IP Expert

Overview

Candy K.Y. Chen is a managing partner of Tsai. Lee & Chen. She is a professional engineer, a registered Taiwan patent attorney and a registered U.S. patent agent.

Taking the advantage of having both engineering and law degrees, Chen specializes in technology-related intellectual property – in particular, patent prosecution and invalidation for mechanical, automation and software-related inventions, as well as industrial designs. She has assisted many Fortune 500 corporations in filing their patent applications and managing their patent portfolios.

She also provides legal consultancy on patent validity. She is a co-chair of the design committees of both the Asian Patent Attorneys Association Taiwan Group and the Taiwan Patent Attorneys Association. She is also a member of the International Board of Council of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association and an independent member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

Chen was a member of the Patent Examination Quality Advisory Committee convened by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office from 2011 to 2017. She was also a member of the Board of Supervisors of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association Taiwan Group from 2012 to 2018, and a board member of the Taiwan Patent Attorneys Association from 2015 to 2018.