Prior to consulting, she headed the patent practice at Baker & McKenzie’s Hong Kong office. She also worked for other law firms in Silicon Valley including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Fish & Richardson. She was also a visiting attorney at several foreign law firms over the years.

Ms. Chien-Hale has substantial technical knowledge in a variety of electrical and electro-mechanical arts, having drafted and prosecuted patent applications in telecommunication, software, wireless and Internet-enabled devices, language-based data processing, semiconductor processing and computer-related
mechanical devices. She was also involved in a number of intellectual property litigation cases, including cases in the International Trade Commission and the
U.S. District Court, relating to patent infringements and trade secrets violation.

Ms. Chien-Hale has lectured and written, in both English and Chinese, on the
topics of international intellectual property protection and the Chinese consti-tutional structure. She was a research scholar at the College of Law of the Peking University and taught at the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1995. She is a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is licensed to practice in the states of California, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia. She is also admitted to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. Her name has been included in the Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in American Women.

Ms. Chien-Hale is also an active participant in the professional organizations. For the American Bar Association, she currently co-chairs the Committee on International Patent Treaties and Laws for the Intellectual Property Law Section, and co-chairs the Joint Task Force between the Intellectual Property Law Section and the International Law Section on PRC Intellectual Property Laws Amendments. She is also a co-chair of the Intellectual Property Law Interest Group and the vice-chair of the Pacific Rim Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.

Dr. Benjamin F. Y. Chen.
Dr. Chen is a technology specialist of the Law Office of Elizabeth Chien-Hale. He has dual Master's Degrees in material-related disciplines from the University of Texas at Artlington, and the Ohio State University. He also has in Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering from the National Tsin-Hua University in Taiwan.

Dr. Chen has many years of engineering and managerial experiences in the United States and Taiwan, in particular with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute.

Hassan Choudhury
Hassan Choudhury is a technology specialist in the area of telecommunication. Mr. Choudhury received his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (telecommunication) from the University of Toronto, and his BS degree with honors in electrical engineering from the Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.

Mr. Choudhury has previously worked as a research analyst for Nortel Networks, and as summer engineer at Doha Petroleum and Motorola.

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