Talk to Ming Yang long enough, and you’ll find yourself out of excuses for not finally going after that big goal you’ve been carrying around. The patent attorney at Finnegan seems naturally drawn to adventurers and inventors. He lives his life from an abiding curiosity and openness. Given his path from working as an engineer in Taiwan to being a patent trial lawyer in the Bay Area, it’s clear he’s inspired by those who have big dreams and achieve them.
After earning his bachelor’s degree in mechanical and electrical engineering and then a master’s in mechanical engineering, Ming took on something he calls “inconceivable”—he pursued a law degree at The George Washington University in D.C., almost 8,000 miles from his home in Taipei. He suddenly found himself in classes with professors teaching in a language he was still learning and realizing that, while he recognized most of the words, he struggled to understand their meaning in a sentence. Not only was he learning the law, but he was simultaneously learning a different country’s law, the English language, and the esoteric language of law.
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