Lance Yang co-chairs the Firm’s National Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. A seasoned trial lawyer, he handles high-stakes, “bet the company” disputes involving patents, trade secrets, and other complex intellectual property. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants and counsels companies across a wide range of technologies, such as smartphones, microprocessors, material science, solar power, wireless communications, semiconductor manufacturing, OLED technology, electric vehicles, batteries, and AI.
Lance has tried many cases to verdict throughout his career and served as trial counsel for Google, Samsung, MediaTek, and others. His courtroom experience spans state and federal courts as well as the International Trade Commission. In 2026, Lance was co-lead counsel for Taction Technology in its patent case against Apple and its iPhones and Watches. Lance and his team secured a $5.7 billion jury verdict, described as the largest patent infringement jury verdict in U.S. history. In recognition of this outcome, Lance was named Litigator of the Week by The AmLaw Litigation Daily.
Before attending the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he spent five years at Maxim Integrated Products as an engineer and earned a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, specializing in RF chip design and wireless communications. He also holds an LL.M. from Tsinghua University and is admitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- Broadcom
- Cisco
- Epson
- HTC
- MediaTek
- NVIDIA
- Qualcomm
- Samsung
- SK Hynix
- Symantec
- STMicroelectronics
- ViaSat
- Represented plaintiff Taction Technology, a San Diego designer of haptic transducers, against Apple in a patent case in the Southern District of California over the vibrations technology in certain iPhones and Apple Watches. Obtained a $5.7 billion jury verdict for Taction, the largest patent infringement jury verdict in U.S. history.
- Represented Ningde Amperex Technology Limited (“Ningde ATL”) in a patent case against Zhuhai CosMX Battery Co., Ltd. in the Eastern District of Texas. The jury found willful infringement and awarded a running royalty, the firm defeated a $148 million antitrust counterclaim, and the court later awarded enhanced damages, which the firm believes was the first such award to a Chinese plaintiff in that district.
- Defended Google against Sonos in patent litigation at the ITC and in federal courts in California over home audio patents. At the ITC, worked with Google engineers on redesigns that avoided Sonos’s patents so Google could continue selling its products in the U.S. In the Northern District of California, the court disposed of multiple patents before trial and excluded Sonos’s damages expert on the rest.
- Represented defendant Johns Manville in a patent case brought by plaintiff Knauf, which accused Johns Manville’s insulation products of infringing six utility patents and one design patent. The court granted summary judgment to Johns Manville on six of the seven patents, and the case settled before trial.
- Defended Google in a Delaware patent case brought by plaintiff Personal Audio over Google Play Music, where Personal Audio sought $85 million. The court granted Google judgment of non-infringement as a matter of law, and the Federal Circuit affirmed it in June 2025.
- Represented plaintiff ViaSat against defendants Space Systems/Loral and Loral Space & Communications in a patent and breach of contract case over high-speed satellite technology. Obtained a $283 million jury verdict for ViaSat after the jury found that Space Systems/Loral infringed all asserted patent claims and breached its contract obligations to ViaSat.
- Represented respondents Broadcom, NVIDIA, STMicroelectronics, MediaTek, Freescale, Cisco, and Motorola in ITC investigation 337-TA-753 brought by complainant Rambus over six patents. Obtained a final determination of no violation on all patents, based on invalidity and unenforceability, protecting tens of billions of dollars in product sales.
- Represented Samsung Electronics and third-party Google in the second “smartphone” patent case brought by plaintiff Apple in the Northern District of California, involving alleged universal search patents. Apple did not recover. It dropped one patent before trial, and the jury found no infringement of the other.
- Represented respondent HTC in ITC investigation 337-TA-710 brought by complainant Apple over ten patents. All patent claims defended by the firm were found not infringed and invalid.
- Represented plaintiff STMicroelectronics in patent cases against its competitor InvenSense at the ITC and in federal courts in Northern California and Eastern Texas, involving MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers. STMicroelectronics asserted twelve patents and defended against five InvenSense patents. After claim construction wins, the cases settled with a successful patent license royalty agreement for STMicroelectronics.
- Represented respondent HTC in ITC investigation 337-TA-797 brought by complainant Apple over five patents. Apple settled with HTC shortly before the initial determination, resulting in a 10-year cross license. It was the first major settlement of Apple’s claims against Android device makers.
- Represented respondent MediaTek in ITC investigation 337-TA-786 brought by complainant Freescale over patents asserted against DTV and DSP products. Obtained a final determination of no violation on all patent claims defended at trial.
- Tsinghua University
(LL.M., 2010) - University of Pennsylvania Law School
(J.D., 2008) - Stanford University
(M.S., Electrical Engineering, 2005) - University of California, San Diego
(B.S., Electrical Engineering, 2000)
- The State Bar of California
- United States District Court:
- Northern District of California
- Central District of California
- Eastern District of Texas
- Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Mandarin
- Maxim Integrated Products:
- Applications Engineer, Senior Member, 2000-2005
- Litigator of the Week award, The AmLaw Litigation Daily (2026)
- Recognized in Super Lawyers, Intellectual Property Litigation (2026)
- Recognized in Lawdragon 500, Leading Global IP Lawyers (2025)
