Sylvia Chen

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  • Job title: Senior patent counsel
  • Firm: Google
  • Jurisdiction: US

As senior patent counsel, Sylvia Chen collaborates with firms and vendors worldwide to build Google’s patent portfolio. Prior to joining Google in 2014, Chen was a patent attorney at Motorola, where she initiated the development of the company’s offshore patent support team near Delhi, India. She also served as an associate attorney at Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright) in Washington, DC, after beginning her career at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Beyond her professional life, Chen is interested in leadership issues within the legal profession, particularly gender and minority ethnic factors



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