Profile
Lisa Li focuses her practice on cross-border transactions and litigations, particularly in matters involving technology, manufacturing, and real estate. She is knowledgeable of the business, cultural, and legal frameworks and nuances in Asia and the United States. She regularly advises Asia-based multinational companies on their investments and operations in the United States, guiding them through the intricacies of acquisition, compliance, contract negotiation, corporate structuring, dispute resolution, employment, export and import, intellectual property, product liability, and trade issues.
Lisa brings a wealth of knowledge in U.S. intellectual property law, particularly in patent, trademark, and copyright protection and enforcement. She routinely handles a wide variety of cross‑border litigation, including commercial and contractual disputes, consumer protection, intellectual property, and trade secret. She also provides strategic counsel to technology companies on the evolving legal and ethical considerations surrounding the development and deployment of generative artificial intelligence.
Lisa’s clients include public, private, and startup companies, ranging from mobile app developers, cloud service providers, ecommerce platforms, video game publishers, real estate developers, to manufacturers of apparels, batteries, car components, electronics, furniture, skincare, smartphones, and solar panels.
Concentrations
- Trademark prosecution, clearance, and litigation
- Copyright protection, licensing, and enforcement
- Patent litigation, evaluation, and strategies
- U.S. customs and export control
- Cross-border dispute resolution
- Corporate compliance and risk management
- Real estate investments and constructions
Capabilities
Experience
- Advise the largest Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer on trademark protection, enforcement, and patent litigation in the United States.
- Advise the largest Chinese social media company on intellectual property enforcement and securities class action defense in the United States.
- Advise the U.S. subsidiaries of the largest Chinese manufacturer of polyurethane products on global brand protection and trademark portfolio.
- Advise an international app publisher on developing and maintaining its global trademark portfolio.
- Advise app and game developers in intellectual property protection, enforcement, and DMCA compliance.
- Advise ecommerce platforms on trademark clearance and defend against claims of direct and indirect liabilities for intellectual property infringement.
- Represented Chinese mattress manufacturers in contracts, customs seizures, consumer protection investigation, employment, and litigation.
- Jury trial defending several U.S. mobile marketing companies against federal antitrust claims and obtained favorable verdict.
- Early dismissal of a patent infringement lawsuit filed by a non-practicing entity against the largest Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer.
- Early dismissal of a defamation lawsuit filed against the oldest active Chinese language newspaper.
- Represented a large Chinese investment conglomerate in its first real estate acquisition in the United States.
- Represented a Chinese real estate developer in constructing high-rise residential condominiums in California.
- Represented a Chinese energy company in warehouse leasing.
- Volunteer, Legal Services for Entrepreneurs, 2014-Present
- Workers’ Rights Clinic Counselor, The Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2008
- Law Clerk, Asian Law Caucus, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2007
Credentials
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J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Recipient, Peggy Browning Fund Fellowship
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B.S., Biology and Chemistry, with honors, University of California at Irvine
Dean’s Honor List
- California
- Supreme Court of California
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- Chinese (Mandarin), Native