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MoFo is proud to sponsor the 2025 PTAB Bar Association's annual conference, held in Washington, DC.Alex Yap and Jean Nguyen,...

MoFo is proud to sponsor the 2025 PTAB Bar Association's annual conference, held in Washington, DC.Alex Yap and Jean Nguyen, members of MoFo's Patent Trial and Appeal Board practice, will be speaking at the conference. Alex will speak on a panel featuring former APJs, and Jean will moderate a panel addressing current issues before the PTAB.To learn more, see the <a href="https://www.ptabbar.org/2025_ptab_bar_association_annu.php" target="_blank">event overview</a>.<hr>

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Alex Yap co-chairs the firm’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice and is a member of Morrison Foerster’s IP Litigation practice. As a former administrative patent law judge at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), he helps clients navigate post-grant adversarial proceedings before the PTAB. He focuses his practice on America Invents Act trials before the PTAB, as well as IP litigation matters.Prior to rejoining the firm, Alex served as an administrative patent judge at the USPTO in San Jose, California. In that capacity, he presided over more than 200 ex parte appeals, inter partes reviews, and covered business method patent proceedings.Utilizing his electrical and computer engineering degrees and experience from senior engineering roles, Alex spent 11 years at MoFo advising technology clients on patent litigations. During that time, he was involved in more than 30 USPTO reexamination/review proceedings and obtained cancellations of asserted claims in numerous cases.Prior to becoming a lawyer, Alex spent more than four years as a circuit design engineer for Freescale (formerly Motorola, Inc.) and Analog Devices, Inc., designing embedded non-volatile (flash) memories and asymmetric digital subscriber line chipsets. During that time, he developed extensive expertise in computer hardware and software architecture, communication systems, digital and analog circuit design, and digital signal processing. He has published numerous technical articles in trade journals and is an inventor on multiple U.S. patents.Alex received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1993 and 1998, respectively, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2005. He was an editor of The Minnesota Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.Alex is a member of the California State Bar and is registered to practice before the USPTO. He is also a member of the American Association of Patent Judges.

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A former lead engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Nguyen focuses her practice on domestic and international patent prosecution. She is a founder and co-leader of the firm’s Life Sciences Data Analytics patent group. She applies her experience also from her doctoral studies and her work as a former research scholar to provide portfolio management and counseling, IP due diligence, and freedom-to-operate analyses. Dr. Nguyen also has experience drafting briefs and inter partes reviews (IPRs), analyzing prior art and patent infringement, working with experts, and handling disputes before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the federal courts. Her clients include large domestic and international companies, early-stage startups, and universities.Dr. Nguyen’s knowledge spans a wide range of technology areas, including electronic devices, medical devices and health systems, semiconductor materials and fabrication, computer/device hardware, memory, optoelectronics, optics, nanotechnology, microelectromechanical systems (MEMs), electronic packaging, augmented/virtual reality systems, autonomous vehicles, smart glass, mechanical assemblies, and consumer products. Her experience also encompasses telecommunications and networks, integrated circuits and digital designs, quantum computing, computer software, and digital cameras.Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Dr. Nguyen was a lead engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a hardware engineer at Hewlett-Packard. She also worked as a research scholar at the Center for Quantum Devices, Georgia Tech Computer Aid Design Lab, and Berkeley Wireless Research Center, where her research involved collaborating with several companies and laboratories such as Raytheon, Cree, IBM, Intel, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Labs, U.S. Army Night Vision Labs, Naval Research Lab, Aerospace Corporation, Argonne National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, L3 Communications, Boeing, General Electric, FLIR, Teledyne, and Rockwell Automation.Dr. Nguyen received her J.D. from Loyola Law School. She also received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northwestern University, where she focused her studies on semiconductor materials and optoelectronic devices. She received her M.S. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she focused her studies on computer-aided design and quantum computing. Jean also received her B.S. degree in computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with emphasis on integrated circuits and digital designs. She has authored over 40 technical publications, 50 conference proceedings, and three book chapters. She also holds three patents.Dr. Nguyen has served on several committees with the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association (LAIPLA). She is registered to practice in California and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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2025 PTAB Bar Association Annual Conference

19 Mar 2025 - 21 Mar 2025