Mai-Trang Dang

Associate

Mai-Trang Dang practices patent litigation and prosecution in proceedings before U.S. district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Ms. Dang has experience in a variety of technologies, including medical devices, software, renewable energy, climate change, electronic devices, and technology risk management. Ms. Dang has also assisted with counseling clients and with clearance opinion work.

Highlights

• Worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Pauline Newman at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2007-2008.
• Represented a pro bono client in the Circuit Court of Fairfax County on a motion to declare the application of the death penalty unconstitutional in Virginia.
  

Professional Recognition

• Recipient of the 2007 Burton Award for Legal Achievement, a national award for legal writing, for her article, “IP Rights and DRM: The Copyright Holder’s Guide to Navigating DRM Technology through Hostile Territory.”

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• American Society of International Law
  

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "The Blurred Law Behind the Languishing E-book Industry," BNA International Piracy and Brand Awareness, May 2007.
• Coauthor. "IP Rights and DRM: The Copyright Holder's Guide to Navigating DRM Technology Through Hostile Territory," BNA International Security & Surveillance, Nov. 2006 (reprinted in IP & Technology Programme, Feb. 2007).
• "Blight of the Bourgeoisie," Asian Pacific American Law Journal, July 2007.
• "The Politics of Sales Taxation of Services," State Tax Notes, July 2005.
• Coauthor. "A Practical Guidance Document for the Assessment of Project-level Greenhouse Gas Emissions," Greenhouse Gas Assessment Handbook, World Bank, Global Environment Division, 1998.