Jaime D. Choi, Ph.D.

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Jaime Choi, Ph.D.

Overview

Jaime Choi helps clients build strategic patent portfolios protecting complex, interdisciplinary technologies spanning the high-technology and life-sciences sectors. She also has deep experience enforcing, defending, and invalidating patents, interpreting licensing agreements, and protecting trade secrets.

Clients benefit from Jaime’s 20+ years of experience practicing at international law firms in the United States and United Kingdom. She establishes global patent portfolios and supports transactions and disputes involving complex, interdisciplinary technologies such as genomic sequencing, semiconductors, polymer catalysts, and medical devices. With a sharp eye on her clients’ ultimate business goals, Jaime analyzes and opines on freedom-to-operate, infringement, validity, contracts, and a host of other legal problems involving technology.

Credentials
Education

J.D., University of San Diego, 2010

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005

B.A., Chemistry, Rice University, 1999

Admissions

California

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Honors
  • Leaders of Influence in Life Sciences, San Diego Business Journal, 2023-2025
  • Women of Influence in Law, San Diego Business Journal, 2023
  • San Diego's Best Attorneys, San Diego Metro, 2023
  • Business Women of the Year Finalist, San Diego Business Journal, 2022
  • Leaders of Influence in Life Science Top 50, San Diego Business Journal, 2022
  • IAM Patent 1000, 2022-2026
  • Women of Influence in Law, San Diego Business Journal, 2022
  • Patent: Patent Prosecution, The Legal 500 United States, 2020-2021, 2025
  • San Diego Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2018
Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer 2025
Memberships

Member, Capital Development Committee, Biocom California

Thought Leadership

Co-Presenter, "IP Basics for Entrepreneurs," Aquillius Incubator, June 26, 2023

Panelist, "Intellectual Property," University Lab Partners - Women Talk Tech Bio, October 26, 2022

Judge Panelist, "Pitch. Launch. Grow. Demo Day." SBDC at University of California, Irvine Beall Applied Innovation Incubator, August 24, 2022

Presenter, “IP Basics for Entrepreneurs,” University of San Diego, February 24, 2022

Presenter, "Patent Law Basics for Entrepreneurs,” SBDC at University of California, Irvine Beall Applied Innovation Incubator, January 11, 2022

Presenter, “Patent Law Basics in the Physical Sciences,” University of Southern California Stevens Center for Innovation, October 27, 2021

Speaker, “IP For Entrepreneurs,” University of San Diego, 2020

Speaker, “IP For Entrepreneurs,” Zahn Innovation Center, 2020

Speaker, “Extending Your Medical Device Patent,” MedTech Strategist, 2020

Speaker, “Responding to U.S. Obviousness Rejections,” Cambridge, U.K., 2019

Speaker, “IP Year in Review” San Diego, California, 2017

Speaker, “Inventions Made With Federal Funds: What Patent Prosecutors, Licensing Attorneys, and Litigators Should Know,” San Diego, California, 2016

Speaker, “Design Patents Awakening From Their Beauty Sleep: An EU and US Overview,” San Diego, California, 2015

Speaker, “USPTO Final Rules for Implementation of Patent Law Treaty,” San Diego, California, 2013

Co-Author, "Opinion: Think Beyond the Utility Patent to Protect your Portfolio," BioSpace, February 7, 2024

Co-Author, "Reexamining Negative Limitations After Novartis Patent Ruling," Law360, September 26, 2022

Co-Author, "STRONGER Patents Act Being Introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives,” March 22, 2018

Co-Author, “The PTAB Chats Designs: And Now, for Something Completely Different,” February 6, 2018

Co-Author, “Federal Circuit Overturns PTAB Fact-Finding Regarding Conception of Invention,” October 9, 2017

Co-Author, “PTAB Terminates IPR Just Under the Statutory Wire,” July 21, 2017

Co-Author, “District Court deference to PTAB regarding priority claim? Not necessarily.” June 9, 2017

Author, “Continuously Keeping your IPR Ducks in a Row: Sanctions for Failing to Update the PTAB on Changes in Real Parties of Interest,” December 17, 2016

Author, "Amending Claims During Inter Partes Review: Patent Practitioners Beware," August 2014

Co-Author, “Narrow-Band Acoustic Attenuation Measurements in Vitreous Silica at Frequencies Between 20 and 400 GHz,” AIP Applied Physics Letters, May 26, 2011

Co-Author, “Characterization of Materials with Optically Shaped Acoustic Waveforms,” June 17, 2008

Co-Author, “Generation of Ultrahigh-Frequency Tunable Acoustic Waves,” AIP Applied Physics Letters August 18, 2005

Co-Author, “Ultrahigh Frequency Acoustic Phonon Generation and Spectroscopy with Deathstar Pulse Shaping,” Ultrafast Phenomena XIV, 2005

Co-Author, “Polaritonics in Complex Structures: Confinement, Bandgap Materials, and Coherent Control,” Ultrafast Phenomena XIV, 2005

Co-Author, “Phase Mask Based Interferometer: Operation Principle, Performance, and Application to Thermoelastic Phenomena,” AIP Applied Physics Letters, September 3, 2004

Co-Author, “Infrared Spectroscopic Characterization of Lipid-Alkylsiloxane Hybrid Bilayer Membranes at Oxide Substrates,” ACS Publications, July 16, 1999

“Jaime Choi is one of the best patent attorneys you could work with. She is thorough, thoughtful and very knowledgeable about the relevant technology, and willing to learn about new technology developments, too. Jaime is always responsive and provides a high-quality and on-time work product, at an excellent value.” 
IAM Patent 1000, 2023