Yifan Mao, MSc.

About The Lecturer

Yifan Mao is Counsel at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. She attended Santa Clara University School of Law. During law school, she externed for the Honorable Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and interned with the Entrepreneur Law Clinic of the law school. Yifan has been admitted to practice in the State of California since 2015. 

Before her legal career, Yifan held research positions at Genentech and Genencor International (now DuPont Industrial Biosciences). Yifan was a senior patent agent at an agriculture biotechnology company, where she developed the company’s patent portfolio on genomics, bioenergy, and trait improvement technologies. 

Yifan joined the law firm of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP, upon graduation from law school, where she practices intellectual property law. Yifan focuses her practice on patent counseling, prosecution, and due diligence matters in the chemistry and life sciences industries. In addition to law practice, Yifan also writes and publishes extensively on legal issues relating to patent law in various blog articles. She is a co-author of a book chapter “Drug Approval Considerations and Patent Linkage System in China,” Pre-ANDA litigation, Strategies, and Tactics for Developing a Drug Product and Patent Portfolio, Third Edition, Chapter 31, https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/424303717/).   

Yifan is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the MEMO|Medicine & Molecules, the Kilpatrick Townsend Biopharma Industry Blog. She also serves as the Co-President of the Fremont Union High Schools Foundation.

Yifan's practice areas include Asset Creation - Prosecution & Counseling; Intellectual Property; Market Protection - Opinions & Dispute Avoidance; Patents; Patent Litigation; Post-Grant Proceedings.