Robert Benson

Practice Areas

For more than three decades, Robert Benson has dedicated himself to helping clients resolve their most challenging legal disputes and prevail in high-stakes patent litigation. Robert blends his commitment to serving others with his legal acumen, creativity, integrity, and collaborative leadership to attain the best possible results for his clients.

Robert has handled a wide range of commercial and intellectual property litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts. Robert has litigated Section 337 investigations through trial before the ITC, successfully represented both patent owners and petitioners in PTAB proceedings, obtained injunctive relief, and argued before the Federal Circuit.

Robert has represented leading Taiwan-based companies in numerous industries, including fabless semiconductor companies, semiconductor foundries, LCD and IFP display manufacturers, LED manufacturers, and other industry leaders in memory devices, personal computers, laptop computers, and other computer hardware, software, and peripherals. Robert has also organized and led some of the largest IP conferences previously held in Taipei and Hsinchu.

Robert has focused on serving clients in Asia for the past 25 years. Robert has deep relationships in the Taiwan legal community and is a leader in the firm's Taiwan practice. In Chambers Global 2024, Robert is the only attorney ranked in the U.S. for Intellectual Property -- Foreign Expert for Taiwan.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of California; Registered Foreign Attorney, Taiwan; United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Ninth Circuits; United States District Courts for the Central, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California; United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas; Taiwan Bar Association; Master of the Bench, Howard T. Markey Intellectual Property Inn of Court

Personal

J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law 1990

Order of the Coif

B.S., Aeronautical Operations, San Jose State University 1987

President's Scholar