
Mr. Wenye (Wilson) Tan founded KIPLawyer in 2021. Mr. Tan is a seasoned attorney with 20 year experience in legal practice. One area of focus of his practice is intellectual property (IP), where Mr. Tan practices many aspects of IP laws, including litigation, prosecution, opinions, licensing, and due diligence, etc. Through these practices, Mr. Tan helped many clients to establish, manage, and profit from their IP portfolios and to defend against patent infringement allegations, and to safe-guard clients’ innovative technologies and expanding into global marketplace. Over the years, Mr. Tan litigated numerous patent and other related IP cases, and managed prosecution of thousands of patents and patent applications. Mr. Tan’s former and current clients including both leading global companies and small-medium companies in US and China.
Mr. Tan also developed great expertise dealing with international IP matters, such as litigation involving foreign corporations, global patent prosecution, cross-border technology transfer, over-sea IP assets acquisition, and global litigation coordination. Prior to starting his legal practice, Mr. Tan enjoyed a very successful career in the high-technology industry, with over 10 years of experience in corporate R&D and technical management associated with microelectronics, computer, networking, and wireless communication, and gained extensive skills in solving complex technical/business problems during life-cycle product development in Fortune 100 companies as well as startup companies.
Education
J.D., with honors, The George Washington University School of Law
M.S., Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
B.S., Engineering, Zhejiang University
Bar and Court Admissions
Virginia
Arizona
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit (CAFC)
Languages
Bilingual English/Mandarin Chinese, Spanish (basic)