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Ali R. Alemozafar
Partner
Ali counsels clients on patent strategy, prosecution, and diligence for financings, M&A, and IPOs.
U.P. Peter Eng
Partner
Specializes in strategic patent and innovation counseling for technology start-ups.
Sara L. Patak
Partner
Sara L. Patak is a partner in the Boulder office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Her practice focuses on patent prosecution and intellectual property counseling, serving clients in a wide range of technology fields, including the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
Hin Au
Partner
Hin Au is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the patents and innovations practice. Hin provides IP strategy and counseling services to clients in a wide range of technical fields, including MedTech, digital health, biotech, medical/diagnostic devices, software, robotics, autonomous vehicle technologies, and clean energy. He has assisted many clients with building their patent portfolios and securing key strategic patents. Hin has hands-on engineering industry experience, having previously worked as an R&D engineer for six years at large U.S. semiconductor corporations. A native of Singapore, Hin is also fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.
Adam J. Cole
Associate
Dr. Adam Cole is an associate in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Dawson Wong
Associate
Dr. Dawson Wong is an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the patents and innovations practice. His practice focuses on patent prosecution and counseling matters across multidisciplinary fields, including precision medicine, molecular diagnostics, bioinformatics, machine learning, medical devices, and medical imaging.
Seth Lee
Associate
Dr. Seth Lee is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the patents and innovations practice. His practice focuses on patent prosecution and due diligence matters in the fields of biotechnology, therapeutic, genomics, medical devices, artificial intelligence, and additive manufacturing.
Prior to joining the firm, Seth conducted doctoral research on developing biomaterials based on supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly under the supervision of Professor Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University. During his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Helen H. Blau at Stanford University, he studied muscle stem cell biology for muscle regeneration.
Prior to joining the firm, Seth conducted doctoral research on developing biomaterials based on supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly under the supervision of Professor Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University. During his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Helen H. Blau at Stanford University, he studied muscle stem cell biology for muscle regeneration.
Dan Gil
Associate
Dr. Dan Gil is an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He focuses on strategic intellectual property counseling for various fields, including biomarker discovery, drug discovery, algorithms, high-performance computing, and chemical and materials engineering.
Shane Crippen
Associate
Dr. Shane Crippen is an associate in the Boulder office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the patents and innovations group. He focuses on patent prosecution and counseling.
Madeline H. Elkins
Associate
Dr. Madeline Elkins is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations practice. She focuses on patent prosecution and due diligence matters in the fields of medical devices and medical imaging, quantum computing (trapped atom, annealing, software, and quantum computing as a service), optical coherence tomography, holography, Fourier microscopy, electron microscopy, image analysis software, diagnostic software, digital health, and semiconductor fabrication.
Lucian Orbai
Senior Counsel
Lucian Orbai is senior counsel in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on intellectual property matters and global patent strategy for life sciences clients in multiple fields, including tools, diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. His work includes prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent portfolios as well as patent strategy and patent diligence, including freedom-to-operate and patentability studies. Lucian has managed IP aspects of various corporate transactions including financings and M&A. He has also worked with foreign counsel to draft and file multiple European Patent opposition briefs.
Matt Garnica
Associate
Matt Garnica is an associate in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His practice focuses on patent prosecution and intellectual property counseling in a wide range of technology fields, including molecular diagnostics, tools, and genomics. Matt has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the United States and in various foreign jurisdictions.
Nicolette Gregor
Associate
Nicolette Gregor is an associate in the Boston office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations group. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a chemistry analyst at Novartis Gene Therapies. Nicolette’s technical specialties and areas of interest are neuroscience, life sciences informatics, gene therapy, biotechnology engineering, and AI/machine learning-integrated biotechnologies.
Ellie Han
Associate
Dr. EunHee (Ellie) Han is an associate in the Century City office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the firm's patents and innovations group. Ellie leverages her unique interdisciplinary background in biomedical engineering to provide strategic patent counseling to clients in biotechnology, diagnostics, medtech, and therapeutics industries.
Danyal F. Bhutto
Patent Agent
Dr. Danyal Bhutto is a patent agent in the Boston office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a member of the firm’s patents and innovations practice group. His work focuses on patent prosecution across the fields of artificial intelligence, medical devices, medical imaging, diagnostics, software, and digital health.
Bryan Berlin Edwards
Patent Agent
Bryan Berlin Edwards is a patent agent in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he is a member of the firm’s patents and innovations practice. Bryan has a strong background in electrical engineering and physics. His practice focuses on patent prosecution and strategizing for clients in cleantech, medical device, bioinformatics, and machine learning fields.
Steven Gore
Patent Agent
Steven Gore is a patent agent in the Boulder office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on intellectual property particularly at the intersection of the life science and artificial intelligence.
Grace Liu
Patent Agent
Grace Liu is a patent agent in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations group. Her work focuses on patent preparation and prosecution in the fields of biotechnology, genomics, protein engineering, bioinformatics, and machine learning.
Melanie Malinas
Patent Agent
Dr. Melanie Malinas is a patent agent in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations practice. Her work focuses on patent preparation and prosecution, particularly in the life sciences and biotechnology fields.
Sam Riddle
Patent Agent
Sam Riddle is a patent agent in the Boulder office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on quantum and materials science innovations. Sam’s doctoral research focused on the differential geometry and topology of quantum mechanical observables, and how these features give rise to the energetic and physical observables we see as chemistry and thermodynamics. Specializing in this area necessitates a strong background in advanced mathematics and theory, and Sam does not shy away from highly technical problems. Simultaneously, his experience working on interdisciplinary problems has also honed his ability to understand and connect concepts from different areas of science, making him a versatile team member of the firm’s patents and innovations practice.
Joseph Swabeck
Patent Agent
Dr. Joseph Swabeck is a patent agent at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on patent prosecution and intellectual property matters in the fields of chemistry, novel materials, optics, 3D printing, and next-generation computing.
Lily Zhang
Patent Agent
Dr. Lily Zhang is a patent agent in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the patents and innovations group. Her practice focuses on patent prosecution across multidisciplinary fields, including immunology, microbiology, genomics, bioinformatics, AI/machine learning, molecular diagnostics, and related technologies.
Prior to joining the firm, Lily completed her doctoral degree in computational biology at New York University. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on investigating how the gut microbiome affects immune cells in cancer immunotherapy patients using computational methods. She was also a licensing intern at New York University's technology transfer office, where she worked on technology marketing.
Prior to joining the firm, Lily completed her doctoral degree in computational biology at New York University. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on investigating how the gut microbiome affects immune cells in cancer immunotherapy patients using computational methods. She was also a licensing intern at New York University's technology transfer office, where she worked on technology marketing.