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Charles Gray serves as Managing Partner for the firm's Shanghai office. Charles focuses his practice on patent counseling and prosecution of both U.S. and international patent applications. In addition, he has significant experience in providing patent invalidity and infringement analysis and drafting written opinions. He advises his clients on a wide range of intellectual property matters, including licensing negotiations.
Charles counsels his clients in a variety of technology fields, with a particular emphasis on computer networking, satellite, cellular, and other wireless communications, computer architecture, software systems and financial transactions.
Charles has an extensive Asian-area practice with a focus on Chinese patent counseling and prosecution. He has lived and worked in Asia and has extensive knowledge of Chinese patent practice and is also fluent in Mandarin Chinese. He is a guest lecturer at Fudan University in Shanghai, Hong Kong University and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Prior to practicing law, Charles was a software engineer and project manager, where he developed adaptive language, music, and mathematics learning software. Charles also developed collaborative legal English learning software and program environments designed for Chinese judges and attorneys.
Charles was recognized as a top patent practitioner in 2025 and the five years immediately preceding by IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners and in the 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025 editions of IAM Strategy 300: The World's Leading IP Strategists. He was named a "Patent Leader" in 2023 and 2024 by World IP Review. Charles was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® in 2023, 2024 and 2025 for Patent Law. He was named one of the "Top Patent Attorneys of 2023" by Patexia. Charles was also recognized as a Colorado "Rising Star" in the area of Intellectual Property by Super Lawyers magazine in 2013.
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University of Denver College of Law J.D. (2006)
Brigham Young University B.S. (2003) Computer Science
Colorado
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (2007)
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