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Ms. Helen (Hui Lun) Su concentrates her practice on litigation concerning product liability claims and cross-border commercial disputes, arbitration, and related strategy counseling with an emphasis on intellectual property disputes before the U.S. courts and International Trade Commission. Her practice also encompasses corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and international business transactions involving the U.S., China, Hong Kong, and Europe. She has extensive experience representing Chinese companies from a variety of industries and technologies, including consumer electronics, rare earth manufacturing, medical devices, light emitting diodes (LEDs), liquid crystal displays (LCDs), semiconductors, chemical products, health care, and insurance.

Helen’s dedication to her Chinese clients earned her recognition as an Intellectual Property Foreign Expert for China by Chambers Global 2017–2018. She was also named by Silicon Valley Journal as “40 Under 40” (2016) and Top 100 “Woman of Influence” (2014).

Before moving into private practice, Helen worked several years in China as general counsel to a multinational display maker company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. This unique experience allows Helen to counsel and solve clients’ problems from both a legal perspective and a strategic business perspective.

Helen is a frequent speaker on IP issues, product liability, director and officer liability, and international arbitration in China, Hong Kong, and the U.S. Helen has been invited as one of the speakers at SwissRe Academy (Hong Kong) since 2010.

Mr. Rui Lin Song serves as an Executive president of China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Development Association. Mr. Song serves as Executive Director of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association Pharmaceutical Policy Research Center, Chinese Pharmaceutical Association. He also serves as Executive Director of the China Chamber of International Commerce. Since 2011, Mr. Song has been an expert at the Capital Healthcare Policy Reform Expert Group. He is a Consultant at Efung Capital. Mr. Song has extensive experience in the research of the PRC healthcare and drugs laws and policies and was involved in the drafting and review of a number of the current PRC laws and regulations on healthcare and drugs. Mr. Song had served as Deputy Director of the science and education legal health system division by the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, People’s Republic of China. From 1985 to 2007, Mr. Song served as deputy director, director and deputy head at the PRC State Council Legislative Office. Mr. Song served as deputy director of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and executive director of the Research Centre for Drug Policies at the Association. He served as the chairman and executive editor of Chinese Journal of New Drugs. Mr. Song served as Deputy Director of the expert group on drug policy research by the Ministry of Health. From 1987 to 2006, he participated in China’s health legislation activities. He has been Non-Executive Director at Luye Pharma Group Ltd. since March 29, 2017. Mr. Song served as an Independent Director of Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. Mr. Song obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from China University of Political Science and Law in 1985 and a Master in Business Administration degree from China Europe International Business School in 2004.

Prof. Bryan Mercurio is Professor and Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), having served as Associate Dean (Research) from 2010-2014. Professor Mercurio is a leading expert in the field of international economic law (IEL), with a particular interest in WTO law, the intersection between IEL and intellectual property rights, free trade agreements and increasingly international investment law. He is the author of one of the most widely prescribed case books on WTO law (2012 2nd edition, Hart Publishing, with Simon Lester and Arwel Davies) and editor of the leading collection on bilateral and regional trade agreements (2015 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, with Simon Lester and Lorand Bartels). He has published articles in all of the leading trade journals (some of his work is available for download at http://ssrn.com/author=346439) and will soon be completing a three-year project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council which investigates the pharmaceutical patent regime in Hong Kong with a view to making recommendations for regulatory amendments in line with the needs and priorities of Hong Kong.

Professor Mercurio has taught as a member of the faculty of law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and as visitor at several universities in Australia and North America. He has held visiting positions at a number of institutions in Asia, Europe and the United States and is currently a Professorial Visiting Fellow at UNSW and Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Mercurio worked both in government and in private practice. He continues to advise law firms, international organizations, NGOs and several governments on a wide range of international trade and investment matters.

An active participant in a number of associations, he was a member of the founding committee and served on the inaugural Executive Board of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), a founding member of the SIEL Intellectual Property Law Network, a founding member of the Asian International Economic Law Network and is a Member for Hong Kong in the Asian WTO Research Network. In 2010 he authored the case for the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition and from 2013-2015 served as a member of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development/Evian Group E15 Expert Working Group on Trade and Innovation.

