Min Wang - Partner

• Intellectual Property
• Outsourcing

• 2003, Illinois

  2003, United States Patent and Trademark Office

• University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 2003 summa cum laude, Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, University of Illinois Law Review
  Rickert Awards for Excellence in Academic Achievement, Legal publications; Lincoln Scholar.
• California Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Biology, 2000 Ferguson Fund Fellowship, Amgen Fund Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship
• Fudan University, B.S., Genetics & Genetic Engineering, 1991 with Honors
  First Prize Scholarship

• Chinese

Professional Profile

Min Wang is an intellectual property partner in Kirkland's Chicago office. Her practice involves intellectual property and technology related transactions, including software, trademark, patent and technology licensing, outsourcing, research and development, manufacturing, supply, distribution and other commercial agreements. She advises clients on intellectual property and technology issues that arise in mergers, acquisitions, private equity and venture capital financing, and other forms of corporate and financing transactions. She has also represented plaintiffs and defendants in patent, trade secret and business tort litigation. 

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Memberships & Affiliations

American Bar Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Publications

M. Wang, Regulating the Domain Name System: Is the ".biz" Domain Name Distribution Scheme an Illegal Lottery?, 2003 University of Illinois Law Review 245-88 (2003).

B. P. Gupta, M. Wang, and P. W. Sternberg, The C. elegans LIM Homeobox Gene lin-11 Specifies Multiple Cell Fates During Vulval Development, 130 Development 2589-2601 (2003).

M. Wang and P. W. Sternberg, Patterning of the C. elegans 1° Vulval Lineage by RAS and Wnt Pathways, 127 Development 5047-58 (2000).

M. Wang and P. W. Sternberg, Pattern Formation During C. elegans Vulval Induction, 51 Current Topics in Developmental Biology 189-220 (2000).

A. P. Newman, T. Inoue, M. Wang, and P. W. Sternberg, C. elegans Heterochronic Gene lin-29 Coordinates the Vulval-Uterine-Epidermal Connections, 10 Current Biology 1479-88 (2000).

M. Wang and P. W. Sternberg, Competence and Commitment of Caenorhabditis elegans Vulval Precursor Cells, 212 Developmental Biology 12-24 (1999).

J. L. Riechmann, M. Wang, and E. M. Meyerowitz, DNA-Binding Properties of Arabidopsis MADS Domain Homeotic Proteins APETALA1, APETALA3, PISTILLATA and AGAMOUS, 24 Nucleic Acids Research 3134-41 (1996).

L. Yu, M. Wang, et al., Comparing the Frequencies of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms for Dystrophin Gene in Chinese with Those in Japanese and Caucasian Populations, 3 Cell Research 39-47 (1993).