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Tayan specializes in Technology related transactions and IP portfolio management involving comprehensive auditing, development, monetization, and risk mitigation strategies in High-tech and Life Sciences. From mature start-ups to Fortune 50 companies servicing both commercial and government demands, Tayan employs a holistic approach to understand key stakeholders' objectives and provide practical business advice. He then leads teams of attorneys to execute the strategic vision.Tayan's transactional and litigation experience over the last 15 years spans a vast array of technologies including wireless and optical communications, software/AI/ML, IoT, 5G/6G, cloud computing, data analytics, semiconductor, AR/VR, fintech and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), consumer electronics, heavy machinery, medical equipment, and chemical/material/pharmaceutical compositions and processing. As a trusted business counselor, Tayan leads teams to secure opportunities with prospective investors, collaborators, and license/sale candidates; performs IP and Technology due diligence and valuations; and structures complementary IP, technology, data rights, and commercial agreements.As a former patent examiner, Tayan is skilled at helping clients navigate cases through the USPTO's complex ecosystem. His ability to quickly understand difficult issues and thoughtfully communicate arguments to examiners and administrative patent judges helps minimize the cost and time spent procuring rights, as well as preserving broad claim scope post-grant to deter competitive encroachment. As needed, Tayan and his team provide strategic counseling on post-grant vehicles such as reissue, reexamination, and supplemental examination to strengthen patent assets in view of related licensing and assertion campaigns, or when confronted with invalidity challenges. Defensively, the team routinely monitors competitive IP assets and provides risk assessments and strategic counseling to help clients make calculated decisions on appropriate non-contentious and contentious mitigation options.

Listed skills include Patent Prosecution, Copyright Law, Invention, Patent Applications, and 22 others.