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U.S. Patent Agent

Jeanette Meng Nakagawa PhD (孟琤) is a U.S. Patent & Trademark Office licensed patent agent (Reg No. 67,745). She is a member of the National Association of Patent Practitioners and serves as "Of Counsel" to InteLink Law Group. Mrs. Nakagawa represents individual inventors as well as industry clients. Her area of practice includes medical devices, mechanical and electrical devices, telecommunications, chemistry and biology, software, business methods, e-commerce and designs.
Apart from serving clients in the U.S. prosecuting patent applications, Mrs. Nakagawa manages client's IP relationships with Asia and Europe. Her efforts include: helping clients from overseas to seek patent protection in the U.S., coordinating filings of U.S. patents in Asia and Europe, patent prosecution through various law firms overseas, as well as IP consultation in the related areas.
Mrs. Nakagawa speaks fluent English as well as several Chinese dialects, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shanghainese. She regularly visits China and is in close contact with IP professionals there, to keep herself updated with the ever changing IP landscape in one of the world's largest economies.
Mrs Nakagawa was raised in Shanghai, China. She attended Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, and received a PhD in experimental psychology from the State University of New York. She was a postdoctoral reasearcher in the Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT, and later became a fellow in the Image Guided Therapy program, awarded by the Dept of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. During her fellowship, her research mainly focused on the application of computer simulation in real life diagnostic procedures.
Mrs. Nakagawa became very interested in IP during many years of exposure to cutting edge technologies in the medical field. She received a certificate in Intellectual Property from University of California San Diego in 2010, and successfully passed the USPTO Patent Bar Exam in early 2011, to become a registered agent to practice patent cases in all 50 states and territories of the United States.