At Berggren, Mariella is primarily focused on international business development.

She has been a frequent speaker at international events and workshops on a variety of IP issues, including Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Standard Essential Patents in China, Italy, South Korea, Russia and the United States. She has also authored several articles on IP matters from a European and comparative law perspective, including the role of IP as a key to internationalization for start-ups and SMEs and the increased value of IP in open innovation environments, know-how protection, and doctrine of equivalence.

Mariella supports Berggren´s Legal team on various IP matters which have an international component, including distribution, licensing and technology transfer agreements, IP policies and Free and Open Source Software compliance programs. In addition, she supports Berggren´s Brokerage team in negotiating international transactions.

Prior to joining Berggren, Mariella worked as an IP attorney-at-law for over 15 years, handling all aspects of intellectual property created through innovation, from initial R&D to worldwide commercialization with a focus on both transactional and litigation matters.

Mariella’s fluency in Russian allows her to assist Russian entities with a variety of European IP issues. She also advises European entities, which require assistance with IP issues in Russia, through a selected network of low cost, high-quality, local IP firms.

She is also a co-author of a chapter in each of the following books: 

– “Tutela repressiva del know how” (Judicial protection of know-how), in La tutela del know-how. Diritto industriale, del lavoro, penale e responsabilità civile (Know-how protection. Industrial property, Labour law, Criminal law and Torts), Milano, 2012.

– “Contraffazione per equivalenti” (Infringement Under the Doctrine of Equivalents), in La riforma del Codice della proprietà industriale (The reform of the Industrial Property Code), Milano, 2011.

Dr. Lisa Macklem is a lecturer in Business Law at King’s University College, and a PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Western Ontario. She was a scholarship fellow at CIGI, the Centre for International Governance Innovation for the 2015/2016 session. In the summer of 2017, Lisa returned to CIGI as a Research Assistant. Her Canadian JD is with a specialization in Intellectual Property and Information Technology and her American LLM is with a specialization in Entertainment and Media law. She is a member of the OBA, CBA, ABA, and BHBA. Currently, Lisa is on the Executive Board of the Ontario Bar Association Section on Entertainment, Media, and Communications Law, serving as Public Affairs Liaison for a second term. She is on the editorial board of The Journal of Fandom Studies and previously was a student editor and then a member of the alumni editorial board for the ABA Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law.

Lisa regularly presents on media, copyright, entertainment law, international law and trade, and popular culture. Media appearances include Current Topics (Intellectual Property Rights) on Gujarat television, January 2018, Canada AM in May 2016 and in August 2015 on This Week in the Law on the TWiT network, speaking on recent developments in technology and Internet law. Her dissertation is on the regulation of digital content on the Internet with a focus on the entertainment industry and culture. Among the issues that she studies are Entertainment and Media law, International law, trade and UN regulatory frameworks, telecommunications regulations, technology law, and Intellectual Property law, particularly copyright. Lisa is cited in the recently released Canadian government report of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology’s Statutory Review of the Copyright Act (June 2019).

In addition to her legal degrees, Lisa also hold and MA in Media Studies and remains active in the Entertainment and Media Industry. While completing her LLM in Los Angeles, she externed with Screen Capital International, NuMedia Studios, and Cinema Libre Studio. Between 2013 and 2014 she was a consultant for CTS Productions in Montreal and has done consulting for various entertainment production and management companies. Among her publications in this area are two forthcoming collections on Supernatural that she is co-editing for McFarland. She recently won the Sabin Award for Comics Scholarship.

Lisa has also worked on the more practical side of entertainment, having stage managed for Creation Entertainment for five years. In addition to running the stage, duties also included liaising with facilities and managing technology needs. She also writes for SpoilerTv.com, and entertainment site, doing reviews and interviews and covering events such as Fan Expo in Toronto and San Diego Comic Con. Finally, she is active in the Science Fiction community, volunteering for Worldcon in several capacities. For LonCon in 2014 as Theatre Head, she produced seven plays in five days. More recently, she has been Social Media Head and Co-Theatre Head for Dublin2019 Worldcon and is Facilities Division Head for Titancon/Eurocon 2019 in Belfast.

