Qian (Cora) Liang

Managing Associate

中文

Qian (Cora) Liang focuses her practice on patent litigation and patent prosecution. Cora has experience with various phases of litigation, including pleadings, fact and expert discovery, claim construction, pre-trial, and trial. Cora assists clients with proceedings in US District Courts, before the US International Trade Commission (ITC), before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) including Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), such as inter partes review (IPR) and ex parte reexamination (EPR) proceedings. Cora also has experience with trade secret cases, technology contract disputes, and technology licensing. Cora is admitted to practice in California only.

Drawing on her technical background in opto-electronic information engineering and electrical engineering, Cora helps guide clients in wireless and networking, cloud computing, machine learning, semiconductor design and manufacturing, MicroLEDs, magnetic recording, medical devices, mobile gaming, autonomous vehicles, biometric security systems, solar panels, image processing, consumer electronics, battery, home appliances, IT software and services, social media advertising, and other computer hardware and software fields. She also has experience with image rendering and computer vision, and has previously published thought leadership on related areas for the Journal of Microscopy and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.

Prior to practicing law, Cora served as an optical engineer at Fujitsu Network Communications, where she worked on a broad range of fiber optic products, including unit-level, card-level, and system-level fiber optical testing, automation, and analysis for transponders, amplifiers, and wavelength selective switches, and optical switches. During this time, Cora became a co-inventor of the US patent regarding transponder modulation measurement (US9838117B2).

Cora was previously a summer associate at Morgan Lewis in 2018 and another large firm in 2017. She is fluent in Chinese.

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  • Cornell Law School, 2020, J.D.
  • Columbia University, 2013, M.S., Electrical Engineering
  • Beihang University, 2012, B.S., Opto-Electronic Information Engineering
  • California
  • US District Court for the Central District of California
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • US District Court for the Northern District of California
  • US District Court for the Southern District of California

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Intellectual Property, Law360 (2024)

President, Intellectual Property and Technology Student Association at Cornell Law School (2017–2018)