Ernest Hsin is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn.  He specializes in technology-related litigation, with an emphasis on high-tech patent litigation.  Mr. Hsin regularly represents his clients in a first-chair capacity in court and at mediations and other proceedings.  He has handled cases and proceedings before numerous federal district courts, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board.  He also has extensive experience litigating patent cases before the U.S. International Trade Commission in technology areas such as software, semiconductors, and consumer electronics.

Mr. Hsin regularly represents leading technology companies in some of their most significant intellectual property disputes.  Companies he has represented include: T-Mobile, Tesla, Merck, Avi Networks, Apple, Sanofi-Aventis, Amazon.com, Hewlett-Packard, St. Jude Medical, Johnson & Johnson, Electronic Arts, Sharp, Emulex, and CNET (CBS Interactive).

Mr. Hsin is also active in pro bono matters, as well as in the legal community.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Asian Law Alliance, an organization that provides free legal services to under-resourced Asian communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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 (MIT) in 1995.  He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Representative Matters

• Lead counsel for Tesla, Inc. and SolarCity Corp. in an international arbitration regarding solar energy technology in Mexico
• IPR and district court counsel for Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. in a multi-patent case involving implantable contraceptive devices
• Counsel for T-Mobile U.S., Inc. in multiple multi-patent cases in the Eastern District of Texas involving standards essential telecommunications patents
• Counsel for Sanofi-Aventis in a multi-patent case involving diabetes drugs and injection devices
• ITC and district court counsel for Fitbit, Inc. in multiple cases relating to consumer fitness-tracking devices
• Counsel for Amazon.com in a multi-patent case involving the delivery of electronic books
• Counsel for Hewlett-Packard in a patent case involving computer locking technology
• Counsel for Electronic Arts in multiple patent cases relating to videogame technologies