSMC and downstream respondents in two concurrent ITC investigations involving multiple patents relating to semiconductor manufacturing and design technologies (International Trade Commission)
Cohen v. TSMC & Huawei et al.
Represented defendants in a multi-patent case relating to semiconductor fabrication technology (Eastern District of Texas & Northern District of California)
Bel Power v. Monolithic Power Systems
Defended Monolithic Power Systems against patent infringement claims relating to power management and obtained summary judgment of non-infringement (Western District of Texas)
Waymo v. Uber
Defended Uber in a trade secret and patent infringement case against Waymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary (Northern District of California)
MPV v. DJ
Defended the world’s leading drone company in a multi-patent case and successfully dismissed several patent infringement claims before reaching a favorable settlement (Central District of California)
CSPC Dophen v. Hu
Represented CSPC Dophen in a breach of contract and trade secret misappropriation case involving antibody cancer drugs (Eastern District of California)
Realtime Data v. NetApp
Defended NetApp against patent infringement claims relating to data compression and deduplication functionality (Eastern District of Texas)
GBAS v. Autodesk
Defended Autodesk in a multi-patent case relating to software activation technology (District of Massachusetts)
Rankings
Rising Star
Managing IP, 2023-2024
Recognized as Ones to Watch for Intellectual Property Litigation, Patent Litigation, + Patent Law
Best Lawyers 2023 - 2026