Jean Nguyen

Jean Nguyen, Ph.D. is Of Counsel in Morrison & Foerster's Los Angeles office and is a registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 71,051). Her MoFo profile describes a practice centered on domestic and international patent prosecution, portfolio management, IP due diligence, and freedom-to-operate analysis, with litigation and PTAB work layered on top; she is a founder and co-leader of the firm's Life Sciences Data Analytics patent group. Her stated technology range is broad and hardware-heavy: electronic devices, semiconductors and fabrication, memory, optoelectronics and optics, MEMS, AR/VR, autonomous vehicles, smart glass, mechanical assemblies, consumer products, telecom/networks, integrated circuits, quantum computing, software, and digital cameras.

Side preference is genuinely mixed, and the two tracked appearances split one plaintiff-side and one defendant-side. Note that the plaintiff-side entry (Jumio Corporation v. FaceTec, Inc.) reflects Jumio's role as IPR petitioner challenging FaceTec's patents, while her district court/ITC work is on the defense side for accused product makers. She is not an NPE/PAE enforcement specialist; her litigation posture is defending operating companies and asserting invalidity on behalf of accused infringers/petitioners, alongside a substantial prosecution practice.

Firm context: Both tracked matters are at Morrison & Foerster, where she has been since at least 2022 (PTAB filings list her as backup counsel in early 2022) and was identified as an associate at a 2023 LAIPLA program before her current Of Counsel role. Search results do not show prior law firm affiliations; her pre-legal career was as a lead engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a hardware engineer at Hewlett-Packard, and a research scholar at Georgia Tech and Berkeley Wireless Research Center.

Notable tracked matters. (1) GoPro, Inc. v. Insta360 (Arashi Vision): she appears on the Morrison & Foerster team defending Arashi Vision/Insta360 in ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1400 (cameras and accessories) and in the related PTAB filings (e.g., IPR2024-00984, IPR2024-01164). The Commission's February 2026 final determination found no violation as to all five asserted utility patents, with a limited exclusion order reaching only older Ace-series models under the single design patent — a favorable result for her client. (2) Jumio Corporation v. FaceTec, Inc.: she was petitioner's counsel (backup and arguing attorney) in IPR2025-00106, -00107, -00108, and -00109 concerning FaceTec's 3D liveness patents. The PTAB upheld every challenged claim in final written decisions reported in June 2026, an adverse outcome for her client. Search results also show her arguing as petitioner's counsel for Whatfix in IPR2023-01368, IPR2023-01379, and IPR2024-00065.

PTAB/IPR experience: Yes — she appears regularly in AIA proceedings, both as backup and arguing counsel, including the Jumio/FaceTec IPRs, the Whatfix IPRs, and PTAB correspondence in the Insta360 IPRs, and she publishes on PTAB practice (Fintiv, multiple petitions, Director-level institution decisions).

Bar/education: Admitted to the California bar (No. 320727, June 2018) and registered with the USPTO; J.D., Loyola Law School; Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Northwestern University; M.S. in computer science, Georgia Tech; B.S. in computer engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison.