Robinson Vu has served as Assistant General Counsel since 2025. He is a graduate of Rice University (B.S. EE and B.A. 1999) and Columbia Law School (J.D. 2004). He is a member of the State Bar of Texas (2004), admitted to practice in the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Districts of Texas, and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (2007). His principal areas of practice at Rice are intellectual property, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, technology licensing, information technology, and sponsored research.

Prior to joining the Office of the General Counsel at Rice, Robinson was a partner at Baker Botts LLP where he practiced intellectual property law since 2004.  He provided intellectual property and patent prosecution counsel to oil-field services and general electronics companies. He litigated trade secrets cases as well as patent cases involving refrigerators, voice-over-IP (VoIP), semiconductors, upstream mud equipment, and web-based telecommunications technologies. His intellectual property litigation experience includes all phases of discovery, venue and jurisdiction disputes, prior art research, pretrial, and trial work. He has represented clients before the USPTO in inter partes reviews, on appeals before the Federal Circuit, and before the International Trade Commission (ITC) in Section 337 proceedings. Prior to law school, he worked as a systems engineer for The Boeing Company on the International Space Station program.