Biography
Darryl M. Woo is a partner in the San Francisco office of Goodwin Procter LLP, and veteran first chair IP trial lawyer who has represented a variety of clients in high profile and “bet-the-company” litigation in both district courts and at the ITC. He served as counsel for the original Napster in its struggle against the recording industry, he defended Google Earth from patent attack, and on the patent holder side, his $74.7 million jury verdict for a semiconductor industry client in the Northern District of California was one of the top awards the year in which it was tried. More recently, he represented a number of Tier 1 automotive suppliers in patent litigation and is currently representing a variety of companies in trade secrets litigation, including an electric vehicle manufacturer defending an action brought by a competitor. For fun, he served as a technical advisor for the fifth season of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” show, and has a page on IMDb.com.
Among other accolades, Darryl has been named to The Best Lawyers in America©, one of the Top 100 Leading Lawyers in California, a Top 75 IP Lawyer in California, and to the IAM Patent 1000 list of The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners.