Attorneys & Staff

USPTO Alexandria VA

CLEMENT CHENG, ESQ.

California Attorney #198359 (Visit State Bar Member Records.)
United States Patent Attorney #45463
Engineering EIT/FE Certified (CA #XE096640)
California Notary Public

Education:
Loyola Law School JD 1998, top 30% of class
UCLA BS Mechanical Engineering 1995

Volunteer and Pro Bono Work:
Disability Advocacy: Western Law Center for Disability Rights Worked with other law students under the Litigation Director on a successful appeal that allowed SSI recipents to receive home care funding. Under the old rule, disabled reciepents of home care funding were limited to living at certified care facilities and at home with immediate blood relatives.

Professional and Legal Affiliations:
LA County Bar
Orange County Bar
California Bar Association
Loyola Law School Small Practice Network
Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association
MENSA Society
US Chess Federation

International Law Journal Publication:
A Comparative Approach to Regulating Money Politics In Taiwan:
Learning from the Mistakes of Others by Clement Cheng
Abstract: As Taiwan completes the democratization process, the Legislative Yuan must decide the future of money politics in Taiwan. As a guide to Taiwan's future legislation, the Legislative Yuan should examine campaign finance regulations in the United States and Canada.

Volume 20, Loyola of Los Angeles, International and Comparative Law Journal (April 1998). Published by Joe Christiansen: Law Books Publisher. Feel free to email comments or request a hard copy for $10 to cover shipping and handling.

Most Fascinating Engineering Projects I've worked on:
CAD Designed a stereo vision robot for Robotic vision artificial intelligence project. (UCLA Computer Science Department)
Designed and built the electronic circuitry to stabilize an electromechanical control system. Control system balanced an inverted pendulum. (UCLA Robotics Laboratory)
Control systems design for UCLA Human Powered Submarine Project (sub raced in West Coast Invitational)

BIO

Clement Cheng graduated from UCLA with a bachelors of science in Mechanical Engineering then graduated from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1998.  In school, Mr. Cheng was an editor at the Loyola Law School International Law Journal and published a paper on comparative campaign finance regulation in Taiwan and Canada.  He also volunteered at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the Western Law Center for Disability Rights.  After law school, he worked for James Lundquist, a real estate law firm.

Today, Mr. Cheng runs Newhope Law, PC, an intellectual property law office in Orange County handling intellectual property litigation in federal court; patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board matters.  Occasionally, he files Canadian trademarks, handles United States customs matters and files patent re-examination requests.  He is fluent in Mandarin, but his Japanese needs work before he can take the level 4 JPT. 

Mr. Cheng is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent Office and is a member of the California bar and Washington DC bar.   

QIAN ZHANG, Patent Paralegal 

ALLISON HATA,  Legal Assistant 

ELEONORA VASSILEVA, Legal Assistant 

PATENT PARALEGAL POSITION OPENING (Aug 2008)

Law office: patent paralegal for patent analysis and drafting.  Required: BS Computer Engineering, 2 year law office paralegal experience $27.50/hr (our office currently has mechanical capability 3D CAD, CAM) full-time only.

Not willing to train.  For consideration, please email resume, writing sample and cover letter to law@clemcheng.com.