Stephen Yang

Specialty / focus areas. Stephen Yang is a partner in Dentons US LLP's Intellectual Property & Technology practice (New York), with roughly 15 years of experience spanning federal district court litigation, ITC Section 337 investigations, and PTAB post-grant proceedings (he reports 70+ matters). His tracked work is concentrated in high-tech hardware/software — the Barco–Yealink disputes over video conferencing and wireless presentation (ClickShare-type) technology — and his firm bios describe broader coverage of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemical manufacturing/compositions, electronics/software, and automotive. A recurring theme is representing Asian (particularly Chinese and Taiwanese) operating companies in US disputes; he is a registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 70589).

Side preference. Mixed, with a modest defense lean: 2 of his 5 tracked appearances are plaintiff-side and 3 defendant-side, all as lead counsel. His most visible work is defending an operating company — Yealink against Barco in the Eastern District of Texas — but he has also appeared as lead counsel for Barco (plaintiff) in separate matters, and his own practice description explicitly covers both foreign defendants and foreign plaintiffs. He works both sides rather than serving a particular plaintiff/PAE constituency.

Firm context & notable matters. Yang joined Dentons in June 2023 from Steptoe & Johnson LLP (New York partner, January 2021); earlier he worked in-house at a major New Jersey pharmaceutical company with Hatch-Waxman experience. His headline result is Barco, Inc. v. Yealink (USA) Network Technology Co., Ltd., No. 2:23-cv-00521 (E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap), where he was lead counsel for Yealink: after Yealink stipulated to infringement and recalled the accused product, the case went to the jury on damages and willfulness, and in November 2025 the jury found no ongoing infringement, no willful infringement, and awarded roughly $900,000 — a fraction of Barco's multi-million-dollar demand and a rare defendant-side win in that court (Dentons press release; IPR Daily interview).

PTAB/IPR experience. Substantial and ongoing. He has served as lead counsel in successful inter partes reviews (per Steptoe/Dentons bios), and in the Yealink defense his team filed more than a dozen parallel IPR challenges against Barco's patents, all of which were instituted by the USPTO. Education: J.D., cum laude, University of New Hampshire School of Law (full dean's merit scholarship); B.S. in Chemistry, University of Wisconsin (Steptoe announcement). NY bar membership is implied by his New York practice but was not independently verified in this review.