Weining Bai is a trial lawyer who specializes in intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. He has tried and won numerous cases in front of juries, judges, and arbitrators. In just the past year, he won a $78.5 million jury award against Samsung for patent infringement, obtained a no-liability verdict for an industrial services company in a $200 million trade secret case, and defeated a critical injunction brought against Chevron by a landowner after a multi-day evidentiary hearing in an environmental contamination case. His clients have recovered over $500 million between verdicts, awards, and settlements. On the defense side, his clients have defeated claims amounting to over $1 billion.
For his accomplishments, Mr. Bai has been repeatedly recognized by peer review and legal publications. This includes being named to Lawdragon 500 Global IP Lawyers in 2025, as well as Best Lawyers Ones to Watch every year since 2021, Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars each year since 2021, and Lawdragon 500 – Next Generation of Leading Lawyers from 2023-2025.
Weining Bai is a trial lawyer who specializes in intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. He has tried and won numerous cases in front of juries, judges, and arbitrators. In just the past year, he won a $78.5 million jury award against Samsung for patent infringement, obtained a no-liability verdict for an industrial services company in a $200 million trade secret case, and defeated a critical injunction brought against Chevron by a landowner after a multi-day evidentiary hearing in an environmental contamination case. His clients have recovered over $500 million between verdicts, awards, and settlements. On the defense side, his clients have defeated claims amounting to over $1 billion.
For his accomplishments, Mr. Bai has been repeatedly recognized by peer review and legal publications. This includes being named to Lawdragon 500 Global IP Lawyers in 2025, as well as Best Lawyers Ones to Watch every year since 2021, Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars each year since 2021, and Lawdragon 500 – Next Generation of Leading Lawyers from 2023-2025.
REPRESENTATIVE WORK
Mr. Bai has significant experiences in patent litigation representing both Plaintiffs and Defendants across a variety of forums and technologies. Some examples of his success include:
- Currently representing Anonymous Media Research Holdings, LLC in the enforcement of its patents covering automatic content recognition data processing technology against digital advertising businesses of Smart TV manufacturers such as Samsung and Roku. Mr. Bai recently helped Anonymous Media win a $78.5 million verdict against Samsung, where he was instrumental in developing the damage model and presenting it at trial. The jury awarded Anonymous Media its full damages ask to the dollar.
- Currently representing global technology giant Acer Inc. in multi-forum litigation against telecommunications carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile) and base station equipment suppliers (Nokia and Ericsson) as part of a global dispute concerning infringement of Acer’s Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) that cover 4G / LTE and 5G wireless communications standards and the appropriate FRAND / RAND license rates for Acer’s SEPs.
- Successfully helped enforce Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) that cover high-definition speech coding, both in the US and abroad, where his clients recovered over $250 million in licenses and settlements. Along the way, he helped an AZA trial team win a $9 million jury verdict with a willful infringement finding against Motorola. He was also instrumental in managing a successful SEP enforcement campaign in China on behalf of a US-based patent assertion entity against domestic Chinese smartphone manufacturers.
- Successfully represented numerous oilfield clients in patent cases on both the plaintiff’s and the defense side. This includes obtaining a walkaway settlement for an oilfield services company in competitor suit involving fracking proppant storage and transport technology, after securing claim construction rulings which resulted in the plaintiff stipulating to non-infringement. In another matter, he helped a hydraulic fracturing company obtain highly favorable licenses to its electronic frack equipment patents against a competitor and an equipment supplier after winning 24/25 claim construction disputes which effectively dismantled the defendants’ liability defenses.
Mr. Bai also has significant experiences in trade secrets litigation, where examples of his success include:
- Obtained a no-liability jury verdict on behalf of leading industrial services company Brown & Root in a competitor suit brought by CAM Industrial Solutions. CAM alleged trade secret theft, a dozen other claims including fraud and breach of fiduciary duties, and sought over $200 million in actual and punitive damages. This case involved over 30 depositions taken across the US and abroad, culminating in a four-week jury trial in Chambers County, Texas. After 2 days of deliberations, the jury returned a no-liability verdict on every claim CAM presented.
