Philip W. Woo

Philip W. Woo is the Managing Partner of the Silicon Valley office. He focuses his practice on patent law, with deep experience in litigation, prosecution and contested proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). With a degree in electrical engineering and substantial real-world experience in the high-tech industry, he has served as lead counsel for numerous matters, coordinating teams across separate, but relating proceedings. Companies have entrusted Mr. Woo to handle the deep technical issues in intellectual property matters of commercial significance. Among other accomplishments, he was counsel in the first inter partes review (IPR) proceeding resulting in a successful final determination invalidating claims of the patent at issue. Mr. Woo’s technical areas include all forms of electrical and electronic arts, including computer architecture, storage systems and networks, server networks and architecture, microprocessors, memories, software and internet applications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, security, cryptography, telecommunications, wireless, interactive television and electronic program guides, satellites, business methods, semiconductor design and processing, semiconductor packaging, circuit design, electric and hybrid vehicles, autonomous vehicles and medical devices.

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Partner, 2020-present
• Haynes and Boone LLP
  - Partner, 2017-2020
• Sidley Austin LLP
  - Partner, 2003-2017
• Skjerven Morrill LLP
  - Associate/Partner, 1998-2003
• Baker Botts LLP
  - Associate, 1994-1997

• Litigation Counsel of America, Fellow
• The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• PTAB Bar Association
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA)
• Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA)
• Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley (APABA-SV)

USC Gould School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1994