Timothy T. Hsieh

Courses:
Patent Law
Antitrust
Intellectual Property
Legislation & Regulation
The Law of Blockchain, Crypto, NFTs & Web 3.0
Sports & Entertainment Law
Artificial Intelligence & the Law
Cryptocurrency Law

Education:
LL.M. (Law & Technology – IP), University of California Berkeley School of Law
LL.B., University of London
J.D., University of California Hastings College of the Law
M.S. Engr., Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California Berkeley
Red Earth M.F.A., Creative Writing, Oklahoma City University

Office Hours:

Monday & Wednesday 2:30–5:30 p.m., and by appointment

Bio:

Timothy T. Hsieh (pronounced “Shay”) joined the faculty of the Oklahoma City University School of Law (“OCU Law”) in the Fall of 2021, where he focuses his research, teaching and scholarship in the areas of Intellectual Property (“IP”) as well as Law & Technology, particularly in Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), Antitrust & Competition Law, Administrative Law, Legislation & Regulation, Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, Trade Secret Law, Right of Publicity and Name-Image-Likeness (“NIL”), hybrids between all those IP forms, Computer, Internet & Social Media Law, Information Technology & Privacy Law, Blockchain, Law & Literature/Film, Entertainment & Sports Law, and Asian American Legal Studies. He has also visited National Taiwan University College of Law in Taipei, Taiwan as a Visiting Associate Professor; Meiji University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan as a Visiting Scholar; and the University of Manchester Law School in Manchester, England as a Visiting Research Fellow.

The IP, Sports & Entertainment Law (“IPSEL”) Certificate Program he built, runs and directs at OCU Law was one of ten law school programs in the country to receive recognition by The National Jurist in its Entertainment Law Specialties Honor Roll, earning the grade of “A.” His expertise has also been quoted in publications such as Bloomberg, Law360 & Law360: Expert Analysis, Managing IP, Patently-O, IP Watchdog, Voice of IP and the Clause 8 Podcast from Eli Mazour, The Epoch Times, and others. His award-winning publications (see SSRN) have also appeared in the Creighton Law Review, the Mississippi Law Journal, the Oklahoma City University Law Review, the Texas IP Law Journal, the Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, IDEA: The IP Law Review, the Fordham IP, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts, the NYU Journal of IP & Entertainment Law, the International Journal of Law, Ethics & Technology, Competition Policy International’s Antitrust Chronicle®, New Matter: the California State Bar IP Section’s Official Quarterly Magazine, Aspen Book Publishers, IEEE Potentials, various legal blogs including “Trading Secrets” with Seyfarth Shaw LLP, and the John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law. He additionally has authored an amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Lynk Labs v. Samsung on the overlap between patent law and administrative law, discussing the case of Loper Bright in that context. Such writing has been cited over 46 times by other law review publications and close to 200 times (counting his technical publications) according to Google Scholar, and garnered accolades including Grand Prizes in the Foley & Lardner and inaugural IDEA IP Writing Competitions. Under his pen name of “Timothy Tau”, he has also written award-winning short fiction—Grand Prize in the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest and also Second Prize in both the Playboy College Fiction Contest and the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest judged by Oscar winning screenwriter Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain)—as well as screenplays, and directed as well as produced accolade-earning short films. Additionally, he has taught “Introduction to Screenwriting” at The Writer’s Center, an independent literary institution based in the greater Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area.

In 2015-2016 & 2018, Professor Hsieh was named a Super Lawyers “Rising Star”, an accolade given to only 2.5% of California attorneys, and practiced patent & trademark prosecution as well as patent, IP, antitrust, technology & complex civil litigation at top Am Law 100 law firms such as Greenberg Traurig, Foley Lardner, and Seyfarth Shaw, as well as at IP prosecution and litigation boutiques such as MacPherson, Kwok, Chen & Heid (now the California offices of Haynes & Boone), Russ August Kabat, and Loza & Loza LLP, where he was a Non-Equity Partner. He also has served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Timothy D. DeGiusti, Chief U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, the Honorable Roy S. Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the Honorable Elizabeth A. Stafford of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and to the Honorable Kandis A. Westmore of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and was additionally a pro bono law clerk or judicial law fellow to the Honorable Michael A. Shipp of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

