Sung Bin Lee

Associate Attorney

Sung Bin Lee is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. His practice focuses on patent litigation and IP counseling in a wide range of subject matters including cellular & wireless technology, cloud computing, consumer electronics, steel manufacturing, pharmaceuticals & biologics, vaccines, and nuclear medicine. Sung Bin's work also includes compliance investigations and a pro bono practice, focusing primarily on immigration law.

Sung Bin has litigated in federal District Courts, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Supreme Court, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO). Sung Bin has experience in all phases of litigation, including pre-suit diligence, Rule 12 motions, fact discovery, depositions, expert discovery, claim construction, dispositive motions and hearings, bench and jury trials, pre- and post-trial briefing, and appellate briefing.

Sung Bin received his Juris Doctor in 2018 from Columbia Law School, where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Valerie E. Caproni of the Southern District of New York, Notes Editor for the Columbia Business Law Review, and staff editor for the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. While in law school, Sung Bin obtained a certificate in Global Business Law and Governance from Sciences Po and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Sung Bin received his Bachelor of Science in Molecular & Cellular Biology, with honors, in 2013 from the Johns Hopkins University. As an undergraduate, he co-authored a research article on the neurotoxicity pathways underlying multiple sclerosis.

Sung Bin is a native speaker of Korean. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Representative matters:

  • Represented Verizon in the Eastern District of Texas and the PTO against General Access regarding patents directed to Wi-Fi and 5G technology.  The trial team won the first-ever new trial order on all issues before Judge Gilstrap in a $845 million claim, prior to a highly favorable settlement.
  • Represented ArcelorMittal in the ITC and the PTO against VinFast regarding patents directed to steel manufacturing processes.
  • Represented SharkNinja in multiple cases in the District of Massachusetts, the PTO, and the ITC against Dyson regarding patents directed to haircare and vacuum cleaners.
  • Represented Novartis in the District of Delaware against generic manufacturers of a leading drug indicated for relapse-remitting multiple sclerosis.
  • Represented Novartis in the District of Delaware against generic manufacturers of a leading drug indicated for acute myeloid leukemia and systemic mastocytosis.
  • Represented Novartis in a PTO post-grant proceeding regarding patents directed to radiopharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
  • Represented VMware and Dell in the Western District of Texas against WSOU regarding patents directed to data storage.

Capabilities

Credentials

Education:
  • Columbia University - 2018 Juris Doctor
  • Johns Hopkins University - 2013 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
  • New York Bar