Managing Associate
Silicon Valley
Pengweixi (Rose) Sun is an associate in Orrick’s Intellectual Property Business Unit Group, specializing in patent and trade secret litigation of consumer electronics, complex technology and pharmaceuticals in district courts and the International Trade Commission.
Rose has experience litigating patents from the investigatory, pre-suit phase, discovery, expert discovery phase all the way up until trial. Rose’s experience in technology ranges from complex server systems, electronic ticketing software/hardware, to shavers and HIV drugs. Her wide range of technological experience and understanding allows her to simplify complex technology into digestible key components for judges and juries. Rose recently helped secure a General Exclusion Order for a small business client in front of the International Trade Commission, and was part of a team that secured a win for a branded pharmaceutical company in a Hatch Waxman suit.
In law school, Rose won the prestigious Anthony and Susan Taylor Written Advocacy Award for Best Brief, and a semifinalist in the Oral Advocacy portion of the Hale Moot Court competition. During law school, Rose also clerked at the Children’s Law Center of California, and advocated for abused and disenfranchised children in the Los Angeles county dependency court.
Her zealous pro bono work and advocacy continues beyond law school. Recently, Rose secured a crucial and timely win for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund in convincing the Western District of Texas from enjoining the enforcement of unconstitutional provisions of the Texas Election Code in light of the 2022 Primary Elections.