Thinh Nguyen

Legal Skills Professor
Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Clinic

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Professor Thinh Nguyen has for 25 years represented entrepreneurs and technology companies. He began his career working with biotech and dot com start-ups at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati. He has worked as in-house counsel at technology companies like SAP, Nuance Communications, and GE Digital. In addition, he has worked at the non-profit Creative Commons, an organization devoted to promoting open source, as counsel for its Science Commons division. Professor Nguyen became interested in the potential of AI while working as a product lawyer at Nuance, a maker of speech and image recognition software that grew out of work by the AI pioneer Ray Kurzweil. At GE Digital, Professor Nguyen worked as Executive General Counsel for GE’s digital products division, giving him a front row seat in designing and implementing IP protection and commercialization strategies for AI applications focused on the industrial Internet of Things (IoT). Professor Nguyen remains actively engaged with the machine learning and data science communities, advising on matters related to intellectual property, privacy, and security. He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.