Dinh, Phong

Phong Dinh is a Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft, where he leads a patent team supporting Microsoft’s Cloud and AI business, including patent portfolio development, IP counseling, M&A transactions, IP licensing, open source usage, and strategic partnerships.  He further provides IP counseling and drives the company’s patent and trade secret strategies for Azure AI, which includes Microsoft Speech, Vision, Language, and Decision services.  Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Dinh was a Senior Associate at Goodwin Procter, where he specialized in patent prosecution and IP litigation before US district courts, the Patent Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Mr. Dinh has a JD, with honors, from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Science, with distinction, in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.