- Successfully defended Augmenta LLC and nine other co-defendant investors and vendors in a trade secret case involving urological implant technology, where he and the AZA team obtained near-total defense win at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. AZA inherited the case from prior counsel after the trial court already entered a broad injunction that found substantial likelihood of liability and prohibited Augmenta from commercializing its product. After a two-phase jury and bench trial, AZA kept the damages award to around 1/3 of what the Plaintiff sought, and built a robust trial record showing that all of the plaintiff’s asserted trade secrets had been disclosed in prior art. The Federal Circuit agreed that none of the asserted trade secret were actual secrets, and reversed and rendered in favor of AZA’s clients.
- Successfully represented a family of oilfield service companies in a trade secret case related to fracking proppant storage and transport technology. AZA initially represented one named defendant in the case and obtained a complete dismissal for the client on the eve of summary judgment. Then, two other defendants hired AZA in the same case to replace prior counsel. AZA similarly cut down many of the plaintiff’s claims via pretrial motions and developed a novel federal jurisdiction theory to remove the case to federal court. Shortly after, AZA’s new clients were also dismissed with extremely favorable settlements (less than 1% of the plaintiffs’ damages ask).
- Successfully represented an international energy services company against a former employee in a theft of trade secrets case involving downhole electronic tools. The former employee left with proprietary technology that was still in development, and patented them in his own name. After AZA filed suit and secured immediate injunctive relief, the defendant absconded abroad. This required creative and aggressive legal maneuvering to keep the case going, which ultimately resulted in AZA’s client fully recovering all of its proprietary materials as well as ownership of all patents and patent applications that had been filed by the defendant.
Mr. Bai has also successfully represented clients across a variety of other types of civil, commercial litigation, where his experiences have included:
- Successfully represented energy major Chevron in a substantial, nine-figure environmental contamination case brought by a West Texas landowner who claim that over 100 legacy Chevron wells on her property have allegedly leaked downhole and at surface. Mr. Bai has led the development of the technical aspects of this scientifically complex matter, taken and defended numerous key fact and expert witness depositions, and briefed and argued many significant motions. He helped Chevron win a major Temporary Injunction Hearing where he cross-examined plaintiff’s lead engineering expert and direct-examined Chevron’s well plugging superintendent and engineer. He followed up that victory by briefing and arguing several pretrial motions that resulted in the exclusion of the plaintiff’s largest damage model in the case, as well as several key liability theories. After these victories, the case settled on highly favorable terms for Chevron.
- Currently representing patients in class action proceedings around the country involving the misuse of tracking pixel technology on hospital websites and patient portals, which have resulted in the mass disclosure of confidential health communications to advertisers such as Google and Facebook. Mr. Bai has helped achieve significant successes for patient classes in courts across the country, including defeating removal attempts, winning interlocutory appeals, beating motions to dismiss, and achieving class certification and favorable settlements. To date, he has helped numerous patient classes obtain significant monetary relief worth substantial 8 and 9 figures, as well as exhaustive injunctive relief to eliminate the use of the offending tracking pixel technology going forward.
- Won a no-liability jury verdict as first-chair, trial counsel for a Houston-area radiology services provider Houston Radiology Associated in a business fraud dispute. A former competitor-turned-employee, Dr. Amit Banerjee, brought suit against HRA after his termination, and alleged fraudulent inducement into signing away his prior company’s hospital service contract and agreeing to a merger. Banerjee sought $1.2 million in actual damages as well as significant punitive damages. After a 4-day trial, the jury deliberated for less than an hour before returning a verdict of no fraud liability verdict in favor of HRA.
- Successfully represented a variety of companies and individuals in contractual and business tort disputes, such as breaches of insurance contracts, partnership or LLC corporate divorces, bankruptcy adversarial proceedings, fraud and fraudulent transfer claims, employment discrimination fights, and numerous other subject matters. Along the way, Mr. Bai has repeatedly helped his clients win favorable outcomes, including dismissals, summary judgments, and awards of attorneys’ fees and costs.
