Yao Liu, Ph.D.

Dr. Yao Liu is a patent agent in the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. He specializes in drafting and prosecuting patent applications for intellectual property protection in developing chemical and bio-materials, medicine, spectroscopic techniques and their applications. Dr. Liu has extensive practical chemistry and patent experience and over 60 peer reviewed papers. His background includes inorganic/organic material-related research including synthesis and applications with a strong background in semiconductor, solidstate physics, spectroscopy techniques and instrumentation. He also has wide-ranging experience in photoactive materials.

His technology areas include:

• Inorganic/organic materials
• Nano-structured materials
• Polymers
• Metal complex compounds
• Photoactive materials
• Pharmaceutical molecules
• Photodynamic-therapy drug
• DNA materials
• Thin-film devices such as thin film solar cells, light-emitting devices, chemical
  sensors
• Fluorescence/phosphorescence imaging
• Photo-dynamic therapy molecules
• Electrochemistry
• Atomic Layer Deposition
• Chemical Vapor Deposition
• Thin-film growth techniques

In addition to his patent experience, Dr. Liu has also worked in the sciences with universities around the world. He is fluent in Chinese.

More About Yao Liu, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1995
• B.S., Department of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 1990

Bar Admissions

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Community

• American Chemical Society (2002 - present)