Stephen Y. Chow

Biography

Stephen Y. Chow is managing attorney of the Boston law firm, Hsuanyeh Law Group PC, practicing in business and intellectual property litigation, patent preparation, electronic commerce and privacy, and technology company counseling and transactions. Mr. Chow graduated from Harvard University with an AB in Physics and Philosophy cum laude and an SM in Applied Physics and from Columbia University with a JD as a Stone Scholar. He is admitted to practice and practices in Massachusetts, New York and the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Applying knowledge and leadership across the full spectrum of proprietary rights in information, life sciences, and technology in contexts involving competition, employment and entity governance law, for forty years, Mr. Chow has counseled and litigated for technology enterprises from start-up to multi-national in expanding their information asset portfolios and in resolving their technology and trade disputes. Having successfully managed parallel federal district court and International Trade Commission defenses against the industry leader in the early days of cellular telephony, he has continued to trouble-shoot for emerging enterprises ranging from their capitalization and recapitalization to assertion and defense of their patents in court and before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board.

Mr. Chow served twenty years ago on the influential drafting committees of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws on the proposed UCC Article 2B (Licenses) and the nearly universally adopted Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and remains active in developing legislation involving the convergence of commercial and intellectual property law. Among his recent projects are the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets and the Uniform Employee and Student Online Protection Act. He serves on the Conference’s Technology [Legislation Editorial] Committee, its current Drafting Committee on Tort Law Relating to Drones, as well as its Standby Committee on UN Convention on E-Commerce. He was a member of the US delegation to the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group VI (Secured Transactions – Intellectual Property Supplement).

Mr. Chow is an elected and active member of the American Law Institute, consulting on the “principles” projects on data economy, data privacy, international intellectual property law and software licensing and the “restatement” projects on conflict of laws, consumer contracts, copyright, employment, and international commercial arbitration law. He wrote the Matthew Bender/Lexis-Nexis legal treatise, E-Commerce and Communications, has revised and updated its treatises International Computer Law and Law of the Internet, and has edited and written the continuing legal education association prize-winning Data Security and Privacy in Massachusetts. Mr. Chow taught from 1995 to 2013 the Suffolk Law School courses, “Litigating Technology Disputes” and “Counseling Technology-Leading Emerging Enterprises” and will teach the Boston University School of Law course, “Intellectual Property Rights and Commerce in the Global ‘Cloud’.” He is a frequent instructor and panel organizer for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education in data privacy and security, software and technology licensing.

Mr. Chow is currently chair of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section’s Division IV (Specialized IP), comprising the Antitrust, Design Law, Digital Games & New Media, Information Technology, IP Monetization & Valuation, IP Transactions & Licensing, Marketing and Promotional Law, Right of Publicity and Trade Secrets Committees. He has also served as a member of the Association’s Cybersecurity Legal Task Force.