I partner with founders and leadership teams of startups and small and medium enterprises to create proper value from IP, provide strategic legal guidance and risk management, and create and implement policies and trainings for your business. As your company’s fractional counsel, I handle legal issues and relationships with any outside counsel so that you can concentrate on your business and avoid the cost of hiring a full time in-house IP counsel.I excel at counseling in clear, honest, and business-friendly terms, collaborating to achieve business goals. I do this by building trusted relationships and cross-functional influence among teams and organizations. I pride myself in maintaining calm and good humor under pressure while driving complex legal projects to completion.In addition to fractional IP and general counsel arrangements with startups and SMEs, I am available to work with entrepreneurs, corporations and law firms on strategic projects and transactions and advise on important legal issues.I have held a variety of positions in industry, law firms and government. I previously served as associate general counsel of IP and product at the world's leading technology cannabis vaporizer company. Prior to that, I served as general counsel and VP of intellectual property at a consumer travel products company, partner at a top global IP law firm, as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. As an active member of the community, I frequently lecture on intellectual property and brand protection issues and am an active participant in a number of bar associations including AIPLA, where I have served in a wide range of positions including on the Board of Directors. I have a strong passion and dedication for mentoring and fostering diversity in the IP profession, and serve as formal and informal mentor to a large number of diverse law students and young attorneys. I am also currently serving as the co-chair of the In-House Counsel Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area.
