Bella Chong provides patent prosecution support for matters related to electrical and computer engineering.
Bella’s prosecution experience includes conducting invention disclosure meetings with inventors; drafting patent applications; analyzing Office actions and references from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to identify response strategies; conducting examiner interviews and drafting claim amendments and Office action responses; drafting appeal and reply briefs for appeal proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board; and coordinating with foreign counsel to develop strategies for prosecuting foreign patents in various jurisdictions.
Her work for clients is bolstered by her familiarity with a diverse array of technologies, including artificial intelligence, computer architecture, semiconductors, display technology, big data processing, cloud computing, robotics, computer vision, artificial and virtual reality, and medical devices.
Before beginning her career in law, Bella honed her technical expertise as a research assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s AEON Lab, where she investigated methods for accelerating transformer networks on Field Programmable Gate Arrays using Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques and developed NAS algorithms for designing neural networks tailored to achieve specific objectives, such as optimizing for higher accuracy or minimizing latency. She is proficient in Java, Python, C, VHDL, SystemVerilog, and R programming languages.