Rachel Lin Chen is counsel in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice. She strategically advises clients on patents, trade secrets, and trademarks with their business goals in mind.
With a background in chemical engineering, Rachel leverages her technical knowledge to handle procurement and management of patents and trademarks in the fields of cosmetics, consumer products, diagnostic imaging, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and chemical compositions and processes.
Proficient in French and Mandarin Chinese, Rachel provides guidance on protecting global intellectual property rights for clients. She also counsels and provides opinions, freedom-to-operate analyses, due diligence, strategy, and intellectual property agreements in connection with mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Rachel has experience in pharmaceutical and Hatch-Waxman litigation.
From 2012 to 2023, Rachel was an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, supervising patent prosecution strategy and client counseling in the Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property and Information Law Clinic.
Prior to joining the Firm, Rachel was a patent attorney at Colgate-Palmolive Company, where she managed and supported the global patent portfolio for the personal care and home care divisions.
- Princeton University (B.S.E.)
- Chemical Engineering
- Tulane University Law School (J.D.)
- New York
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Mandarin Chinese
- French
- New York Intellectual Property Association
- New York City Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Catholic Lawyers Guild
- Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
- Junior League of Bronxville
- Reforming Litigation Practices and Strategies,” NYIPLA Bulletin; 2011
