The George Washington University Law School

UCLA

Gary is the managing partner of Finnegan’s Taipei office.  He specializes in finding ways to solve clients’ intellectual property problems in the most effective and cost-efficient manner possible. Named by Intellectual Asset Management as a leader in litigation and transactions in Taiwan for multiple consecutive years, as well as a top IP strategist, he works with well-known, multi-national corporations and small, startup companies alike.

Gary represents clients in patent and trade secret litigations before U.S. district courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC). His litigation experience includes arguing motions and taking multiple cases to trial. He represents and counsels clients on inter partes reviews, reexaminations, and interference proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He also counsels clients on non-adversarial matters, including conducting freedom to operate and patentability opinions and helping clients to develop useful and valuable patent portfolios.

Gary has helped clients obtain favorable results in high-stakes patent licensing negotiations involving all sizes of patent portfolios, ranging from a few patents to thousands of patents. Drawing from his litigation and licensing experience, Gary counsels clients on various other patent matters, including strategic development of patent portfolios, and providing freedom-to-operate, patentability, non-infringement, and invalidity opinions.

Gary regularly lectures and authors articles on patent law topics. He lectures on U.S. patent litigation and Patent Licensing universities in Taiwan, and presents or participates in panels at advanced intellectual property law seminars in the United States and the Asia Pacific Region.

Gary Ma