Lawrence M. Sung

Lawrence M. Sung

 

Dr. Sung is a registered patent attorney with a Ph.D. in microbiology and has over 15 years of experience in biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical patent counseling, litigation and technology transfer. A former judicial clerk to (now Senior) Circuit Judge Raymond C. Clevenger, III, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Dr. Sung has also been involved extensively in patent appeals.

In addition, Dr. Sung holds the appointment of law school professor and director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at the University of Maryland School of Law. He has also taught at the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, George Washington University Law School, American University, Washington College of Law and the Seattle University School of Law. Dr. Sung has served as a consultant to the National Human Genome Research Institute and as a member of the National Academies Standing Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants. He is a prolific speaker and author, and his books include Patent Law Handbook, Patent Infringement Remedies and Medical Device Patents.

Bar Associations, Memberships and Activities

· American Bar Association

· American Intellectual Property Law Association

· American Association for the Advancement of Science

· American Society for Microbiology

Board Memberships

· Past Chair, Asian-Pacific American Bar Association of the District of Columbia Partners' Forum

· Past Chair, The National Research Council Committee on Intellectual Property Concerns for Toxicogenomics

Speeches and Programs

· Speaker, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Practical Patent Prosecution for New Lawyers - Biotechnology Claim Drafting (Alexandria, VA, Aug. 20, 2008).

· Speaker, Asia Pacific Legal Institute, 2008 Summer Intellectual Property Training Program, Biotechnology Patent Protection (Washington, DC, July 15, 2008).

· Speaker, Pharma IQ's 3rd Annual Developing IP Strategies for Crystalline Forms. The Generic Perspective of Crystalline Forms Patents (London, England, Dec. 6, 2007).

· Speaker, American University, Washington College of Law, Career Day for 1Ls, Keynote Address (Bethesda, MD, Nov. 3, 2007).

· Witness, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, "Stifling or Stimulating? The Role of Gene Patents in Research and Genetic Testing" (Washington, DC, Oct. 30, 2007).

· Speaker, Am. Intell. Prop. L. Ass'n, Practical Patent Prosecution for New Lawyers - Biotechnology Claim Drafting (Alexandria, VA, Aug. 22, 2007).

· Moderator & Speaker, The Use of Patented Inventions in Research, The Association of University Technology Managers Central Region Meeting (Austin, TX, July 22, 2007).

· Speaker, Washington State Patent Law Association, Partly Sunny or Partly Cloudy: A Forecast for U.S. Supreme Court Activity in Patent Cases (Seattle, WA, July 18, 2007).

· Speaker, Asia Pacific Legal Institute, 2007 Summer Intellectual Property Training Program, Biotechnology Patent Protection (Washington, DC, July 16, 2007).

· Moderator, China: Pharmaceutical Development in an Emerging Market, 2007 Biotechnology Industry Organization International Convention (Boston, MA, May 9, 2007).

· Participant, Fifteenth Meeting of the Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants, The National Academies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (Washington, DC, Feb. 9, 2007).

· Participant, Fourteenth Meeting of the Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants, The National Academies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (Washington, DC, Nov. 13, 2006).

· Speaker, U.S. Supreme Court Renewed Activity in the Patent Field: eBay, KSR, and an overview of how the cert process in patent cases has evolved, Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association Annual Intellectual

· Property Law Seminar (Rochester, NY, Nov. 29, 2006).

· Speaker, Recent Patent Fights: What Went Right? What Went Wrong?. The Institute for Professional and Economic Development: The Metrics of Intellectual Property (Boston, MA, Nov. 10, 2006).

· Speaker, Partly Sunny or Partly Cloudy?: The Forecast for Patent Rights, New York State Continuing Legal Education Program (Rochester, NY, Oct. 27, 2006).

· Speaker, 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Can I Get There From Here? (New Orleans, LA, Oct. 10, 2006).

· Speaker, High Tech Business Council Bio Cluster, 2006 Western New York Bioscience Summit, Defining and Protecting Your Intellectual Property (Rochester, NY, Oct. 5, 2006).

· Speaker, Life Sciences Intellectual Property Summit, Ethical Implications of Patenting in the Life Sciences Sector: Gene Patenting in Agriculture, Animals and Humans (Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 27, 2006).

· Speaker, Am. Intell. Prop. L. Ass'n, Practical Patent Prosecution for New Lawyers - Biotechnology Claim Drafting (Alexandria, VA, Aug. 9-11, 2006).

· Speaker, Asia Pacific Legal Institute, 2006 Summer Intellectual Property Training Program, Biotechnology Patent Protection (Washington, DC, July 17, 2006).

· Chair, Workshop on Intellectual Property Concerns for Toxicogenomics, The National Academies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (Washington, DC, June 29, 2006).

· Participant, Thirteenth Meeting of the Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants, The National Academies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (Washington, DC, June 28, 2006).

· Speaker, 2006 Mid-Year Association of American Law Schools Meeting, Workshop on Intellectual Property: Teaching Science to Law Students (Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 15, 2006).

· Speaker, 2006 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, Recent Developments in Intellectual Property Law: Impact on Inventors in the Academic World (Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Apr. 30, 2006).

· Participant, Nanotechnology Regulatory Working Group (Baltimore, MD, Apr. 28, 2006).

· Speaker, Johns Hopkins University - National Human Genome Research Institute Genetic Counseling Program: Ethics & Public Policy course, Intellectual Property Rights in Genetic Technologies (Bethesda, MD, Apr. 14, 2006).

· Speaker, Case Western University School of Law, You've Patented What?!: Biotechnology and the Inventive Act (Cleveland, OH, Mar. 27, 2006).

· Speaker, Washington Academy of Sciences - Capital Science 2006, The Effect of Patent Reform Legislation on Scientific Research (Arlington, VA, Mar. 26, 2006).

· Speaker, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance 10th Annual Meeting, Collegiality and Collaboration in the Age of Exclusivity (Portland, OR, Mar. 24, 2006).

· Participant, National Cancer Institute Translational Research Working Group Roundtable Meeting (Phoenix, AZ, Feb. 23-24, 2006).