Alex Yu’s practice focuses on patent prosecution and patent portfolio management, strategic counseling, freedom-to-operate studies, due diligence investigations, and opinions. Alex additionally has represented clients in post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Alex has advised clients ranging from individual inventors and start-ups to multinational companies and has worked on matters spanning technologies including consumer robotics, medical robotics, autonomous vehicles, machine learning, consumer electronics, 2D and 3D printing, medical devices, biometrics, manufacturing, user interfaces and human-computer interaction, Internet of Things, drones, motors, nanotechnology, and optical components. In addition to his patent practice, Alex also has devoted a considerable amount of time to pro bono projects related to housing and civil rights.
From 2023 to 2024, Alex clerked for the Honorable Raymond Chen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Before pursuing a career in law, he conducted graduate research at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering on wearable robotics and served as a research and development engineer for a large medical device company.
In his free time, outside of spending time with his family and friends, Alex enjoys exploring cities and the outdoors, hiking and running, reading, and playing video games.
