Wei-Fu Hsu Email & Phone Number

Wei-Fu Hsu is a CEO at Universal Worthy LLC based in Saratoga, California, United States, North America. Mr. Hsu was formerly the Corporate Vice President and General Counsel of MediaTek, Inc. until late 2016. He joined MediaTek in late 2003 and has since built up the MediaTek’s legal department to become one of the best and largest in Taiwan. He set up all MediaTek’s legal and IP policies and processes from scratch, successfully supervised many litigations and disputes, concluded tens of M&A cases, including the US$4.5 billion MediaTek/MStar deal and the US$600M MediaTek/Ralink deal, and built up an IP portfolio from less than 50 patents to about twelve thousand patents and applications, including hundreds of SEPs. Mr. Hsu has practiced law in the US at several large international law firms. Before entering the legal profession, he was a senior circuit design engineer at National Semiconductor Corporation in Silicon Valley for several years. Since 2014, Mr. Hsu was named as one of the top 100 most influential and innovative in-house counsels in the Asia Pacific by Legal 500. Under his leadership, MediaTek was listed by Thomson Reuters in 2014, 2015 and 2016 as one of the top 100 Global Innovators based on the strength of its patent portfolio. Mr. Hsu was named among the 2015 IAM Strategy 300 -- the World's Leading IP Strategists -- by the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine. He was also invited by Financial Times in its 2015 and 2016 Asia-Pacific Innovative General Counsels and his team was commended in the FT Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers 2015 report. He was the major driving forces behind Taiwan’s new Trade Secret Law in 2013. Mr. Hsu was a board director in many organizations and a committee member in many other organizations. Mr. Hsu received his BSEE degree from National Cheng Kung University in 1984, MSEE degree from San Jose State University in 1988, and JD degree from the University of Washington in 1997. He is licensed to practice in Washington and California states, the federal courts, and also before the US PTO.