Quan Nguyen is a Founding Partner at NGUYEN TARBET LLC. Quan has great passion for the process of commercializing new inventions. He works closely with companies and inventors to help identify strategic partners, screen for potential business deals, and analyze market opportunities in conjunction with winning patent strategies to launch successful products. Quan is also an active member of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA), Desert Angels (DA), and Life Science Angels (LSA), where he leads a number of investment deals.

As a seasoned patent attorney, Quan concentrates his practice in patent procurement, opinion work (patentability and freedom to operate analysis), and intellectual property management of inventions in biotechnology, pharmaceutics, artificial intelligence, microfluidics, and medical devices. He has significant experience and expertise in managing large, complex patent portfolios and positioning such portfolios for withstanding scrutiny in litigation and due diligence analysis associated with funding or acquisition events.

His clients include publicly traded companies, major corporations, universities, investors, and entrepreneurs. Prior to founding NGUYEN TARBET LLC, Quan was a Partner at COZEN O’CONNOR, an international law firm based in Philadelphia. Quan also worked at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, a cutting-edge biotech company in San Diego, where he was Assistant Director of Patents.

Quan believes in public service and works tirelessly to advance innovation and entrepreneurship. Currently, he serves as a Member of the Dean’s Board of Advisors at the College of Science (University of Arizona); a Member of the Beall Applied Innovation Advisory Board (University of California, Irvine); and a Member of the Dean’s Leadership Council, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of California, Irvine). As Chairman Emeritus of the Alumni Subcommittee & Executive Member of the College of Science Dean’s Board of Advisors (University of Arizona) and Chairman Emeritus of the Innovation and Acceleration Task Force (University of California Irvine), he lead various university initiatives to promote innovation through industry partnerships. As Chairman Emeritus of the Advisory Board of the Chemistry and BioChemistry Board of Advisors (University of Arizona), he helped the department develop strategic industry relationships to advance faculty research. Quan regularly speaks at seminars on the subject of innovation, technology investments, and trends in patent law.  

Quan’s intellectual property work includes subject matter such as:

• Vaccines
• Gene therapy
• Novel genes
• Diagnostics
• Artificial Intelligence
• BioInformatics
• Software
• Medical devices and mechanical devices
• Electromechanical devices
• Radiation biology
• Imaging/optics
• Small molecules including steroids and adrenergics
• Polymers

• University of Birmingham (UK) (Ph.D. Pending, Intellectual Property Law)
  • Thesis Title: Patent Law at the Crossroads of Artificial Intelligence and Life Science Innovations
• Southwestern University School of Law (J.D., 1999)
• University of California, Los Angeles (Medical Physics, Ph.D. Program, 1995-1997)
• University of California, Los Angeles (M.S., Molecular Pharmacology, 1995)
• University of California, Irvine (B.S., 1991)

• Member, Beall Applied Innovation Advisory Board, University of California, Irvine.
• Member, Dean’s Board of Advisors, College of Science, University of Arizona.
• Member, Dean’s Leadership Council, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California.
• Active Member of the Life Science Angels (LSA), Tech Coast Angels (TCA), and Desert Tech Angels. Lead deals for potential investments. Advise on IP due diligence.
• Chairman Emeritus, Incubation and Acceleration Task Force, University of California, Irvine.
• Chairman Emeritus, Chemistry and BioChemistry Board of Advisors, University of Arizona. Advised and supported Department Head to develop strategic industry relationships.
• Chairman Emeritus, Development & Alumni Subcommittee, College of Science, University of Arizona. Advise and support College department heads to develop alumni relationships and fundraising initiatives.

• State Bar of California
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

David Stout, Andrej Petric, N. Satyamurthy, Quan Nguyen, Sung-Cheng Huang, Mohammad Namavari, and Jorge R. Barrio. 2ß-Carbomethoxy-3ß-(4- and 2-[¹⁸ F] Fluoromethylphenyl)tropanes: Specific Probes for In Vivo Quantification of Central Dopamine Transporter Sites. Nuclear Medicine & Biology, Vol. 26, pp. 897-903, 1999