Dr. Yung-Hoon (Sam) Ha is a senior associate in the firm's Intellectual Property Department. He joined the firm in 2005. Dr. Ha’s practice is focused on high technology patent prosecution, patent litigation, and patent opinion work.
Practice
Dr. Ha has prepared and prosecuted U.S. and foreign patent applications in numerous high technology areas, such as carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, nanoscale devices, solar cells, solar concentrators, silicon wafer manufacturing, vapor deposition precursors, tracer compounds, block copolymers, polymer blends, and photonic crystals.
Dr. Ha also has extensive experience in patent litigation, including actions before the International Trade Commission and the district court. Dr. Ha’s recent patent litigations involve consumer electronics, such as flashlights, digital cameras, and wireless communication devices.
Dr. Ha has also been involved in providing numerous non-infringement opinions, numerous patentability assessments, and support for due diligence research.
Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Ha was a technical advisor and a patent agent at a law firm in Virginia.
Prior to his legal career, Dr. Ha was a postdoctoral research scientist/fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC from 2002 to 2004. Dr. Ha has also served as a referee for peer-review journals in the area of polymer science. While pursuing his PhD degree at MIT, Dr. Ha served as a teaching assistant for the course “The Structure of Materials.”
Publications
Dr. Ha is the author and co-author of the following publications:
- Juhl, S.B., Chan, E.P., Ha, Y.-H., Maldovan, M., Brunton, J., Ward, V., Dokland, T., Kalmakoff, J., Farmer, B., Thomas, E.L., Vaia, R.A. "Assembly of Wiseana Iridovirus: Viruses for Colloidal Photonic Crystals," Advanced Functional Materials, 16(8), (2006):1086-1094.
- Radloff, C.J., Juhl, S.B., Vaia, R.A., Brunton, J., Ward, V., Kalmakoff, J., Dokland, T., Ha, Y.-H., Thomas, E.L. "Bio-scaffolds for ordered nanoscturctures and metallodielectric nanoparticles," Proceedings of SPIE in Nanofabrication: Technologies, Devices, and Applications, 5592, (2005): 143-152.
- Ha, Y.-H., Kwon, Y., Breiner, T., Chan, E.P., Tzianetopoulou, T., Cohen, R.E., Boyce, M.C., and Thomas, E.L. "An orientationally ordered hierarchical exfoliated clay-block copolymer nanocomposite," Macromolecules, 38(12), (2005): 5170-5179.
- Ha, Y.-H., N. Nikolov, S.K. Pollack, J. Mastrangelo, B.D. Martin, and R. Shashidhar. "Towards a Transparent, Highly Conductive Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)." Advanced Functional Materials 14 (2004): 615-22.
- Ha, Y.-H., N. Nikolov, C. Dulcey, S.-C. Wang, J. Mastrangelo, and R. Shashidhar. "Conductivity Tuning of PEDOT Through Side-Group Cleavage." Synthetic Metals 144 (2004): 101-05 (work highlighted on cover).
- Ha, Y.-H., R.A. Vaia, W.F. Lynn, J.P. Constantino, J. Shin, A.B. Smith, P.T. Matsudaira, and E.L. Thomas. "Three-Dimensional Network Photonic Crystals via Cyclic Size Reduction/Infiltration of Sea Urchin Exoskeleton." Advanced Materials 16 (2004): 1091-94 (work highlighted on cover and mentioned in Nature Materials Update).
- Deng, T., Y.-H. Ha, J. Cheng, C. Ross, and E.L. Thomas. 'Micropatterning of Block Copolymers in Solution." Langmuir 18 (2002) 6719-22.
- Ha, Y.-H., and E.L. Thomas. "Deformation Behavior of Roll-Cast Layered-Silicate/Lamellar Triblock Copolymer Nanocomposite." Macromolecules 35 (2002): 4419-28.
- Ha, Y.-H., C.E. Scott, and E.L. Thomas. "Miscible Blends of Poly(benzoyl Paraphenylene) and Polycarbonate." Polymer 42 (2001): 6463-72.
Dr. Ha has the following patents:
- Ha, Y.-H., and E.L. Thomas. Cyclic shrinkage of a templated 3D network material. US Patent No. 7,329,377.
- Ha, Y.-H., N. Nikolov, S.K. Pollack, B.D. Martin, and R. Shashidhar. Optimization methods for synthesis of highly conducting transparent thin polymer films. US Patent No. 7,320,813.
