プロフィール
Lisa Li focuses her practice on cross-border transactions and litigations, particularly in matters involving consumer goods and electronics, digital platforms, and video games. She is knowledgeable of the business, cultural, and legal frameworks and nuances in Asia and the United States. She regularly advises Asia-based multinational companies and founder-led companies on their legal disputes, operations, and mergers and acquisitions in the United States, guiding them through the intricacies of transactions, compliance, contract negotiation, corporate structuring, dispute resolution, employment, export and import, intellectual property, product liability, and trade issues.
Lisa brings a wealth of knowledge in U.S. intellectual property law, particularly in patent, trademark, and copyright protection and enforcement in courts, arbitration, and via DMCA platform enforcements. She routinely handles a wide variety of cross‑border litigation, including commercial and contractual disputes, consumer protection, intellectual property, and trade secret. She also provides strategic counsel to technology companies on the evolving legal and ethical considerations surrounding the development and deployment of generative artificial intelligence.
Lisa’s clients include public, private, and startup companies, ranging from mobile app developers, cloud service providers, ecommerce platforms, video game publishers, to manufacturers of apparels, batteries, car components, electronics, furniture, skincare, smartphones, and solar panels.
Concentrations
- Trademark prosecution, clearance, and litigation
- Copyright protection, licensing, and enforcement
- Patent litigation, evaluation, and strategies
- U.S. customs and export control
- Cross-border dispute resolution
- Corporate compliance and risk management
- Real estate investments and constructions
取扱分野
実績紹介
- Advise app and game developers in intellectual property protection, litigation, and DMCA platform enforcement.
- Advise digital platforms on generative AI governance, copyright and training-data risk, and legal liability allocation.
- Advise the largest Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer on patent litigation, trademark clearance, prosecution, portfolio management, and TTAB proceedings Advise the largest Chinese social media company on intellectual property enforcement and securities class action defense in the United States.
- Advise the U.S. subsidiaries of the largest Chinese manufacturer of polyurethane products on global brand protection and trademark portfolio.
- Represented Chinese mattress manufacturers in contract disputes, customs seizures, consumer protection investigation, employment, and litigation.
- Jury trial defending several U.S. mobile marketing companies against federal antitrust claims and obtained favorable verdict.
- Volunteer, Legal Services for Entrepreneurs, 2014-Present
- Workers’ Rights Clinic Counselor, The Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2008
- Law Clerk, Asian Law Caucus, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2007
学歴・資格・言語
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法務博士, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Recipient, Peggy Browning Fund Fellowship
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B.S., Biology and Chemistry, with honors, University of California at Irvine
Dean’s Honor List
- カリフォルニア州
- Supreme Court of California
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- 中国語（マンダリン）, Native