Jennifer Huang, Fish & Richardson P.C.

Jennifer Huang, principal and managing principal of Fish & Richardson’s Minneapolis office, draws on her background in electrical engineering and over a decade of legal practice to protect clients’ innovations through patent prosecution and post-grant proceedings. Since 2023, she has led the Minneapolis office while maintaining an active practice covering telecommunications systems, power systems, software, mobile device technology, optics, and semiconductors.

Huang’s legal experience spans over 15 years of patent prosecution, due diligence, post-grant proceedings, and patent litigation. She represents both patent owners and petitioners in inter partes review and post-grant review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. She has tried patent litigation cases for large multinational companies at the U.S. District Court level and before the International Trade Commission.

She played a key role in the successful defense of General Motors’ design patents against challenges by LKQ Corp. Working as part of a Fish & Richardson team, Huang helped protect 23 of 25 patents that LKQ had challenged before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The case was significant because General Motors has over 3,000 design patents covering its entire vehicle line, and the outcome affected the company’s ability to protect its broader patent portfolio.

Huang serves as vice chair of the PTAB Bar Association’s Communications Committee and is active in diversity and inclusion initiatives at Fish & Richardson. She mentors through the firm’s EMPOWER women’s group and previously co-chaired the Asian Affinity Group, where she helped launch the ALLIES mentorship program.

Her pro bono work includes representing clients through the Volunteer Lawyers Network’s housing court clinic, the Advocates for Human Rights, and the Federal Circuit Bar Association’s Inventor Assistance Program. She has also provided humanitarian parole assistance to Afghan asylum seekers through the International Legal Foundation.

Huang earned her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she served as note and comment editor of the Minnesota Law Review, and her B.E. magna cum laude in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.