Wendy Wenyu Cai

Wendy Wenyu Cai is an Associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, focusing her practice on patent litigation and international arbitration. Her technology focus spans a broad range of areas, including telecommunications (such as LTE and WiFi technologies), software (data mining, webpage creation, e-commerce tooling, reciprocal hyperlinking systems, geolocation technology), green energy, security networks, robotics, logistics, semiconductor devices, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, and various mechanical technologies like hair stylers, vacuums, and water heaters.

Ms. Cai primarily represents defendants, as evidenced by her tracked appearances and numerous successful defense outcomes for operating companies. She has secured significant victories for clients such as Indeed, where she obtained a motion to dismiss by having four data mining and matching technology patents found ineligible. She also achieved a very favorable settlement for SharkNinja in patent infringement cases against Dyson involving hair styler and vacuum technology, immediately preceding an ITC trial. Other notable results include the dismissal of six geolocation technology patents for Apple and a favorable settlement for AT&T in a case involving 27 LTE and WiFi patents.

Her litigation experience includes disputes in federal courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC), encompassing all phases of litigation from pre-suit diligence to appeal, including managing discovery, depositions, expert work, drafting dispositive motions, arguing Markman hearings, and conducting witness examinations at trial. In the tracked case of DiStefano Website Innovations, LLC v. Bytedance Ltd et al., she represented the defendant in a matter concerning patents related to webpage creation and e-commerce tooling, which was subsequently transferred from the Eastern District of Texas to the Northern District of California. While her firm handles inter partes review (IPR) proceedings, her public profile does not specifically detail her personal experience in IPR or PTAB proceedings.

Ms. Cai earned her Juris Doctor in 2018 from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Yale University in 2015. She is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of Texas.