Bio

Jennifer Chen counsels clients in leveraging technology assets, including patents and product research and development, to achieve client goals using intellectual property law. Focusing on clients’ outcomes and purposes, she finds strategies and solutions by drawing from varied legal tools and experience, including negotiated solutions in the form of technology and patent license agreements, as well as litigated outcomes via courts and administrative proceedings. Her cross-border, multi-cultural business experience involves international technology companies based in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, China, Europe, and the United States. A registered patent attorney, Jennifer has served as counsel for major international technology companies, including five years at Hitachi, Ltd., resident in its Tokyo headquarters, with over fifteen years of working with international companies based in the Asia Pacific region. Jennifer has been designated a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Jennifer’s experience includes negotiating and closing patent license agreements, know-how license agreements, joint research and development agreements, and advising senior management on patent strategies, including in licensing-in and licensing-out contexts involving NPEs and competitors. She has represented clients in patent disputes before federal courts, including the District of Delaware, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the International Trade Commission. Jennifer has represented clients in technical fields such as computer and information technology, including large scale data storage and virtualization technology implemented by redundant array of independent disks; advanced high resolution displays and human-machine interfaces, including TFT-LCDs; and medical devices, including implanted cardiovascular stents and heart valves. Before practicing law, in addition to advising companies as an information technology consultant in computer aided software engineering in Australia and the U.S., Jenifer has served as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the field of multimedia and computer graphics.