Yolanda Xu

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Yolanda (Zhaoqi) Xu — White & Case LLP, Intellectual Property Group (Palo Alto)

Focus areas. Xu's practice centers on technology and patent litigation, per her firm biography. Her only tracked appearance is in the Shoals Technologies v. Voltage dispute over photovoltaic "trunk bus" cable assemblies and connectors — i.e., electrical/mechanical hardware for utility-scale solar, litigated on both the district court and Section 337 tracks. That is a narrow evidentiary base: nothing in the tracked record or publicly sourced material shows Wi-Fi/standards-essential patent, pharmaceutical, or software work. Her bio states that before joining White & Case she spent six years at a prominent Chinese law firm focused on IP litigation (the firm is not named in her bio, and I could not independently verify which firm).

Side preference. The single tracked appearance is defense-side: she is listed as counsel for respondents Voltage, LLC and Ningbo Voltage Smart Production Co. (an accused infringer and importer, not an NPE) in Shoals Technologies Group, LLC v. Voltage, LLC. Her tracked counts are 0 plaintiff-side, 1 defendant-side, so there is no basis to characterize her as either a repeat operating-company defender or an NPE/PAE-side prosecutor; on the current record she is best described as a defense-side associate without an established side pattern.

Firm context. Xu is an associate in White & Case's Intellectual Property group, working out of the firm's Palo Alto office. Her tracked appearance and the related ITC matter are both at White & Case; no prior U.S. firm is documented, and the six-year pre-White & Case stint is described only generically in her firm bio. She has not held an in-house role as far as public sources show.

Notable matter and outcomes. In In the Matter of Certain Photovoltaic Connectors and Components Thereof, Inv. No. 337-TA-1365, she was part of the White & Case team (led by partners Yar Chaikovsky, Philip Ou and Jordan Coyle, with partner Bruce Yen) that obtained a rare full-Commission reversal for Voltage: on January 14, 2025, the ITC reversed the ALJ's final initial determination on the '153 patent and terminated the investigation with a finding of no violation of Section 337 — a result The American Lawyer's Litigation Daily recognized among its "Litigator of the Week" runners-up. Note the subsequent trajectory for the client: Shoals later retained new counsel and, in August 2026, won a $96.38 million willful-infringement jury verdict and an injunction against Voltage in the M.D.N.C., a stage of the dispute in which I found no indication she was counsel of record.

PTAB / IPR. The Voltage–Shoals dispute generated several PTAB filings (e.g., IPR2024-00876, PGR2024-00022, IPR2025-01443). I could not verify Xu as counsel of record in any IPR or PGR proceeding, and there is no public indication she appears regularly before the PTAB. Treat her PTAB experience as unconfirmed.

Bar / education. Admitted in California (State Bar No. 345049, listed under the name Zhaoqi Xu); JD, Peking University; LLM, UC Berkeley School of Law (Law & Technology Certificate), per her firm bio.