Background

Jeffrey W. Wong is a partner with the Waterloo Region office. Jeffrey graduated from Electrical Engineering (Computing Option) at Queens University in 1997.

Jeffrey is qualified as a Canadian and United States patent agent after passing the patent agent exams on his first attempt.

Areas of Practice

• Waterloo Regional Manager of the Asia Pacific Group.
• Assisting clients in the management of patent portfolios.
• Preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications specializing in high tech, software, business methods and mechanical; this includes performing searches and providing opinions with respect to the patentability of a client’s idea, and to determine a client’s freedom to operate.
• Preparation and filing of provisional applications.
• Preparation and filing of industrial design applications.
• Registered to practice before the United States and Canadian Patent Offices.

Professional Experience

• Managing patent portfolio for multi-national clients and for entrepreneurs.
• Assisting entrepreneurs in determining their intellectual property.
• Working with CEO’s to maximize the value of their intellectual property.

Professional and Community Activities

• Vice-President, Kitchener-Waterloo IPIC Informals Group
• Member, Communitech Waterloo Region Technology Association, Canada’s Technology Triangle and Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce
• Associate, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
• Member, Professional Engineers of Ontario
• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• Supervisor, OASIS Drop-in Centre of Kitchener-Waterloo

Recent Speaking Engagements

• Numerous speaking engagements at Canadian Universities
• 'Intellectual Property 101', IMPACT University of Waterloo Exposition, Waterloo, Ontario
  (September, 2006)
• 'Patentable Subject Manner', IEEE Meeting, Halifax (2000)