Born

Hanoi, 1960

Undergraduate Education

• B.Sc. (Mech. Eng.), Military Academy of Technologies, Vietnam, 1982

Postgraduate Education

• Master of Intellectual Property, Franklin Pierce Law Center, U.S. (under FULBRIGHT scholarship), 1998

• LL.B., Hanoi Law University, Vietnam, 2002

Languages

Vietnamese, English, French.

Professional Experience

• Intellectual Property Law Firm, Lê & Lê: Managing Partner, October 1998 to present;

• Patent and Trademark Bureau under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Reg. Industrial Property Agent, Deputy Director of the Patent and Trademark Bureau, 1993- October 1998;

• National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP): Examiner, Deputy Director of Industrial Designs & Trademarks Division, 1986-1993;

• Institute for Military Technologies: Researcher, 1982-1986.

Practice Areas

• All intellectual property areas

• Contract law

Admitted

• Reg. Industrial Property Agent, 1993

• Attorney-at-law of Hanoi Bar Association, 2003

• Arbitrator of the Vietnam International Arbitration Center, 1999

Intellectual Property Lecturer

• National University of Hanoi

• Judges Training School of Vietnam.

Contributing Author

• INTA Bulletin

• World Trademark Law Report

• Newsletter of American Society of International Law

• Vietnam Supreme People's Court Review

Awards

• Identified by the 2001 and 2002 Asialaw Leading Lawyers Surveys as one of Asia's leading lawyer in the field of intellectual property law

• Nominated by Managing Intellectual Property to appear in Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners 2007.