Jeff Hsu Email & Phone Number

Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan

Provides Tsai, Lee & Chen with relevant advice to facilitate prosecution of the firm's US patent applications.

• Provides Gerson Lehrman Group’s clients with relevant advice regarding US patent systems and landscape.

Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan

• Oversees the operation of the intellectual property (IP) department. Manages outside counsel, the company's prosecution docket, performs due diligence and freedom to operate analyses, and advises company's upper.
• Provides in-house legal support. Reviews NDAs, MTAs, RCAs, MSAs, TSAs, assignment of rights documents, as well as consultancy, licensing, employee and stock option agreements etc.
• Contributes to strategic planning of company's research and development direction. Aligns the objectives of research and development projects with company's commercial and intellectual property protection goals. This.
• Led the creation and oversees operation of the company’s personnel evaluation and personal development program.
• Leads the “Antigen Discovery” part of the company’s R&D research, provides mentoring to R&D personnel.
• Educates all levels of company personnel with regards to intellectual property concepts.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Jeff C. Hsu is a registered United States patent agent and a former patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Prior to embarking on patent prosecution, Jeff carried out his postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has published his findings in top research journals including Science. Jeff’s.

Taipei, Taiwan

• Provided Academia Sinica with the relevant expertise to facilitate the strengthening of Academia Sinica’s intellectual property protection and more specifically, to enhance the quality of US patent application.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Provided intellectual property (IP) advice relevant to facilitating the translation and commercialization of basic research projects.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Provided Giant Group with the relevant trainings in intellectual property (IP) to facilitate the successful development of an US patent filing and prosecution team

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Provided OPES with the relevant expertise in intellectual property (IP) to facilitate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Provided general scientific consultation, as well as consultation in support of H&A’s involvement and activities in client’s patent prosecution, prior art search, and infringement analysis.

Alexandria, Virginia

• Prosecuted and examined US patent applications in the biotechnology field (gene therapy, stem cells, transgenic animals and viruses); Evaluated patentability by searching domestic and international patent databases as.

Bethesda, Maryland

• Completed a collaborative project that discovered and characterized a novel regulator of early stage salivary gland development – study results were published in a top tier scientific research journal (Co-first author.
• Completed a collaborative project to identify viral vectors and develop new strategies for efficient delivery of genes into embryonic mouse salivary glands. Study results were published (J. Dent. Res. 2012, 91: 197-202)
• Generated and utilized a transgenic mouse model that harbor a probe for tracking individual cells to understand how cells migrate within developing salivary glands. Study results were published (Dev. Dyn. 2013.
• Managed funds for buying equipment and reagents for the collaborative projects

Buffalo, New York

• Completed a collaborative project as well as led a parallel research project to investigate the in vitro growth inhibitory mechanisms of action of melanoma-targeting monoclonal antibodies 3F8 and R24. Study results.
• Generated and characterized novel peptide mimics of melanoma-associated antigens, with the aim to develop them into vaccines to treat melanoma patients - study led to 2 patents (GD2, GD3 peptide mimics)
• Supervised one college and one high school summer student

Taipei, Taiwan

• Helped to identify IL-10 as one of the key immune-inhibitory factors found in the pleural effusions obtained from lung cancer patients
• Generated dendritic cells from human blood cells for study of tumor-associated antigen presentation

Brisbane, Australia

• Characterized the effect of 2 asthma drugs (cetirizine & nedocromil) on airway smooth muscle contraction
• Tutored a laboratory course for advanced Pharmacology and Pharmacy students

Master’S Degree In Intellectual Property (Mip), Law

Ph.D., Immunology/Microbiology

Activities and Societies: Treasurer, Immunology Department Graduate Student Association, SUNY at Buffalo (2001)

Bsc (Honors), Pharmacology

Bsc, Biochemistry, Physiology And Pharmacology

Activities and Societies: Public Relations Officer, Hong Kong Student Association, The University of Queensland (1996)