Attorney Profiles
 Le-Nhung
McLeland
Nhung (pronounced “ny-ôôn”)
McLeland has practiced patent law since 1984 when she was
admitted to the registry of patent attorneys of the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office (PTO). She has “prosecuted”
(i.e., represented applicants in the solicitation of) more
than a thousand patent applications in a broad range of technologies
before the PTO. In addition, she has counseled clients, from
individual inventors to small and mid-size companies, in business
matters involving patent issues, including the preparation
of opinions on patentability and infringement.
Nhung McLeland has a strong background in chemistry and is
an active member of the American Chemical Society. She is
fluent in French, having earned the French “Baccalauréat”
high school diploma awarded through a French “lycée”
in Vietnam.
After completing her studies for a Master’s degree
in chemistry, Nhung McLeland worked as a chemist before earning
a J.D. degree and gaining admission to the bar. In 2001 she
retired early after 17 years at the firm Armstrong, Westerman,
Hattori, McLeland & Naughton, P.L.L.C. in Washington,
D.C., and moved her practice to Northern Virginia in her home
state.
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Education:
“Baccalauréat (Sciences Expérimentales,
avec mention Assez Bien)”-- French high school
diploma, Lycée Yersin, 1967.
B.A. (Chemistry, with distinction), George Mason
College of the University of Virginia (now George Mason University),
1972.
M.S. (Chemistry), George Washington University, 1976.
J.D., Washington College of Law, American University, 1982.
Admission to practice:
Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, 1983.
Patent and Trademark Office, 1984.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1999.
Supreme Court, Virginia, 2002.
Membership:
American Chemical Society (member, Committee on Patents &
Related Matters)
American Intellectual Property Law Association
American Bar Association (member, Intellectual Property Division)
Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia
District of Columbia Bar
Virginia State Bar
Selected publications and seminars:
Le-Nhung McLeland & J. Herbert O’Toole, Patent
Systems in Less Developed Countries: The Cases of India and
the Andean Pact Countries, 2 J. of Law and Technology
(I.L.I.) 229 (1987).
Le-Nhung McLeland, The Effect of Recent International
Agreements on U.S. IP Practice--The PTO Perspective and Changes
Being Made in PTO Procedure, American Intellectual Property
Law Association Spring Meeting, Seattle (1997).
Nicolas Seckel & Le-Nhung McLeland, La Confidentialité
des Communications Client-Avocat (Attorney-Client Privilege)
à l’Epreuve de la Phase d’Acquisition des
Preuves (Discovery) dans un Procès aux Etats-Unis,
Echanges ASPI, No. 56 (1999);
Le-Nhung McLeland, Nouvelle Loi sur les Brevets aux Etats-Unis:
Conséquences pour les Déposants Etrangers,
Echanges ASPI, No. 61 (2000).
Le-Nhung McLeland, PME (Petites et Moyennes Entreprises)
et l’Utilisation de la Propriété Industrielle
aux Etats-Unis, Conference sponsored by Les Echos (French
financial daily) and CNCPI (Compagnie Nationale des Conseils
en Propriété Industrielle), Paris (2001).
Le-Nhung McLeland, Lecturer, Japan Intellectual Property
Law Association (JIPA) Washington seminars (1996, 1998, and
2000).
Committee on Patents and Related Matters, American Chemical
Society, What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents,
2nd ed. (1997).
Le-Nhung McLeland & Committee on Patents and Related
Matters, American Chemical Society, What
Every Chemist Should Know About Patents, 3rd ed.
(2002), Appendix
1, Appendix
2
Technologies handled:
Polymerization systems, foamable polymers, pre-expanded resin
particles, catalyst systems, resist compositions, liquid crystal
compositions, toners, inks, printing substrates, optical fibers,
fluorocarbons, rubber compositions and curing systems, treatment
of exhaust gases, catalyst systems, coating compositions and
methods, agricultural chemicals, cosmetic compositions, coated
pigments, detergents, batteries, hydrogen absorbing alloys,
semi-conductor devices and fabrication, permanent magnets,
air bag gas generating compositions, flame-retardant compositions
and fibers, and plant varieties (protection by plant patents
from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or by certificates of
Plant Variety Protection from U.S. Department of Agriculture).
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