The Patent Diversity Project Clinic is a semester-long clinic that provides students an opportunity to work with under-represented inventors to obtain patents.
Victor Wang, Director
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Patent Diversity Clinic Director
Victor Wang
Victor Wang brings over a decade of experience in intellectual property law to the Patent Diversity Clinic. He has extensive experience in all aspects of patent practice, in both the U.S. and abroad. He has overseen the Cardozo/Google Patent Diversity Project, which is dedicated to helping people from underrepresented backgrounds secure patents. Before joining Cardozo’s faculty, he was a patent litigator, prosecutor, and transactional attorney at Baker McKenzie, where he was also a member of the recruiting committee. Victor was also a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where he reviewed patents in the Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Memory art unit. He is a proud graduate of Cardozo School of Law, Class of 2015.
Students work with the director of the program to analyze an invention’s patentability, conduct prior art searches, draft provisional patent applications, and provide counseling related to patent prosecution. Students will attend an hour-long weekly seminar to learn the skills necessary to become successful patent attorneys, such as patent prosecution pitfalls and portfolio development strategies that are integral to their client’s success. Students will also develop an understanding of how race and gender affect inventorship and patenting activity and explore strategies for addressing those gaps.