BOUTIQUE
BUSINESS & IP FIRM
Resolving Legal Problems Arise In High-tech
Bethel and Jacobs are located in the heart of the Los Angeles area and Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan.
We focus on local tech, tech-enabled start-ups, and small businesses by assisting industrial professionals in a variety of legal matters relating to information technology sectors. Our clients usually have business ties or operational relationships with tech companies in Taiwan and California.
We provide our local community with trustworthily, critical, and affordable legal services. We represent our clients from the beginning of the transaction to the end of litigation.
Our legal practice concentrate on the information technology sector, with a handful of experience in cross-border civil litigations and judgment enforcement both in Taiwan and the United States.
We are also savvy in operating a virtual legal department to support extensive business work and legal follow-ups for tech or tech-enabled clients.
We push boundaries with you™
"It is one thing to walk in faith; it's another thing to keep on walking in faith."
PRACTICE
AREAS
LITIGATIONS / NEGOTIATIONS
We represent clients before state and federal courts and other arbitration proceedings and all Taiwanese courts.
We also represent or jointly participate in business activities to handle urgent legal follow-ups with sufficient high-tech domain knowledge and negotiate all types of contracts with full English and Chinese capacities.
ENTREPRENEURIAL SOLUTIONS
We advise our clients in business law, corporate, limited liability company and partnership matters, taxation, estate planning, and real estate.
We also help clients acquire, grow, protect, and transition their assets.
IP MONETIZATION
We help investors and inventors evaluate IP, identify hidden value, and find ways to monetize technology and innovation assets.
Our IP monetization advice reflects our experience turning ideas into money and the know-how we've learned from litigating IP cases on the plaintiff side of the courtroom.
LEGAL DEPARTMENT PLAN
We provide you a virtual in-house legal department with different monthly-plans, so you can balance your overhead and necessary consulting/legal services.
See more by clicking "Plans & Pricing"
"I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against those who swear falsely, against those who thrust aside the sojourner." Malachi 3:5
PRE-SUIT INVESTIGATIONS & FORENSIC ACCOUNTING
We assist you in investigations in order to be ready for whatever the future may hold.
REMOTE CONSULTATION PLAN
We understand the challenges to run a start-up, especially in a remote area! Even we are an LA-based firm, we still want to help other regional startups to strive.
WHY CHOOSE US
Because we are more than a law firm™
We engineer our services as modules like a manufacturer, we integrate our services with clients' operation like their own legal department, we contrive our services as kernels with add-on applications as like a software company to timely configure into clients' dynamic business demands.
We sharpen our practice on a few industries based on the geographical distribution of each industry's supply chain, to maximize the benefit of our services, and, to offer competitive rates.
We are effectively and culturally bilingual in Mandarin and English to represent our clients in any business or judicial setting in Taiwan and the United States with effective communication skills.
We hold our belief to our clients and pray for what they are striving to achieve in this world:
"Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others, knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due payment of the inheritance; be slaves of the Lord Christ." (Colossians 3: 23-24)
Our mission is to wrestle angels with our clients for their success.
To our enemies, we say to them "DO NOT ROB GOD." Malachi 3:8-10
WHO WE ARE
Jacob S. Wang, Esq,
Mr. Wang, with more than 15 years of international practice experience, is both a litigator and transactional attorney, educated, and admitted to the bar in the United States and Taiwan.
In the transactional arena, Mr. Wang is one of the very few industry-oriented lawyers. Mr. Wang is savvy in information technology sectors and manufacturing collaboration between the U.S. and Taiwanese companies. He advises clients on intellectual property and complex business transactions and provides general counsel on a variety of legal issues that impact the bottom line. He also represents clients in more than 1,000 contract negotiations.
In the litigation arena, Mr. Wang is one of the very few out-of-town defense attorneys adept at patent infringement litigations, multi-District Litigation complex antitrust class action defense, and corporate disputes. He tries cases in several U.S. federal courts and Taiwanese courts.
Mr. Wang's exceptional language capacities in writing, reading, speaking, and listening, both Chinese and English, allow him to participate in cross-border business activities and litigations to protect clients' interests.
COURT ADMISSIONS
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All courts of the State of California
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United States District Courts, Central District of California
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United States District Courts, Northern District of California
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United States District Court, Southern District of Texas
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United States Tax Court
MEMBERSHIPS
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State Bar of California
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Los Angeles County Bar Association
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San Fernando Valley Bar Association
EDUCATIONS
United States
Indiana University Bloomington - LL.M.
Glendale University College of Law - J.D.
Taiwan
Yuan Ze University - M.S. Ch. E.
National Tsing Hua University - LL.M.
Chung Yuan Christian University - LL.B.
Chung Yuan Christian University - B.S.
CONFERENCES
PUBLICATIONS
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Start-ups, Think About Taiwan Makers, a Solution for U.S.-China Trade War” (Oct. 2019) [English]
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Enforcement of US Judgments in Taiwan, How! (Nov. 2019), [English]
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What CARES Act Can do to Start-ups” (Apr. 2020), www.bethelandjacobs.com [English]
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Medical Negligence, Loss of Chance Doctrine, Not in Cal.” (Jun. 2020), [English]
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Trademark Use Doctrine –Ground on Internet Keywords Adversity”, 8 Journal of Perspectives on Law (Mar. 2009). [Chinese]
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Trademark Use Analysis Ground on Case Study”, (Aug. 2008) [Chinese]
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“Fair Use in Copyright's Position the Angle on Economics Analysis & Traditional Way”, 16 Chung
Yuan Financial & Economic Law Rev. 193 (2006). [Chinese] -
Intellectual Property Dispute Alternative Resolution in Arbitration- the Empirical approach of IP Protect and Economic analysis measure for Taiwan IC Industry”, 4 ChihLee Financial and Economics Law Symposium 96 (2007). [English]
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Academic Report from the Euro-Asian IP Forum II Discussion The Limitation of Contemporary System in Knowledge Trading, Euro-Asian IP Forum II (2006). [English]
2009 Legal Globalization: How Diversity among the World’s Judicial Systems Affects the Transnational Lawyer’s
Panelist, Bloomington, IN
2018 Consero Global IP Management Forum: New Perspectives on Handling Trolls and NPEs Practic Panelist, Pasadena, CA
CONTACT
BETHEL & JACOBS
You were born to dance to the beat of your own hearts; To roam without cages with the innocence of children and the free spirit of untamed horses
OUR ADDRESS
Los Angeles Office
15030 Ventura Blvd, Los Angeles, California 91403
Email: jake@bethelandjacobs.com
Tel: +1.626.873.4865
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