Ce Li is a counsel in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. His practice focuses on protecting patent and trade secret rights and defending against IP infringement claims in state and federal courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission. Mr. Li also assists clients in IP rights counseling, licensing and procurement, including patent portfolio development and NPE strategies. Mr. Li is also experienced in IP investigations and due diligence, as well as post-grant proceedings (e.g., inter partes reviews or IPRs), and has rendered patentability, non-infringement and invalidity opinions.
Mr. Li represents a wide variety of industrial, commercial and individual clients, in both IP litigation, patent prosecution, and transactional matters. He has prosecuted patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 2003. IP litigation forums in which he has been involved include both U.S. district courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC). Client sectors served by Mr. Li span a wide spectrum and include semiconductor equipment, microelectronic devices and packaging, integrated circuit (IC) designs, high-speed memory systems, storage networks and apparatuses, medical devices and diagnostic equipment, telecommunications equipment and network infrastructure, mobile marketing, security and authentication, consumer banking and credit cards, investment banking (securities, derivatives and structured financing), railroad equipment, online and retail gaming, and social networking. Apart from advising clients of American and European origins, Mr. Li has successfully served, and takes pride in serving, clients from Asia (including China and Japan).
Representative matters and recent experiences include:
Prior to joining Goodwin in 2007, Mr. Li was a patent law clerk at Hunton & Williams LLP.
Mr. Li is the co-inventor of “Method for Monolithically Integrating Silicon Carbide Microelectromechanical Devices with Electronic Circuitry,” U.S. Patent Nos. 7,170,141 (Jan. 30, 2007) 7,615,788 (Nov. 10, 2009).
Mr. Li is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).
Mr. Li was named the "Rising Star" from 2014 to 2016 by Super Lawyers magazine in Washington, DC, and was nominated as an outstanding lawyer in the ITC 337 survey by U.S. Legal 500. He is a key member of Goodwin’s IP Litigation team, which has been recognized by Law360 as “Intellectual Property Practice Group of the Year” in 2014-2016 and named by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce as a Top-Ten Team for 337 Investigations.
(cum laude)
(magna cum laude)
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