Representative Experience
Provides strategic counseling to clients as part of an overall business strategy, and represents them before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent offices (through foreign associate patent counsel) in patent prosecution, opposition and reexamination proceedings

Renders opinions on patent validity and infringement in relation to patent litigation, licensing, mergers and acquisitions and corporate financing including initial public offerings

Procures patents in the technical areas of computer software, protection of digital content, optical systems for semiconductor processing, flash memories, wireless and optical communication, nanotechnology, business methods, audio and video technologies, systems for analyzing biological materials

Works with companies in Silicon Valley having Asian connections, and with the patent community in the greater China area

Prior Experience
Co-founder, Parsons Hsue & de Runtz LLP, San Francisco, CA

Partner, Skjerven Morrill LLP, San Francisco, CA

Shareholder, Majestic, Parsons, Siebert and Hsue P.C., San Francisco, CA

Staff attorney, Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, TX

Memberships and Activities
State Bar of California

State Bar of Texas

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Various United States District Courts and Courts of Appeal

Education
J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, 1976

B.S. in Engineering Physics, with highest honors, University of California at Berkeley, 1968

• Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi