David Yang is a business advisor and litigator with a strong background in technology and intellectual property. He advises clients on commercial transactions, business operations, and IP protection, and represents them in disputes. His clients range from entrepreneurs and startups to multibillion-dollar technology and media companies.

David’s experience spans trial work, commercial deals, and ongoing business counseling. He has advised on numerous transactions, including licensing and technology agreements, and helped clients protect and manage their patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Deal teams call on him for IP diligence and technical expertise in major transactions. David has also served as a technical advisor to a federal court, assisting the court in understanding the technology at issue in patent litigation.

As a litigator, David has served as counsel in dozens of cases in federal courts across the United States and in California state courts. Before co-founding Hawkinson Yang LLP, he spent a decade at major law firms, where he represented companies including Apple, HP, and Intel in significant disputes.

David brings an engineering education and technology-industry experience to both his advisory and litigation work. He earned his degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area’s technology industry before attending law school.

A native Mandarin speaker, David works extensively with Asia-based companies, and with companies doing business in Asia, on their U.S. litigation, IP, and commercial matters.

David is admitted to the State Bar of California and is a registered patent attorney qualified to appear before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, J.D., 2006

• Order of the Coif (top 10% class rank)

• Recipient of four Jurisprudence Awards (given for the top grade in a course)

University of California, Berkeley, B.S., 1999, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Bar Admissions

State Bar of California

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Languages

Chinese (native speaker)

Significant Prior Affiliations

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP