Fred J.W. Chung

Fred J.W. Chung is an associate in the Intellectual Property Group in the firm's Silicon Valley office.

Areas of Practice

Fred works on a range of intellectual property matters, including litigation, patent prosecution, licensing and IP counseling. Building on a multidisciplinary background, his practice touches on a wide range of technologies including: web services, AR/VR, multimedia streaming, cloud services, smartphone apps and medical devices.

Prior to attending law school, Fred gained experience as a Field Application Engineer with a fabless semiconductor company helping clients develop various embedded devices (e.g., mobile phones, karaoke systems, DECT phones, smart appliances), before launching a startup that developed DSP solutions for the musical instruments and audio equipment industry.

Articles

Intellectual Property Law Blog Posts

• "Federal Circuit Emphasizes Role of Filing Dates, Reversing Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Invalidation," January 6, 2025
• "Federal Circuit Affirms Invalidation of Patents Manipulating Medical Imaging Data as Abstract," June 6, 2024
• "Federal Circuit Affirms Skinny Label Carve Outs," January 18, 2024
• "Federal Circuit Clarifies Standards to Establish Nexus Between Objective Evidence and Non-Obviousness, and to Establish Copying in Medtronic et al. v. Teleflex Innovations," December 18, 2023
• "Federal Circuit Vacates Invalidity Judgement Based on Collateral Estoppel from a Case Subsequently Vacated and Rebukes Plaintiff’s About-Face on Its Stipulated Claim Construction," December 18, 2023
• "Federal Circuit Evaluates Impact of the Final Written Decision (FWD) in a Parallel Inter-Partes Review (IPR) on District Court’s decision of Invalidity and Infringement," December 13, 2023
• "Sanderling Management v. Snap Inc. No. 21-2173 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023) Alice – 35 U.S.C. § 101," August 9, 2023
• "2023 Federal Circuit Case Summaries," April 24, 2023