Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Intellectual Property

Dr. Nie’s practice focuses on global intellectual property (IP) protection strategy and technology transfer issues, including patent procurement and enforcement, IP valuation and monetization, licensing, and technology transfer.

Dr. Nie’s multidisciplinary technical background enables him to advise a broad spectrum of technology companies on patent issues. His technical training includes a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry, a M.S. degree in computer science and graduate courses in statistics and engineering. Within biotechnology, Dr. Nie’s focus includes biologics, pharmaceutics, in vitro diagnostics, and stem cell technology. In high technology, Dr. Nie works with industry and academic clients in the fields of autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, data mining and data security.

Dr. Nie’s diverse technical background helps him address patent issues in interdisciplinary technologies, such as personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics, biomedical instrumentation (e.g., next generation sequencing), digital and mobile health and in general computational biology and chemistry.

Born in China and being a native Chinese speaker, Dr. Nie is active in US-China legal practice. Dr. Nie advises multinational companies on technology transfer and M&A deals with Chinese companies and represents Chinese technology companies in their expansion to the US market.

English, Chinese Mandarin

State Bar of California

J.D., Rutgers School of Law, 2008 Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2001 M.S., Rutgers University, 2001 M.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 1996 B.S., Wuhan University, 1993