Welcome
to Joseph Yang's Web Page
"I would rather discover a single fact, even a small
one, than debate the great issues at length without discovering anything at
all." -- Galileo Galilei
I am Vice
President and General Counsel of Cryptography Research, Inc., in San
Francisco, California, where I
am responsible for the company’s legal affairs. As an intellectual property specialist, I
enjoy negotiating strategic alliances and technology licensing agreements, as
well as managing the development and enforcement of the company’s
intellectual property portfolio.
I am also a partner in PatentEsque Law Group, LLP, a Silicon
Valley law firm. I
specialize in technology transactions (licensing, outsourcing, strategic
alliances, joint ventures), as well as counseling clients on how to utilize
their intellectual property (especially patents) as strategic business assets. Some of my recent deals have included the
licensing of a cryptographic security patent portfolio, the sale of an internet
search engine division, the establishment of a pharmaceutical company joint
venture, the negotiation of technology development agreements for an internet
television company, and the outsourcing of a insurance company's IT
operations. In the patent area, I have recently worked on projects
involving electronic commerce infrastructure technologies such public key
cryptography, data mining, and distributed computing. For more detailed
information on my practice, click here.
Before that, I was Counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in Palo Alto, California, where I co-founded, and
later led, the intellectual property transactions practice in the firm’s Palo
Alto, California office.
Before joining Skadden Arps,
I was an attorney at McCutchen Doyle Brown
and Enersen, a California-based litigation
firm. Before that, I was in the Silicon
Valley intellectual property practice of Weil, Gotshal and Manges, a New
York-based law firm. My first legal job was analyzing patents in the
semiconductor industry (Nikon Precision Research Center).
Before becoming an attorney, I was a research
engineer in the energy (Shell) and aeronautics (TRW)
industries.
I am also a frequent speaker on technology law topics,
and have taught Patent
Law and Policy at U.C. Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School
of Law.
I was educated at the California Institute
of Technology, where I received a Ph.D.
in Jet Propulsion (think of
"rocket science" or, more generally, aeronautics & applied
physics) and a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science.
I also hold a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
In my spare time, I recruit for Caltech,
for which I have served as President of the San Francisco chapter, and on the
Board of Directors of, the Caltech
Alumni Association. I also belong to the Caltech Associates.
To contact me, send email to joe@patentesque.com. If
you are trying to reach patent attorney Roxana H. Yang, go to roxana@patentesque.com.
I hope
you had a good visit.