Ed Hsieh is an associate at the Los Angeles office of Irell & Manella LLP, where he practices patent law in the litigation and intellectual property work groups.

Mr. Hsieh received his J.D. from the University of Southern California where, upon graduation, he was admitted to the Order of the Coif. He was a member of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and of the Southern California Law Review. His note, "Mandatory Joinder: An Indirect Method of Improving Patent Quality" won the Scribes Award and was published in Volume 77 of the Southern California Law Review. Mr. Hsieh interned part time for the Electronic Frontier Foundation for one semester and worked as a full-time extern for Judge Lourdes Baird of the United States District Court for the Central District of California during his last semester of law school.

Before entering law school, Mr. Hsieh obtained a Master's degree in Material Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research covered many areas including high temperature testing of carbon-carbon composites, void formation in metal alloys, and chemical mechanical polishing of semiconductor wafers.

Mr. Hsieh received a B.S.E. in chemical engineering with a Certificate in Material Science from Princeton University where he wrote his thesis on "Ceramics Processing of Monazite". During the summers, Mr. Hsieh worked on the development of high temperature ceramics composites for aerospace applications at the Rockwell Science Center.

Bar & Court Admissions

• 2004, California
• United States District Court for the Central District of California, United States Patent & Trademark Office