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LiaoTeng
Liaoteng
Wang, Ph.D., J.D.
Attorney at Law (Licensed in the States of California and Wisconsin; Admitted to USPTO, CAND, WIWD, and CAFC; CIPP/US)
California Real Estate Broker (Handled over $300 Million Commercial Real Estate Transactions in 2013-2015 as an in-house counsel at Samsung)
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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 since established.
Today, Liaoteng lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and children, and practices law with a focus on IP as the Managing Partner at the Silicon Valley office of Beijing East IP, a top Chinese IP firm founded in 2002 by Dr. Lulin Gao, China's longest standing patent commissioner and SIPO's founding commissioner and a 2016 inductee into the IP Hall of Fame. 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.
Prior to founding 101LEGAL to continue to work on making his personal dents in the universe (to the extent he could and only as permitted by the omnipotent), Liaoteng started his practice, immediately after receiving his J.D. from UW-Madison law school in 2005, 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 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), 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 in July 2006, and moved his family to Palo Alto in September 2006 to work for the most prominent Silicon Valley law firm, WSGR. After working for BigLaw for a few years (2006-2010) on such interesting cases as MIT v. Affymetrix, with Ms. Barbara Caulfield, a kind mentor greatly missed by Liaoteng, Liaoteng worked as an in-house general counsel at an Intel-backed software startup that filed an S-1 but never actually went public, and at the U.S. R&D Center of one of the world's largest consumer electronics and information technology companies in Silicon Valley (2010-2016). In January 2013, at the end of a Dragon Year, Liaoteng created 101LEGAL.COM to explore the idea of going back to private practice as a solo practitioner, but was not able to do much because working full-time as an in-house lead counsel at high-tech companies in competitive landscapes leaves little space for growing one's private practice. Fortunately, the stars finally aligned in 2016 for Liaoteng to experiment with becoming a full-time legal entrepreneur and joining efforts with his friends and alumni at Beijing East IP to build a successful private practice by working closely with partners in China and the U.S. to provide IP protections in China for U.S.-based clients and IP protections in the U.S. for China-based clients.
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 Marvin Wickens (former President of the RNA Society), and published in the world-renowned journal 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. Although Liaoteng has not ended up becoming a professor like many of his friends have, he's fully aware of his own appreciation for freedom, autonomy and creativity, and is still fascinated by developments toward finding cures for currently incurable diseases.