Partner
Qing (Becky) Lin, Ph.D.
Becky specializes in biotechnology and pharmaceutical patents. She works closely with companies in these industries to develop strategic patent protection for their technologies. She helps her clients minimize their patent infringement risks, and facilitates smooth IP-related business transactions. Her expertise includes managing patent portfolios for a variety of technologies such as immunotherapeutics, proteins, nucleic acid isolation and analysis, pharmaceutical compositions, disease diagnosis and treatment, medical devices, and transgenic animals and plants. Additionally, Becky offers patentability, validity, freedom to operate, and non-infringement analyses and opinions in these areas.
Becky’s technical background includes 15 years of research and study in biological sciences. She earned a B.S. in Cell Biology at Lanzhou University (China), an M.S. in Plant Physiology at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she was awarded a Molecular Biology Fellowship. Becky also worked as a research scientist at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and conducted post-doctoral research in plant signal transduction at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received her J.D. with Honors at the University of Washington and was an editor for the University of Washington Law Review.
University of Washington
J.D. 2000
University of Missouri-Columbia
Molecular Biology
Ph.D. 1996
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Plant Physiology
M.S. 1989
Lanzhou University (China)
Cell Biology
B.S. 1986
Becky is admitted to the Washington State Bar and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Washington State Patent Law Association, and the Washington Biomedical and Biotechnology Association.
Lin, Q. Extending Patent Protection: Strategies for Minimizing Patent Term Loss Due to Double Patenting. BNA’s Patent, Trademark& Copyright Journal, 87 PTCJ 981, Feb. 28, 2014.
Lin, Q. Be Sure to Include Method Claims in a Pharma Product App. Law360, July 24, 2013.
Lin, Q. Enabling Medical Treatment Inventions Under the Evolving Enablement Requirement. Landslide (a publication of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law) 3: 22-27, March/April 2011.
Lin, Q. An Important Ruling on Double Patenting. National Law Journal, December 13, 2010.
Lin, Q. A proposed test for applying the doctrine of equivalents to biotechnology inventions: the nonobviousness test. Washington Law Review 74: 885-912, 1999.
Lin, Q., E.S. Buckler IV, S.V. Muse and J.C. Walker. Molecular evolution of type one serine/threonine protein phosphatases. Journal of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12: 57-66, 1999.
Lin, Q., J. Li, R.D. Smith and J.C. Walker. Molecular cloning and chromosomal mapping of type-1 serine/ threonine protein phosphatases in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Plant Molecular Biology 37: 471-481, 1998.
Smith, R.D., Lin, Q., J. Cannon and J.C. Walker. Type-1 and type-2C protein phosphatases in higher plants. Advances in Protein Phosphatases 9: 105-120, 1995.
Zheng, N., Q. Lin, B. Zhou, C. Nian, Q. Sun and X. Fun. Application of alginates in biotechnology. In the Proceeding of the Second Annual Symposium of Experimental Marine Biology Laboratory. pp. 60-71, 1991.
Lin, Q., P. Zhou and Z. Zhang. Investigations on the photosynthetic characteristics during the light-induced transformation from amyloplasts to chloroplasts in potato tubers. Journal of Graduate School (Academia Sinica) 8: 78-85, 1991.
Tao, G., D. Zhang, L. Hou, Q. Lin, X. Tan and P. Zhou. Some possibilities for application of biotechnology to selected characteristics of potato plants. In the Proceeding of China-Japan Symposium on Plant Biotechnology. pp. 97-100, 1988.
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Honors & Awards
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, 2014-2025
The Best Lawyers in America® "Lawyer of the Year" Award - Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice, 2023
Awarded with Lexology’s Client Choice Award for Intellectual Property – Patents, 2017
Selected to Washington Rising Stars®, 2004, 2006, 2009-2010
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