Miao Liu is a litigation counsel in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office. Miao focuses his practice in district court litigation, PTAB proceedings, and ITC investigations. Miao advises clients in various technological fields, including consumer electronics, artificial intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrency, computer products, semiconductor manufacturing and inspection, and satellite communication.
Prior to joining O’Melveny, Miao worked in private practice at an international IP specialty firm. He also gained extensive experience during his more than 10-year tenure as a Technical Advisor and Patent Agent with another IP boutique firm. He is experienced in conducting patent searches, providing patentability reports, as well as providing non-infringement and invalidity analysis.
Miao was a software engineer prior to becoming a patent agent. Miao focused on logic programming and artificial intelligence research during his graduate studies. He has published several research papers, including one in the Journal of Applied Logic.
PTAB Matters
- Prepared IPR Petitions on behalf of Uber Technologies challenging the validity of patents related to location tracking devices, resulting in determinations that the challenged claims are unpatentable
- Prepared IPR Petition on behalf of SharkNinja challenging the validity of a patent related to navigation of cleaning robot, resulting in cancellation of all claims of the challenged patent
District Court Matters
- Defended Samsung against Scramoge in a series of cases filed in Western District of Texas involving patents relating to wireless charging for smartphones and tablets
- Won a false advertising class-action case on summary judgement for defendant Colgate-Palmolive and Tom’s of Maine
- Represented Tata Consultancy Services against Computer Sciences Corporation in a trade secret litigation that required complex analysis of source code for life insurance and annuity products
International Trade Commission (ITC) Matters
- Defended Samsung against Daedalus Prime in an ITC investigation involving patents relating to computer processors
Languages
- Mandarin Chinese
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- California
Registered to Practice
- United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
Education
- Georgetown University, J.D.: magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
- University of Nebraska at Omaha, M.S.: Computer Science; B.S.: magna cum laude, Computer Science and Mathematics
Professional Activities
Publications
- Coauthor: “Precise Specification Matching for Adaptive Reuse in Embedded Systems,” Journal of Applied Logic, 2007.
- Coauthor: “Genetic Algorithm Based Approach for Nucleic Acid Pattern Extraction,” Americas Conference on Information Science (AMCIS), 2005.
- Coauthor: “Optimization with Mode-Directed Preferences,” the 7th ACM-SIGPLAN International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP), 2005.
- Coauthor: “Classification Using Generalized Choquet Integral Projections,” International FuzzySystems Association World Congress, 2005.
- Coauthor: “Precise Specification Matching for Automated Component Retrieval and Adaptation,” IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, 2003.