EDUCATION
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., May 2016
- Washington and Lee University, B.A. in Economics; B.S. in Physics-Engineering, magna cum lade, May 2013
ADMISSIONS
- State Bar of Texas
- Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- US District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- US District Court, Northern District of Texas
- US District Court, Southern District of Texas
- US District Court, Western District of Texas
- US District BK, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- US District Court Utah
- Harris County District Clerk
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Texas Rising Star honors as presented by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Business, 2021-2026
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, by Best Lawyers in America, 2021 – 2026
- Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation, 2024
- Lawdragon 500 Global IP Lawyers, 2025
- Texas Bar Foundation Fellow
LANGUAGES
- Chinese-Cantonese
- Chinese-Mandarin
IN THE NEWS
- Over Half of the AZA Firm Named on Super Lawyers and Rising Stars 2026 Lists
- Jury Finds for AZA Client Brown & Root in $200 Million-Plus Trade Secret Case
- AZA’s $78.5 Million Patent Infringement Win Among 2025’s Top 10 National Patent Verdicts
- Jury Awards AZA Client $78.5 Million in Patent Infringement Case Against Samsung
- Twenty-Four AZA Lawyers Named 2025 Texas Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- 26 AZA Attorneys Honored as 2026 Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch
- Six AZA Lawyers Named to Lawdragon’s 2025 500 X – The Next Generation of Leading Lawyers in America
- Four AZA Lawyers Named to Lawdragon 500 Global IP Lawyers 2025
- AZA Wins Jury Victory for KBR in $289 Million Energy Sector Breach of Contract Case
- AZA Names Bai, Poelker and Turkevich as New Partners
- Ben & Jerry’s Sues Corporate Parent Over Gaza Stance Censorship
- Six AZA Lawyers Named to Lawdragon’s 2024 Next Generation of Leading Lawyers
- Twenty-Six AZA Lawyers Honored as Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch
- Three AZA Lawyers Named to Lawdragon’s Next Generation of 500 Leading Lawyers in America
- AZA Wins Three Trials in Just Two Weeks in May
- Thirteen AZA Attorneys Earn Texas Rising Stars Honor
- Seven Young AZA Lawyers Ranked among Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2023
- Ten AZA Lawyers on Texas Rising Stars List for 2022
- Twelve Young AZA Lawyers Ranked among Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2022
- Eleven AZA Lawyers Make the 2021 Texas Rising Stars List
- Eleven AZA Associates Make US List of ‘Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch’ for 2021
- AZA Health Care Client Sees Administrative Judge’s Order Overturned
- AZA Wins $9M Jury Verdict in Texas Patent Infringement Case Against Motorola
- New AZA Attorneys
REPRESENTATIVE WORK
Mr. Bai has significant experiences in patent litigation representing both Plaintiffs and Defendants across a variety of forums and technologies. Some examples of his success include:
- Currently representing Anonymous Media Research Holdings, LLC in the enforcement of its patents covering automatic content recognition data processing technology against digital advertising businesses of Smart TV manufacturers such as Samsung and Roku. Mr. Bai recently helped Anonymous Media win a $78.5 million verdict against Samsung, where he was instrumental in developing the damage model and presenting it at trial. The jury awarded Anonymous Media its full damages ask to the dollar.
- Currently representing global technology giant Acer Inc. in multi-forum litigation against telecommunications carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile) and base station equipment suppliers (Nokia and Ericsson) as part of a global dispute concerning infringement of Acer’s Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) that cover 4G / LTE and 5G wireless communications standards and the appropriate FRAND / RAND license rates for Acer’s SEPs.
- Successfully helped enforce Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) that cover high-definition speech coding, both in the US and abroad, where his clients recovered over $250 million in licenses and settlements. Along the way, he helped an AZA trial team win a $9 million jury verdict with a willful infringement finding against Motorola. He was also instrumental in managing a successful SEP enforcement campaign in China on behalf of a US-based patent assertion entity against domestic Chinese smartphone manufacturers.
