Chen '83 Joins Latham & Watkins
Intellectual property litigator Peter Chen '83 joined the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins as a partner, effective April 1, 2007.
Chen has an established practice as a litigator and specialist in patent and other intellectual property disputes. He has handled complex patent litigation for Fortune 500 and high profile technology companies, including nearly 50 patent infringement lawsuits, copyright infringement litigation for software clients, and more than 25 trade secret lawsuits, several of which involved parallel criminal proceedings. He also advises companies on a broad range of intellectual property issues involving licensing, patent strategy, standards organizations, information security, and open source licensing.
Chen joins the frim from McDermott Will & Emery LLP, where he has been a partner since 2003. At McDermott he was the head of its 40-lawyer IP department in the Silicon Valley office, and was co-chair of the firm's Diversity Committee. He started his legal career as an intellectual property litigation associate at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, and in 1987, he joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as an associate in its intellectual property litigation group. Chen was a partner at Wilson Sonsini from 1991 to 2000, and he left to become Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Keen, Inc., an Internet and telephony start-up. In 2001, he joined Linear Technology Corporation as General Counsel and then served in 2002-03 as the Vice President of Intellectual Property and Associate General Counsel at Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Chen holds both a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and received his law degree from UC Davis in 1983, where he was Executive Editor of the UC Davis Law Review. From 1997-2000, he served as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Press Release/April 7, 2007
Chen has an established practice as a litigator and specialist in patent and other intellectual property disputes. He has handled complex patent litigation for Fortune 500 and high profile technology companies, including nearly 50 patent infringement lawsuits, copyright infringement litigation for software clients, and more than 25 trade secret lawsuits, several of which involved parallel criminal proceedings. He also advises companies on a broad range of intellectual property issues involving licensing, patent strategy, standards organizations, information security, and open source licensing.
Chen joins the frim from McDermott Will & Emery LLP, where he has been a partner since 2003. At McDermott he was the head of its 40-lawyer IP department in the Silicon Valley office, and was co-chair of the firm's Diversity Committee. He started his legal career as an intellectual property litigation associate at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, and in 1987, he joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as an associate in its intellectual property litigation group. Chen was a partner at Wilson Sonsini from 1991 to 2000, and he left to become Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Keen, Inc., an Internet and telephony start-up. In 2001, he joined Linear Technology Corporation as General Counsel and then served in 2002-03 as the Vice President of Intellectual Property and Associate General Counsel at Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Chen holds both a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and received his law degree from UC Davis in 1983, where he was Executive Editor of the UC Davis Law Review. From 1997-2000, he served as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Press Release/April 7, 2007