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CHING-LEE FUKUDA is a reputable lead trial counsel with 27 years of experience in patent and trade secret litigation. She is the head of Sidley’s IP Litigation practice in New York and a member of the firm’s Global Life Sciences Leadership Council.
Ching-Lee has led teams to significant victories in federal district courts, and at the ITC, the PTAB, and the Federal Circuit, focusing on medtech, medical devices, electronics, software, and chemicals. Her successes include numerous jury and bench trial wins, as well as wins during preliminary injunction, and on appeal. She has appeared in more than 100 PTAB proceedings. In 2024, she was awarded “Patent Lawyer of the Year” by Women in Business Law Americas. She was three time shortlisted for “Litigator of the Year—New York” by Managing IP and twice award “Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year” by LMG Life Sciences.
She has been a member of Law360’s Intellectual Property Editorial Advisory Board, a member of ACI’s Advisory Board for Women Leaders in IP Law, and Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. In 2023, Ching-Lee became a founding member of Lead Counsel Summit, a non-profit organization formed by women lead counsel to train and support IP litigators to help them master the courtroom, clients, and team skills needed to move into first-chair roles. Since 2022, she has been the author of the treatise, Winning the Patent Damages Case, published by Matthew Bender.
