X. Christina Huang

In-House IP Counsel at 3M

Prior to joining Faegre Drinker, Christina served as primary intellectual property counsel for billion-dollar divisions at 3M Company and led a global team with members in Germany, the U.K., Japan, China, India and Brazil. She managed the IP aspects of major business strategies and challenges, including establishing effective IP strategies with ROI optimization, negotiating million-dollar deals, conducting IP due diligence and transaction negotiation for a $1 billion acquisition, and supporting various patent and IP disputes.

Technical Experience

Before beginning her career in law, Christina served as a software specialist at 3M, where she led the development of software systems and applications, including, for example, a software solution designed to analyze and visualize measurement and inspection data and an embedded software designed to process and analyze sensor data. She also served as a research assistant working on object recognition and pattern recognition projects using machine learning at the Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Lab at Shantou University in China. While studying at Tshinghua University in China, Christina designed and developed a portable fetal ECG monitor for her senior project collaborating with a medical device company.

As an IP counsel, Christina Huang helped clients grow and protect their worldwide market in the areas of:

• Artificial intelligence
• Machine learning and deep learning
• Medical devices
• Software and cloud systems and solutions
• Data analytics
• Natural language processing and understanding
• Speech recognitions
• Sensor technology
• Electronic designs and systems
• Smart grid
• Object recognition and imaging processing
• Touch systems
• Lighting systems