STEFANI E. SHANBERG

Partner

IP Litigation

Stefani Shanberg is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she specializes in patent litigation with a particular emphasis on defending technology companies against claims of patent infringement from competitors and non-practicing entities. Under the right circumstances, Stefani also represents clients asserting patents against competitors. She has extensive experience in all areas of intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation relating to intellectual property. Stefani has handled matters pending before the federal courts, the International Trade Commission, arbitral tribunals, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Stefani's patent litigation engagements have related to diverse technologies, including smartphone apps, email, network security, wireless communications, and other Internet, hardware, and software products, as well as consumer products. She is currently representing Google, LinkedIn, Netflix, Spotify, Square, and Symantec, among many other clients ranging from venture-backed start-ups to Fortune 100 public companies. Stefani has obtained successful outcomes, often based on creative and novel issues of law, including winning cases at trial, winning cases on summary judgment and on motions to dismiss, prevailing on advantageous claim constructions, winning motions to transfer and stay, and convincing the Ninth Circuit and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal to affirm favorable lower-court rulings.

Stefani was an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati earlier in her career. Prior to rejoining the firm, she was a partner at Perkins Coie. Stefani is the lateral hiring partner for IP litigation and litigation chair of the firm's Associate Career Development Committee.