Alex Yap

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Alex Yap — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Alex S. Yap is a Morrison Foerster (MoFo) partner in Los Angeles who co-chairs the firm's PTAB practice / Post-Grant Strategy + Disputes group and sits within its IP Litigation group. His technical footprint is electrical engineering and computer science rather than life sciences: semiconductor and memory circuit design, computer architecture, display-panel technology (LCD/TFT), consumer electronics and camera/imaging (stabilization, distortion correction, aspect-ratio conversion, and design patents), GPS/navigation software, and coax-networking standards work touching the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA). Chambers describes his practice as tied closely to ITC and district court litigation, with particular experience in both utility and design patents. Before law school he spent over four years as a circuit design engineer at Freescale (formerly Motorola) and Analog Devices working on embedded flash memory and ADSL chipsets.

Side preference. The authoritative case list shows a single tracked appearance, on the plaintiff side as counsel — a thin record that appears to be a data gap rather than a reliable signal. Web-verifiable work skews toward the defense and petitioner side: he represented Insta360 as respondent in the GoPro Section 337 investigation and as IPR petitioner, BOE Technology as IPR petitioner against Samsung Display and against NPE Longitude Licensing / 138 East LCD, Jumio in FaceTec v. Jumio (N.D. Cal.), Yamaha, Verizon/Networks in Motion, and Altera. In PTAB terms, petitioners are often coded as plaintiff-side, which would explain the single plaintiff entry; he also appears as plaintiff-side counsel for MaxLinear in a MoCA licensing/standards dispute in the Central District of California. On balance, this reads as a defense-and-petitioner practice, with some plaintiff-side standards/licensing work.

Firm context and PTAB experience. MoFo is his only private-practice firm of record: 11 years there, then a stint as an Administrative Patent Judge at the USPTO in San Jose (roughly 2016–2020), presiding over more than 200 ex parte appeals, IPRs, and CBM proceedings, and rejoining MoFo in January 2020. PTAB/IPR work is the centerpiece, not an adjunct — he has been involved in 30-plus post-grant and reexamination proceedings and was named Managing IP's PTAB Practitioner of the Year in 2025 (Chambers USA Band 2, Patent Trial and Appeal Board).

Notable matters. The most prominent verifiable result is the ITC Section 337 investigation Certain Cameras, Camera Systems, and Accessories Used Therewith (Inv. No. 337-TA-1400), where MoFo obtained a complete defense victory for Insta360 against GoPro; the Commission's February 26, 2026 final determination cleared all five asserted utility patents (invalid, not infringed, or both) and reversed the ALJ's infringement finding on the '052 patent, with only older, discontinued products within the asserted design patent. He was also part of the team in Vehicle IP LLC v. General Motors (W.D. Wis.), where summary judgment of non-infringement for Networks in Motion and Cellco/Verizon was affirmed on appeal, and in Black Hills Media v. Yamaha (C.D. Cal.), dismissed after five of six asserted patents were held unpatentable at the PTAB. He is a frequent author and commentator on PTAB practice (Fintiv, Arthrex, AIA rulemaking).

Bar and education. Member, State Bar of California (No. 241400, admitted 2006) and registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 60,609); B.S. (1993) and M.S. (1998) in electrical and computer engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison; J.D., magna cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School (2005), Order of the Coif and Minnesota Law Review editor. He is a member of the American Association of Patent Judges.

Note on sourcing: the identification rests on consistent firm, Chambers, USPTO/PTAB filing, and State Bar records for Alex S. Yap at MoFo (ayap@mofo.com; Reg. No. 60,609); other attorneys named Alex Yap appear in unrelated matters. The single tracked appearance labeled "Untitled case" is not resolvable to a specific docket and is treated as a records gap above.