Elvin Y. Lee

Elvin Lee is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he currently practices in the firm's Litigation, Intellectual Property, as well as Media, Entertainment and Technology Departments.

Mr. Lee has represented clients in litigation and provided counsel on a wide variety of matters, including complex commercial disputes, patent disputes, as well as copyright and trademark disputes. Mr. Lee also has particular experience representing clients in the high-technology, computer, and video game entertainment industries.  Some of his patent litigation experience includes:
 

• Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., et al. v. Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., et al. – defended Viacom Inc., MTV Networks, and Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. in a multi-patent infringement suit relating to video game technology in the critically acclaimed Rock Band video game series;
  
• Discovery Communications, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. – defended Amazon.com, Inc. against allegations of patent infringement over Amazon’s Kindle wireless reading devices;
  
• Everglades Interactive, LLC v. Playdom, Inc., et al. – jointly represented multiple game developers and publishers, including Crowdstar, Electronic Arts, LOLapps, Playfish, and Zynga, against allegations of patent infringement relating to social games;
  
• Walker Digital patent litigations – currently representing multiple game developers and publishers (including Activision Blizzard, Atari, Cryptic Studios, Electronic Arts, and others), across several lawsuits, who have been accused of infringing multiple patents by plaintiff Walker Digital, LLC.

 
Mr. Lee graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2008 where he served as an Executive Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. As a law student, he participated in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic where he helped author an amicus brief filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Hepting v. AT&T (No. 06-17132, 06-17137). He received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and certified minor in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, and has experience working in systems administration prior to attending law school.
 
Mr. Lee is admitted to practice in the State of California. He is also a member of the firm's Diversity Committee.