{"id":27,"date":"2020-05-24T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2020-06-10T21:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:26:04","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a patent agent with years of experience within the patent departments of the world\u2019s most respected law firms, and I am qualified to practice in front of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/\">United States Patent and Trademark Office<\/a>. As a patent agent, I help clients prepare and prosecute U.S. patent applications, manage patent applications in other jurisdictions including in Europe and Asia, and counsel on patentability, invalidity, and freedom to operate matters. During my time in Europe, I gained experience participating in numerous Oral Proceedings at the European Patent Office, preparing written submissions to Opposition proceedings at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epo.org\/\">European Patent Office<\/a>, and providing technical assistance to high profile patent litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My technical background and interests include (but certainly not limited to): artificial intelligence, signals processing, digital systems, circuits, semiconductor devices, telecommunications, and information technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am forever thankful of the education I received from <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/\">MIT<\/a>, where I graduated with a Bachelors of Science (2007) and Masters of Engineering (2008) in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eecs.mit.edu\/academics-admissions\/undergraduate-programs\/course-6-2-electrical-eng-computer-science\">Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shirleyfung\/\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/li.png\" alt=\"LinkedIn\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\">\n<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a patent agent with years of experience within the patent departments of the world\u2019s most respected law firms, and I am qualified to practice in front of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. As a patent agent, I help clients prepare and prosecute U.S. patent applications, manage patent applications in other jurisdictions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirleyfung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}