Chun M. Ng

Chun M. Ng — Perkins Coie (Seattle / Taipei)

Specialty. Mr. Ng's practice centers on electronics and communications patents rather than pharma or mechanical arts: firm and IAM Patent 1000 profiles describe recurring work in wireless protocols (UMTS, 802.11/Wi-Fi, LTE), semiconductor memory, processing and packaging, microprocessors, analog and digital circuit design, uncrewed vehicles, and biomedical devices. IAM's write-up frames him as a distinctly hybrid practitioner — prosecution, post-grant proceedings, enforcement support, licensing, and transactions — with much of the strategy driven by cross-border disputes in Asia (he works out of Seattle and Taipei, is a former Taiwan office managing partner, and handles adversarial proceedings outside the U.S. as well as USPTO work).

Side preference. The tracked data shows a single appearance, on the plaintiff side, in Starbucks Corp. v. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. (W.D. Wash., filed Sept. 2025). Substance matters more than the label here: that case is a defensive declaratory judgment action brought by an operating company against a PAE (Valtrus/Key Patent Innovations) after a licensing demand aimed at Starbucks's use of open-source platforms (Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase, RocksDB). His verified client base is overwhelmingly operating technology companies — HTC, Microsoft, Intel, DJI, Synology, Monolithic Power Systems, Mindray, Spreadtrum — and the case biographies in his firm profile repeatedly describe him as representing defendants in infringement suits and respondents in ITC investigations. There is no indication he represents NPEs/PAEs as asserting plaintiffs.

Firm context. He has been at Perkins Coie since roughly 2002 and is a partner there, having served as firmwide chair of the IP practice (2005–2011), a member of the firm's Executive Committee, and Taiwan office managing partner; he is now listed on the Asia side under the Perkins Coie–Ashurst combination (Ashurst Perkins Coie). Before Perkins Coie: Office Managing Partner of Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman's Seattle office (1999–2002) and associate/partner at Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness (1991–1999). He is not in-house.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. He was part of the Perkins Coie team in Electronic Scripting Products v. HTC America (S.D. Cal.), which invalidated U.S. Patent 8,553,935 in an IPR (final written decision cancelling all claims, 2019) and then won summary judgment of non-infringement on U.S. Patent 9,235,934 in January 2022, defeating an original damages demand exceeding $45 million. Other verifiable matters include an ITC Section 337 investigation for Synology (337-TA-685, flash memory) and OmniVision v. Photobit (CMOS image sensors plus a related ITC action). Post-grant work is a core part of the practice rather than occasional: IAM Patent 1000 lists him nationally under Post-Grant every year from 2018, and PTAB filings identify him as lead counsel in IPRs for Microsoft (e.g., IPR2013-00561, IPR2016-01897) and for GTO Access Systems/Nortek (IPR2018-01793), with briefs and argument before the Board. In the Starbucks matter, the docket reflects a defense motion to strike/dismiss under Washington's anti-SLAPP statute and a stipulated stay request, and the case is listed as closed in at least one tracker; I could not verify a merits ruling, so the outcome should be confirmed against the docket.

Bar and education. University of Washington School of Law, J.D. 1991; University of Washington, B.S. Electrical Engineering 1988; admitted in Washington and registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 36,878).