Victoria Q. Smith

Victoria works with clients at the forefront of a wide range of industries in cases involving cutting-edge technologies focusing on electronics, including telecommunication devices, RF filters, graphic chips and wireless networking devices; software, including enterprise software and software for email, mapping, image compression and graphics processing; data encryption, compression, and transmission; biotech and pharmaceuticals; and mechanical and safety devices.

Victoria has extensive experience navigating the rules and procedures in the nation’s top patent litigation venues, including district courts and the Federal Circuit, as well as the International Trade Commission and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). She has argued in court on all phases of patent litigation, including discovery disputes, Markman, summary judgment, Daubert and other pre-trial motions. Victoria has also direct examined and cross examined witnesses at trial.

Having benefited from great opportunities and candid mentorship, Victoria pays it forward by giving back to the community and helping to make a difference where she works and lives. She served on the board of the Asian Law Alliance (ALA) for many years, and as its president in 2020 and 2021. Victoria has also coached mock trial teams at an East Palo Alto high school for underprivileged students. Her pro bono work includes winning clemency from a life sentence for a client who had no history of violence, US citizenship for several soldiers enlisted in the US Army who would face persecution if sent back to their home countries and backpay for a non-English-speaking electrician preyed upon by a bonded contractor. Victoria focuses her current pro bono efforts on winning monetary damages for victims of child sexual abuse from their convicted abusers.

Victoria coded at an architectural firm before attending law school. She speaks Cantonese fluently. On her off-time, Victoria experiments in her flower beds and vegetable garden, and slowly but steadily regains the attention span she had as a child for reading novels.