Eddie Wang Rodriguez, J.D.

Mr. Rodriguez is a Principal of Fish and Richardson, one of the largest firms practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law.

Mr. Rodriguez was the recipient of ABA Business Leadership Award in 2004 and was selected by San Diego Metropolitan as one of "40 of the brightest young professionals, executives, entrepreneurs and civic leaders in San Diego County" under the age of 40 in 2003. Rodriguez's practice focuses on the representation of both public and private companies in a full range of corporate and securities matters, including corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, venture financing, technology licensing, and general business counseling. He has extensive experience with counseling companies in the life science, software, hardware, telecommunications, e-commerce, and information technology industries in a broad range of transactional matters. Prior to joining Fish & Richardson P.C. in October 2002, Rodriguez was a partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP where he led the mergers and acquisitions group for Brobeck's San Diego office.

Mr. Rodriguez earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he was editor in chief at the Stanford Journal of International Law, and articles editor for the Stanford Law and Policy Review. He gives freely of his time to many organizations, especially those that focus on the advancement of young companies and entrepreneurs, including the US-CHINA Entrepreneurs Association, UCR CONNECT, UCSD CONNECT, SDSU Business School Entrepreneur Society, and the San Diego Chinese Association.