When Mallun Yen was promoted to head of intellectual property at Cisco in 2005, women in such jobs were so uncommon the headline read, “Rarefied Air.” That article spurred Yen and other women in-house at tech companies to create ChIPs, or chief heads of intellectual property. A decade later, thanks to Yen and a half-dozen other influential women lawyers, ChIPs has grown into a nationwide organization with enough clout to draw a Supreme Court justice to its conference. Yen, now the top lawyer at the defensive patent-pooling company RPX, “has been a leader in shaping the future of intellectual property law and patent rights,” said her former boss, Cisco GC Mark Chandler. “In her role at RPX, she has been instrumental in bringing innovative deals to fruition.”
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