Viola T. Kung

​In September 2013, Viola T. Kung, PhD, JD joined Olatec’s Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Kung has been assisting Olatec in the creation and management of Olatec’s Intellectual Property portfolio since the filing of Olatec’s first patent application in September 2005. Dr. Kung is a Partner in Perkins Coie’s Patent Procurement practice focusing on patent prosecution and patent counseling in the chemical, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, biotechnology and small molecule arenas. She is experienced in reexamination, appeal and interference proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Her other client counseling activities include opinion work, freedom-to-operate and due diligence evaluation. Through her extensive research and industrial training as a development director and as a research scientist, Dr. Kung has broad R&D experience in formulation, assay development, in vitro diagnostics, protein and DNA interaction, lipid bilayer membrane, conjugation chemistry and molecular biology and is an inventor of a total of 21 U.S. patents. Dr. Kung also has numerous publications in scientific journals. Dr. Kung is ranked by Chambers USA, as "America's Leading Life Sciences; IP/Patent Litigation Lawyers, in 2016-2020, and listed in the Best Lawyers in America in patent law in 2016-2021. Dr. Kung is recommended in Intellectual Asset Management Patent 1000, 2016 - 2020. Dr. Kung is recognized by Managing Intellectual Property as an IP Star in 2013-2014 and 2016-2020. Dr. Kung is also named by the Daily Journal as a "Top 25 Intellectual Property Portfolio Managers" in 2010, 2012. She is a member of the American Bar Association. Dr. Kung received a BS in Chemistry from National Taiwan University, a PhD in Chemistry-Biochemistry from University of California, Berkeley, and a JD from Santa Clara University School of Law.