May Chan specializes in patent and intellectual property litigation, including copyright, trademark, trade secret, and complex civil litigation. May represents both plaintiffs and defendants in federal courts, U.S. International Trade Commission, and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She has helped clients in a wide variety of industries navigate patent cases from inception through trial. May has successfully first-chaired numerous Markman hearings. May’s clients include large and medium corporations, as well as start-up companies and individual inventors.
May is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She leverages her extensive technical background in patent cases and other complex cases involving technology and information management. She also has substantial experience managing E-Discovery, including electronic discovery planning, project managing, and the collection, processing, and review of electronically stored information (ESI).
Prior to attending law school, May worked for over 10 years as a telecommunications engineer at Verizon Laboratories. In that capacity, May designed network architectures for advanced telecommunications systems. She is the named inventor on four U.S. patents. May was also Director of Regulatory Affairs for Verizon Communications. She represented Verizon before federal regulatory agencies, including the FCC, FTC and FBI.