Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP announced today that it has opened an office in Taipei, Taiwan to serve strategic client needs and increase access to the significant growing legal and commercial activity in the region. The office opened January 1, 2011.
Glenn Rhodes, one of the world’s leading intellectual property attorneys, will serve as Kilpatrick Townsend’s Managing Partner of the Taipei office. Three attorneys, including associates Dr. I-Wen Chu and Cindy Chou, and of counsel Dr. Y.S. Hsieh, will also be joining the firm. The entire team comes to Kilpatrick Townsend from the Taipei office of Howrey LLP, where Mr. Rhodes led that office since its founding in 2006.
Internationally, Kilpatrick Townsend now boasts two offices in Asia including Tokyo; one office in the Middle East in Dubai; and one European office in Stockholm, Sweden. The opening of the Taipei office comes after the recent mergers between Kilpatrick Stockton and Townsend and Townsend and Crew and Kilpatrick Stockton and Bell, Rosenberg & Hughes giving the combined firm of Kilpatrick Townsend nearly 650 attorneys.
“A fast-growing Kilpatrick Townsend, with its internationally-recognized intellectual property practice, is committed to creating a major presence in the region,” said Bill Dorris, Kilpatrick Townsend Chair. “This move will greatly facilitate business development and the building of relationships with existing and new clients located across Asia. A presence in Taiwan, along with our office in Tokyo, gives direct access to key markets across the region.”
Kilpatrick Townsend is poised to make a real difference in the burgeoning region. Glenn Rhodes brings to the firm over 16 years of experience working in Asia.
“The entire team is excited about joining Kilpatrick Townsend,” said Glenn Rhodes, who will serve as Managing Partner of Kilpatrick Townsend’s Taipei Office. “Kilpatrick Townsend’s intellectual property department, with more than 300 attorneys and a recognized leader in the field, provides the perfect platform for enhancing service to our growing list of clients. It was evident from my initial conversation with Kilpatrick Townsend leadership that the firm has a strong commitment to Asia and understands what it takes to succeed in the region.”
Glenn Rhodes, billed as one of only 250 world-class IP strategists by Intellectual Asset Management Magazine, represents a broad range of clientele in high-stakes intellectual property matters. Between 1999 and 2006, Mr. Rhodes engineered the litigation strategy resulting in three straight verdicts finding in favor of Celanese International Corporation on the issue of the infringement of Celanese’s patent covering a cutting-edge chemical manufacturing technology. Those verdicts resulted in two of the largest patent damage awards in Taiwan history, totaling more than US $100 MM.
Beyond intellectual property matters, Mr. Rhodes advocates on behalf of clients in a wide range of matters before trial and appellate courts. During the past ten years, Mr. Rhodes has successfully fought for asylum on behalf of numerous victims of persecution before the U.S Immigration Courts. In 2009, Mr. Rhodes successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on an important issue of federal court jurisdiction, achieving a unanimous Supreme Court decision for his client.
Mr. Rhodes is listed in Euromoney Legal Media Group’s 2007 and 2009 guides to The World’s Leading Patent Law Experts. Mr. Rhodes has been listed in the International Who’s Who of Patent Law Experts each year since 2002. From 1996 through 2003 Mr. Rhodes co-authored and edited the Patent Law Handbook (West Publishing). Mr. Rhodes is an Assistant Professor of Law at the National Chiao Tung University’s Institute of Technology Law in Hsinchu, Taiwan and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Koguan Law School in Shanghai, China. He received his JD, cum laude, from the University of Houston Law Center and his BA in Chemistry, magna cum laude, from William Jewell College.
Dr. I-Wen Chu is an associate who is also a licensed medical doctor in Australia, California and Taiwan. Dr. Chu’s practice focuses mainly on patent prosecution related to health and life sciences. She is fluent in both English and Mandarin and received her bachelors and masters in medicine, and her LLB, from the University of Sydney.
Cindy Chou is an associate who is licensed in Taiwan, New York and California. Ms. Chou’s practice focuses on patent infringement and anti-trust issues. She is fluent in Taiwanese, Mandarin and English. Ms. Chou received her bachelor of law from National Taiwan University. She clerked for Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall Rader. She also has an MBA from National Chengchi University, and an LLM from George Washington University.
Dr. Y.S. Hsieh serves as of counsel. Dr. Hsieh has a Ph.D. in IP Law from Beijing University and 25 years of experience in Taiwan law and litigation.
The Taipei office will remain at its current location of 129-131 Min Sheng East Road, Suite 702, Worldwide House.
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