Carmen offers over 15 years of experience in preparation and prosecution of patent applications involving medical imaging, visualization, database management, artificial intelligence, computational mathematics, advanced memory products, signal processing, telecommunications, and other diverse technologies.

 

At Horizon IP, Carmen founded the office in California to accommodate the growing business needs of our US clients.  She has developed strong expertise in patent prosecution, patent invalidity and non-infringement analyses, patent search methodologies, and trademark registrations.  Carmen also provided litigation support in licensing negotiations between Fortune 500 companies, counseled clients on IP portfolio management and licensing, and managed international filings of patent applications in various jurisdictions.

 

During her postgraduate research career, Carmen authored various technical publications and was awarded the Sony Book Prize and NTU Postgraduate Research Scholarship for academic excellence.  Currently, Carmen serves as a primary examiner on the patent agents qualifying examination committee of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, and is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). 

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EDUCATION

Juris Doctor, George Mason University, School of Law. 

Master of Engineering (Computer Eng), Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Eng), Upper Honors, NTU

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ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia Bar

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

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LANGUAGES

English, Mandarin, Cantonese (conversational)

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PATENT

US 8,380,548 Method for managing intellectual property

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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Li Ling, Carmen S.L. Ng, “Rendering human skin using a multi-layer reflection model”, Int’l Journal of Maths & Computers in Simulation, Issue 1 Vol. 3, 2009.

Li Ling, Carmen S.L. Ng, “User-oriented Human Skin Colour Specifications”, Int’l Conference of Information Technology and Application, Jan 2004, Harbin, China.

Carmen Ng S.L., Li Ling, “A Multi-Layered Reflection Model of Natural Human Skin”, The International Conference on Computer Graphics ’2001, Hong Kong.

Carmen Ng S.L., Li Ling, “A Psychophysically-based Colour Model for Human Skin”, Int’l Conference on Imaging Science, System & Tech, Las Vegas, 2001.

Carmen Ng S.L., Li Ling, “Collision Detection for Flexible Surfaces”, Proc. of 2nd Int’l Conf on Info., Comm. & Signal Processing, Singapore, 1999.

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