Tyler Bird is an associate in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on patent prosecution and strategic intellectual property counseling in a wide range of technical fields including medical devices, climate engineering, fusion energy, material science, and other engineering fields. His expertise includes patent strategy, patent prosecution, and patent diligence–including freedom-to-operate analyses–for financings, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings. He provides legal counseling to companies at various stages of growth, from pre-financing start-ups to public companies.

During law school, Tyler advised university and local start-up clients through Duke Law’s Start-Up Ventures Clinic while earning his joint J.D./LL.M. degree in Law & Entrepreneurship.

Prior to joining the firm, Tyler conducted material science research at the Applied Superconductivity Center of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.