People•Jaime D. Choi, Ph.D.
Jaime D. Choi, Ph.D.
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Jaime D. Choi, Ph.D.

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People•Jaime D. Choi, Ph.D.

Jaime Choi is an intellectual property partner of our San Diego office and co-chair of the life sciences and medical technology industry group. Her practice focuses on patenting complex, interdisciplinary technologies and building strategic patent portfolios, with an emphasis on evaluating and mitigating risk from third-party patents. She advises clients in a variety of market sectors, including bioinformatics, medical devices, robotics, microfluidics, semiconductor fabrication, digital signal processing, photonics, advanced imaging, and fabrication of complex materials and devices that use them. Jaime also has deep experience in disputes, including litigation, arbitration, licensing, and trade secrets. 

Jaime draws upon her extensive experience gained in her previous roles at international law firms in the United States and United Kingdom to better advise her clients. She has established strategic global patent portfolios and supported disputes for a variety of clients and technologies, from genomic sequencing to smartphones to blood glucose monitors and inorganic materials. She also drafted applications for direct filing in the European Patent Office; prosecuted European, U.S., and international patent applications; performed freedom-to-operate and infringement analyses of third-party patents in numerous technical fields; and advised on U.S. contractual issues. 

Within the start-up community, Jaime has been involved in the University of San Diego, the SBDC (Small Business Development Center) at UCI Beall Applied Innovation, the USC Stevens Center for Innovation, and the Zahn Innovation Center at the City College of New York, providing innovators with essential information on intellectual property needs. Jaime is a member of Biocom California, and was previously involved with Athena, a premier women's advocacy organization that fast tracks women in STEM through leadership development. She is licensed to practice in California and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

  • University of San Diego School of Law (J.D.)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., Physical Chemistry)
  • Rice University (B.A., Chemistry)

  • Biocom California
    • Capital Development Committee, Member

  • "Intellectual Property," Panelist, University Lab Partners - Women Talk Tech Bio (October 26, 2022)
  • "Reexamining Negative Limitations After Novartis Patent Ruling," Co-Author, Law360 (September 26, 2022)
  • "Pitch. Launch. Grow. Demo Day." Judge Panelist, SBDC @ University of California, Irvine Beall Applied Innovation Incubator (August 24, 2022)
  • "Patent Term Extensions: A Patch Between FDA Approval and Patent Protection," Episode Host, CalCurrent Podcast (August 11, 2022)
  • "Provisional Applications: Baby Steps Toward a Strong International Patent Portfolio," Author, The Patent Lawyer (June 2022)
  • “IP Basics for Entrepreneurs,” Presenter, University of San Diego (February 24, 2022) 
  • “Patent Law Basics for Entrepreneurs,” Presenter, SBDC @ University of California, Irvine Beall Applied Innovation Incubator (January 11, 2022) 
  • “Patent Law Basics in the Physical Sciences,” Presenter, University of Southern California Stevens Center for Innovation (October 27, 2021)
  • “IP For Entrepreneurs,” Speaker, University of San Diego (2020)
  • “IP For Entrepreneurs,” Speaker, Zahn Innovation Center (2020)
  • “Extending Your Medical Device Patent,” Speaker, MedTech Strategist (2020)
  • “Responding to U.S. Obviousness Rejections,” Speaker, Cambridge, U.K. (2019)
  • “STRONGER Patents Act Being Introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives,” Co-Author, PTAB Litigation Blog (March 22, 2018)
  • “The PTAB Chats Designs: And Now, for Something Completely Different,” Co-Author, PTAB Litigation Blog (February 6, 2018)
  • “Federal Circuit Overturns PTAB Fact-Finding Regarding Conception of Invention,” Co-Author, PTAB Litigation Blog (October 9, 2017)
  • “PTAB Terminates IPR Just Under the Statutory Wire,” Co-Author, PTAB Litigation Blog (July 21, 2017)
  • “District Court deference to PTAB regarding priority claim? Not necessarily.” Co-Author, PTAB Litigation Blog (June 9, 2017)
  • “IP Year in Review.” Speaker, San Diego, California (2017)
  • “Continuously Keeping your IPR Ducks in a Row: Sanctions for Failing to Update the PTAB on Changes in Real Parties of Interest,” Author, PTAB Litigation Blog (December 17, 2016)
  • “Inventions Made With Federal Funds: What Patent Prosecutors, Licensing Attorneys, and Litigators Should Know,” Speaker, San Diego, California (2016)
  • “Design Patents Awakening From Their Beauty Sleep: An EU and US Overview,” Speaker, San Diego, California (2015)
  • “USPTO Final Rules for Implementation of Patent Law Treaty,” Speaker, San Diego, California (2013)
  • “Narrow-Band Acoustic Attenuation Measurements in Vitreous Silica at Frequencies Between 20 and 400 GHz,” Co-Author, AIP Applied Physics Letters (May 26, 2011) 
  • “Characterization of Materials With Optically Shaped Acoustic Waveforms,” Co-Author (June 17, 2008)
  • “Generation of Ultrahigh-Frequency Tunable Acoustic Waves,” Co-Author, AIP Applied Physics Letters (August 18, 2005)
  • “Ultrahigh Frequency Acoustic Phonon Generation and Spectroscopy With Deathstar Pulse Shaping,” Co-Author, Ultrafast Phenomena XIV, (2005)
  • “Polaritonics in Complex Structures: Confinement, Bandgap Materials, and Coherent Control,” Co-Author, Ultrafast Phenomena XIV, (2005)
  • “Phase Mask Based Interferometer: Operation Principle, Performance, and Application to Thermoelastic Phenomena,” Co-Author, AIP Applied Physics Letters (September 3, 2004)
  • “Infrared Spectroscopic Characterization of Lipid−Alkylsiloxane Hybrid Bilayer Membranes at Oxide Substrates,” Co-Author, ACS Publications (July 16, 1999) 

  • Eversheds Sutherland, Counsel
  • Reddie & Grose Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, Patent Associate
  • Jones Day, Associate
  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Technology Specialist 

  • California
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office