- Successfully represented numerous oilfield clients in patent cases on both the plaintiff’s and the defense side. This includes obtaining a walkaway settlement for an oilfield services company in competitor suit involving fracking proppant storage and transport technology, after securing claim construction rulings which resulted in the plaintiff stipulating to non-infringement. In another matter, he helped a hydraulic fracturing company obtain highly favorable licenses to its electronic frack equipment patents against a competitor and an equipment supplier after winning 24/25 claim construction disputes which effectively dismantled the defendants’ liability defenses.
Mr. Bai also has significant experiences in trade secrets litigation, where examples of his success include:
- Obtained a no-liability jury verdict on behalf of leading industrial services company Brown & Root in a competitor suit brought by CAM Industrial Solutions. CAM alleged trade secret theft, a dozen other claims including fraud and breach of fiduciary duties, and sought over $200 million in actual and punitive damages. This case involved over 30 depositions taken across the US and abroad, culminating in a four-week jury trial in Chambers County, Texas. After 2 days of deliberations, the jury returned a no-liability verdict on every claim CAM presented.
- Successfully defended Augmenta LLC and nine other co-defendant investors and vendors in a trade secret case involving urological implant technology, where he and the AZA team obtained near-total defense win at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. AZA inherited the case from prior counsel after the trial court already entered a broad injunction that found substantial likelihood of liability and prohibited Augmenta from commercializing its product. After a two-phase jury and bench trial, AZA kept the damages award to around 1/3 of what the Plaintiff sought, and built a robust trial record showing that all of the plaintiff’s asserted trade secrets had been disclosed in prior art. The Federal Circuit agreed that none of the asserted trade secret were actual secrets, and reversed and rendered in favor of AZA’s clients.
- Successfully represented a family of oilfield service companies in a trade secret case related to fracking proppant storage and transport technology. AZA initially represented one named defendant in the case and obtained a complete dismissal for the client on the eve of summary judgment. Then, two other defendants hired AZA in the same case to replace prior counsel. AZA similarly cut down many of the plaintiff’s claims via pretrial motions and developed a novel federal jurisdiction theory to remove the case to federal court. Shortly after, AZA’s new clients were also dismissed with extremely favorable settlements (less than 1% of the plaintiffs’ damages ask).
- Successfully represented an international energy services company against a former employee in a theft of trade secrets case involving downhole electronic tools. The former employee left with proprietary technology that was still in development, and patented them in his own name. After AZA filed suit and secured immediate injunctive relief, the defendant absconded abroad. This required creative and aggressive legal maneuvering to keep the case going, which ultimately resulted in AZA’s client fully recovering all of its proprietary materials as well as ownership of all patents and patent applications that had been filed by the defendant.
Mr. Bai has also successfully represented clients across a variety of other types of civil, commercial litigation, where his experiences have included:
- Successfully represented energy major Chevron in a substantial, nine-figure environmental contamination case brought by a West Texas landowner who claim that over 100 legacy Chevron wells on her property have allegedly leaked downhole and at surface. Mr. Bai has led the development of the technical aspects of this scientifically complex matter, taken and defended numerous key fact and expert witness depositions, and briefed and argued many significant motions. He helped Chevron win a major Temporary Injunction Hearing where he cross-examined plaintiff’s lead engineering expert and direct-examined Chevron’s well plugging superintendent and engineer. He followed up that victory by briefing and arguing several pretrial motions that resulted in the exclusion of the plaintiff’s largest damage model in the case, as well as several key liability theories. After these victories, the case settled on highly favorable terms for Chevron.
