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Dr. Yung-Hoon (Sam) Ha is an associate in the firm's Intellectual Property Department. He joined the firm in 2005. 

Practice

Dr. Ha is a registered patent agent, and currently focuses on writing and prosecuting patent applications. His area of technical specialty is materials related technologies, especially polymers and photonic crystals. He also provides support for patentability assessments and validity opinions.

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Ha was a patent agent at a Virginia law firm. He was also a postdoctoral research scientist/fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC from 2002 to 2004. While pursuing his PhD degree at MIT, Dr. Ha served as a teaching assistant for the course “The Structure of Materials.”

Honors and Awards

• National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2003)
• Grant Awarded: Air Force Office of Scientific Research: “Bioharvesting Photonic Crystals”
• Grant Awarded: Du-Pont-MIT Alliance: “Bioharvesting Photonic Crystals”

Publications

Dr. Ha is the author and co-author of the following publications:

• Juhl, S.B., Chan, E.P., Ha, Y.-H., Maldovan, M., Brunton, J., Ward, V., Dokland, T., Kalmakoff, J., Farmer, B., Thomas, E.L., Vaia, R.A. "Assembly of Wiseana Iridovirus: Viruses for Colloidal Photonic Crystals," Advanced Functional Materials, 16(8), (2006):1086-1094.
• Radloff, C.J., Juhl, S.B., Vaia, R.A., Brunton, J., Ward, V., Kalmakoff, J., Dokland, T., Ha, Y.-H., Thomas, E.L. "Bio-scaffolds for ordered nanoscturctures and metallodielectric nanoparticles," Proceedings of SPIE in Nanofabrication: Technologies, Devices, and Applications, 5592, (2005): 143-152.
• Ha, Y.-H., Kwon, Y., Breiner, T., Chan, E.P., Tzianetopoulou, T., Cohen, R.E., Boyce, M.C., and Thomas, E.L. "An orientationally ordered hierarchical exfoliated clay-block copolymer nanocomposite," Macromolecules, 38(12), (2005): 5170-5179.
• Ha, Y.-H., N. Nikolov, S.K. Pollack, J. Mastrangelo, B.D. Martin, and R. Shashidhar. "Towards a Transparent, Highly Conductive Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)." Advanced Functional Materials 14 (2004): 615-22.
• Ha, Y.-H., N. Nikolov, C. Dulcey, S.-C. Wang, J. Mastrangelo, and R. Shashidhar. "Conductivity Tuning of PEDOT Through Side-Group Cleavage." Synthetic Metals 144 (2004): 101-05 (work highlighted on cover).
• Ha, Y.-H., R.A. Vaia, W.F. Lynn, J.P. Constantino, J. Shin, A.B. Smith, P.T. Matsudaira, and E.L. Thomas. "Three-Dimensional Network Photonic Crystals via Cyclic Size Reduction/Infiltration of Sea Urchin Exoskeleton." Advanced Materials 16 (2004): 1091-94 (work highlighted on cover and mentioned in Nature Materials Update).
• Deng, T., Y.-H. Ha, J. Cheng, C. Ross, and E.L. Thomas. 'Micropatterning of Block Copolymers in Solution." Langmuir 18 (2002) 6719-22.
• Ha, Y.-H., and E.L. Thomas. "Deformation Behavior of Roll-Cast Layered-Silicate/Lamellar Triblock Copolymer Nanocomposite." Macromolecules 35 (2002): 4419-28.
• Ha, Y.-H., C.E. Scott, and E.L. Thomas. "Miscible Blends of Poly(benzoyl Paraphenylene) and Polycarbonate." Polymer 42 (2001): 6463-72.

Dr. Ha has the following patents:

• Ha, Y.-H., and E.L. Thomas. Cyclic shrinkage of a templated 3D network material. US Patent No. 7,329,377.
• Ha, Y.-H., N. Nikolov, S.K. Pollack, B.D. Martin, and R. Shashidhar. Optimization methods for synthesis of highly conducting transparent thin polymer films. US Patent No. 7,320,813.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Fordham University School of Law, 2009
  JD
  Honors:  
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
  PhD, Materials Science and Engineering
• Cornell University, 1997
  BSc, Materials Science and Engineering
  Honors: cum laude and with honors

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