Yimeng Dou, Ph.D.

Associate Intellectual Property

Los Angeles – Downtown +1 213 680 8283

Yimeng Dou, Ph.D.

Overview

Yimeng Dou is an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on patent, copyright, trade secret, and trademark litigation, post-grant proceedings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and proceedings before the International Trade Commission. Yimeng’s experience also includes contract, torts, and antitrust rights litigation, as well as intellectual property licensing and transactions.

Represented a two-way radio industry leader and won $764 million trade secret misappropriation and copyright infringement jury trial.

Represented a two-way radio industry leader in an ITC investigation resulting in a Determination and Exclusion Order preventing the defendant from importing its infringing products into the U.S.

Successfully defended a two-way wireless communication patent in an IPR proceeding before the PTAB.

Represented a surgical device company in a patent inventorship dispute and achieved bench trial victory.

Judicial ExternHonorable Josephine StatonUnited States District Court for the Central District of CaliforniaSpring 2012

Judicial ExternHonorable Richard M. AronsonCalifornia Courts of AppealSpring 2011

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Yimeng has published numerous papers in prestigious scientific journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

Seminars

C. Whytock, Y. Dou, Continuity in Transatlantic Relations Policy Convergence and the Domestic Internalization of EU-US Antitrust Cooperation, Presented at the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2013 Conference

Recognition

Named a “Rising Star” for Super Lawyers, 2016–2020

Memberships & Affiliations

Association of Business Trial Lawyers

Orange County Patent Bar Association

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2012, California
  • Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Courts

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Languages

  • English
  • Chinese

Education

  • U.C. Irvine School of LawJ.D.2012

    Lead Article Editor, UC Irvine Law Review

    State Bar of California Wiley W. Manuel Pro Bono Legal Services Certificate, 2011–2012

  • University of California, IrvinePh.D., Information and Computer Science2006
  • University of California, IrvineM.S., Information and Computer Science2003
  • Nanjing UniversityB.A., Information Management and Systems2001