Michael Fondungallah is a founding member of Fondungallah Kigham & Essien, LLC. His practice focuses on all aspects of immigration law, business law, international law, landlord tenant law and general litigation.
Michael received his bachelors degree in law from the University of Yaounde in Cameroon (1991) and a post-graduate diploma (maitrise) in business law from the same university (1992). He worked for the Tazem Chambers as a pupil lawyer before coming to the United States in 1993 and in 2001 obtained his juris doctor JD degree in law from William Mitchell College of Law in Saint Paul Minnesota. Read more ...
Pamela D. Kigham
Pamela D. Kigham is an attorney with the Fondungallah Kigham & Essien, LLC, practicing in the areas of Family Law, Immigration Law and Landlord/Tenants. Ms Kigham was a Law Clerk at the Fondungallah Law Offices from 2003 to 2004, while attending William Mitchell College of Law. Ms. Kigham is admitted to practice in the State of Minnesota, and is a member of the Ramsey County Bar Association, Minnesota State Bar Association and Minnesota Black Lawyers Association. Read more ...
Michael A. Essien
Michael A. Essien is a Counsel with Fondungallah Kigham & Essien, LLC practicing intellectual property law with a focus on patents, trademarks, copyrights, and e-commerce. Mr. Essien worked as an intellectual property attorney at a Minneapolis law firm, a patent agent at Valspar Corporation, and a patent engineer at 3M. Mr. Essien is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patents and Trademark Office and concentrates his practice on patent prosecutions and trademark applications, opinions, copyrights, strategic planning, and client counseling regarding intellectual property protection. Read more ...
Michael Mochinski
Mr. Mochinski's practice focuses primarily on preparing and prosecuting patents, both in the United States and internationally. His experience also includes the licensing of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, as well as patent prosecution, primarily in the technological arts of chemical transport and metal recovery processes, gaming and vending systems under software control, electro-mechanical devices, nutritional products and supplements, medical devices, and construction tools. In addition, he assists clients with infringement/validity and patentability opinions, freedom-to-operate analyses, and due diligence reviews. Read more ...
Chenna Chukwu, B.S, Ph.D.
Dr. Uchenna Chukwu is a Registered Patent Agent with over 7 years experience and was
licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2002. Her
areas of practice include medical device, food, agriculture, biotechnology, chemical,
pharmaceutical, nanotechnology (drug delivery systems), polymers, microbiology, and
the electrochemical arts. Read more ...