Ee Ming is a Member of the firm and co-chairs the firm's trademark department. She also leads attorney teams responsible for patent preparation and prosecution for several of the firm's largest clients.
Ee Ming assists clients with a wide range of trademark matters including trademark clearance, all areas of domestic and foreign trademark prosecution, maintenance, trademark filing strategies and global portfolio management. She focuses much of her trademark practice in assisting clients with enforcement strategies, with experience in all aspects of TTAB opposition and cancellation proceedings as well as litigation in U.S. district courts. She also assists clients with pursuing effective anti-counterfeiting solutions and negotiating licenses and co-existence agreements worldwide.
Ee Ming also assists clients with a wide range of patent matters. In particular, she has extensive experience in patent prosecution over a wide range of technologies, including various automotive technologies, medical devices, power tools, gas turbine engines, and optical devices. She has successfully briefed and argued numerous appeals before the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and she has considerable experience assisting clients with infringement and validity opinions, as well as due diligence, licensing and litigation matters.
Ee Ming lectures and provides seminars about U.S. IP law and practice in Japan and China, and during the firm’s annual Intellectual Property Training Institute. During law school, Ee Ming spent a semester as a student clerk for Judge McAuliffe in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Before practicing as a lawyer, she worked at a power management technology company assisting with their semiconductor and integrated circuits patent portfolio.
Co-authored "Inhibition of Influenza Virus Matrix (M1) Protein Expression and Virus Replication by U6 Promoter-driven and Lentivirus - Mediated Delivery of siRNA." J Gen Virol 85 (2004), 1877-1884.
Franklin Pierce Law Center Educational Report: "Patent Landscape of Adenoviral Vector Vaccines for HIV," Michelle Windom, Bumrae Cho, Yu-Hui Sung, Tristan Carrier, Cyril Chan, Alex Ferre, Todd Pratt, Constance Rogers, and Ee Ming Yap; Fall 2008.