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LiaoTeng
Liaoteng Wang was born in 1974 in a reform-through-labor farm by the largest freshwater lake in China in
Jiangxi
Province, near the infantry school where Deng
Xiaoping was placed under house arrest during the Cultural
Revolution.
He was born just before the New Year and brought two years worth of
supply stamps to his family soon after his arrival, demonstrating a high level
of productivity at a very early age. Having
endured the harsh life while serving the wrongfully convicted life
sentence in that farm, a wrong that was later redressed after Deng
Xiaoping came back to power, his grandfather sensed a new hope and picked
the name for the grandson shortly after his birth based on the famous saying by Chairman
Mao, “A single spark can ignite the entire prairie.” The
connection between Liaoteng and the lighting torch, the fearless little tiger
he sometimes thinks of himself as (as
1974 was a Tiger year), or the moniker L.T. (not to be confused
with the almighty Lawrence Taylor), was sinced established.Prior to founding 101Legal to continue to work on making his personal dents in the universe, Liaoteng started his practice, immediately after receiving his J.D. from UW-Madison law school, working for Judge Rader at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the federal appeals court located at 717 Madison Place NW, just north of the White House, that has exclusive jurisdiction over appeals from the Court of Federal Claims, Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims, United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), United States Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Board of Contract Appeals (for government contracts), United States Merit Systems Protection Board (for federal employment and employment benefits), United States International Trade Commission, United States Court of International Trade, and matters relating to patents, the Little Tucker Act and a number of other federal laws, from all federal district courts across the United States. CAFC was a wonderful place to start one's legal career. Liaoteng enjoyed every single day he worked there, and was involved in a number of interesting and high-profile patents, government contracts, federal employment benefits, and veterans affairs cases, going through a cycle every month of case assignment, reviewing briefs and records, legal research, drafting bench memos, discussing cases with Judge and other law clerks, attending oral arguments, and finding out the disposition of cases. If Liaoteng were a permanent resident then, he would have stayed at CAFC longer despite the lower pay compared to the law firms.
After CAFC, Liaoteng went back to Madison, Wisconsin, prepared for the California Bar Exam by listening to BarBri lectures on an ipod in the summer of 2006, flew to Oakland, took and passed the CA Bar Exam, and moved his family to Palo Alto in September of 2006 to work for the most prominent Silicon Valley law firm, WSGR, and then for Dewey & LeBoeuf, where he gained expertise in litigation and IP. Between working for BigLaw and founding his own firm, Liaoteng worked as an in-house general counsel at ArcSoft, an Intel-backed startup, where he further strengthened his IP and litigation expertise, advised management on complex legal issues and strategic directions, assisted in venture financing and international tax planning, and gained solid experience on commercial contracts, especially software licensing, while negotiating with customers such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm and Broadcom, among hundreds of other customers.
Before embarking on a career in law, Liaoteng was an avid and aspiring scientist, earning his B.S. in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology from Tsinghua University in 1997 under the guidance of Professor Hai-Meng Zhou, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from UW-Madison in 2002 under the guidance of Professors Judith Kimble (former President of the Genetics Society of America and Society for Developmental Biology) and Marv Wickens (former President of the RNA Society). After he published in Nature his serendipitous but important discovery of a family of enzymes essential for germline and embronic development, the function of brain, and the translational control of gene expression, he decided to retire from science to pursue a second career. His first choice was the Ph.D./M.D. medical scientist training program at UW-Madison, but he was ineligible for admission due to the lack of a green card.
Not being able to be admitted to a Ph.D./M.D. medical scientist traning program, not being able to take the federal judicial clerkship, not being able to sit for the USPTO Patent Bar Exam when he wanted to, and not being able to work when he wanted to, finally pushed Liaoteng to apply for a green card. He sought professional help from two of the nation's most famous immigration law firms. One firm told him to go through the labor certification process, the other thought his case was so special that they would like to charge him by hours. Finally, he did it himself, and became a permanent resident of the United States. Since then, Liaoteng has helped dozens of friends obtain green cards.
Today, Liaoteng works as an in-house counsel in the U.S. R&D Center of Samsung Electronics, right across from Moffett Field on the other side of Highway 101 in Mountain View, and lives 6 miles up north Highway 101 in Palo Alto with his wife and children. In addition to working long hours and serving his clients, he enjoys jogging in the serene midtown neighborhood, hiking at the Stanford Dish, hanging out with friends, savoring all kinds of tea (especially TieGuanYin, which originated in the village in AnXi County, FuJian Province, where his ancestors, descendants of Wang ShenZhi (862-925 AD), have lived for hundreds of years), and sightseeing in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family.