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Weiguo (Will) Chen
650.849.6729
will.chen@finnegan.com

Stanford Research Park
3300 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1203

650.849.6600
Fax 650.849.6666

Bar and Court Admissions

  • California
  • New York
  • China
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education

  • Northeastern University
    M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004
  • Franklin Pierce Law Center
    LL.M, Intellectual Property, 2001
  • Tsinghua University, China
    LL.B., 1999
  • Tsinghua University, China
    B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, 1998

Languages

  • Chinese

Weiguo (Will) Chen

Partner

Will Chen is experienced in patent litigation, client counseling, opinion writing, and the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in a range of technologies, including telecommunications, networking, electronic circuitry, semiconductor devices, MEMS devices, software, and medical devices. He has also conducted intellectual property due diligence reviews for financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Chen frequently speaks at conferences and seminars in China on a variety of IP issues, including U.S. patent litigation, portfolio management, and due diligence.

Highlights

  • Defended multiple networking companies in a patent infringement litigation involving network switches and routers and successfully settled for the defendants 
  • Represented BCD Semi of Shanghai, China, in a complex patent infringement litigation involving power supply products and successfully settled the case
  • Manages patent portfolios and provides counseling on IP issues for many high-tech companies in China.
  • Counsels several high-tech companies in Silicon Valley on IP issues.

Select Publications

  • Coauthor. "How to Expedite Examination in the U.S.," China IP Magazine, Feb. 2013.
  • Coauthor. "U.S. Patent-Law Reform Update," China IP News, Dec. 2009.
  • Coauthor. "Inventor Employee Agreement under U.S. Law," Electronic IP Rights, June 2009.