Professor Hsieh at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Professor Timothy Tau Hsieh

Professor Hsieh is dedicated to helping and empowering law students and lawyers design and manifest their dreams. He is a teacher, scholar, federal judicial law clerk, patent examiner, and Am Law 100 law firm attorney as well as IP law firm partner admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court who has spent his entire career at the intersection of law, technology, legal analysis and writing. His Rate My Professors Page has 50+ reviews and all but two are 5/5 or "Awesome," demonstrating his phenomenal teaching abilities as well as passion for helping and serving students on everything from excelling on getting As in law school classes and graduating at the top of the class, obtaining coveted clerkships to bar acing (not just passage), securing top jobs, winning moot court competitions, publishing law review articles and much more. Connect with Professor Hsieh on LinkedIn.

Every Dr. Law course is built from what has actually worked — in the classroom, in the courtroom, in chambers, at the USPTO, and at major U.S. law firms, government organizations and companies. Email contact: drlawmain@gmail.com

Experience

Law School Teaching

5+ years teaching Legislation & Regulation, IP, Torts, Patent Law, and Administrative Law at law schools worldwide.

Federal Judicial Clerk

Judicial law clerk for six different federal judges.

USPTO Patent Examiner

5.5+ years as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Am Law 100 Practice

12+ years as an associate and partner at Am Law 100 law firms.

Education

UC Law SF

Technology Editor, Hastings Law Journal
Best Brief, John Marshall Moot Court Competition

UC Berkeley Law

Law & Technology Certificate
Articles Editor, Berkeley Technology Law Journal
High Honors ("HH" or A+ equivalent) in Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Antitrust, Administrative & Cybersecurity Law

LLM

University of London

Certificate of Excellence for "Exceptional Performance" (top performing student in a level 4, 5, 6 module with over 16,000 students worldwide for the highest score on a final exam for IP)

LLB

UC Berkeley

Undergraduate Researcher, Partners for Advanced Transits & Highways (PATH)
Sempra Energy Scholarship

BS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

UCLA

Masters Thesis, Magnetic Random Access Memories ("MRAMs")

MS, Electrical Engineering

Oklahoma City University

The Understudy, Grand Prize, Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest
Land of Origin / Kaohsiung, Second Prize, ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Fiction Contest and Playboy College Fiction Contest
One Traveler, Scholastic Inc. Art & Writing Award Gold Key Recipient, Second Place, Samuel C. Irving Prize for American Wit and Humor; Finalist, William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society

MFA, Fiction Writing