Dr. Huimin Chen’s practice focuses on intellectual property, particularly in the areas of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, life sciences, and chemistry. Huimin’s patent prosecution practice involves developing patent filing and prosecution strategies tailored to her clients’ worldwide business goals. She has drafted, prosecuted, and analyzed patents involving a range of technologies, including gene and cell therapies, therapeutic protein engineering and production, antibodies and vaccine development, pharmaceuticals, DNA- and RNA-related technologies, medical devices and medical diagnostics. Her client counseling practice includes counseling on pre-litigation strategy and providing opinions on patentability, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and validity.
Huimin received her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University. Her Ph.D. research involved building and using microscopes to characterize the biophysical properties of biomolecules like DNA, RNA, and proteins. After graduating, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University, where she worked at a synchrotron and a nanofabrication facility to build silicon-based microfluidic devices for optical and X-ray characterization of single molecules. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, where she used CRISPR/Cas as transcriptional roadblocks to study the mechanisms of splicing at the single gene level. Her practice is informed by her broad research experience including biophysics, optics, fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray spectroscopy, biochemistry, and molecular biology.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2024, cum laude
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Health, 2018
- Ph.D., Applied Physics, Cornell University, 2012
- B.S., Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2004, magna cum laude
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Languages
- Chinese (Mandarin)