Practice Expertise

  • Intellectual Property
  • Patent Office Trials
  • Patent Prosecution and Counseling
  • Patents

Areas of Practice

  • Intellectual Property
  • Patent Office Trials
  • Patent Prosecution and Counseling
  • Patents
  • Technology
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Profile

Dr. Jiaping (Charlene) Liu is an intellectual property lawyer with an extensive knowledge of patents and a focus on patent prosecution and assertion matters. Charlene performs client counseling, portfolio development and management, freedom-to-operate and invalidity/noninfringement analysis in various technological fields, including semiconductors, integrated circuits, software, financial service, mobile technology, telecommunications, network security and medical devices.

Before her legal career, she obtained her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and was a Gordon Wu fellowship recipient. Her doctoral work focused on stochastic modeling of data networks, and she worked on wireless transmission protocols for ad hoc networks at Bell Labs during graduate school.

Bar Admissions
California, 2020
New Jersey, 2014
New York, 2014
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011

Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2013
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2009
B.E., Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Areas of Practice

  • Intellectual Property
  • Patent Office Trials
  • Patent Prosecution and Counseling
  • Patents
  • Technology

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
Some of the above representations were handled by Charlene prior to joining Haynes and Boone.

Represented a leading semiconductor technology company to prosecute and manage a portfolio of more than 500 patents/applications in U.S. and worldwide.

Represented a media service company with a portfolio of more than 1000 patents/applications on licensing and assertion matters.



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