Ahren C. Hsu-Hoffman

Associate

Ahren C. Hsu-Hoffman is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice and a member of the Intellectual Property Practice. Mr. Hsu-Hoffman focuses his practice on patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and other technology-focused litigation. His work has spanned cases involving platforms for delivering interactive television services, semiconductor processing methods, wireless gateway and mobile phone software, gene probes, optoelectronic transceivers, inmate telephone systems, and circuitry for consumer electronics devices and chips. He has experience with in-court hearings and conferences; preparing fact and expert witnesses for trial; drafting dispositive motions; managing all aspects of discovery; and conducting depositions and high-level witness interviews. Mr. Hsu-Hoffman recently played a key role in supporting lead counsel during a three-week patent infringement jury trial in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Hsu-Hoffman served as a law clerk to Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to that, he was an intellectual property law fellow in the Office of University Counsel at the University of North Carolina.

Mr. Hsu-Hoffman received his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2005, where he was a notes editor for the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology. In 2001, he graduated from Duke University with a double major in biomedical engineering and economics.

Mr. Hsu-Hoffman is admitted to practice in California and Texas and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.