Wayne L. Tang

My focus

Patent Prosecution

I advise clients on patent protection in the electrical, computer, software and mechanical arts and I’ve helped many clients obtain patents in those areas. I have participated in preparing and managing IPRs, appeals, reissues and accelerated prosecution of different patents for my clients. Recently, I filed patent applications and have obtained patents in the fields of: hardware and software for servers, cloud based systems, artificial intelligence systems, software for gaming machines, medical device related hardware and software systems and configurable logic devices.

Patent Counseling

I regularly counsel my clients on their overall patent strategies. I recently was part of a Nixon team that assisted a medical device company in developing a patent portfolio for their newly developing software based services. I also recently helped a client devise a patent strategy to bundle core technical patents for licensing in the field of programmable logic devices. I advise a number of startups as to the most efficient deployment of intellectual property development.

Looking ahead

I foresee changes in intellectual property protection laws limiting the ability of so-called “patent trolls” to enforce patents, as well as additional changes to further define software/business method patents and greater harmonization of patents internationally.