Kassity L. Mai

Kassity Mai focuses her practice on patent counseling, patent procurement and due diligence. Her technical experience includes a wide variety of technologies, including medical devices, surgical devices, robotics, diagnostics, imaging, sensor technology, wearable devices, digital health, materials, machine learning, data analytics, telecommunications, autonomous devices, software and consumer products. Kassity has managed and developed patent portfolios for numerous clients and has strategically advised clients on product clearance, freedom-to-operate, patent validity and infringement and licensing matters. She also regularly performs IP due diligence evaluations as part of public offerings, acquisitions, investments and venture financings, representing underwriters, investors and target portfolio companies.

Kassity also has experience in post-grant review proceedings before the United States and Trademark Office, including inter partes review (IPR) proceedings and ex parte reexaminations, and in district court litigation and ITC Section 337 litigation involving patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation disputes.

While at Harvard Law School, Kassity was the executive editor of the online component of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Prior to law school, Kassity worked at Boston Scientific, where she helped develop techniques for diagnosing and predicting heart failure decongestion. During her time at Duke University, Kassity also worked in the cardiovascular simulations laboratory performing research on fluid dynamics in arteries and tissue pathology for evaluating atherosclerosis.