Song, Mandy

Mandy Song, Ph.D. brings more than a decade’s experience in patent practice, including patent prosecution, client counseling, patent portfolio management & transactions, patent litigation in U.S. federal district courts and Section 337 investigations at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), and post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). She has significant experience in a wide range of electrical, computer, and biomedical technologies.

Mandy is a seasoned attorney on patent office practice. She manages the development of large patent portfolios for more than a dozen clients. She has personally drafted, filed, and prosecuted thousands of patent applications before the USPTO. She routinely interviews inventors to develop invention disclosures, drafts new patent applications in a broad range of complex technologies, conducts interviews with patent examiners, and appeals final rejections to the PTAB.

Mandy’s extensive litigation experience includes pre-litigation due diligence, managing all aspects of fact and expert discovery, motion practices, orchestrating complex claim construction analysis and briefing, taking and defending depositions, summary judgment briefing, hearings, and trials in both litigation and PTAB matters. She is also experienced in discovery dispute resolution and settlement negotiations.

Mandy serves clients of all sizes, from startups to conglomerates with global presence. She has worked with clients all over the globe and travels extensively to work on-site with clients to address their intellectual property needs.

Mandy was selected as the 2019 Top 30 Most Influential Women in IP. Mandy often presents at CLE programs on topics such as U.S. patent prosecution practice, patent litigation and PTAB proceedings, industrial standards and related patent issues, and due diligence for patent matters. She has been an adjunct professor of legal writing at George Washington University Law School and an invited speaker on patent law to Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. She also serves as a mentor to Duke University’s startup incubator, DUHatch.

Prior to founding Bayes PLLC, Mandy practiced for more than ten years at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garret, and Dunner, LLP.