Atty. Weining Bai

• Weining Bai is a trial lawyer focused on intellectual property and commercial litigation
• He has significant experience in patent litigation representing both plaintiffs and defendants across a variety of forums and technologies and also has litigated trade secrets cases
• He has participated in numerous trials, presenting opening statements, examining witnesses, arguing motions, and handling witness preparation
• In pre-trial, he has taken and defended depositions of both fact and expert witnesses and handled legal research and briefing
• He has participated in Markman hearings and handled dispositive motions and discovery disputes
• Mr. Bai is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he served as associate blog editor of The Penn Intellectual Property Group, writing on IP issues
• During law school, Mr. Bai worked as a summer associate at AZA for two years.His undergraduate degrees are in physics engineering and economics, and he graduated magna cum lade from Washington and Lee University

Representative Matters

• Successfully represented a U.S.-based technology company in the international enforcement and licensing of high-definition speech coding patents that included the filing of over 25 cases in China
• Mr. Bai’s client prevailed in over a dozen validity challenges filed before the Patent Re-Examination Board (China’s Equivalent of the PTAB) and he secured one of the largest licenses obtained by a U.S.-based patent enforcement entity against a large China-based international smartphone manufacturer
• A native Mandarin speaker, Mr. Bai was key in managing this litigation campaign and attended numerous trial proceedings in Chinese forums
• Successfully represented a hydraulic fracturing company in a patent infringement suit brought by a former vendor involving fracking proppant storage and delivery technology
• Mr. Bai was instrumental in helping his client secure extremely favorable claim construction rulings which, ultimately, resulted in the plaintiff stipulating to non-infringement
• As a result, his client was dismissed from the case with an extremely favorable settlement on the eve of summary judgment
• Successfully represented Saint Lawrence Communications LLC in numerous suits against a variety of smartphone manufacturers regarding infringement of patents involving HD Voice technology
• This included a jury award of over $9 million and a willful infringement finding against Motorola in the Eastern District of Texas, as well as highly favorable settlements on the eve of trial against Apple and ZTE
• Successfully represented a Canadian music services company against a patent infringement suit brought by a U.S.-based competitor
• After taking over from prior counsel late in the matter, he helped his client secure a highly favorable settlement on the eve of trial
• Successfully represented a Houston-based directional drilling company against a competitor and a former vendor over theft of trade secrets and copyright infringement involving motor transmission technology
• His client secured a highly favorable monetary settlement and an agreed, publicly filed, permanent injunction
• Successfully represented an international supplier of managed pressure drilling equipment against a competitor and former employees in a theft of trade secrets case involving rotating control devices technology
• The case settled on highly favorable terms for his client after the trial court entered an injunction and denied defendants’ motion to dismiss
• Successfully represented an international oilfield services company against a former employee in a theft of trade secrets case involving downhole electronic tools
• The case settled on the eve of trial with his client fully recovering the rights to all disputed trade secret technology at issue
• Successfully representing a local laboratory and its owner in administrative litigation involving Medicare reimbursement billing
• Mr. Bai was instrumental in handling a bet-the-company administrative trial and successfully obtained on appeal a complete reversal of all unfavorable findings entered by administrative tribunal against his client
• Successfully represented Prime Natural Resources in an insurance breach of contract dispute against Underwriters of Lloyd’s of London
• A jury awarded $41.6 million verdict that included actual damages, punitive damages, statutory penalties, and legal fees
• Successfully represented a physician in an age discrimination suit against a large hospital after taking over the case from prior counsel
• Mr. Bai won several key dispositive motions that resulted in a favorable settlement for his client
• Successfully represented a variety of businesses in contract and business tort disputes
• on multiple occasions, obtained judgments and attorneys’ fees in favor of his clients