I am a patent attorney who has been working with patents since 2007.

I am registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and admitted to practice law in the state of California. I have extensive experience preparing and prosecuting both software and hardware patent applications for startups and larger companies.

I continue to advise clients on patent prosecution strategies, patent portfolio development, and patent harvesting efforts. I've represented and handled patent matters of clients such as Twitter, Apple, Oracle, NVIDIA, Accenture, Sony, Seagate, Symantec, and Spansion, to name a few. I also advise clients on aspects of trademark prosecution and law.

While working at intellectual property law firms specializing in IP prosecution and litigation, including Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP (now Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP) and Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP, I prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the respective firms’ Electronics and Software groups.

Prior to entering the field of law, I worked in the tech industry with software and hardware companies in Silicon Valley, both as a software engineer and an electrical engineer. My work experience includes writing and maintaining complex Perl scripts to monitor large-volume semiconductor device testing yields. I also wrote tools in C++ to benchmark and improve the performance of wireless communication devices. I also have experience with semiconductor Failure Analysis techniques (such as Focused Ion Beam techniques, Emission Microscopy, C-Mode Scanning Acoustic Microscopy, Liquid Crystal Hot Spot Detection, X-Ray Radiography, and microprobe testing) as well as ESD and Latch-Up qualification testing.