Ling Cheung Hughes

Ling Cheung Hughes assists the firm in various patent matters, including application drafting, U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, clearance and patentability studies, and patent litigation and licensing support.

Ling has expertise in the areas of formal verification, information security, distributed computing, cryptography, and mathematical logic.

• Drafted patent applications related to software, hardware, networking technologies, medical devices, and consumer products.
• Assisted in U.S. and foreign patent prosecution in a wide range of areas, including communications, e-commerce, electronics, software, and storage systems.
• Helped early-stage startup company analyze pending patent applications of large competitor and evaluate risk of infringement as barrier to market entry.
• Conducted prior art searches and clearance studies in field of consumer products.
• Performed prior art searches and patentability studies for small company in field of medical devices.

As a graduate student, she conducted research in modeling and verifying embedded system algorithms and randomized network algorithms using various techniques, including theorem proving and model checking. After finishing her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Theory of Computing Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Ling worked on a number of projects at MIT, including security of long-lived services (such as signatures and timestamps) and pairing-based encryption. Ling also worked as a research consultant for MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, where she developed a group key management protocol with military applications in high latency and low connectivity communication environments.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

IEEE Computer Society

Boston Patent Law Association

Ling is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. She received Best Brief and Best Oral Advocate Awards from the Legal Practice Skills Program as well as the American Jurisprudence Award in Professional Responsibility.

Ling is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese. She has written and spoken extensively on topics related to her fields of study, both in the U.S. and internationally.

Carnegie Mellon University, B.S., Civil Engineering, with honors

Carnegie Mellon University, B.S., Mathematics, with honors

Carnegie Mellon University, M.S., Mathematics

Radboud University Nijmegen, Ph.D., Computer Science, cum laude

Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 2013 Candidate

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office