Will Chuang

Partner

Will Chuang is a partner in O’Melveny & Myers’ Silicon Valley office and chair of the Transactional Intellectual Property Practice. Will’s practice focuses on intellectual property counseling and structuring and negotiating technology transactions, including licensing, joint ventures, IT outsourcing, and complex strategic alliances. He also represents clients in intellectual property purchases and sales and in reviews of intellectual property rights portfolios in relation to corporate financing and M&A transactions.  Will counsels clients on strategies for protecting and exploiting intellectual property and technology and on day-to-day operational issues in relation to technology, intellectual property, electronic commerce and privacy. Such advice includes comprehensive strategic patent counseling and providing guidance on development and testing arrangements, patent and other intellectual property licensing, distribution channels, technology deployment and electronic commerce issues.

Will’s legal experience includes practicing as an intellectual property litigator and patent prosecutor. He wrote an on-line reverse-auction business patent application, resulting in one of the first and most prominent business model patents to be issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  Before law school, Will was trained as an engineer.

The value proposition for Will’s practice is to combine substantive legal knowledge of all areas of intellectual property (including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets) with a deep technology background and a comprehensive understanding of business issues and the technology markets to provide a wide range of practical legal and business advice to clients. In recognizing Will as a top technology transactions lawyer in its 2008 rankings of the nation's leading lawyers, the Legal 500 United States described Will as a "well-known partner" who "provides clients with an outstanding level of attentiveness, responsiveness, and knowledge of subject-matter."

Will works with public companies, rapidly growing private businesses and start-ups in the software, hardware, Internet, biotech, medical device, pharmaceutical and financial services industries. He also regularly advises investment bankers, and venture capitalists on intellectual property matters.  Will is admitted to practice law in California and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Professional Activities

Admitted to Practice, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Clerk, Honorable Vaughn R. Walker, United States District Court, Northern District of California
Member, California Bar Association; San Francisco Bar Association; Asian American Bar Association
Languages, Conversant in Mandarin Chinese