Chen, Sylvia

As Google Patent Counsel, Sylvia flexes her legal and engineering degrees every day working with teams who develop Pixel phones and firms who draft patent applications for worldwide filing. Prior to joining Google in 2014 and refining their panel of US law firms, Sylvia was a patent attorney at Motorola. Before going in-house, Sylvia worked as an associate attorney at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP (now Norton Rose Fulbright). She inadvertently entered the intellectual property field after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and accepting a job at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Sylvia is interested in leadership issues in the law profession, particularly related to minority and gender factors, and is functionally illiterate in Mandarin Chinese.