- Currently representing patients in class action proceedings around the country involving the misuse of tracking pixel technology on hospital websites and patient portals, which have resulted in the mass disclosure of confidential health communications to advertisers such as Google and Facebook. Mr. Bai has helped achieve significant successes for patient classes in courts across the country, including defeating removal attempts, winning interlocutory appeals, beating motions to dismiss, and achieving class certification and favorable settlements. To date, he has helped numerous patient classes obtain significant monetary relief worth substantial 8 and 9 figures, as well as exhaustive injunctive relief to eliminate the use of the offending tracking pixel technology going forward.
- Won a no-liability jury verdict as first-chair, trial counsel for a Houston-area radiology services provider Houston Radiology Associated in a business fraud dispute. A former competitor-turned-employee, Dr. Amit Banerjee, brought suit against HRA after his termination, and alleged fraudulent inducement into signing away his prior company’s hospital service contract and agreeing to a merger. Banerjee sought $1.2 million in actual damages as well as significant punitive damages. After a 4-day trial, the jury deliberated for less than an hour before returning a verdict of no fraud liability verdict in favor of HRA.
- Successfully represented a variety of companies and individuals in contractual and business tort disputes, such as breaches of insurance contracts, partnership or LLC corporate divorces, bankruptcy adversarial proceedings, fraud and fraudulent transfer claims, employment discrimination fights, and numerous other subject matters. Along the way, Mr. Bai has repeatedly helped his clients win favorable outcomes, including dismissals, summary judgments, and awards of attorneys’ fees and costs.
EDUCATION
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., May 2016
- Washington and Lee University, B.A. in Economics; B.S. in Physics-Engineering, magna cum lade, May 2013
ADMISSIONS
- State Bar of Texas
- Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- US District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- US District Court, Northern District of Texas
- US District Court, Southern District of Texas
- US District Court, Western District of Texas
- US District BK, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- US District Court Utah
- Harris County District Clerk
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Texas Rising Star honors as presented by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Business, 2021-2026
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, by Best Lawyers in America, 2021 – 2026
- Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation, 2024
- Lawdragon 500 Global IP Lawyers, 2025
- Texas Bar Foundation Fellow
LANGUAGES
- Chinese-Cantonese
- Chinese-Mandarin
IN THE NEWS
- Over Half of the AZA Firm Named on Super Lawyers and Rising Stars 2026 Lists
- Jury Finds for AZA Client Brown & Root in $200 Million-Plus Trade Secret Case
- AZA’s $78.5 Million Patent Infringement Win Among 2025’s Top 10 National Patent Verdicts
- Jury Awards AZA Client $78.5 Million in Patent Infringement Case Against Samsung
- Twenty-Four AZA Lawyers Named 2025 Texas Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- 26 AZA Attorneys Honored as 2026 Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch
- Six AZA Lawyers Named to Lawdragon’s 2025 500 X – The Next Generation of Leading Lawyers in America
- Four AZA Lawyers Named to Lawdragon 500 Global IP Lawyers 2025
- AZA Wins Jury Victory for KBR in $289 Million Energy Sector Breach of Contract Case
- AZA Names Bai, Poelker and Turkevich as New Partners
- Ben & Jerry’s Sues Corporate Parent Over Gaza Stance Censorship
- Six AZA Lawyers Named to Lawdragon’s 2024 Next Generation of Leading Lawyers
- Twenty-Six AZA Lawyers Honored as Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch
- Three AZA Lawyers Named to Lawdragon’s Next Generation of 500 Leading Lawyers in America
- AZA Wins Three Trials in Just Two Weeks in May
- Thirteen AZA Attorneys Earn Texas Rising Stars Honor
- Seven Young AZA Lawyers Ranked among Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2023
- Ten AZA Lawyers on Texas Rising Stars List for 2022
- Twelve Young AZA Lawyers Ranked among Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2022
- Eleven AZA Lawyers Make the 2021 Texas Rising Stars List
- Eleven AZA Associates Make US List of ‘Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch’ for 2021
- AZA Health Care Client Sees Administrative Judge’s Order Overturned
- AZA Wins $9M Jury Verdict in Texas Patent Infringement Case Against Motorola
- New AZA Attorneys
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