Summary
Annie Wang is a Principal IP Counsel at Tencent America with over 17 years of combined law firm and in-house experience bridging deep technical roots and strategic intellectual property practice. With an M.S. in Computer Science and early experience as a software engineer at Microsoft, she counsels on complex technologies including AI, cloud, edge security, blockchain, WLAN/5G and video codecs, and specializes in building high-quality patent portfolios under resource constraints. She brings hands-on expertise across patent and trademark prosecution, standards and open source licensing, litigation support, and IP due diligence for M&A, having shaped IP strategy at Aruba/HPE and prominent law firms before joining Tencent. Recognized by Tencent and the First Chair Awards, she is noted for aligning IP programs to industry standards and global commercialization goals. A subtle strength is her technical-first perspective—able to translate engineering tradeoffs into protective, business-focused IP decisions.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Beijing No.4 High School
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Michigan State University
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Peking University
Certificate of Completion Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law , Certificate of Completion Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
J.D. Intellectual property law, J.D. Intellectual property law at Santa Clara University School of Law
English, Chinese