Hong, Mae

Mae Hong serves as counsel in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, assisting clients of all sizes in all aspects related to both domestic and international patent applications, with a particular emphasis in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and chemistry. Mae counsels clients on patent and infringement defenses and various other intellectual property-related issues and analyzes clients’ patent portfolios to help identify and determine patentable subject matter for newly developed technologies. Mae has extensive experience in freedom-to-operate, patent validity, and non-infringement analysis.

Mae also has experience in due diligence investigations of intellectual property assets and in post-grant review proceedings. Mae’s technical areas of focus include genetic engineering, vaccines, immunotherapy, antibodies, diagnostics, disease treatments, genetically modified cells, formulations, cosmetics, cell biology, genetically modified plants, food, etc.