Jun Zheng

Jun Zheng practices in the area of intellectual property law, particularly patent, trademark and trade secret litigation. He resolves complex intellectual property issues with his knowledge of electrical and computer engineering, especially in telecommunications, semiconductors, GPS navigation, blockchain, artificial intelligence, medical devices, multimedia processing and software applications.

Mr. Zheng has experience representing major tech companies, including many in the Fortune 500, before federal courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Particularly, he has extensive experience litigating in the Western District of Texas, having represented various clients in over ten cases before Judge Alan D. Albright in Waco, Texas. During law school, Mr. Zheng was a judicial intern with Judge John D. Love in the Eastern District of Texas in Tyler, Texas.

Mr. Zheng has experience in various stages of litigation, including preparing pleadings, serving process in foreign countries, motion practices, written discovery and document production, Markman briefings, technical analyses, and working with technical experts. He also has experience managing patent portfolios for large companies and research institutes involving a variety of technologies.

Prior to moving to the United States, Mr. Zheng lived in mainland China and Hong Kong for more than 25 years. With his deep understanding of the Chinese culture and legal industry, he has represented Chinese clients in U.S. courts and advised U.S. clients in IP lawsuits in China.

Mr. Zheng received his J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was an editor for The Review of Litigation and for Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal. He earned master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and from the University of Hong Kong, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He is a native speaker of Mandarin and proficient in Cantonese, and knows some Spanish.

Representative Matters

• Defend major networking device and service company in multiple patent infringement cases relating to network routers, switches, and VoIP services in the Western District of Texas.

• Defend major semiconductor device companies in multiple patent infringement cases relating to integrated circuits for signal, image, and video processing in the Western District of Texas.

• Defend large lighting fixture provider in ITC Section 337 investigations relating to LED lighting fixtures before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

• Defended Google and HP Inc. in patent infringement cases relating to audio/video service software in the Eastern District of Texas.

• Defend oil drilling service companies in patent infringement cases relating to oil drilling service equipment in the Western District of Texas.

• Represent Chinese company in trademark infringement cases in the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of Texas.

• Represented Micron Technology in trade secret case relating to DRAM design in the Northern District of California.

• Defended Micron Technology in patent infringement cases relating to integrated circuit design and manufacturing in various courts in China.

• Defended Xilinx in patent infringement cases relating to FPGA design and manufacturing in the Eastern District of Texas and Northern District of California.

• Defended Broadcom Inc. in patent infringement cases relating to integrated circuit design and manufacturing in various courts in China.

• Defended Synopsys in patent infringement case relating to hardware emulation of IC design in District of Oregon.

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP

- Associate, 2018-present

• Jones Day

- Associate, 2017-2018

• Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

- Associate/Law Clerk, 2015-2017

- Patent Agent, 2011-2012

• Honorable John D. Love, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

- Judicial Intern, 2014

• Dechert LLP

- Patent Litigation Advisor, 2012-2013

Professional Activities

• IEEE

• Austin Bar Association

• Austin Asian American Bar Association

• Dallas Bar Association

• Dallas Asian American Bar Association

• The Bar Association of San Francisco

• The Palo Alto Area Bar Association

Honors and Awards

• Giles S. Rich IP Moot Court, Best Appellate and Appellee Briefs, Regional Second Place, 2015

• Louis T. Pirkey Writing Prize in Intellectual Property Law, 2015

• Richard Linn Inn Mark T. Banner Scholarship, 2015

• Texas State Bar Women and Minority Scholarship, 2015

Selected Publications

• Author, "A New Era for Patent Infringement Pleading: Twombly, Iqbal, and the Demise of Form 18," 24 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 15, 2016

• Coauthor, "Joint time synchronization and localization of an unknown node in wireless sensor networks," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 1309-1320, March 2010

• Coauthor, "Robust joint localization and time synchronization in wireless sensor networks with bounded anchor uncertainties," Proceedings of IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2793-2796, Taipei, China, April 2009

• Coauthor, "Joint localization and time synchronization in wireless sensor networks with anchor uncertainties," Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Comm. and Networking Conference (WCNC), Budapest, Hungary, April 2009

• Coauthor, "Localization and time synchronization in wireless sensor networks: A unified approach," Proceedings of 2008 IEEE Asia Pacific Conf. on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), pp. 594-597, Macao, China, November 2008

• Coauthor, "On best linear unbiased estimator approach for time-of-arrival based localization," IET Signal Processing, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 156-162, June 2008

• Coauthor, "New approach for unbiased direct frequency estimation," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E91A, No. 3, pp. 872-874, March 2008

• Coauthor, "Accurate three-step algorithm for joint source position and propagation speed estimation," Signal Processing, Vol. 87, pp. 3096-3100, December 2007

• Coauthor, "Two simplified recursive Gauss-Newton algorithms for direct amplitude and phase tracking of a real sinusoid," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 972-975, December 2007

• Coauthor, "New adaptive algorithm for direct delay estimation of sinusoidal signals," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 984-987, December 2007

• Coauthor, "Particle swarm optimization for time-difference-of-arrival based source localization," Proceedings of 2007 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 414-417, Poznan, Poland, September 2007