The WLD Show

Lee Cheng: A Patent Troll Hunter’s Career-long Fight Against Raced-Based Affirmative Action | #126

Episode Summary

In this episode. we talk about Lee's fight against IP patent trolls and race-based affirmative action.

Episode Notes

Lee Cheng is an attorney and civil rights activist who has fought discrimination against Asian Americans for three decades.

Lee helped found the Asian American Legal Foundation and Asian American Coalition for Education. Most well known for its part in helping win the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. A landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in 2023 in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

As the Chief Legal Officer for Newegg, Lee was famously known as "chief troll hunter.” He was one of the few attorneys a decade ago to fight back against the multi-billion dollar patent troll industry and win.

In this episode. we talk about Lee's fight against IP patent trolls and race-based affirmative action.