Albert B. Chen’s practice focuses primarily on patent law, including patent prosecution, interference, and litigation. Mr. Chen also counsels clients on a number of intellectual property issues, including patent, trade secret and false advertising matters. Mr. Chen’s client representations range from small or startup companies aiming to develop and implement a wide range of intellectual property strategies, to large global multi-national corporations seeking to maintain and enforce their intellectual property assets. Sample technologies in Mr. Chen’s practice include carbon nanotubes, foam composites, tissue engineering, diagnostic and therapeutic agents, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, household goods and appliances, and catalysis.

He is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience in all aspects of patent practice, ranging from the initial formulation of important patenting strategies, to patent prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and abroad, to representing clients before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

Mr. Chen is responsible for the training, setup, integration and implementation of modern technology and infrastructure into the firm’s trademark and patent prosecution practice, and has given numerous lectures on these subjects. Some of his accomplishments are highlighted in Kramer Levin Intellectual Property Alerts: Kramer Levin Continues To Move Forward With USPTO’s Enhanced Patent Filing Capabilities; Kramer Levin Adds Electronic Patent Filing Capabilities To Complement Its Electronic Trademark Filing Capabilities.

His practice further includes the offensive enforcement or defensive use of patents and patent applications. He has formulated strategies for and has been involved in a number of patent interferences before the Board as well as ANDA, patent, antitrust and false advertising litigations in federal court.

Mr. Chen also writes on various intellectual property topics, including "With No Chance To Win On Priority In Interference, Must You Give Up?"; "Modern Strategies For Managing Patent Portfolios"; "A Submarine Patent Surfaces...You’re Covered...Now What?"; and "Form Over Substance? 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 4 Comes To Life."

He chairs the firm's Environmental Committee and also serves on the firm's Technology Committee and Library Committee.

J.D., Boston College Law School, 1996
B.S., Chemical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1993

New York, 1997
New Jersey, 1996

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2005
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2005
U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, 2005
U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, 2004
U.S. Supreme Court, 2000
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1999
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 1998
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1998
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1996
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1998

New York Intellectual Property Law Association
American Intellectual Property Law Association
American Bar Association
Asian American Bar Association of New York