Ernest Hsin is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, and is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He specializes in intellectual property litigation, primarily patent litigation, as well as intellectual property counseling and licensing.
Mr. Hsin has extensive experience litigating intellectual property cases in the computer, software, Internet, electronic device, medical device, semiconductor, telecommunications, and video game industries, for both U.S. and foreign clients. He regularly represents leading technology companies in some of their most significant intellectual property disputes. Companies he has represented include: Amazon.com, Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, Sharp, Viacom, Cablevision, St. Jude Medical, Emulex, Expedia, Tessera, Nortel Networks, and CNET (CBS Interactive).
Mr. Hsin has litigated cases before numerous federal district courts, appellate courts, including the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Mr. Hsin was an attorney at a large patent law firm in Washington, DC, and served as the Director of Legal Affairs for an Internet software company in San Francisco, CA.
Mr. Hsin received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1998 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. At MIT, he was elected to membership in both Pi Tau Sigma (the National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society) and Tau Beta Pi (the National Engineering Honor Society), and served as the Vice President of the MIT chapter of Pi Tau Sigma. He is a member of the State Bar of California, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Hsin is a co-chair of the firm’s Bay Area Diversity Committee.