Profile
Mr. Wu is an experienced litigator who has extensive litigation experience in both state and federal court and specializes in the areas of business, commercial, and intellectual property litigation.
Employment Litigation
Mr. Wu has represented employers against claims of harassment and discrimination, wrongful termination, and retaliation in state and federal court as well as wage, meal and break period violations before administrative agencies such as the California Labor Commissioner.
Commercial and Business Litigation
Mr. Wu has represented clients across a wide variety of industries in all aspects of business and commercial litigation including, but not limited to, the prosecution and defense of complex breach of contract, fraud, unfair business competition, trade secret, and business tort claims. Because several of these matters involve entities domiciled outside the United States, Mr. Wu is also knowledgeable in handling the specific procedural intricacies in litigating against internationally based entities.
Patent and Intellectual Property Litigation
Mr. Wu has a science background and has successfully represented clients in the prosecution and defense of numerous patent infringement and invalidity matters involving a broad range of technologies including, but not limited to, consumer products, mechanical devices, promotional products, and medical devices. Mr. Wu’s science background has proved invaluable in dissecting the complex technologies behind many of these patent matters and he has appeared in multiple jurisdictions, including the Eastern District of Texas, a well-known forum for patent litigation.
In connection with Mr. Wu’s intellectual property practice, he has also litigated many complex trademark, copyright, and misappropriation of trade secret matters. Representative matters range from trademark disputes involving artificial log products to a lighted promotional product, copyright disputes involving literary works for a widely disseminated and well-known periodical to software source code infringement to a work of performing art, and misappropriation of trade secret matters involving audio consumer products to breaches of licensing agreements.
Presentations and Publications
Co-authored with Miguel Hernandez, After ‘Egyptian Goddess,’ Courts May Stick to the Drawing Board, San Francisco Daily Journal (April 29, 2009).
Panelist, "Taming the Terabytes: The Preservation of Electronic Evidence & the Law Department's Role: Records Retention, Sanctions, Ethics and Cost Issues," 2008 Annual California Minority Counsel Program, San Francisco, California (October 2008).
Panelist, "Deposition Strategies for General Practitioners," 2007 Asian Pacific American Bar Association Annual Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada.
"Federal Practice," MCLE Seminar (2005).