Lily Zhang, Partner at Jones Day

Today, my guest is Lily Zhang, a Partner at Jones Day whose practice is dedicated to intellectual property, with an emphasis on patent preparation and prosecution and providing clients with strategic insights in portfolio management. Lily is an engineer by training with deep technical knowledge, and her ability to craft creative solutions for helping companies manage their IP assets provides a tremendous value to clients. Her innovative computational biology and bioinformatics practice is focused on helping clients navigate the intersection of biopharma and high tech.

She has experience in a broad range of technical areas, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, computational drug discovery and design, digital pathology, wireless technologies, cybersecurity and cryptography, medical devices, network hardware and software, electronic payment systems, battery composition and production, robotics, optics, and 3D printing and laser fabrication. Lily has experience in prosecuting U.S. and foreign patent applications in industries such as biotech, data storage, accounting and record management, network security, cloud computing, mobile device security, RFID (radio-frequency identification), video processing, social networking, online games, consumer finances, electronic marketplaces, power generation and storage, and food production. Lily holds a JD from Cardozo School of Law and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley.