Let me start with something important: I believe in the patent system. Not in a perfunctory, professional-obligation kind of way. In a genuine, I’ve-seen-this-change-lives kind of way. I’ve watched it…
Becoming a patent agent isn’t exactly the career path that kindergarteners sketch out during “What I Want to Be When I Grow Up” day. There are no patent agent Halloween…
When most people hear “patent law,” their eyes glaze over slightly. They conjure images of tech giants locked in billion-dollar courtroom battles, or perhaps vaguely recall headlines about smartphone features…
The first time I watched someone make budae jjigae, I experienced a kind of culinary cognitive dissonance. My brain struggled to reconcile what my eyes were seeing: “Wait… is that…
When people ask why I’m drawn to law, they usually mean, What field are you interested in? Patent law, I answer. That part’s straightforward. But the question that actually follows…
I used to think of engineering and law as opposing forces in the universe—like matter and antimatter, cats and cucumbers, or tabs and spaces in code formatting debates. Engineering felt…
There’s something deeply satisfying about solving a problem in exactly the wrong way—and having it work anyway. Picture this: I’m five years old, sitting at our family dinner table, staring…
The conversation usually goes something like this: “So what do you do?” “I’m a patent technical specialist.” [Blank stare] “So… are you a lawyer?” “No.” “But you work at a…
I’ve lived in two worlds that don’t always get along. In one, I’ve built things—written code that turned nebulous ideas into functioning systems, watching concepts materialize on screens through nothing…
When I arrived at Stanford, my future seemed wonderfully, predictably technical. I was going to build things. Clever things. Useful things. Things that blinked and whirred and processed data at…