With a focus on the technology sector, Shaobin Zhu advises on intellectual property (patent, trade secret, trademark, and copyright) litigation in US district courts and Section 337 investigations at the US
International Trade Commission (ITC), as well as client counseling, intellectual property licensing, opinion work, patent prosecution, and open source software strategy. Shaobin handles matters relating to a variety of technologies, including computer software, telecommunications, smartphones, video processing, Internet television, LEDs, wearable devices, robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, consumer electronics, and related electronics. He is admitted to practice in California, New York, and the

United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) only.

Shaobin has helped dozens of Chinese clients successfully resolve their intellectual property disputes in the United States. His experience encompasses all aspects of intellectual property litigation, including working with clients to formulate litigation strategies, coordinating US and China teams to execute the strategies, and conducting patent validity and infringement analysis, technical discovery and production, depositions, expert reports and depositions, Markman hearings, briefing, motion hearings, trials, and settlement negotiations.

He guides clients through all stages of patent prosecution and invalidation in the USPTO, including patent application preparation, responses to office actions of the USPTO, and administrative post-grant proceedings challenging the validity of disputed patents.
Shaobin is a frequent speaker at industry events and teaches in China on topics related to US intellectual property litigation and prosecution strategy. He has taught a graduate course on US IP law at Renmin
University of China Law School and Business School, and serves as a program professor at the University of Science and Technology of China School of Public Affairs.
Before joining Morgan Lewis, Shaobin was a partner in the intellectual property litigation practice of another global law firm. Early in his law career, he was as a judicial extern to Judge John C. Coughenour of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, where he recommended disposition, drafted legal memos, and proposed orders on a complex computer software patent case.
Shaobin also previously worked as a software engineer at Electronic Data System and Sabre Holdings, where he developed client/server, multitier, Internet, and database related software applications. From 1994 to 1996, he served as a legal official at Hong Kong & Macao Affairs Office of China State Council,
and helped harmonize the laws of Hong Kong and Macao with Chinese Basic Laws.