Gwendolyn Corcoran took her degree in Physics from Harvey Mudd College in 2012, and was admitted to practice as a Registered Patent Agent in the same year. She has been doing patent application and prosecution work for several years before that, under the tutelage of her parents (both registered patent practitioners). To date she has worked on a number of substantive Patent Office filings, including at least thirty original patent applications (not counting provisionals and PCTs) and two ex parte reexamination responses.