Senior IP Litigation Attorney and Patent Prosecution Expert

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Shannon Yen Stahl

*** ****** **, **** ****, CA 94306 • ***********@*****.*** • 408-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-stahl-87b81a1a/ Registered patent attorney with 10+ years of hand-on engineering experience in software development, chip design, and lawyering skills in intellectual property (IP) litigation seeks an attorney role in the patent field. Legal Profession

Patent Attorney Apr. 2025 – Present

Profound Law LLP (San Jose, CA)

• Drafted and prosecuted patent applications before the USPTO for various technology companies.

• Supported Inter Partes Review (IPR) before the USPTO, drafting IPR requests, preparing relevant documentation, and searching and researching prior art. IP Litigation Attorney (contracted) Jun. 2024 – Apr. 2025 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (Palo Alto, CA)

• Joining a small-knotted IP litigation team, participated in litigation support work from document review, discovery by admission for production, interrogatories and responses thereto, motion practice including letter motions, depositions of personal witnesses and corporate witnesses, and drafting expert rebuttal report for a complex commercial litigation scheduled to be trial in summer.

• Participated in a technology trade secret case for a start-up plaintiff; filing as plaintiff of copyright dispute for a national-wide bank.

Litigation Discovery Attorney Nov. 2022 – Nov. 2023 Google LLC via Artech (Mountain View, CA)

Conducted IP litigation support, effectively communicated with litigators, outside counsel and business stakeholders on broad legal matters in patent litigations in federal courts, ITC and PTAB, copyright and trademark infringement, and other disputes such as class action and private antitrust litigation.

• Participated various phases of litigations including third-party subpoena for documents and depositions, discovery, providing patent opinions in validity, infringement, patentability, prior art, and damages.

• Performed collection, review and production of relevant documents and source code. Patent Attorney Sep. 2021 – May. 2022

Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP (Half Moon Bay, CA)

• Drafted and prosecuted patent applications before the USPTO and EPO (via PCT) for technology companies developing cloud network invention, and network security applications. Litigation Support Attorney Aug. 2018 – Aug. 2021

Wilson Sonsini, Goodrich, Rosati PC via Beacon Hill (Palo Alto, CA)

• Worked with a close-knitted patent litigation team as a critical role assisting all phases of patent litigation: conducting discovery and validity analysis via document review, drafting deficiency letters, claim charts of infringement contentions, motions to compel, responses to interrogatories and requests for admission. 2

• Performed works assigned independently with minimal supervision and successfully met deadlines exceeding the expectations.

Patent Extern (LL.M. Externship) Jan. 2018 – May 2018 Oracle Corp. (Redwood City, CA)

Assisted supervising attorney conducting patent audit, drafting patent drafts and appeal briefs, automating e-filing IDS documents with the USPTO, reviewed relevant documents for potential patent litigation cases. Contract Review Attorney 2015 – 2017

Cooley LLP via Advanced Discovery (Palo Alto, CA)

Supported litigation discovery for software copyright infringement and breach of contract cases, conducted 2nd level review, QC, managed document production, and summarized project progress to supervising attorneys. Contract Review Attorney (San Francisco, CA) 2013 – 2015 Member of teams comprising lead counsel, discovery attorneys, project managers and doc reviewers providing electronic discovery and pretrial litigation services for multiple litigation projects in the Intellectual Property and FCPA, serving top law firms such as WSGR, Orrick, Ropes & Gray, and Morgan Lewis LLP.

• Conducted second level review and quality control over a large review team.

• Joined discovery team conducting document review, legal and technical analytics on several patent litigations for Fortune 500 corporations. (Orrick and Morgan Lewis) Patent Extern 2011 – 2012

eBay, Inc. (San Jose, CA)

• Interned in corporate-wide Patent and Technology Group, supporting variety of litigation matters: technical analysis, prior art analysis, claim construction, and litigation strategy.

• Participated inventor meetings, invention review and harvest, and conducted due diligence. Patent Agent & IP Manager 2006 – 2010

Samsung Research America (also known as SISA) (San Jose, CA)

• Managed company’s internal patent process including management of Invention Disclosures, participation in patent planning instituting harvest meetings for identification of new patent applications for various R&D teams of storage, wireless connectivity, computer security, digital media, and web contents, and internet applications.

• Managed research labs’ IP portfolios including patents and trademarks.

• Selected and evaluated law firms and outside counsel, and managed patent budgets.

• Established company's US Export Control program, drafted company policy, conducted technical clearance, and acted as company's principal liaison with governmental entities. Patent Agent 2003 – 2005

Townsend & Townsend & Crews LLP (Palo Alto, CA)

• Conducted technology analysis, drafted office actions and correspondences with the USPTO, and conducted foreign patent filings (China, Japan, and WIPO). 3

Education

LL.M. Intellectual Property Program, Santa Clara Univ. School of Law, CA May, 2021 JD, Lincoln Law School, CA (Academic Excellence Awards) June, 2012 MS, CAD, Computer Vision in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ., PA May, 1991 Admitted to the California Bar (Bar No. 284896) Dec. 2012 Patent Agent, the US Patent and Trademark Office (License No. 52386) Aug. 2002 Engineering Experience

Sr. Technical Staff Engineer 2000 – 2002

Altera Corp. (San Jose, CA)

• Defined new marketing requirement documents (MRD) based on feedback and feasibility studies.

• Took charge in identifying emerging technologies of the EDA, planned next release for Altera’s software for PLD design integrated with leading EDA vendors. Engineering Manager 1998 – 2000

Mentor Graphics Corp. (San Jose, CA)

• Worked with ASIC library vendors to deliver company’s solution of ASIC design flow.

• Led a small developing team, developing and delivering software tools to streamline customers' digital circuit design flow.

Senior Software Engineering Staff 1995 -1998

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Menlo Mark, CA)

• Joined design team developing the Java chip (embedded with Java virtual machine).

• Developed the internal database management tool that managed the various design data.

• Customized vendor tools of 10+ different EDA products from data entry, synthesis, to simulation. Senior Software Engineer 1991 - 1995

National Semiconductor Corp. (Sunnyvale, CA)

• Developed Design Automation software application of digital circuit synthesis and frontend for the ASIC circuit design.

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