Poh K. Teng, Ph.D.
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Patent Agent

2175 North California Boulevard Suite 600, Walnut Creek, CA USA 94596

Overview

Poh K. Teng, Ph.D., focuses her practice on U.S. and international patent preparation, prosecution, and counseling in the life sciences. Poh has broad experience in basic and applied research in molecular biology, biochemistry, synthetic biology, and cell biology. Her practice spans many technological areas including vaccines, enzymes, antibodies, modified organisms, nucleic acids, medical devices, diagnostic methods, and detection methods.

Prior to joining the firm, Poh was a patent agent at a boutique life sciences intellectual property firm. Before that, she was an in-house patent agent and grant writer at a developer of renewable biobased chemicals.

Poh is an author on ten peer-reviewed publications and has 14 years of experience as a research scientist. She conducted doctoral research at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she studied the structure and function of proteins in amyloid disease. She also conducted postdoctoral research at the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of California at Berkeley, where her studies related to microbial carbon fixation and strain engineering.

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University of California at Los Angeles Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2010)

University of California at Berkeley B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology (2003)

Court Admissions

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (2018)

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