Sharon Lee

SHARON LEE focuses her practice on patent and trade secret litigation matters in the life sciences and high tech industries. She was recently recognized as a “Rising Star” for Intellectual Property Litigation by Managing IP (2025). Sharon has also been recognized by IAM Patent 1000 (2023–2025), Legal 500 for Trade Secrets Litigation (2025), and as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers (2017–2021).

Sharon is admitted in New York and the District of Columbia and primarily litigates in district court, before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Sharon represents clients in all stages of complex and high-stakes litigation and has represented clients in cases involving various technologies, including medical devices, consumer electronics, semiconductors, computer software, networks, cybersecurity, and biotechnology.

Sharon regularly presents on and authors articles related to patent and trade secret issues. In addition, during law school, Sharon was a judicial extern for the Honorable Timothy C. Batten, Sr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Before law school, Sharon worked as an information technology consultant for Accenture LLP in Washington, D.C.

Sharon’s representative matters include:

• Cranial Technologies, Inc. v. OttoBock SE & Co. KGAA and Active Live LLC (C.D. Cal.) – Representing Cranial in assertion of five patents related to technology for manufacturing cranial orthotics to treat head deformities in infants. Successfully obtained complete denial of Defendants’ motion to dismiss patents on § 101 grounds and Cranial’s indirect and willful infringement claims.
• PRCM Advisors LLC v. Two Harbors Investment Corp. (S.D.N.Y) – Representing Pine River in asserting trade secret misappropriation under the Defend Trade Secrets Act for Two Harbors’ misappropriation of software and other trade secrets related to mortgage REITs.
• Boston Scientific v. Nevro (D. Del.; PTAB; Federal Circuit) – Successfully represented Nevro in three district court cases, numerous IPR proceedings, and related appeals to the Federal Circuit involving spinal cord stimulation and implantable medical device technology. Despite Boston Scientific asserting 20 patents and over 60 trade secrets against Nevro, Boston Scientific ultimately ended up paying Nevro $85 million to settle the litigations. During the litigations, successfully invalidated claims of 11 Boston Scientific patents, including claims of a foundational patent that voided 84% of Boston Scientific’s damages claim in the first case, and defended Nevro in a jury trial that resulted in a verdict of noninfringement of two of four patents asserted by Boston Scientific, and successfully limited damages on the other two patents to the lump sum awarded at trial with no injunction or ongoing royalties.
• Google LLC v. BlackBerry Ltd. (PTAB; Federal Circuit) – Successfully upheld the patentability of multiple claims of BlackBerry’s patent directed to network security before the PTAB and Federal Circuit.
• Apple Inc. v. SightSound Tech. LLC (PTAB; Federal Circuit) – Successfully invalidated all challenged claims in two patents directed to electronic sale and transmission of music and video. Federal Circuit affirmed and denied Patent Owner’s requests for rehearing and rehearing en banc.
• Smartflash LLC et al. v. Apple Inc. (E.D. Tex.; PTAB) – Defended Apple in a six-patent case in E.D. Tex., including a jury trial, relating to purchase and digital rights management of content. Successfully invalidated all claims in seven patents (totaling more than 150 claims) in more than 40 CBM petitions.
• Defended a major Korean electronics company in patent litigation related to user interface technology. Resulted in stipulation of non-infringement following a favorable claim construction order, which was affirmed on appeal.
• Represented a large information technology company in IPRs challenging three litigated patents related to multicarrier modulation.

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.

Sharon is an active member of professional bar associations that are focused on intellectual property issues and/or DEI efforts, including the ChIPs Network, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, New York Intellectual Property Law Association, and the PTAB Bar Association.

Sharon maintains an active pro bono practice. She is currently leading a team representing a client in federal district court against the Commissioner of New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (“DOCCS”) and other DOCCS employees for constitutional violations due to unwarranted and prolonged periods of solitary confinement. She is also representing a client in his petitions to have his children immigrate to and join him in the United States. She has also represented clients in cases involving veterans disability, copyright, asylum, and Section 8 housing.