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Ms. Wen Zou is a partner at AnJie Law Firm and works in Shenzhen office. Before joining AnJie, Ms. Zou worked in Criminal Tribunal and Intellectual property Tribunal of Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court for more than ten years and handled hundreds of criminal cases and thousands of intellectual property cases. She participated in the trial of cases involving economic crimes such as smuggling, fraud, and illegal absorption of public funds, as well as white collar crimes including corruption and bribery. Ms. Zou was the presiding judge in various high-profile and difficult civil cases involving patent, trademark and antitrust issues and complicated criminal cases involving intellectual property matters. Also, she participated in the trial of various cases involving SEPs (standard-essential patents).

Ms. Zou’s practice areas cover major and difficult litigation and arbitration cases involving intellectual property, criminal-and-civil cross-protection of corporate trade secrets, and corporate criminal risk prevention and control. Since joining Anjie, Ms. Zou has provided criminal and civil legal services related to trade secrets for various multinational corporations, domestic listed companies and Internet giants, which have secured positive outcome, including obtaining a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit and having the criminal suspects being taken compulsory measures. Ms. Zou also provides comprehensive legal services in the patent war between reputable companies and their competitors, including SEP disputes, etc., such as patent purchase, analysis, litigation strategies and enforcement; and provides legal services of combined litigation of protection and counterattack, risk prevention and control for domestic and international well-known enterprises on core trademarks and other rights and interests. In addition, Ms. Zou provides legal services in emerging fields such as criminal risk control, SEP analysis of audio and video and patent analysis of blockchain for Internet companies.

Mr. Ronald Yu, Esq. (余克偉) is a Board Member and a Founding Team member of IIPCC which became a WIPO Permanent Observer in 2016 and an Advisor and Partner to WIPO Green in 2017 and an advisor to WIPO ADR the year after. He started in Information Technology Industry before obtaining his JD and LLM.

Mr. Yu is also a U.S. Patent Agent, digital forensics examiner, holds patents, has published articles on online learning, digital forensics, intellectual property, information technology, copyright law and constitutional law and written blog posts, book chapters and books on Electronic Evidence, Patent Law, Intellectual Property for Business and 3D Printing, blockchain, the law and AI and started companies involved in technical writing, education, computer localization and technical public relations.

He has taught classes on:

1. Intellectual Property Law in Information Technology
2. Patent law
3. Intellectual Property Strategy,
   developed compliance training programs and lectured on IP valuation to the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department.

Prof. Peter K. Yu (余家明) is Professor of Law, Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. He previously held the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University Law School and was Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. He served as a visiting professor of law at Bocconi University, Hanken School of Economics, Hokkaido University, the University of Haifa, the University of Helsinki, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Strasbourg and Washington and Lee University. He also founded the nationally renowned Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University, at which he held faculty appointments in law, communication arts and sciences, and Asian studies.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law. He also writes and lectures extensively on international trade, international and comparative law, and the transition of the legal systems in China and Hong Kong. A prolific scholar and an award-winning teacher, he is the author or editor of seven books and more than 150 law review articles and book chapters. He is the Director of Studies of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served as the general editor of The WIPO Journal published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Professor Yu has spoken at events organized by WIPO, the International Telecommunication Union, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Chinese, EU and U.S. governments and at leading research institutions from around the world. His lectures and presentations have spanned over 30 countries on six continents. He is a frequent commentator in the national and international media. His publications have appeared in Chinese and English and have been translated into Arabic, French, Hausa, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. They are available on his website at www.peteryu.com.

Dr. Helen Yu is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law. Her research focus is in exploring how existing intellectual property and policy tools can be leveraged to improve and proactively support the transformation of biomedical research into socially and economically beneficial outcomes. In this context, she adopts an interdisciplinary approach to studying how technology, open innovation, business models, public private partnerships, and the law can inform the development of an innovation platform that is responsive and reflective to the interests of stakeholders. Helen holds a degree in neuroscience from the University of British Columbia, a Juris Doctor from Queen’s University, and practiced as an intellectual property lawyer for 8 years before obtaining her PhD at the University of Copenhagen. Helen is also a Registered Patent Agent with extensive European and North American experience.

Mr. Yu Bo’s practice focuses on trademark prosecution and contentious work, including administrative, criminal and civil enforcement of clients’ IP rights in China.

Yu Bo has experience across a broad spectrum of industries, including high-tech, computer hardware and software products, consumer electronics, aerospace, machinery and heavy equipment, automobiles, tobacco, e-cigarette, food and beverages, and luxury goods.

Recent representation include: assisting a global food and industrial company in successfully defending a multimillion dollar damage claim and various enforcement actions initiated by a local trademark pirate before various levels of courts in China; assisting a well-known fashion brand in closing down fake stores in China through civil actions; assisting a US company in successfully resolving a major trademark piracy issue through innovative proceedings before the PRC Trademark Office and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board; assisting a leading consumer electronics company with its administrative, criminal and civil enforcement of IP rights in China; assisting a famous European beverage brand in protecting its trade dress and trademark in a civil action selected by the PRC Supreme People’s Court as one of the 50 Model Cases in 2018 due to its breakthrough in addressing certain legal issues. 

