Philip Ou is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Silicon Valley office. He focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation.
Philip has represented clients in patent litigation matters involving a variety of technologies, including semiconductors, internet, software, data compression, computer programming, nucleotide analogs and electronic gaming devices. Philip also has represented clients in employment and business interference matters.
Philip is actively involved in the Firm’s pro bono program and has represented clients at court in hearings, mediations and settlement conferences.
Philip also practices immigration law, focusing on the EB-5 Investment Based Immigration Program.
Philip earned his J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and his B.S. in materials science and engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. During law school, he served as an associate editor for the Computer High Tech Law Journal and earned a High Tech Law Certificate.
He is a member of the state bar of California and is a registered patent attorney admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark office.
Representative Experience
- Site Update Solutions LLC v. Accor North America, Inc. et al (E.D. Tex) – Represents Adobe Information Systems, Amazon.com, Inc., Intuit Inc., LinkedIn Corporation, MySpace, Inc., Newegg, Inc., Sears Roebuck & Co., and Target Corporation in a multi-defendant action relating to search engine update technology
- Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited and Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. v. International Game Technology and IGT (N.D. Cal.) – Representing Aristocrat Technologies in a multi-patent case involving electronic gaming devices
- Spansion LLC v Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd et al (D. Del) – Represented Spansion LLC in a multi-patent infringement action involving flash memory technology
- Pitney Bowes Inc. et al. v. Zumbox, Inc. (C.D. Cal) – Represented Zumbox Inc. in a patent infringement action involving paperless mail delivery technology
- Meteora, LLC v. Marshal8e6 et al. (C.D. Cal.) – Representing Trend Micro, Inc., in a multi-defendant patent infringement action involving computer programming
- Information Protection and Authentication of Texas, LLC v. Symantec Corp. et al. (E.D. Tex) – Represented Trend Micro, Inc. in a multi-defendant action related to security software
- Realtime Data v. Packeteer et al. (E.D. Tex.) – Represented Blue Coat Systems, Inc., 7-Eleven, Inc., ABM Industries, Inc., and Build-a-Bear Workshop, Inc., in a multi-defendant patent infringement action involving data compression
- Easyweb Technologies, Inc. v. Blip Networks et al. (E.D.N.Y.) – Represented MySpace and Photobucket.com in a patent infringement action involving file-sharing technology
Education
- Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 2008
- University of California-Berkeley, B.S., 2004
