Candy KY Chen

Candy KY Chen is a partner of the international patent department at Tsai Lee & Chen Patent Attorneys & Attorneys at Law.

She is a professional engineer, a registered Taiwan patent attorney and a registered US patent agent.

Ms Chen specialises in technology-related intellectual property – in particular, patent prosecution and invalidation for mechanical, automation and software-related inventions, as well as industrial designs. She is also proficient in administrative litigation proceedings. She has assisted many Fortune 500 corporations in filing and managing their patent portfolios. She also provides legal consultation on patent validity.

Ms Chen received her bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and her master’s in manufacturing engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also received an LLM in Taiwan.

Ms Chen was a member of the Patent Examination Quality Advisory Committee convened by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office from 2011 to 2017. She was also a member of the Board of Supervisors of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association Taiwan Group from 2012 to 2018, and of the Taiwan Patent Attorneys Association from 2015 to 2018. Ms Chen is currently a co-chair of the Design Committee of both the Asian Patent Attorneys Association Taiwan Group and the Taiwan Patent Attorneys Association. She is also a member of the International Board of Council of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association and an independent member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property.