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Dr. Michelle S. Rhyu is a partner in the Cooley 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 with an emphasis on Life Sciences litigation, including ANDA cases. Dr. Rhyu has litigated patent infringement and contract disputes related to antibodies, cancer therapeutics, nuclear hormone receptor technology, abdominal-aortic stent devices, small molecule compounds, and biofuels technology, among other technologies.
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.
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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