Melvin Li is a United States patent agent and a United Kingdom patent attorney. His IP practice is wide-ranging and international oriented, and he has been practicing patent law from Hong Kong since 1998.

He is particularly experienced in patent law in the U.S., U.K., Hong Kong and the greater China region. His patent qualifications from both the U.S. and U.K. make his practice unique.

Melvin has experience across many areas of IP strategy and patent work:

• IP auditing
• Pre-filing patentability search and advice
• Original drafting of patent specification
• Prosecution of patent applications
• Patent infringement advice through IP portfolio management

He helps larger corporations, universities and research-oriented companies, for which he typically handles biotechnology, biochemical and chemical cases.

Melvin represents mechanical and electro-mechanical inventors. Although his primary technical discipline is biotechnology, he also works in mechanical inventions and computer/software type inventions.

He has assisted clients in the high-end culinary industry with luxury culinary product brands in obtaining patent protection and defending against allegations of infringement in multiple jurisdictions.

Melvin worked at Bayer, Inc., and the Human Genome Center of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a research associate scientist for a number of years before entering the IP field. He is bilingual in Cantonese and English and conversant in Mandarin.