Artin Au-Yeung is an associate in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He is a member of the Life Sciences Practice Group and primarily focuses on intellectual property transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Au-Yeung was an associate in Kirkland & Ellis’s intellectual property litigation group, where he represented clients in trade secret and patent litigation.  Mr. Au-Yeung is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Au-Yeung earned his law degree in 2020 from UC Berkeley School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif.  While in law school, Mr. Au-Yeung served as the Senior Articles Editor and Supervising Editor of the Berkeley Business Law Journal.  He also served as an extern for the Honorable Susan Illston of the Northern District of California.

Mr. Au-Yeung received his undergraduate degree in 2017 from UC Berkeley, where he double majored in Molecular & Cell Biology and Rhetoric and received Honors in Rhetoric.

Mr. Au-Yeung is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice in the State of California.

Recent Publications

• Note, “Re-Classifying Governmental Petitioners as ‘Persons’ in AIA Review Proceedings,” 35 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1003, 2020. https://btlj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0004-35-4-Au-Yeung.pdf