Viola Kung

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property Law

Taiwan Practice

Patent Prosecution & Portfolio Counseling

Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical

Medical Device

Career

Viola Kung is a partner in the firm's Patent Procurement practice focusing on patent prosecution and patent counseling in the chemical, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, biotechnology and small molecule arenas, including methods for treating cancer, inflammatory diseases, ophthalmic diseases, neurological diseases, neuropsychiatric diseases, pulmonary diseases, autoimmune diseases, and pain; immunotherapy, CAR T-cells, check point inhibitors, pharmaceutical formulations, chemical formulations, new chemical entity, chemical processes, medical devices, nucleotide derivatives, bispecific antibodies, in vitro diagnostics, immunoassays, gene expression, antisense, RNA transformation vectors, recombinant viral nucleic acids, next generation sequencing, sequencing by synthesis, tumor suppressor genes, fusion proteins, CRISPR/Cas9, interferons, electrophoretic displays, silica filter media, sol gels and carbon nanotubes. Viola is experienced in reexamination, appeal and interference proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Her other client counseling activities include opinion work, freedom-to-operate, validity and due diligence evaluation.

Viola was a scientist by training and worked in the R&D labs for over 15 years, and thus has a deep understanding of the science. Through her extensive research and industrial training as a development director and as a research scientist, Viola has broad R&D experience in formulation, assay development, in vitro diagnostics, protein and DNA interaction, lipid bilayer membrane, conjugation chemistry and molecular biology.

She is an inventor of a total of 21 US patents in the areas of immunoassay methods and kits; kinetic microtiter plate readers, heptane derivatized membrane, DNA detection methods; DNA-protein separation methods; liposome formulations, protein conjugation, bone resorption and biotin reagents. Viola also has numerous publications in scientific journals.