• Strategizing for and managing the global IP portfolio and related IP policies to achieve business objectives, mitigate risk, and reduce costs and inefficiencies. Providing support and training to various teams and management on IP-related matters, including communicating with relevant teams, management, and outside counsel to enable critical decisions. Budgeting and managing relationships with outside counsel to reduce costs while achieving objectives.• Harvesting patents in the fields of Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, machine learning, and security, managing the submission process, leading patent committee meetings, drafting and reviewing patent applications to ensure the highest quality deliverables, and managing patent prosecution for a global portfolio. • Implementing global trademark and brand protection strategies, managing domains, and working closely with the marketing team on trademark protection, domain registrations, copyright licensing & infringement, and false advertising.• Evaluating inbound and outbound open source and working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and security teams on open source licensing, usage, compliance, and risk mitigation.• Evaluating IP assets for M&A due diligence, onboarding acquired IP assets, reviewing IP licensing terms in commercial and corporate agreements, and supporting ongoing IP litigation and disputes, including preparing litigation claim charts.

• Evaluating and strategizing for RingCentral's IP portfolio assets, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, open source, domains, trade secrets, and other assets. • Managing RingCentral's patent processes and engagement with outside counsel, including invention harvesting and intake, invention evaluation, patent preparation & prosecution, portfolio management, and patent purchasing. • Developing and executing procedures for soft IP, including conducting trademark clearance searches and M&A due diligence review of open source licenses, enforcing RingCentral's IP rights through C&D letters, takedown requests, and UDRP proceedings, and addressing false advertising and unfair competition issues. • Engaging in internal, cross-functional communications between teams as well as external communications with outside counsel to ensure that all IP assets are protected.

• Prepared, prosecuted, and managed a docket of hundreds of national, international, and foreign utility and design patent applications in the fields of complex software, cloud computing, machine learning, distributed networking, security and cryptography techniques, data analysis, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile devices, and mechanical engineering for a variety of clients, from solo inventors to Fortune 100 companies • Interfaced with clients, including attending invention disclosures and collaborating with in-house counsel and inventors on a variety of issues such as patent clearance, prosecution strategies, and portfolio management• Protected clients' IP rights through cease and desist letters, litigation support, and licensing, including but not limited to: writing intellectual property indemnifications, assignments, and non-disclosure agreements, providing litigation support for Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaints and trademark oppositions with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), and preparing appeal briefs and responses to examiner’s answers with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)

• Counseled clients in the fields of trademark clearance, prosecution, enforcement, and liability, copyright registration, patent eligibility, entity formation, and product marketing. • Cleared, filed, and prosecuted over 600 trademark applications for a wide variety of commercial products and services• Wrote office action responses addressing substantive and procedural trademark refusals, including but not limited to: likelihood of confusion, descriptive, generic, disclaimers, amendments to the identification of goods and services, and amendments to the Supplemental Register• Conducted trademark searches through TESS, drafted identification descriptions for a variety of business products and services, evaluated Proof of Use, and filed Statements of Use• Filed copyright registrations for visual and performance arts through eCO

• Prepared US patent applications in the fields of electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, including hard drive media fabrication and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition • Prosecuted 50 US and foreign applications in the fields of electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, including but not limited to: hard drive motors and media, media fabrication, magnetron sputtering deposition, nanolithography, semiconductor fabrication technologies, flash drives, and optical surface analyzers• Responded to non-final and final office actions involving 35 USC §§ 102, 103, and 112 rejections• Assisted partners in drafting pre-appeal and appeal briefs and conducting Examiner interviews • Interfaced with clients, including attending invention disclosures and collaborating with in-house attorneys and inventors of a Forbes Global 2000 company during weekly conference meetings on a variety of issues such as patent clearance, due diligence, and prosecution strategies.

• Researched biologics as an emerging field of patent law• Identified key research universities that license biologics• Compared patent licensing agreements from major research universities • Compiled sample subsections from exclusive and non-exclusive licensing agreements

• Digitized and enhanced pathology, histology, and necropsy images for research and archival• Experimented on and researched the effects of magnetism on fluorescence • Helped researchers conduct statistical analyses on processed tissue samples • Designed the Computational Imaging Core website • Built computers for data storage

• Defended the District of Columbia in various civil cases involving issues such as negligence • Drafted interrogatories, wrote discovery requests, and attended depositions• Conducted field research during discovery• Researched relevant case law• Attended hearings at the Superior Court for the District of Columbia• Delivered court appearance notices