Emily Miao, Ph.D.
Emily Miao has broad experience in all aspects of foreign and domestic intellectual property practice, including patent and trademark procurement and portfolio management; client counseling on validity, infringement, freedom-to-operate, and patent strategy matters; due diligence reviews; and licensing/secrecy agreements. Her recent cases have involved nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biochemistry, molecular biology, drug delivery systems, diagnostic assays, medical devices, and chemical and food processes.
Dr. Miao recently spoke at the Technology IP Due Diligence Conference in San Francisco. Her session was entitled "Ensuring Functionality and Actual Ownership of IP Assets before the Deal is Finalized". A frequently-requested panelist, Dr. Miao participated in the ethics panel at "The Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2007" CLE seminar at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Her panel presented in-office situations for consideration under the PCT and USPTO regulations and the ABA rules.
education
J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law
Ph.D., New York University, Chemistry
Thesis: Design and synthesis of mechanism-based enzyme inhibitors of mammalian steroidogenesis and de novo cholesterol biosynthesis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Postdoctoral Chapman Fellowship
B.S., New York University, Chemistry and Biology
bar admissions
Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
professional leadership
American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science