Wendy Cai is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, practicing in the Intellectual Property and International Arbitration practice groups. Her practice focuses on patent litigation and international arbitration in a wide range of fields, including telecommunications, software, green energy, security networks, robotics, logistics, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals.
Wendy has experience in all phases of litigation and arbitration, from pre-suit diligence to appeal, including managing discovery, taking and defending depositions, working with experts, drafting dispositive motions, arguing discovery motions, Markman hearings, and trial. She has experience handling disputes in federal courts and the ITC, and also has represented clients in a variety of international arbitration proceedings, including those before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).
Representative patent litigation matters:
- Represented Apple against Geoscope, where plaintiff asserted 6 patents related to geolocation technology. Won dismissal of all patents.
- Represented SharkNinja in the ITC against competitor iRobot, resulting in a no violation determination for 4 of the 5 patents asserted and a limited exclusion order for a single obsolete feature in a discontinued product.
- Represented AT&T in a patent infringement case where plaintiff Sol IP asserted 27 patents against LTE and WiFi technologies.
- Representing Cisco against Lionra in a pending patent infringement case in the Eastern District of Texas. Won dismissal of a patent after securing a favorable claim construction order.
- Representing SharkNinja in patent infringement cases pending in the District of Massachusetts against Dyson.
- Representing Apple against SpaceTime3D in a three-patent infringement case pending in the Western District of Texas.
- Representing Apple against Varia in a three-patent infringement case pending in the Eastern District of New York.
Representative international arbitration matters:
- Successfully represented an electronics company in a SIAC arbitration against a multi-hundred million dollar claim brought under a patent license agreement.
- Successfully represented a multi-national logistics company in a multi-hundred million dollar claim in an investment treaty arbitration.
- Representing an aluminum company in an SCC arbitration concerning disputes related to a power purchase agreement.
She received her Juris Doctor in 2018 from Columbia Law School, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the student Editor-in-Chief of the American Review of International Arbitration. She represented Columbia and placed third at the 24th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, and was awarded “Best Cross-Examination” in the Judith S. Kaye Arbitration Competition in 2017. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology with distinction in the major from Yale University in 2015.
Wendy is admitted to practice in the State of New York, District of Columbia, and before the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of Texas.
She is the co-author of “Principles of Evidence in Public International Law as Applied by Investor-State Tribunals: Burden and Standard of Proof”, Brill Publications (January 2019) and is the first-author of a publication for the Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry journal.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Columbia University - 2018 Juris Doctor
- Yale University - 2015 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
- District of Columbia Bar
- New York Bar