Hsieh, Timothy

Timothy T. Hsieh (pronounced “Shay”) joined the faculty of the Oklahoma City University School of Law in the Fall of 2021 as an Assistant Professor of Law, where he focuses his research, teaching and scholarship in the areas of Intellectual Property (“IP”) as well as Law & Technology, particularly in Patent Law, Antitrust Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, Trade Secret Law, hybrids between all of those IP forms, Computer, Internet & Social Media Law, Information Technology & Privacy Law, Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) Law, Law & Literature/Film, Entertainment & Sports Law, and Asian American Legal Studies.

In 2015-2016 & 2018 he was named a Super Lawyers “Rising Star”, an accolade given to only 2.5% of California attorneys, and practiced patent & trademark prosecution as well as patent, IP, antitrust, technology & complex civil litigation at top Am Law 100 law firms such as Greenberg Traurig, Foley Lardner, and Seyfarth Shaw. He also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Roy S. Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and to the Honorable Kandis A. Westmore of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and was additionally a pro bono law clerk or judicial law fellow to the Honorable Michael A. Shipp of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

As a GS-13 “Business Methods” Assistant Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”), he dealt frequently with complex patent subject-matter eligibility issues under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as well as cutting-edge FinTech advancements involving blockchain, cryptocurrencies & AI. At the USPTO, he furthermore detailed as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Jameson Lee, Administrative Patent Judge at the Patent and Trial Appeal Board, where he worked primarily on Inter Partes Review (“IPR”) cases. He was also elected as the 21st Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society – the first Asian American Editor-in-Chief in the publication’s century plus history – acted as Chair of the Society’s Legislative Committee, and was Vice President-Elect as well as Technology Center 3600 Representative of the USPTO’s Asian Pacific American Network (“APANET”), the U.S. federal government’s largest affinity group. Moreover, he was an elected USPTO Counselor on the 2019-2020 Board of the Pauline Newman IP American Inn of Court, a nominated member of the Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court, and is part of the American Inns of Court Pegasus Scholars Placement Committee as well as the Hastings Law Journal Alumni Board.