 |
|
Volunteers with the Washington State Patent Lawyers Association's pro bono activities in conjunction with the University of Washington School of Law and Business School's Entrepreneurial Law Clinic and on the board of directors of Dwankhozi Hope, a nonprofit organization. |
|
 |
Title: Associate
Location: Seattle
Contact
|
Download vCard |
Professional Experience
Samantha Pak is an associate in the intellectual property department of Miller Nash. Samantha assists clients with patent prosecution, opinion matters, trademark prosecution, copyright issues, intellectual property litigation, intellectual property counseling, and licensing. Before joining Miller Nash, she worked at the Boeing Company as an attorney and also assisted in counseling various start-up companies. In addition, Samantha worked at JPMorgan Chase as a law clerk and at a medium-sized intellectual property boutique firm as a patent clerk. Before law school, she also worked as an intern at the Baxter Healthcare Corporation in the Advanced Engineering Design Center testing and designing microfluidic devices. Samantha earned a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, focusing her research in micro-electro-mechanical systems.
Professional Activities
Samantha is admitted to practice in the state of Washington. She is also admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, the Asian Bar Association of Washington, the International Trademark Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Washington State Patent Law Association. Samantha is a member of the Korean American Bar Association of Washington and currently sits on the board.
Civic Activities
Samantha is a volunteer at the Wednesday Night Community Dinner at the Bethany Presbyterian Church and assists with pro bono legal work arising in the community. She also volunteers with the Washington State Patent Lawyers Association's pro bono activities in conjunction with the University of Washington School of Law and Business School's Entrepreneurial Law Clinic. Samantha is also on the board of directors of Dwankhozi Hope, a nonprofit organization aimed at providing education, infrastructure, and hope to the orphans of Zambia in the Dwankhozi community.
Education
Samantha received her bachelor's degree in biological sciences and doctorate in biomedical engineering from the University of Illinois. She received her law degree with an intellectual property certificate from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Personal Activities
Samantha enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, traveling, bicycling, sea kayaking, snowboarding, and spending time with her husband. Samantha deeply appreciates the majestic beauty of the Pacific Northwest, particularly the view of the Olympic mountains and the Puget Sound.
Presentations and Publications
Patent Portfolios in Bankruptcy Cases: Protecting and Maximizing their Value, Business Law Today, Volume 17, No. 6, American Bar Association, Section of Business Law (July/August 2008) (coauthor).
Profiled in Washington Law & Politics, Summer 2007.
Prosecution Strategy Changes in View of KSR v. Teleflex and the New USPTO Continuation and Claim Rules, The International Association of Korean Lawyers, Seoul, Korea (Nov. 12, 2007) (presenter).
Patent Portfolios of Pharmas and Biotech Companies in Bankruptcy Cases: Protecting the Assets and Maximizing Value, ABA Section of Business Law, Business Bankruptcy Newsletter (Sept. 2007) (coauthor).
An Ultrathin Platinum Film Sensor to Measure Biomolecular Binding, 16 Biosensors & Bioelectronics 371-79 (2001) (coauthor).
An Impedance Based Immunobiosensor 276, 196th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Hawaii (Oct. 1999) (coauthor and presenter).
An Immunobiosensor for the Detection of Bacterial Toxins, Student Symposium of the Electrochemical Society, Marquette University (Apr. 1999) (coauthor and presenter).
"Biosensors and Microfluidic Systems," in Tribology in MEMS (1998) (coauthor).
Optimization of Immobilization Layer on Impedance Based Immunobiosensor, 145 J Electrochemical Soc'y 123 (Nov. 1998) (coauthor).
Optimization of Immobilization Layer on Impedance Based Immunobiosensor, 194th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Boston (Nov. 1-6, 1998) (coauthor and presenter).
An Impedance Based Biosensor, Third International Symposium on Micro Total Analysis Systems (Micro TAS), Alberta, Canada (Oct. 13-16, 1998) (coauthor and presenter).
"Optimization of Layer on Impedance Based Immunobiosensor," in 4 Microstructures and Microfabricated Systems 176 (1998) (coauthor).
Conductimetric Impedance Based Immunobiosensor, Second International Symposium Electrochemical Microsystem Technologies, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (Sept. 9-11, 1998) (coauthor and presenter).
An Impedance Based Immunobisensor for the Detection of Bacterial Toxins, poster presented at the Beckman Institute Symposium for the Frontiers of Mesoscale Systems and Microfabrication, Urbana, Illinois (May 1998) (coauthor and presenter).
Synchronous Induction of Large Numbers of Telotrochs in Vorticella Convallaria by Monocalcium Phosphate at Low pH, 46 J Eukaryotic Microbiology 12 (Jan. 1999) (coauthor).
Tribology in MEMS, Biosensors and Microfluidic Systems Workshop (National Science Foundation, American Society of Mechanical Engineers & Air Force Office of Scientific Research), Columbus, Ohio (Nov. 9-11, 1997) (coauthor and presenter).
A Biosensor for Detecting Bacterial Toxins in Foods, National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST), Biotechnology Poster Session, Summit-Argo, Illinois (Oct. 20-21, 1997) (coauthor and presenter).
Immunobiosensor for the Detection of SEB in Milk, Proceedings of Transducers ‘95, National Center for Food Safety, Biotechnology Working Group Meeting (Oct. 1997) (coauthor and presenter).
Microfabricated Biosensors and Microsystems, 21st International Conference on Microelectronics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Ni, Yugoslavia (Sept. 14-17, 1997) (coauthor and presenter).
An Impedance Based Immunobiosensor for the Detection of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B, 111th Association of Analytical Communities International Meeting and Exposition, San Diego (Sept. 7-11, 1997) (coauthor and presenter).
Practice Areas
Business
Education
Health Care
Intellectual Property
International Business and Litigation
Articles Authored
Protecting Trademark Rights on Facebook
|