As a GS-13 “Business Methods” Assistant Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”), he dealt frequently with complex patent subject-matter eligibility issues under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as well as cutting-edge FinTech advancements involving AI, machine learning, neural networks, blockchain, cryptocurrencies & NFTs. At the USPTO, he furthermore detailed as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Jameson Lee, the most senior Administrative Patent Judge at the Patent and Trial Appeal Board, where he worked primarily on Inter Partes Review (“IPR”) cases and ex parte patent appeals. He was also elected as the 21st Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society—the first Asian American Editor-in-Chief in the publication’s century-plus history—acted as Chair of the Society’s Legislative Committee, and was Vice President, two-time Vice President-Elect, Secretary, as well as Technology Center 3600 Representative of the USPTO’s Asian Pacific American Network (“APANET”), the U.S. federal government’s largest affinity group. Moreover, he was an elected USPTO Counselor Board Member on the 2019-2020 Board of the Pauline Newman IP American Inn of Court, a nominated member of the Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court, and was part of the American Inns of Court Pegasus Scholars Placement Committee as well as the Hastings Law Journal (now UC Law Journal) Alumni Board. He currently serves as an Executive Board Member of the 2026 Association of American Law Schools (“AALS”) IP Section Executive Board, a 2025-26 Committee Member (focusing on College Engagement) of the Taiwanese American Professionals, Los Angeles Chapter, a Legal Researcher for the Vincent Chin Institute, and an Executive Coach for and graduate of the emotional intelligence and leadership course curriculum offered by ChoiceCenter Leadership University based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In addition, Professor Hsieh holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley, a M.S. Engr. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, and obtained his Juris Doctor or J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law (now known as University of California College of the Law, San Francisco or “UC Law SF”), where he was a Technology Editor and a Staff Editor on the law school’s flagship law review, the Hastings Law Journal, and further competed in the AIPLA Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition and the John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law, garnering Best Brief honors in the latter. He has also coached five moot court teams during his time at OCU Law, the Global Antitrust Institute Moot Court Competition (Zach Lucio and Roha Khan), the Hanoi Law University competing in the Wanhuida IP Moort Court Competition in Beijing (Xuan Thinh Nguyen, Ngoc Quynh Nguyen and Huyen Anh Nguyen—who placed Second, the highest ranking any university from Vietnam has ever achieved in the history of the competition, and who also won “Best Oralist” honors), the Judge Thomas Tang and Dr. Pearl Tang Moot Court Competition (Moaaz Waheed and Taylor Jacobsen—who made history as the first team from Oklahoma to ever make Nationals), the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition in U.S. Trademark & Unfair Competition Law (Arooj Munir and Moaaz Waheed), and the AIPLA Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition (Jacob Beckham and Jaqueline Ruiz Avila plus Cloudia Ozeir and Chris Cudjo).

Professor Hsieh also acquired a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree – with a Law & Technology (IP) certificate focus – from the University of California Berkeley School of Law, consistently ranked the top #1 U.S. law school in IP by the U.S. News and World Reports law school rankings, where he was elected into the Dean’s Circle, received “High Honors” (the highest achievable grade or an A+ equivalent) in Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, Administrative Law & Antitrust Law, and worked as an Articles Editor on the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the most cited technology law journal in the nation. He was also a Senior Visiting Scholar at Berkeley Law, where his Research Advisor was Professor Daniel Farber, a Co-Lecturer at Catholic University Columbus School of Law, and a Legal Researcher with Thomson-Reuters. In addition, Professor Hsieh obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree with Second Class Honours from the University of London in 2024, where he received a Certificate of Excellence for “Exceptional Performance” (top performing student in a level 4, 5 or 6 module with over 16,000 students worldwide) – for the highest score in IP (72).

Finally, Professor Hsieh is deeply involved with the local Oklahoma City community, and is a formally inducted Master member of all three local American Inns of Court: The Ruth Bader Ginsburg American Inn of Court, The Robert J. Turner American Inn of Court, and The William J. Holloway American Inn of Court, where he serves as the official OCU Law Faculty Liaison. He is an elected Board Member of the Techlahoma Foundation, an Oklahoma non-profit dedicated to all things technology-related in the state, a Board Member of the Federal Bar Association, OKC Chapter, and an Advocacy Committee Member of the Greater Oklahoma City Asian Chamber of Commerce. He is currently in the process of co-founding the Valerie K. Couch American Inn of Court, a Specialty Inn championing diversity and younger attorneys, and the Kelly J. Kress IP American Inn of Court, which will be focused on IP, Antitrust, Technology, Entertainment & Sports Law. Additionally, he is the founder of the Oklahoma Asian American Bar Association (“OKAABA”), which was recognized in 2025 as an official national affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (“NAPABA”), the Faculty Advisor that helped establish OCU Law’s very first and historic Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (“APALSA”), and he will be launching the Oklahoma Asian American Film Festival (“OKAAFF”), the very first film festival of its kind in the state.