Tao Zhang
is Associate General Counsel of IP and Technology at ANSYS, Inc. Her main
responsibilities include patent portfolio development, open source compliances,
trademark and copyright management, product license enforcement, IP transaction
agreement negotiations, and M&A IP due diligences. Prior to ANSYS,
she was Senior Director of IP strategy at Huawei Device USA. Before
Huawei, Dr, Zhang was with Hewlett-Packard for 23 years.
Dr. Zhang
is a member of the California Bar and a registered patent attorney with the US
Patent and Trademark Office. She is author of the book “Mining Ideas for
Diamonds –
Comparing China and US IP Practices from Invention Selection to Patent
Monetization”. She also authored the article “Call for
Standardization in Patent Claim Drafting”, Santa
Clara High Tech Law Journal, Volume 34, Issue 3 (April 2018). Dr,
Zhang was recognized by the IAM
Strategy 300 in 2015, 2017 and 2018.
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