Sarah Kate Mullins

Sarah Kate Mullins is a Senior Associate in the Intellectual Property group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where her practice primarily focuses on federal patent litigation for technology companies. Her experience spans disputes involving adaptive streaming technologies, content delivery networks, computer memory modules, and gaming software.

Mullins consistently represents defendants in patent infringement matters, with all her tracked appearances being on the defense side. She has been part of teams defending major technology companies against patent assertions. Notable engagements include her role as counsel for Netflix in Personalized Media Communications, LLC v. Netflix, Inc., a case involving six streaming media patents that concluded in a stipulated dismissal of PMC's claims with prejudice after extensive litigation. She also served as an associate for Samsung in Netlist, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al., part of a broader series of disputes concerning memory technology where Samsung achieved a victory at the Federal Circuit with the cancellation of a Netlist patent.

Her defense experience further includes contributing to trial teams that secured favorable outcomes for Zynga. In IGT v. Zynga, the jury found no infringement and invalidity due to obviousness for the asserted patent, with five other patents removed prior to trial. Similarly, in IBM v. Zynga, the litigation was significantly narrowed pre-trial, and the jury found that the majority of accused games did not infringe. While her firm bio indicates her involvement in patent litigation, there is no specific information from public sources directly detailing her individual appearances or significant experience in PTAB or IPR proceedings.

Mullins is admitted to practice in California, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Texas. She earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was Order of the Coif, and her B.S. in Communication from Cornell University.