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Dr. Michelle S. Rhyu is a partner in the Cooley Godward Kronish Intellectual Property Litigation practice group and a member of the Firm's Litigation department. She joined the Firm as a patent agent in 1996. She is resident in the Palo Alto office.
Dr. Rhyu has a varied practice focused on intellectual property litigation. She enjoys litigating cases involving a wide range of technologies. Dr. Rhyu has particular expertise and experience in patent infringement and contract disputes related to life sciences, including medical therapies, molecular biology and biochemistry.
Dr. Rhyu developed technical expertise as a graduate student characterizing asymmetric cell fate determination. She published scientific articles based on this work, and also published review articles relating to developments in basic cancer research as a fellow at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Rhyu served as a law clerk for the Honorable James Ware in the Northern District of California and as an intern for Judge Paul Michel at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
Dr. Rhyu received a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School. She earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco and her B.A. with honors in Molecular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Rhyu is admitted to practice in California and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Dr. Rhyu is also a member of the State Bar of California and the American Bar Association.
Representative cases:
Onyx Pharm., Inc. v. Bayer Corp., et al. Represent Onyx in contract dispute related to compounds with activity against raf kinase. Case pending.
The Board of Trustees of Stanford University v. Roche Molecular Systems, et al. Represent patentee, Stanford in patent ownership and infringement dispute related to method for evaluating effectiveness of HIV therapy. Case pending.
Zenith Electronics v. Vizio et al. Represent plaintiff, Zenith, in patent infringement suit related to industry standard digital television signal demodulation technology. Case pending.
Zenith Electronics v. Thomson et al. Represented plaintiff, Zenith, in patent infringement suit related to industry standard digital television signal demodulation technology. Case settled favorably; all defendants who manufacture are now licensees to the patents.
The Salk Institute v. Ligand. Represented Salk in arbitration of contract dispute related to nuclear hormone receptor technology. Case settled favorably for Salk.
LA Biomedical Research Institute v. White. Represented LA Biomed in patent ownership dispute related to abdominal-aortic stent device. Adverse jury verdict vacated in full and remanded by Ninth Circuit.
Santillan v. John Ashcroft et al., In a pro bono case, represented class of 60,000 immigrants in Administrative Procedures Act action to obtain documents from the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice. Obtained summary judgment requiring issuance of documents and systemic revision of DHS and DOJ procedures.
IDEC v. Corixa et al.. Represented Corixa and University of Michigan, patentees, in patent infringement suit related to lymphoma therapy using radioisotope-labeled antibodies. Case settled after summary judgment briefing.
Precor v. Life Fitness. Represented Life Fitness in patent infringement suit related to elliptical cross trainer machines. Case settled after submission of expert reports.
Education- Stanford Law School
JD, 2000, With distinction - University of California, San Francisco
PHD Biochemistry and Biophysics, 1994, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow - University of California, Berkeley
BA Molecular Biology, 1988, With honors
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
- United States Supreme Court
Admissions
- California
- Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Asian Law Alliance
- Asian Pacific Bar Association
- California Bar Association
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