EMIL CHANG

Mr. Chang brings with him over ten years of legal expertise and management experience with high-technology companies.  In particular, Mr. Chang specializes in serving Silicon Valley and Asian high-technology clients, providing services in the areas of intellectual property matters, patent prosecution, general corporate matters, venture financing, licensing, joint venture, and merger/acquisition.

During the first part of his career, Mr. Chang practiced exclusively in the intellectual property areas -- in particular:  patent prosecution, patent infringement opinions, and litigation of intellectual property matters.  He was lastly with the law firm of Oppenheimer, Wolfe & Donnelly, and was with the same practice group for over six years.

During the second part of his career, Mr. Chang served as general counsel and held management positions with a number of Silicon Valley startups.  For example, Mr. Chang served as General Counsel for Holley Communications Group, Inc., a mobile phone reference design and CDMA design house with its parent in China.  He was responsible for its overall legal matters, including its global mobile phone licensing strategy and its capitalization strategy with respect to its foreign parent and sister companies.

Mr. Chang was also a co-founder of WebEver, Inc., an Internet infrastructure software company.  During his tenure, he managed product deployment and product support, legal, finance, HR, and system administration and played a role in product marketing.

Prior to WebEver, Mr. Chang was Director of Operations and General Counsel for Altima Semiconductors, Inc., a provider of network semiconductors.  Altima was later sold to Broadcom for over $550 million dollars.  Mr. Chang also served as General Counsel for seeUthere Technologies, Inc. during its first years; seeUthere is a provider of event planning services and software.

Mr. Chang has published a number of articles on various legal and startup issues and has been a speaker on various intellectual property and corporate law issues.

Bar Admissions

State Bar of California, 1993
State Bar of Washington, 1993
Registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1993

Education

Juris Doctor, University of California, Hastings
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, San Jose State University
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Washington
B.A. in Economics, University of Washington