Sarah Mullins
Senior Associate
San Francisco
Sarah's practice focuses on federal litigation for well-known technology companies. She handles patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright disputes, in addition to complex commercial litigation.
Sarah is an associate in the firm's Intellectual Property group. Before law school, Sarah worked for four years in the in-house legal departments of major technology companies. She draws on her in-house experience to understand her clients' businesses and needs and to come up with creative solutions to their legal challenges.
Immediately prior to joining Orrick, Sarah clerked for Justice Daniel E. Winfree of the Alaska Supreme Court.
During law school, Sarah gained civil litigation experience as a clinical intern in the East Bay Community Law Center's Consumer Justice Clinic and served as a student director of Berkeley Law's Appellate Advocacy course.
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The following is a sample of Sarah's notable cases.
- IGT v. Zynga (W.D. Tex.) Sarah was part of the team that defended Zynga in patent ligation brought by gambling technology company IGT. In what was initially a six-patent case that was whittled down pre-trial, jurors found that Zynga’s casino slot games, including Game of Thrones and Hit it Rich, did not infringe IGT’s last patent standing. Furthermore, jurors found IGT’s patent was invalid due to obviousness.
- IBM v. Zynga (D. Del.) Sarah was part of the team that defended Zynga and its subsidiary company Chartboost against patent infringement claims brought by IBM in the District of Delaware. IBM has asserted four patents against dozens of Zynga games, Zynga’s website, and Chartboost’s ad campaign platform. Orrick significantly narrowed the case prior to trial and the jury found that the majority of the accused games did not infringe the asserted patents.