Yang Wang, Ph.D.

Prior to joining L&A, Yang worked as a patent agent at an IP law firm and led the firm’s international practice. Yang’s approach involves examining inventions from multiple perspectives, including the commercialization landscape, technical complexities, and patentability. His experience as an inventor and entrepreneur enables him to bring a holistic perspective to the strategic development of patentable asset portfolios to the benefit of his clients’ innovation teams.

After his academic career, which included post-doctoral work at MIT and visiting professorships in physics and telecommunications, Yang spent over a decade in the industry as an inventor, senior engineer, and project manager, and holds several patents covering semiconductor materials, solar cells, computer hardware, and carbon nanotubes. Maintaining ties to academia, he writes and lectures in areas such as carbon nanomaterials, renewable energy, electronics, and drug delivery devices. Yang also contributes to the field as a reviewer of funding proposals for the U.S. Department of Energy.

For Yang, the ultimate reward lies in partnering with clients to explore the potential of groundbreaking innovations in a wide variety of technical areas, offering not only patent prosecution expertise but also technical and business insights to actualize the full commercial potential of these ideas.