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Education

B.S. Nuclear Engineering

Electrical Engineering minor, magna cum laude, National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan

J.D.

Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts

Jennifer Teng

Jennifer Teng is a Patent Attorney at NovoTech Patent Firm and is based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Jennifer ’s law practice focuses on all phases of patent protection including preparation of patent applications, patent prosecution, patentability, infringement and validity opinions, and client counseling on intellectual property management and international patent practices, especially during her six-month work stay in Japan. Jennifer practiced at Reed Smith LLP and Ditthavong, Steiner, & Mlotkowski for 23 years, before joining our firm, in the fields of computer-based circuits and devices, telecommunication standards and systems, image analysis and pattern recognition, semiconductor devices and processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning models, mapping technologies and mobility, satellite-, optics- and laser-based sensing devices and systems, advanced display technologies, enterprise storage systems and software, medical devices and imaging systems, web services, e-commerce and business methods.

Jennifer also worked as a commercial attaché representing the Republic of China (Taiwan) in New England, served on the boards of several high-tech, start-up companies, taught laboratory experiments of electrical circuits and semiconductor processing while working for the Electrical Engineering Department of the Tsing Hua University. Jennifer further worked as an engineer for the Material Research & Service Organization of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at the First Nuclear Power Plant of the Taiwan Power Company, and as an optoelectronic engineer for the Tzu-Chiang Foundation of Science & Technology in Taiwan.

Jennifer earned her bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineer (minor: electrical engineering), magna cum laude, at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, and her Juris Doctorate at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.

Jennifer is admitted to practice in Virginia and Massachusetts, and before US Court of Appeals for Fourth & Federal Circuits, and US Patent and Trademark Office.

About the Author

Babak Akhlaghi is a registered patent attorney and the Managing Director at NovoTech Patent Firm, where he assists inventors in protecting and monetizing their inventions. He is also a co-author of the "Patent Applications Handbook," which has been updated and published annually by West Publications (Clark Boardman Division) since 1992. Additionally, Babak is a former adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, where he taught legal aspects of entrepreneurship. One of his notable achievements includes successfully prosecuting a patent application for a startup, resulting in licensing fees totalling over a hundred million dollars.

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