Representative Experience
Counsels clients and provides strategic planning advice regarding patent and trademark portfolios

Obtains patents, design patents, and trademark registrations worldwide, renders opinions regarding validity, enforceability, and infringement of patents, design patents and trademarks, and handles appeals to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent prosecution for companies involved in chemical, pharmaceutical, and medical compositions, devices and processes, semiconductor devices and processes, lasers, optical coatings, materials technology, and mechanical devices

Prosecutes design patents and trademarks for companies involved in the foregoing areas, as well as for companies in electronics, computers and more general, non-technical fields

Prior Experience
Co-founder, Parsons Hsue & de Runtz, San Francisco, CA

Partner, Skjerven Morrill LLP, San Francisco, CA

Shareholder, Majestic, Parsons, Siebert and Hsue P.C., San Francisco, CA

Summer associate, Patent Department, Chevron Corporation, San Francisco, CA

Obtained engineering experience in the areas of semiconductor processing and environmental engineering, marketing experience in the area of semiconductor processing equipment and analytical instruments (which included working in France), and consulting experience in the area of technical communications

Memberships and Activities
State Bar of California

United States Patent and Trademark Office

United States District Court for the Northern District of California

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Education
J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley