Hong Shi

Hong Shi, co-chair of the firm's Artificial Intelligence practice, assists clients to obtain, enforce, defend, and license intellectual property rights over a wide variety of complex technologies.

Hong helps clients with strategic counseling, patent portfolio management, patent litigation, and licensing across numerous technological fields, including artificial intelligence/deep learning, autonomous driving, robotic surgical systems, image/video processing, memory systems (including SSDs, DRAM, NAND, RAID, JEDEC standards), video and audio codecs, optics and imaging systems (such as camera design, miniature mobile device lenses, image sensors, computational imaging, and high performance ruggedized scopes), semiconductor device design and fabrication, telecommunications (including cellular 3GPP standards and IEEE 802.11),  and computer systems.

Hong frequently represents clients in post-grant proceedings including ex parte reexaminations and  inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and has obtained successful outcomes for some of the largest technology companies in the world. Hong also prepares dispositive pleadings for patent litigation cases in federal district courts. Clients rely on Hong’s comprehensive experience across all phases of patent disputes, including petition drafting, discovery, briefing, claim construction, oral argument, and appeal.

Hong is active in efforts to support diversity and inclusion in the legal community, and served as a board member of Mother Attorneys Mentoring Association (MAMAs) Austin Chapter. Hong also served as a volunteer prosecutor for the City of Austin, and tried five criminal misdemeanor cases to a jury and obtained guilty verdicts in all of them.