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Sean is Co-Chair of the firm’s National Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and founding member of its AI Practice Group. Sean is a trial lawyer with extensive experience in litigating patents, trade secrets, copyrights and other intellectual property in “bet the company” cases on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. As noted in Chambers USA 2019, “he has all of the trial skills you’d hope for, an unusually deep technical background and is one of the best at jumping into the subject matter and coming up with creative solutions.” Sean received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and B.S. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and has engineering experience at Intel Corporation and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is also a Fellow in The American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor attainable by no more than 1% of the attorneys practicing in each state. In 2024, Sean was honored as one of the Daily Journal’s Top Intellectual Property Lawyers.
In 2023, Sean and his team were recognized by the American Lawyer as “Litigators of the Week” for their work on the Sonos v. Google trial, resulting in a complete defense win for Google. During the same year, Sean was lead counsel for Samsung Electronics in the Evolved Wireless v. Samsung trial in Marshall, Texas, in which Sean and his team obtained a complete defense verdict. And in 2022, Sean’s work as lead counsel in The Hillman Group v. KeyMe trial was featured as one of two cases by Law360 in recognizing the firm with its “Trials Group of the Year” award.
According to the 2016 IAM Patent 1000: The World's Leading Patent Professionals guide, “Sean Pak’s star is in rapid ascendance thanks to major victories, such as his $283 million jury verdict for satellite designer and developer ViaSat in a dispute with a contractor.” In the 2014 version of the same guide, Sean was described as “the complete package, combining a great understanding of the finer technical elements to a case with superb trial craft and courtroom presence. He has a calm disposition, but can be aggressive when he needs to be.” In 2013, Sean was named an Intellectual Property Rising Star under the age of 40 nationwide by Law360. In 2008, The Times of London named Sean a “Future Star of America” and cited his “intellectual prowess, industry expertise, and people skills.”
