Associate
Lin (Celine) Ming has a broad intellectual property practice related to prosecution and client counseling across the areas of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets, particularly in China. She focuses on patent preparation and prosecution, with an emphasis on a wide variety of technologies in the electrical and computer spaces, including display devices, medical devices, telecommunications, autonomous driving technologies, and speech recognition.
Celine has worked on more than 300 patent applications and office action responses related to 5G communication, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence (AI), speech recognition, and medical device technologies. Her patent experience includes assisting with infringement, invalidation, and notarization matters, and with conducting patentability and freedom-to-operate searches as well as patent mining and infringement analysis. Celine has also worked on trademark prosecution and copyright registration.
Celine prides herself on her business acumen and understanding of business needs. She earned an auditor's certificate for Intellectual Property Management Systems (IPMS) and has applied her knowledge of these systems to assist more than ten enterprises in establishing their own internal IPMS.
Prior to joining Finnegan, Celine worked as a patent attorney at an intellectual property law firm in China. She previously was an IT project leader for an international company.
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April 28, 2021
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