Chelsea Zhang is an intellectual property associate in the Washington D.C. Office. Her practice focuses on patent litigation and prosecution, including portfolio strategy, clearance opinions, and post-grant proceedings. Chelsea has technical experience in many fields, including imaging apparatuses, signal and image processing, pixel circuitry, semiconductor devices, 3D NAND, power tools, batteries, motors, regenerative braking, control algorithms, automotive technology, GFCI/AFCI devices, lighting fixtures, fintech, credit cards, infrastructure optimization, machine learning, and virtual reality.
While earning her engineering degree, Chelsea worked as a research assistant in the MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory at the University of Maryland - College Park. Her research involved in situ monitoring of the internal stress of Li-ion batteries during multiple charge-discharge cycles. Chelsea performed image processing on fringe patterns created by a Fabry-Perot cavity and flexible membrane and fabricated semiconductors for coin cell batteries via photolithography.
During law school, Chelsea participated in the Intellectual Property Clinic at Penn State Law, where she helped community inventors and startup companies obtain patent and trademark protection.
