Chief Intellectual Property Counsel (US)

• Jul 2021 - Present

Senior Manager

• Jul 2020 - Jul 2021

Associate Attorney at Cozen O'Connor

• Jun 2017 - Jul 2020

Ude concentrates his practice in patent litigation for clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and consumer electronic industries. Ude practices Hatch-Waxman litigation, biologic/biosimilar litigation, and post-grant proceedings including inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review (PGR), and covered business method (CBM) in front of the USPTO. Ude also practices patent procurement, including patent drafting and prosecution. His practice includes writing patentability opinions, infringement/non-infringement opinions, and freedom to operate opinions. He is experienced in advising clients in patent licensing, patent security interests, UCC Article 9 sales of patents, due diligence, and related transactional work. His clients include software companies developing technologies in artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet-of-things, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. His clients also includes companies operating in biomedical devices, consumer electronics, mechanic-electric systems, telecommunications, and semiconductor manufacturing. Ude advises clients on general privacy law compliance, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Ude is Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US). With his educational background and doctoral research experience, he has extensive knowledge in electrical engineering, telecommunication, software, biomedical engineering, signal processing, mechanical engineering, neuroscience, protein science, and neurophysiology. Ude earned his Ph.D. from the Center for Neural Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. His Ph.D. research focused on developing artificial intelligence (AI) mathematical models to build electronic cortical prostheses for restoring human brain cognitive functions, such as learning and memory. Ude speaks native Mandarin Chinese. Show less

Associate Attorney

• Sep 2015 - May 2017

Ude's practice emphasizes on patent procurement, including drafting and prosecution. Ude’s practice also includes patentability opinion, infringement opinion, and freedom to operate opinion. Ude is experienced in patent licensing, patent security interests, due diligence, and related transactions. Ude's practice further includes inter parte review related proceedings. Ude has practiced in the technical areas of software, biomedical device, consumer electronics, mechanic-electric systems, telecommunication, and semiconductor manufacturing. With his educational background and doctoral research experience, Ude has extensive knowledge in electrical engineering, software, biomedical engineering, signal processing, mechanical engineering, and neuroscience. Ude's representation experience includes: • Represented publicly traded US software companies • Represented US and Europe biomedical device companies • Represented a publicly traded Canada personal hygiene product company • Represented various high-tech companies in Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan) Show less

Patent Attorney

• Sep 2014 - Aug 2015

Drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the technical areas of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software, biotechnology, and biomedical engineering.Ude's Representative experience includes:• Represented a publicly traded US heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) company• Represented a publicly traded US transport refrigeration company• Represented a publicly traded Canada personal hygiene product company

Patent Agent

• May 2012 - Sep 2014

Assist the firm's attorneys in domestic and international patent prosecution matters. Assists in the technical areas in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software, biotechnology, and biomedical engineering.

Patent Research Associate

• Feb 2012 - Jan 2014

Evaluated patentability and marketability of University of Minnesota inventions in the areas of life science, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and software. Evaluated patentability and marketability of University of Minnesota inventions in the areas of life science, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and software.

Research Associate

• Jan 2005 - Jun 2011

Developed cortical prostheses to restore the functions of learning and memory in human brain. Performed electrophysiology experiments, e.g., Intra-cellular, extra-cellular, and whole-cell recordings. Conducted nonlinear dynamical modeling of neural systems using Matlab. Developed cortical prostheses to restore the functions of learning and memory in human brain. Performed electrophysiology experiments, e.g., Intra-cellular, extra-cellular, and whole-cell recordings. Conducted nonlinear dynamical modeling of neural systems using Matlab.

Research Associate

• Aug 2002 - Dec 2004

Developed various high-throughput DNA detection, purification, and sequencing biomedical instruments. Programmed Lab-view and Visual C++. Performed data acquisition, digital signal processing, and robotic arm control. Applied Auto-CAD and Solidworks for designing instruments. Designed analog-signal amplifying and filtering circuits. Performed Bio-MEMS experiments: photolithography, glass etching, and thermobonding. Developed various high-throughput DNA detection, purification, and sequencing biomedical instruments. Programmed Lab-view and Visual C++. Performed data acquisition, digital signal processing, and robotic arm control. Applied Auto-CAD and Solidworks for designing instruments. Designed analog-signal amplifying and filtering circuits. Performed Bio-MEMS experiments: photolithography, glass etching, and thermobonding.

Research Associate

• Jun 2000 - Jun 2002

Developed a handheld diabetic blood-sugar screening device. Performed enzyme assay, protein purification, and cell culture. Programed Labview for bioinstrumentation. Developed a handheld diabetic blood-sugar screening device. Performed enzyme assay, protein purification, and cell culture. Programed Labview for bioinstrumentation.