Patent Agent

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EDUCATIO

Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY

J.D. Candidate, May 2012

GPA: 3.100/4.000

Honor: Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

Al and Julie Collard Family Scholarship

Patent Related Courses: Patent Law, B+; IP Drafting, A

Duke University, Durham, NC

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, October 2005

GPA: 3.823/4.000

Computer Science Related Courses: Software Design and Implement, A-; Introduction

to Switch Theory, A; Introduction to Operating System, A; Design and Analysis of

Computer Algorithms, Audited

University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO

M.S. in Organic Chemistry, July 2000

GPA: 3.375/4.000

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

B.S. in Chemistry, July 1998

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BAR ADMISSIO United States Patent and Trademark Office (Registration number: 67059, September 2010)

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EXPERIE CES

Technical Advisor, Budd Larner P.C., Short Hill, NJ, December, 2010 - January, 2011

Clearance/freedom-to-operate investigations; prior art search/review using patent and

scientific literature databases; infringement/invalidity opinions and patent litigation, e.g.

STN International, SciFinder, TotalPatent, MicroPatent

Senior Scientist, J-Star Research Inc., South Plainfield, NJ, October 2005 - March 2010

Developed, conducted and optimized multi-step organic synthesis for drug candidates;

performed lab scale-up for drug candidates; developed process chemistry procedures

for scaling up; wrote standard operating procedures for process chemistry

Research Assistant, Duke University, Durham, NC, August 2000 - October 2005

Synthesized (-)-Gelsemicine, a minor alkaloid, via vinyl-ether-terminated %-

acyliminium ion cyclization; developed a new method for preparing spirocyclic

oxindoles, featuring a [3,3]-sigmatropic enolate rearrangement in a three-step process

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SELECTED PUBLICATION S

"New Spirocyclic Oxindole Synthesis Based on a Hetero Claisen Rearrangement," ***** and Steven W. Baldwin, Organic Letter (2004), 6(14), 2425-2428

"A Convenient Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of %,%'-Bis(2-propenyl)-2,7-

diazapyrenium Quaternary Salts," Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, ******, and Abdel-

Monem M. Rawashdeh, Journal of Organic Chemistry (2000), 65(19), 6017-6023

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MEMBERSHIPS

American Intellectual Property Law Association (2010 – present)

American Chemical Society (1998 – present)

LA GUAGE Fluent in Mandarin; fluent in Shanghainese

WORK AUTHORIZATIO N United States Permanent Resident

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