Tim Tingkang Xia, Ph.D.

Tim devotes his practice to both foreign and U.S. intellectual property and corporate matters, offering tailored solutions for clients’ unique needs. He advises clients through all phases of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, patentability, clearance, infringements, validity, licensing, and patent portfolio management.

Tim’s clients range from individual inventors and high-tech startups to large international corporations and prestigious research universities. He represents clients before various U.S. governmental agencies, including the CFIUS, DOJ, OEE of DOC, and SEC. Tim also has extensive experience in commercial and intellectual property litigation, serving as lead counsel in more than 70 cases, including ITC Section 337 investigations.

Tim helps clients navigate complex legal landscapes, particularly when entering, expanding, and sustaining their businesses in the U.S. His technical background as a physicist enhances his understanding of diverse technologies, from telecommunications and nanotechnologies to medical devices and green energy technologies.

• Acting as lead counsel in several related high-profile cases, such as Ralls Corp. v. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, et al.; Ralls Corporation v. Tema Energy USA Holding Corporation; and United States of America v. Ralls Corporation.
• Acting as lead managing counsel for more than 60 significant multiparty, multivenue, and multipatent litigations, as well as commercial litigations since 2004.
• Acting as a principal outside worldwide patent counsel for several world-class research institutions by drafting, architecting, and managing portfolios each with hundreds of U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications since 2002, where the related technologies are cutting-edge, complicated, and multidiscipline in nature.
• Acting as lead counsel representing an international technology company for completing an OEE investigation.
• Acting as lead counsel representing a leading global telecom company in ongoing multigovernment agencies’ investigations.

• IAM Patent 1000, Patent Prosecution (2013-2025)
• Super Lawyers® Georgia, Intellectual Property (2007, 2010-2024)
• Lexology, Client Choice Award, Intellectual Property – Patents, Georgia (2014)
• Contribution to the Education in Peking University Award (2013)
• Chambers USA, Intellectual Property (2009-2014)
• Georgia Trend, Best Lawyers in Georgia, Intellectual Property (2008, 2011-2012)