Albert Wai-Kit Chan is a senior partner of DeHeng Chen Chan, LLC. He is a former research scientist who forged his legal career by combining his training as a molecular biologist with the emerging legal needs of the biotechnology industry in the late 1980s. A former partner at the intellectual property firm of Cooper & Dunham, LLP, in New York, Dr. Chan handles all areas of intellectual property law (including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets), but his specialty is biotechnology patents. He is well-versed in all aspects of prosecution and litigation and is experienced in licensing, technology transfer and the evaluation of intellectual property portfolios in preparation for initial public offerings. Dr. Chan works extensively with both U.S. and international companies. He has helped scores of scientists and inventors obtain the intellectual property protection they need to be competitive in their fields. His clients include prestigious research institutes as well as individual inventors.

Active in a number of legal organizations, Dr. Chan was the former president of the United States-China Lawyers Society which aims at promoting freedom of exchange of legal ideas and professionals between the United States and China. Dr. Chan is also an adjunct professor of law at The City University of New York School of Law, where he teaches classes on intellectual property law, internet and the law, patent law, technology transfer, and food and drug law and international business law.

Dr. Chan is founder of the United States-China Intellectual Property Institute, a non-profit organization designed to encourage understanding and the free exchange of technology between the United States and China. USCIPI has as its main goal the education of Chinese and American scientists, engineers, and potential inventors. It serves as a bridge between the U.S., a country well-established in Intellectual Property laws and China, a country in the process of establishing such laws.

Dr. Chan received his J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Virology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and he completed his postdoctoral training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York as an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow.