Education
B.A., Oberlin College, 1990
J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 1995
Courses
Intellectual Property Law; Social Media Law; Seminar in IP Tax
Bio
Professor Nguyen is an internationally known legal scholar renowned for her expertise in the intersections of Intellectual Property, Secured
Transactions, Bankruptcy, Licensing, and Taxation.
Professor Nguyen and Professor Jeffrey A. Maine are currently working on a new book on taxation of the IP Holding Company to be published by Cambridge University Press. Additionally, she is working on a new Secured Transactions book. She has co-authored treatises on Taxation of Intellectual Property (BNA Bloomberg 2nd Edition) and Licensing Intellectual Property (BNA Bloomberg). Recently, she published a new casebook on Transnational Intellectual Property Law (West Publishers 2016), in addition to her three other casebooks on Licensing Intellectual Property (Aspen Publishers), Taxation of Intellectual Property (Carolina Academic Press), and Intellectual Property Law (Vietnam National University Press).
She has also published forty law review articles. Her articles have been cited by the Federal Circuit, the Third Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, federal district courts and state tax courts: Fair Wind Sailing, Inc. v. Dempster, 764 F.3d 303, 310 (3d Cir. 2014); In re Steelbuilding.com, 415 F.3d 1293 (Fed. Cir. 2005); Interstellar Starship Services, Ltd. v. Epix, Inc., 304 F.3d 936 (9th Cir. 2002); Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. v. Las Vegas Sports News, 212 F.3d 157, 175 (3d Cir. 2000); Spring Licensing Group, Inc. v. Director, Division of Taxation, 2015 WL 10321400 (Tax Court of NJ 2015); Salt Optics, Inc. v. Jand, Inc., 2011 WL 13055856 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 4, 2011); In re Interstate Bakeries Corp., 2010 WL 2332142, *7 (Bank.W.D.Mo. June 4, 2010); Ligotti v. Garofalo, 562 F.Supp.2d 204 (D.N.H. 2008); Blue Nile, Inc. v. Ice.com, Inc., 478 F.Supp.2d 1240 (W.D.Wash. 2007); EMSL Analytical, Inc. v. Testamerica Analytical Testing Corp., 2006 WL 892718 (D.N.J. April 4, 2006); Pharmacia Corp. v. Alcon Laboratories, Inc., 201 F.Supp.2d 335 (D.N.J. 2002).
She is a consultant for the World Bank/IFC on Secured Transactions in China, Vietnam, and the Mekong Region. In her consultant capacity, she conducts workshops and provides drafting comments to National Drafting Committees on Secured Transactions law and international best practices. She works with the Vietnam Supreme People’s Court in the training of judges on Secured Transactions law. She regularly trains bank officials and attorneys in financing law. She currently serves on the Scientific Council, University of Economics & Law, Vietnam National University, shaping the strategic vision of the University. In 2009, Professor Nguyen was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at VNU School of Law in Hanoi. She serves as a Fulbright Scholars Peer Reviewer since 2010.
Professor Nguyen gained valuable insights through her practice years at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and Pryor, Cashman, Sherman & Flynn, in NYC, and counted Duke University Medical Center and physician-scientist Dr. Jonathan Stamler among her clients. She is registered to practice with the USPTO. She is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, J.D., and Oberlin College, BA with triple majors in Biology, Sociology, and Women’s Studies.
In her spare time, Professor Nguyen enjoys hosting parties for her students and collecting fine arts with her husband, Erik Hille. She serves on the Board of Trustees, Dallas Museum of Art.
Professor Nguyen joined the faculty of IU McKinney Law in the summer of 2014, after serving for eleven years at the SMU Dedman School of Law faculty and three years at the Texas A & M University School of Law (Texas Weslyan University School of Law).
