practice areas
honors + affiliations
Associate Member, The Richard Linn American Inn of Court
Associate Delegate, Coalition for Women's Initiatives in Law Firms
Member, American Bar Association
Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Recipient, President's Pro Bono Service Award for Distinguished Pro Bono Service, State Bar of California Board of Governers (2008)
Recipient, Honorable Benjamin Aranda III Outstanding Public Service Award, Los Angeles County Bar Association (2008)
bar admissions
- Illinois
- California
Court Admissions
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Chicago
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77 West Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60601-5094
Phone: 312.324.1790
Fax: 312.324.1001
Mansi H. Shah is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Litigation and Intellectual Property Practices. Ms. Shah focuses her practice on patent litigation, antitrust investigations, client counseling, and on the prosecution of patent and trademark applications. She has experience managing discovery; drafting dispositive motions, opinion letters, and office actions; conducting depositions and high-level witness interviews; and working with and managing expert witnesses. Ms. Shah also has experience managing trial-related activities from drafting motions in limine to conducting meet and confers with opposing counsel.
Ms. Shah focuses on a wide range of technologies, including software, wireless communications, databases, audio processing, semiconductor devices, printer technology, microprocessors, memory devices, and networking technology. She has experience in antitrust investigations involving computer software, multimedia processing, and wireless communications. Ms. Shah has also handled cases involving design patents, trade dress, and trademarks.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Shah was an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice of an international law firm.
Ms. Shah earned her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School in 2006, where she interned at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, and served as the executive notes editor for the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal. She earned her B.S. in computer science from the University of California, San Diego in 2003.
Ms. Shah is admitted to practice in Illinois and California and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California; the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas; and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Selected Representations
- Defended a large internet services company in a patent infringement suit alleging the infringement of a patent related to a method for processing electronic messages by providing internet search advertising. The jury returned a verdict on the first day of deliberation of non-infringement in favor of defendants and found that none of the asserted claims were infringed literally or under the doctrine of equivalents. The jury further found by clear and convincing evidence that all three claims were invalid under public use, obviousness, and lack of sufficient written description, and the patent was also invalid for improper inventorship.
- Defended a large internet services company in patent infringement action relating to creation of user profiles for use in Internet searches before the trial court, which awarded summary judgment for non-infringement.
- Represented a wireless telecommunications research and development company in a long-running proceeding before the Korea Fair Trade Commission. Following the longest series of plenary hearings before the Commission, the Commission dismissed essential facility and tying claims challenging the company's integration of video software in chipset solutions. Dismissals by the commission following hearings are extremely rare.
education
- George Washington University Law School, 2006, J.D.
- University of California, San Diego, 2003, B.S. (Computer Science)
