Bruce Wu is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP where his practice includes counseling clients on legal and strategic issues related to intellectual property. In particular, he counsels clients on procuring patents in the U.S. and abroad and evaluates with clients the values of their intellectual property portfolios. Dr. Wu works with clients from all sectors, particularly in the cleantech, nanotech, electronics, and biotech fields. Some examples of Dr. Wu's technical areas of experience include all aspects of materials science and engineering; and biomedical, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, and mechanical technologies.
Dr. Wu is very involved in the cleantech/greentech space. His experience includes fuel cells, electrochemical batteries, catalyst synthesis and characterization, carbon capture technologies, photovoltaic cells/solar panels, clean ceramic and cement fabrication, and water desalination technologies. His nanotechnologies experience entails nanoparticle syntheses and characterization, organic/inorganic printed electronics (such as LED), nano/micro electro-mechanical systems, carbon nanotube devices, microstructural engineering, grain boundary engineering, polymer technologies, novel alloy synthesis and various lithographic techniques.
Dr. Wu has worked with a diverse array of companies in electronic industries. His experience includes hardware design, information processing/analysis, and software development, including platform for information sharing on the web.
Dr. Wu is also active in the life sciences sector. His experiences encompass medical implants, medical devices, drug delivery systems, medical imaging systems, protein-based systems, biomolecule analyzing devices, and pharmaceutical composition syntheses, characterization, and delivery.
Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. and M.S. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A.Sc. in materials science and engineering from the University of Toronto with honor standing. He received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Dr. Wu recently taught a course in intellectual property law in the School of Management at George Mason University.
Dr. Wu has a strong interest in alternative dispute resolution, including negotiation and mediation.
Dr. Wu is multilingual. In addition to English, he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese, and proficient in French and Spanish.
Dr. Wu is admitted to the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, District of Columbia, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is also admitted to the bars of the Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Fourth Circuit, and Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia.
Exemplary Legal Publications
- "Defense Drivers for Nanotechnology Commercialization: Technology, Case Studies, and Legal Issues,” Nanotechnology Law & Business, Vol. 9, No. 4, Spring-Summer 2012 (co-author)
- "Examining AIA's High-Speed Inter Partes Review System" Law360, November, 2011 (first author)
- "The Road More Traveled- Common Pitfalls on the Way to a Patent", Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine & Nanobiotechnology, vol. 3, pp. 1-4, 2011 (co-author)
- "Survey of Recent Federal Circuit Opinions on Inequitable Conduct: What the Statistics Show", BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal, 79 PTCJ 299, 2010 (first author)
- "A Comparative View of Nanotechnology Patents in Japan and the U.S.: A Case Study of Two Patents," Issue 5.4, Nanotechnology Law & Business, 2008 (co-author)
Exemplary Scientific Publications
- Consequences of Long-Term Cyclic Indentation on Initially Intact Cartilage" (1st place in Ph.D. student paper competition), Summer Bioengineering Conference (ASME), 2007 (first author)
- "Nanostructured Ni-Co Alloys with Tailorable Grain Size and Twin Density," Metallurgy and Materials Transaction A (p.1927), 2005 (first author)
- "High Strain Rate Loading of nc Ni: Experiments and Simulation," Journal of Materials (v.56, p.300), 2004 (co-author)
- "Nanostructured Ni-Co Alloys with Tailorable Grain size and Twin Density" (finalist in the Poster Competition), Materials Research Society, Boston, 2004 (first author)
- "Nanostructured Ni-Co Alloys with Tailorable Grain Size and Twin Density," Metallurgy and Materials Transaction A (p.1927), 2005 (first author)
- "High Strain Rate Loading of nc Ni: Experiments and Simulation," Journal of Materials (v.56, p.300), 2004 (co-author)
- "Nanostructured Ni-Co Alloys with Tailorable Grain size and Twin Density" (finalist in the Poster Competition), Materials Research Society, Boston, 2004 (first author)