Dr. Jessica Hsieh focuses her practice on U.S. and international patent preparation, patent prosecution, and strategic counseling. Jessica leverages her prior research and industry experiences in the fields of tissue engineering, biomaterials, immunology, cell and molecular biology, and molecular diagnostics to provide patent strategic counseling for startup, emerging, and established companies. Jessica handles a wide array of technologies, including food technologies (e.g., alternative proteins, such as cultivated meats and seafoods), cellular (e.g., T cell- and Natural Killer cell-based therapies) and gene therapies, biologics (e.g., protein therapeutics), and pharmaceuticals. She also advises clients regarding global patent portfolio development and management, performs due diligence reviews (including freedom-to-operate assessments), and provides support for IP litigation as well as transactional and licensing matters.

Jessica received her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, where she attended with a three-year Sidney B. Williams Jr. Intellectual Property Law Scholarship. During law school, she was an active student officer of the Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence (PULSE) and was a student associate for both the UCLA Patent and the UCLA-UC Hastings Startup Legal Garage clinics, helping startup founders secure their intellectual property. She also was the second place winner in the 2021 UCLA Journal of Law & Technology Student Writing Competition.

Prior to entering the legal field, Jessica earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where she was a Cardiovascular Applied Research and Entrepreneurship Fellowship Trainee (National Institutes of Health T32 trainee). Her research focused on deciphering how the extracellular matrix regulates macrophages during wound healing and disease. While working on her Ph.D., she also interned as an invention transfer group fellow at UCI’s technology transfer office and as a regulatory affairs intern at a global pharmaceutical company. Both a Regents Scholar and an Alumni-Regents Leadership Scholar, Jessica graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.