Kassity L. Mai

Kassity Mai focuses her practice on patent counseling, patent portfolio development and prosecution, and intellectual property due diligence in the electrical and mechanical fields, with an emphasis on medical device technologies. Her technical experience includes a wide variety of technologies, including medical devices, drug delivery, surgical devices, diagnostics, imaging, sensor and monitoring technology, wearable devices, material science, robotics, data analytics, cybersecurity, machine learning and enterprise software.

Kassity has managed and developed patent portfolios for clients in the medical device and data analytics fields and has strategically advised clients on product clearance, freedom-to-operate, patent validity and infringement and licensing matters. She has also performed IP due diligence as part of initial public offerings and acquisitions. Kassity also has experience in district court litigation and ITC Section 337 litigation involving patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation disputes.

While at Harvard Law School, Kassity was the executive editor of the online component of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Prior to law school, Kassity worked at Boston Scientific where she helped develop techniques for diagnosing and predicting heart failure decongestion. During her time at Duke University, Kassity also worked in the cardiovascular simulations laboratory performing research on fluid dynamics in arteries and tissue pathology for evaluating atherosclerosis.