Mr. Rong Xie is a partner of the Law Offices of Albert Wai-Kit Chan, PLLC. His practice involves patent and trademark prosecution, patent interference, IP due diligence, licensing, technology transfer, IP-related business transactions and cross-the-border investments. He also helps clients formulate IP strategies and secure regulatory approvals. Mr. Xie has been working extensively with technology start-up companies in China and the U.S. Over the years, he has represented both industrial and institutional investors and has advised clients in various industries including automotive electronics system, building material, construction, chemistry, healthcare, fashion, software, and energy.

Mr. Xie has been an active speaker on patent law development and technology transfer between China and the U.S. He has also been actively involved in legal organizations including, among others, United States-China Intellectual Property Institute, Inc. (a New York Not-For-Profit Corporation). Mr. Xie co-taught IP classes at CUNY law school in 2013.

Mr. Xie has a bachelor’s degree of law from Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (formerly known as “Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade”) (Shanghai, China), a master’s degree of law from Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, U.S.), and a master degree of science in computer science from Pace University (New York, U.S.). He is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the State of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Well recognized as a luminary, Kenny Wong has received closed to 120 awards as a leading IP practitioner in Hong Kong and China. His experience covers the full spectrum of IP/IT laws. He also practices franchise law, advising clients on setting up franchised operations in Hong Kong and the PRC. Besides conventional IP/IT work, he enjoys an enviable gaming and entertainment practice acting for gaming operators, A-list artistes, singers, film directors, film production companies and record companies. In particular, he is unique in understanding and handling collaborations between the film industries in Hong Kong, China and the US.

Besides his busy practice, Kenny is also a seasoned and popular lecturer and is amongst the first to help design and provide CPD courses. He is currently as an Adjunct Associate Professor of the University of Hong Kong and has taught courses on Cybercrime and Intellectual Property. This year, he and an in-house counsel of a leading broadcaster have designed and co-taught a new Entertainment Law course for HKU. In addition to his part-time teaching, he has delivered over 140 lectures, seminars and presentations to judges, IP enforcement officers, lawyers, enterprises, and members of the public on IP and IT subjects in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States. In May, he completed a three-seminar intellectual property programme he designed specifically for the film, music and entertainment industries of Hong Kong organised by the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong and co-organised/supported by the Performing Artistes Guild, the Scriptwriters Guild and the Directors Guild and Invest Hong Kong.

Kenny publishes extensively too. He co-authored Intellectual Property Law and Practice in Hong Kong, a recommended text by the three universities in Hong Kong which offer IP courses. He is also the co-author of the IP chapters in the tort reference book Tort Law & Practice in Hong Kong. His two popular booklets on IP Licensing and Due Diligence are jointly published by the Hong Kong Government and the Law Society of Hong Kong for free distribution.

Kenny serves on a number of professional committees and provides pro bono legal services to a few charities in Hong Kong. He is the chairman of the IP Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong which is always busy making recommendations on the IP laws and practice in Hong Kong. He is an honorary legal adviser of Wai Yin Association – a charitable organisation set up by Miss Hong Kongs, an executive committee member of First Initiative Foundation – a charity which promotes and supports the arts, music and designs of Hong Kong, and the honorary legal adviser of Hear Talk Foundation which serves under-privilege community especially children and the elderly in Hong Kong and Mainland China with hearing impairment and speech disorders. He is the Chairman of the Appeal Panel of the Urban Renewal Authority and a member of the appeal panels of the Town Planning Board and the Home Purchase Allowance Appeals Committee. He also serves as the Deputy Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal.

王向东，1990年毕业于北京中医学院中药系，同年分配至深圳市中医院，1996年调任至深圳市卫生局，2002年调任深圳市药品监督管理局，2015年调任深圳市市场稽查局。长期以来专注互联网技术应用法规研究，主导参与多项互联网应用的技术方案制定及政策法规修订。主导的互联网数据在行政监管的分析应用在国内处于领先地位。
查办过的重大案件包括2002年参与国务院医药招标采购信息化试点平台建设，参与深圳医疗资源信息化平台建设。利用数据分析，形成近百宗涉网知识产权司法判定案例，渉案货值40余亿元。

Dr Angelia (Jia) WANG is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining PolyU, She was a Postdoc Research Fellow at the Applied Research Centre of Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia, School of Law, Singapore Management University and a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. Her research interests lie in the areas of intellectual property law, law and technology and company law. She teaches core subjects like Company Law and Legal Aspects of E-Commerce at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Professor Joseph Wing-On Tam is the Founder and Honorary Chairman of Pangenia Group. Professor Tam is a research pioneer with over 30 years of teaching and research experience in the biotechnology and diagnostics sector. Professor Tam is a Visiting Professor at UCSF, Baylor Medical College and Medical College of Georgia, Scientist of National Institute of Health, Associate Professor and Honorary Associate Professor of Medical Faculty of Hong Kong University. He is the Founder and President of the Hong Kong Biochemistry Association.

With the support of UNESCO, Professor Tam organized and trained the first group of scientists in China and Asia Pacific Regions on recombinant DNA research in 1983. During his years of teaching and research at HKU, Professor Tam invented and patented the “flow-through hybridization technology”.

Following his passion for Molecular Diagnostics, Professor Tam established DiagCor Bioscience Incorporation Limited in 2006, which is the important foundation of the Pangenia Group. He strives to influence and inspire the talent of Hong Kong’s next generation in biotechnology.