ZHUANJIA GU
COUNSEL
gu@turnerboyd.com
650.529.4752
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• University of California, Berkeley, B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001 (Chancellor’s Scholar)
• University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 2006
• Proficient in Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese
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• State Bar of California
• District of Columbia Bar
• United States Patent & Trademark Office
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States District Court, California (Northern, Central, and Southern Districts)
• United States District Court, Western District of Texas
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
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• What’s Your Motivation? The Art of Combining References to Show Obviousness, Turner Boyd’s Fourth Annual California MCLE Program (January 2018)
Ms. Gu specializes in intellectual property counseling and litigation, with a focus on patent litigation and Inter Partes Review (“IPR”). Ms. Gu began her legal career in 2006 as an intellectual property associate at Perkins Coie LLP’s Menlo Park office. While at Perkins Coie, she worked on both patent litigation and prosecution cases for clients ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to individual inventors. Ms. Gu became an associate at Kirkland and Ellis LLP in 2008 and represented major corporations such as Samsung and IBM on patent litigation matters in both federal district courts and the International Trade Commission.
After joining Turner Boyd Seraphine in 2012, Zhuanjia continued her litigation practice in federal district courts, including patent and trademark matters that culminated in bench and jury trials. Having been a registered practitioner before the USPTO since 2002, she also expanded her practice to IPRs, and successfully represented major corporations including Sony and ASUS before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
In 2020, Square (now Block) asked Ms. Gu to be a secondee and guide the Square team in multiple IPRs. While at Square, Ms. Gu worked on numerous projects in addition to IPRs, including patent, trade secret and SEP matters, as well as ambitious ventures such as a crypto initiative that required collaborating with many internal departments, outside counsel, and industry players. Square ultimately prevailed in the IPRs with Ms. Gu’s assistance and guidance.
Ms. Gu’s most recent project was a multi-patent international trade commission (“ITC”) investigation in which she took a key role in all aspects of the investigation from discovery to the hearing.
Ms Gu’s patent experiences, both in prosecution and litigation, involved a broad scope of technologies such as semiconductor processing, semiconductor image sensors, LEDs, nanotechnology, cell phone and computer accessory designs, secure internet transactions, cryptography, GPS navigation, image processing, silicon heat treatments, printer data processing, and flash memory fabrication.
Prior to attending law school at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, Ms. Gu worked as a patent agent. While attending law school, she worked on the Hastings Communication and Entertainment Law Journal and summered as a patent associate at Dewey Ballantine LLP, Perkins Coie LLP, and Howrey LLP.
