​Jennifer J. Rho is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Group, focusing on representing clients in patent licensing and litigation matters involving consumer electronics, communications, defense, medical device, video game, and social networking technologies.  She has litigated significant patent infringement cases in federal courts across the United States, including in the Northern and Central Districts of California, the Eastern District of Texas, and the District of Delaware, as well as in the International Trade Commission.

Some of Ms. Rho’s achievements include:

• Atlas IP v. St. Jude Medical (representation of St. Jude Medical against claims of patent infringement against its ICD and pacemaker devices, in which St. Jude Medical won a Daubert motion striking the plaintiff’s expert report –seeking hundreds of millions in damages – and leaving the plaintiff without an expert to testify on damages);
• Adrea v. Amazon.com (representation of Amazon.com in a multipatent infringement action brought against its Kindle products);
• Konami Digital Entertainment v. Viacom, MTV Networks, and Harmonix Music Systems (representation of Viacom against claims that its Rock Band video game had infringed multiple patents);
• Walker Digital Litigations (defense of numerous media, social networking, and game publishing companies—including Atari, EA, Zynga, and Sega—in three separate patent infringement lawsuits filed by Walker Digital pertaining to encryption and online payment systems); and
• In Re Certain Semiconductor Chips with Minimized Chip Package Size and Products Containing Same (representation of Tessera Technologies in three separate ITC investigations against various companies, including Motorola and Qualcomm, alleging infringement of certain semiconductor patents).

In 2018, Ms. Rho was recognized on The Recorder‘s inaugural list of Next Generation Women Leaders in Tech Law.  She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago Law School in 2007.  During law school, Ms. Rho was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and the Chicago Journal of International Law.  She graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy of Industrial Societies.

Ms. Rho is a member of the California bar.  She is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and before the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Texas and all Districts of California.