Justin Lee is a Litigation associate in Weil’s Silicon Valley office.
Mr. Lee practices in the Patent Litigation group focusing on telecommunications, optical networking, semiconductor design, software, and business-method patent matters. Mr. Lee was part of a team that defended Cisco Systems in two litigations brought by Acacia, a major patent-holding entity. One matter concerned Cisco’s TelePresence videoconferencing technology and another concerned optical routing technology. Mr. Lee was also part of the team that defended eBay against XPRT over an online auction and payment business-method patent. Mr. Lee is currently involved in representing Micron Technologies in the District of Delaware in a multi-defendant, multi-patent lawsuit concerning semiconductor design technology. He is also part of a team representing Microsoft and several video game makers in a case concerning the Microsoft Kinect sensor.
Mr. Lee is active in pro bono and public service. He spent nine months in Quito, Ecuador, helping clients to obtain asylum in Ecuador, and he was also involved in representing a client in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in an action to obtain her survivor benefits in an appeal from the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Mr. Lee graduated from Berkeley Law in 2009, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. Before pursuing a legal career, Mr. Lee earned a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and then worked at software and hardware companies in the fields of grid computing, computational chemistry, and compiler performance.