Dr. Tran’s recent work for plaintiffs includes helping Ravgen enforce its patents covering groundbreaking genetic testing methods against several defendants, including Natera, LabCorp, and Quest Diagnostics. In those cases, Dr. Tran assisted with the preparation of infringement and invalidity arguments, which led to a trial win against Labcorp and a favorable settlement agreement with Quest. Dr. Tran also assisted with the successful defense of Ravgen’s patents in multiple proceedings before the PTAB.
Dr. Tran has been honored for her legal writing and she has co-authored legal publications in World Intellectual Property Review, Intellectual Property Magazine, Law360 and the PTAB Bar Association Law Journal on topics ranging from the enablement standard for life sciences patents to expert discovery protections in district courts and before the PTAB. Recently, she was invited to speak about her unorthodox path into the legal field as a panelist for the New York Intellectual Property Law Association. She has published her research on organic chemistry in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and Organic Process Research & Development.
Before joining Desmarais LLP, Dr. Tran was an IP litigation associate in the New York office of Dechert. While attending law school at night, Dr. Tran was a science advisor/ law clerk at Goodwin Procter, where she assisted with patent litigation matters. Before law school, she obtained her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine, where she was an inaugural member of the Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology Gateway Program. Her doctoral thesis research focused on the stereoselective addition of carbon nucleophiles to constrained oxocarbenium ions. In addition, Dr. Tran was a research associate at Johnson & Johnson, where she conducted drug discovery research on treatments for neurological dysfunctions. She is an inventor on five patents directed to compounds useful as serotonin receptor modulators.
Courts
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Other Distinctions
Dr. Tran is a named inventor on the following United States patents:- N.I. Carruthers, J.A. Jablonowski, C.R. Shah, B.T. Shireman, D.M. Swanson, V.T. Tran, V.D. Wong, Serotonin Receptor Modulators, U.S. Patent Nos. 8,642,583 and 9,981,909.
- N.I. Carruthers, B.T. Shireman, V.T. Tran, J.A. Jablonowski, Modulators of Serotonin Receptor, U.S. Patent Nos. 8,575,364 and 8,957,059.
- N.I. Carruthers, G.J. MacDonald, B.T. Shireman, V.T. Tran, 2-Aminopyrimidine Compounds as Serotonin Receptor Modulators, U.S. Patent No. 8,829,011.
Memberships
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Asian American Bar Association of New York
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association