Jerry Liu

Practice Areas

Jerry is a patent attorney and concentrates his practice mainly in intellectual property, corporate and litigation matters.

With an M.S. in polymer science, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and substantial industrial experiences in both U.S. and China, Jerry has experience in all areas of intellectual property law with a focus on chemistry, pharmaceutical, biotech, material sciences and medical device-related inventions and FDA law and regulations. He helps individual and institutional clients from both the U.S. and China in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, chemical and biotech, as well as other industries on their matters in various areas of law.

He counsels clients regarding their IP strategies, global IP rights protection and drug development strategies. He often advises on patent protection strategies and drafts and prosecutes patent applications globally. He also Advises on trademark registration strategies and applies for trademark registrations globally; provides patentability, non-infringement, invalidity and freedom-to-operate analysis and opinions; conducts IP due diligence for investment, corporate mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer or licensing, etc.; and advises on new drug development strategies and abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) processes.

Jerry also assists clients in corporate and litigation matters. He advises on business entity selections and help with formation of U.S. companies or subsidiaries; prepares and negotiates business contracts, such as service contracts, collaboration contracts, clinical trial contracts, joint venture agreements and technology transfer or license agreements, etc.; advises on corporate structuring, shareholder agreement and private equity transfers, etc.; and helps evaluate and resolve commercial or IP disputes and provide technical and legal analysis in complex patent/trade secret litigations, in particular Hatch-Waxman patent litigations.

Jerry serves as the chair of Fox Rothschild's national China Practice Group and as co-leader of the firm’s China IP initiative, where he applies his in-depth knowledge of the Chinese economy and intellectual property landscape to serve clients that operate in or have IP interests in China and the U.S.

Career

Upon obtaining a B.S. degree in chemistry and an M.S. degree in polymer science and before coming to the U.S., Jerry worked as an assistant engineer in the technology development department of Yizheng Chemical Fibre Co., Ltd., now a subsidiary of Sinopec, of China.

Upon obtaining his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry with Prof. Sir Derek H. R. Barton (Nobel Prize, 1969) at Texas A&M University, Jerry worked as a postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Lanny S. Liebeskind at Emory University for over two years and then worked as a research investigator/senior research investigator in the pharmaceutical development division of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company for several years. His research experience includes organic synthesis, radical chemistry, organometallics, transition metal-catalyzed reactions, heterocycles, polymers, and biomedical materials, in particular pharmaceutical process research and development and scale-up of processes in glass plants and pilot plants under the FDA’s cGMP guidelines.

In law school, Jerry participated in the Community Law Clinic and served as a Facilitator in the Minority Student Program tutoring the first-year law students in the Criminal Law class. He was also active in the Rutgers Intellectual Property Law Society and Rutgers International Law Society. Jerry joined Fox Rothschild as a Summer Associate in summer 2007 and then worked as a part time law clerk for one year before becoming a full-time associate with the firm in 2008.

Education