Patrick Soon 🥽🕹️⚖️

Patrick Soon is a renowned video game attorney with years of experience in corporate, entertainment, technology, and intellectual property law. As the Lead Counsel for Facebook Reality Labs, Patrick provides legal support for virtual reality game development at both second-party studios and first-party Oculus Studios such as Beat Games, Sanzaru, and Ready at Dawn. Facebook, a leading social media company, creates and sells exceptional virtual reality headsets and operates a global virtual reality content and social platform, the Oculus Store.

Prior to joining Facebook, Patrick served as Senior Counsel for Square Enix, a top video game and digital media company that generates over 2 billion USD in annual revenue. He's also worked for two boutique intellectual property litigation law firms in Orange County, California, where he advised clients on trademark selection, enforcement, registration, and copyright law.

Patrick is renowned for his hard work and dedication to activities promoting diversity, inclusion, and thought leadership. As a result, he has won numerous prestigious awards, including those from the American Bar Association and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. He's also spoken at top institutions like UCLA, USC, USD, Loyola, and the University of British Columbia, among others.

Patrick is a certified information privacy professional for the United States and Canada and is licensed to practice law in Washington state and California. He studied Law at the Center for Intellectual Property Law and English Literature at the University of British Columbia.