Firm Strengthens Acclaimed Intellectual Property Practice Group
OKLAHOMA CITY – Crowe & Dunlevy is pleased to announce that Oklahoma City University School of Law (OCU Law) Associate Professor Timothy T. Hsieh (pronounced "Shay") has joined the firm's Oklahoma City office, further expanding the capacity and capabilities of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group.
Professor Hsieh joins the firm in an Of Counsel role and he brings nearly two decades of experience, focusing on issues relating to Intellectual Property (IP), with an emphasis on the intersection of IP law and technology, as well as experience in a broad array of IP areas including patents, trademarks, copyright issues, trade secrets, internet and social media, electronic privacy issues, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) laws. Hsieh's experience also expands beyond IP into entertainment and sports law, antitrust law, and Asian American legal studies.
"The Firm is thrilled to add Tim to our esteemed group of Intellectual Property attorneys," said Adam Childers, President and CEO of Crowe & Dunlevy. "Tim's experience and market presence further elevates a practice group that under the leadership of Practice Group Chair David Sullivan is already well-recognized as a trusted source for comprehensive IP legal services."
In 2015-2016 and 2018 Hsieh was named a Super Lawyers "Rising Star" in California, an accolade given to only 2.5% of the attorneys in that state, and he practiced patent and trademark prosecution as well as patent, IP, antitrust, technology and complex civil litigation at top Am Law 100 law firms such as Greenberg Traurig, Foley Lardner, and Seyfarth Shaw, as well as at IP boutique firms such as MacPherson, Kwok, Chen & Heid) and Loza & Loza LLP. Most recently he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Timothy D. DeGiusti, Chief U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, and he previously clerked for the Honorable Roy S. Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and the Honorable Kandis A. Westmore of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and was additionally a 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 and AI. While at the USPTO, he also detailed as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Jameson Lee, the senior-most 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, two-time Vice President-Elect, Secretary, 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.
In addition, Hsieh holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley, a M.S. Engr. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, and obtained his Juris Doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of the Law (now known as University of California College of the Law, San Francisco or "UC Law SF"), where he was Technology Editor and a Staff Editor on the law school's flagship law review, the Hastings Law Journal (now known as the UC Law Journal).
Hsieh also acquired a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree – with a Law and Technology (IP) certificate focus – from the University of California Berkeley School of Law, where he was elected into the Dean's Circle, and worked as an Articles Editor on the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the most cited technology law journal in the nation. He was also a Senior Visiting Scholar at Berkeley Law, where his Research Advisor was Professor Daniel Farber.
His award-winning writing has also been published in the Mississippi Law Journal; the Oklahoma City University Law Review; the Texas IP Law Journal, IDEA: The IP Law Review; the Fordham IP, Media & Entertainment Law Journal; the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts; the NYU Journal of IP & Entertainment Law; the International Journal of Law, Ethics & Technology, Competition Policy International's Antitrust Chronicle®; New Matter: the CA State Bar IP Section's Official Quarterly Magazine; Aspen Book Publishers; IEEE Potentials; and the John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law. Under his pen name of "Timothy Tau," he has also written award-winning short fiction that has won the Grand Prize in the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest among other honors, and he has directed as well as produced accolade-earning short films, and has additionally taught "Introduction to Screenwriting" at The Writer's Center, an independent literary institution based in the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
Finally, Hsieh is deeply involved with the local Oklahoma City community, and is a formally inducted Master member of all three local American Inns of Court, where he serves as the OCU Law Faculty Liaison. He is currently in the process of co-founding the Valerie K. Couch American Inn of Court, a Specialty Inn championing diversity and younger attorneys that will be focused on IP, Antitrust, Technology, and Entertainment and Sports Law. Additionally, he is the President & Founder of the Oklahoma Asian American Bar Association ("OKAABA"), the Faculty Advisor that helped establish OCU Law's very first Asian Pacific American Law Student Association ("APALSA"), a graduate of the OKConnect Program from the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber and LeadershipOKC, and will be launching the Oklahoma Asian American Film Festival ("OKAAFF"), the very first film festival of its kind in the state.