Ted K. Joe - Associate

Ted K. Joe focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and obtaining patents for Silicon Valley innovators using a wide variety of new Internet-based technologies.  Mr. Joe has research, business, and legal experience in the pharmaceutical, computer, and software industries.  Before attending law school, he was a medicinal chemist for a major pharmaceutical company, where he applied robotics, programming, and automation to the fields of drug discovery and combinatorial chemistry.

Mr. Joe received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.  He also earned a Certificate in Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw from the University of San Francisco School of Law.  During law school, Mr. Joe actively participated in the Internet and Intellectual Property Justice Project, advising clients involved in domain name disputes, First Amendment issues, and DMCA violations.  He also worked as a research fellow for the renowned trademark law expert, Prof. J. Thomas McCarthy, researching and publishing articles on the effects of the Internet on trademark and privacy law.

Mr. Joe is admitted to practice in California and registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  He is a member of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association, the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.