The placement of Viola Kung with Perkins Coie. She joins from Howrey. Kung’s practice focuses on patent prosecution and patent counseling in the chemical, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, biotechnology and small molecule arenas, including methods for treating inflammatory diseases, ophthalmic diseases, neurological diseases, neuropsychiatric diseases, pulmonary diseases, and pain, pharmaceutical formulations, chemical formulations, new chemical entity, chemical processes, medical devices, nucleotide derivatives, monoclonal antibodies, in vitro diagnostics, immunoassays, gene expression, antisense, RNA transformation vectors, recombinant viral nucleic acids, DNA polymerase mutants, tumor suppressor genes, fusion proteins, interferons, electrophoretic displays, silica filter media, sol gels, and carbon nanotubes.