Dohm Chankong is a director in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group, where his practice centers on patent strategy across electronics, communications, and software, with growing focus on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies. He counsels clients across the patent lifecycle, with drafting, prosecution, and portfolio decisions shaped by how claims will hold up under adversarial challenge and how they will function in offensive and defensive postures.
His combined experience as examiner, litigator, and prosecutor shapes how Dohm advises clients today. Dohm works with clients in medical devices, wired and wireless communications, semiconductors, financial services, and software-related technologies. His counsel covers portfolio strategy, competitive landscape analysis, continuation practice, and opinion work, with recent post-grant work concentrated in wireless charging and media streaming.
Dohm spent nearly 10 years as a primary examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, examining applications in computer networks, network security, and image processing and mentoring junior examiners on procedure and patent quality. He then joined a global law firm in Washington, D.C., where his work expanded beyond the Patent Office to include district court litigation and International Trade Commission proceedings. He now focuses on complex prosecution, portfolio strategy, and post-grant proceedings including inter partes reviews, post-grant reviews, covered business method reviews, and ex parte reexamination.
Dohm actively engages with the emerging-technology of patent law. He frequently writes on how AI is changing patent practice, with a focus on where experienced judgment remains the differentiator as tools accelerate. Quantum computing is a more recent area of focus, with completed MIT xPRO coursework in Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Computing Fundamentals. He also is a contributing author to Sterne Kessler’s AI Intellectual Property Year in Review and annual PTAB Year in Review, and a contributing author to Patent Office Litigation, Second Edition.
- Manages U.S. and international patent prosecution docket for a global financial services company, including team management, facilitating patent harvesting sessions with the client’s engineering and business stakeholders, and guiding the client’s patent filings in quantum computing.
- Represented a medical device company in a multi-jurisdictional patent dispute, leading the prosecution strategy across the client’s portfolio. Work included targeted continuation claims, active prosecution, competitive landscape analysis, portfolio analysis, and coordination with European counsel on parallel prosecution and litigation proceedings.
- Served as lead strategist on a red-team/green-team exercise for a global corporation’s high-value patent application, assembling a cross-disciplinary team that included a former PTAB judge, a director, and a technical specialist. Analyzed six claim sets against prior art and developed filing strategy recommendations.
- J.D., The George Washington University Law School
- M.S., Computer Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
- B.S., Computer Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
- District of Columbia
- United States Patent & Trademark Office
- Virginia