Managing Associate
San Francisco
Lute Yang works on a range of intellectual property matters, focusing on patent litigation, opinion counseling, and post-grant review proceedings.
Lute has litigated cases in a wide range of technologies, including on-demand transportation solutions, smart-home and smart-health devices, telecommunications, video games, semiconductors, virtual machines, and consumer electronics. In addition to her litigation practice, Lute advises emerging companies on intellectual property strategy, helping them identify and protect core innovations to support growth and future development.
Lute earned her J.D. from the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly known as University of California, Hastings) and her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, with a concentration in Signals and Images, from Northwestern University. While in law school, Lute served as president of the Hastings Intellectual Property Association. Before law school, Lute worked as a validation engineer, advising pharmaceutical companies on compliance with FDA regulations.