David Shen
Senior Legal Counsel, Patents
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Shen is a Senior Legal Counsel specializing in patents with over a decade of experience managing and protecting IP for cutting-edge technologies across software, hardware, AR/VR, AI/ML, multimedia, and battery systems. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he leads patent portfolio strategy, IP counseling, export compliance, and technology licensing for Samsung Research America after prior prosecutorial roles at prominent IP firms. Trained as an electrical engineer (UCLA) and a patent lawyer (UC Davis), he combines technical depth with legal precision to translate complex inventions into defensible global patent positions. A world traveler who took a sabbatical mid-career, he brings intellectual curiosity and cross-cultural perspective to high-stakes technology and licensing negotiations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Lowell High SchoolJ.D., Intellectual Property - Patent Law, J.D., Intellectual Property - Patent Law at University of California, Davis - School of LawUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (43)
kotlin8
android-ndk8
robot8
kotlin-multiplatform8
nosql-database8
caching7
graphql-client7
java7
android7
strongly-typed7
realm7
web-development7
graphql6
apollographql6
realtime-database6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dshen6/dshen6.github.io
Jun 2014 - Sep 2019
Contributions:84 commits, 2 PRs, 138 pushes in 5 years 4 months
rhoen/gamejam2019
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:47 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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