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‘Our litigation department has the best expertise in Taiwan for handling international disputes,’ says Wei-Fu Hsu, general counsel of TSX-listed technology company MediaTek. The group’s current strength follows a decade-long, carefully planned out and executed introduction of comprehensive training and procedures, spearheaded by Hsu. Having spent over a decade building MediaTek’s in-house team, Hsu now leads 80 people in total across the legal and IP function of the business, and the number is still growing. After he joined the business, Hsu took an active role in building up the lines of communication, and devising training programs, compliance, corporate governance and legal policies and procedures. ‘I even had IP and legal exams for our engineers,’ he says. Most crucially, he turned his attention to the company’s approach to patent filing. ‘We were facing more and more patent litigation from competitors or companies trying to license their portfolios,’ he explained. ‘So I started aggressively purchasing thousands of quality patents’. Hsu has also handled several M&A projects, including the company’s $4.5bn MStar project.