Richard Wong, Ph.D., focuses his practice on patent prosecution in the electrical engineering and biomedical engineering fields, often on behalf of large, internationally oriented companies. He has particular experience creating standard essential patents (SEPs) in the telecommunications and audio/video encoding space, helping innovative companies generate patents that support the telecom standards that enable worldwide communications.
Richard often works with market-leading innovators that are creating the household-name products that can be found in pockets and on desktops around the world. He regularly handles matters involving image and signal processing, artificial intelligence/machine learning, autonomous vehicles, computer vision, and video coding, and provides counsel regarding cellular communications, medical devices, cloud computing, semiconductors, wearable devices, blockchain, and financial services. He enjoys working with the inventorson cutting-edge projects, guiding them through the patenting process, and seeing their work incorporated in the products consumers use every day.
In addition to his prosecution work, Richard has experience with merger and acquisition due diligence, helping to ensure his clients’ commercial transactions are backed by sound IP portfolios. He also supportshis clients in post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
