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"With the addition of Ruthleen, the San Diego office has an even broaderrange of IP experience and expertise to better serve our spectrum oftechnology and software clients in California and Asia," said John Scherling,a litigation partner in Sughrue's San Diego office. "We are extremely pleasedto have her join us and believe she adds a new dimension to our team."
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Ms. Uy's addition strengthens a growing California presence for SughrueMion, after having earlier added John Scherling and James Hall as partners inthe San Diego and Mountain View offices, respectively. Also based in the SanDiego office is Scott Davison, whose experience with medical devices,biotechnology, semiconductors, telecommunications, signal processing andimaging, ensures that Sughrue is well positioned to counsel on IP issues invirtually any industry. The steady increase in Sughrue's California staff isfurther evidence of the firm's strong IP client base, which includes Sepracor,Upjohn, IBM Corporation and Toshiba.
"Ruthleen has done fantastic work for us out of our Washington, D.C.office," said Cindy Weber, managing partner at Sughrue Mion. "We look forwardto the great contributions we know she will make for our West Coast and Asianclients as our business in those regions grow."
While at Sughrue, Ms. Uy has prosecuted patents in a wide range oftechnology and software applications, working on memory management includingthe restoration and recovery of memory data, data compression, dataencryption/decryption and data storage. She has extensive work with Internethardware-related patents, including Ethernet/SONET, VoIP, IP Multicast,Routers, WDM, Network software, xDSL, CDMA, Optical Networking, 3Gx, GSM andUMTS.
Ms. Uy received her law degree from DePaul University and received aCertificate in Intellectual Property in 2002. She graduated with a Bachelor ofScience degree in Computer Science in 1999 from Loyola University in Chicago.Prior to working at Sughrue, she was a law clerk at the offices of Peter L.Higgins, where she worked on litigation matters.
About Sughrue Mion, PLLC
Founded in 1957, Sughrue Mion, PLLC, is one of the largest law firmspracticing exclusively in the field of intellectual property law. Based inWashington, D.C. with offices in Silicon Valley, San Diego and Tokyo, Sughruespecializes in litigating intellectual property matters in U.S. federaldistrict court and before the International Trade Commission. Sughrue hasobtained more patents for its clients than any other firm in the U.S. and isconsistently one of the leading trademark registration firms. For moreinformation please visit www.sughrue.com.
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