About Sung IP Law
Our Expertise
We specialize in intellectual property law and have successfully helped clients protect their patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. We have a deep understanding of the complex legal landscape and provide comprehensive solutions that meet our clients' needs.
Our Approach
Startups and Fortune 100 companies alike, our clients enjoy personalized service providing tailored, cost-efficient strategies harnessing intellectual property rights to achieve desired business objectives.
Our Team
We have extensive experience in the preparation and successful prosecution of patent, trademark, and copyright applications. We are also seasoned negotiators and litigators with proven successes in academic technology transfer, licensing, and the enforcement of intellectual property rights in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and Federal trial and appellate courts.
Lawrence M. Sung, J.D., Ph.D.
Profile
Lawrence is a registered U.S. patent attorney with a Ph.D. in microbiology who has over 30 years of experience with prominent international law firms in intellectual property counseling, litigation, and technology transfer. Having served on professional school faculties, he is also a recognized intellectual property law scholar having authored over 120 legal and scientific publications, including treatises such as The Patent Law Handbook, Medical Device Patents, and Patent Infringement Remedies.
Peer Recognition
Named one of Washington, DC's “Super Lawyers” for Intellectual Property Litigation by Super Lawyers magazine (2018-2023).
Included in The Best Lawyers in America directory for Biotechnology Law (2013-2023) and named “Lawyer of the Year” for Biotechnology Law in Washington, DC (2016).
Credentials
Education
J.D., cum laude, American University Washington College of Law
Ph.D. Microbiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
B.A. Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Distinctions
Law Clerk for the Honorable Raymond C. Clevenger III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1993-1995)
Federal Circuit Editor, The American University Law Review
Bar and Court Memberships
District of Columbia Bar
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Federal Circuits
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Experience
Lawrence has managed client intellectual property portfolios for over twenty-five startups and twelve Fortune 100 companies with industry focuses in biotechnology (molecular genetics, bioinformatics, food and agriculture), medical devices (cardiology, oncology, ophthalmology, and urology), and pharmaceuticals (small molecule and biologics), as well as computer technology and consumer products. He has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent, trademark, and copyright applications successfully to grant. In addition, Lawrence has served as lead counsel in patent and trade secret trials in numerous U.S. district courts, in post-grant and inter partes reviews before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and in appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.