PATENT LAW WORKS

Hoang-chi focuses on domestic and international trademark counseling. She advises clients on trademark selection, registration, and enforcement worldwide, including prosecuting and maintaining U.S. and foreign applications, representing clients in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and negotiating trademark assignments, coexistence, and settlement agreements. She also counsels clients on internet issues and disputes, including domain disputes before the World Intellectual Property Organization and the National Arbitration Forum.

 

Hoang-chi represents clients in a wide variety of fields, including those in clothing, food and beverage, computer software, gaming, telecommunications, social networking, and pharmaceuticals. She has worked with Abbott Laboratories, BitTorrent, Inc., Buzzmedia, Google Inc., ShoreTel Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Symantec Corporation, and Ustream, Inc.

 

Hoang-chi is a member of the International Trademark Association, and is active in the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association, having been the organization’s president in 2007-2008. Prior to joining Patent Law Works as a partner, Hoang-chi was an associate with Fenwick & West LLP and intellectual property boutique Burns, Doane, Swecker, & Mathis, LLP.