Prof. Haitian LU is the Associate Dean of PolyU Faculty of Business and Professor in law at the School of Accounting and Finance. During January to June 2016 he was visiting research professor at New York University Stern School of Business. He is also the deputy director of the Center for Economic Sustainability and Entrepreneurial Finance (CESEF) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Lu obtained his Ph.D in law from National University of Singapore, Master of Law from Liverpool University and Bachelor of Law from Nanjing University. His teaching and research interest centers on the legal development, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibilities in Hong Kong and mainland China. He is the author / co-author of the books Secured Finance Law in China and Hong Kong (2010 Cambridge University Press), Truths and Half Truths: China’s Socio-Economic Reforms 1978-2010 (2011 Chandos Publishing), and The Role of China in Global Dirty Industry Migration (2008 Chandos Publishing). Prof. Lu published widely in law, finance, economics and management journals.

Prof. LU contributes to the academic and professional society by serving as Associate Editor of China Venture Capital Journal; ad hoc reviewer for Management Science, Journal of Comparative Economics, Hong Kong Law Journal, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, International Review of Finance, China Finance Review, external subject reviewer for Tung Wah College, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Caritas Francis Hsu College; external expert member for PRC IQS Working Group of the Hong Kong Institute of Charted Secretaries (HKICS); external examiner for Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Public Accountant (HKICPA); judge panel member for the Best Corporate Governance Disclosure Award 2012-2015, Faculty of Business Board Member, School’s Management and Ph.D Evaluation Committee; Academic Board Member of Asian Competition Forum (ACF), Vice-president of the Hong Kong Alumni Association of Nanjing University, etc.

Prof. LU Chunxin is an Associate Professor at the School of Legal Studies, GuangDong University of Foreign Studies, supervisor of Master’s students, and a full-time researcher at the South China Institute for International Intellectual Property. She holds a Doctor of Juris Science (Intellectual Property Law) from Zhongnan University of Economic and Law, Master of Law (Civil-commercial Law) from Sun Yat-Sen University, Bachelor of Law (First Degree) and Bachelor of Administration (Second Degree) from Zhongnan University of Economic. From October, 2014 to November, 2015, she was a visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property in Germany.

Her main research area is Intellectual Property Law, and has many publications in academic journals including “Intellectual Property”, “Academic Research”, “Private Law Review”, “Electronics Intellectual Property” and “China Invention & Patent”, etc.. Her publications have been awarded Second Prize in the Outstanding Paper of China Intellectual Property Seminar of Chinese Law Society, Second Prize in the Outstanding Paper of National Copyright Administration of the People’s Republic of China, etc. Ms. Lu is also the author of one and co-author of two published monographs. She hosts 10 research projects including the National Rule of Law and Law Theory Project of the Ministry of Justice, Ministerial Law Research Project of China Law Society, Special Fund Project for intellectual property work of the Intellectual Property Office of Guangdong Province and “Yangcheng Young Scholar” research project of Guangzhou Society Scientific Community Federation, etc., and participated as a main member in several National Social Science Fund Research Projects. She teaches courses in “Intellectual Property Law” and

Mr. Li Fei used to work in the Propaganda Department of Shenzhen Yantian District Party Committee, Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, and the Policy Research Office of Shenzhen Municipal Government. As a member of the Expert Database of Shenzhen Municipal Intellectual Property Bureau and the main draftsman of the Shenzhen Municipal Intellectual Property Rights Strategy, he has been long engaged in studying and participating the formulation of the major policies related to the technological innovation and intellectual property protection in Shenzhen. He has also organized and taken part in numerous state, provincial, and municipal major research subjects, and owned extensive experiences for the implementation of corporate IPR strategies, the realization of corporate IPR values, etc. In 2010, he is honored as the Eminent Worker in IP Management of the National Enterprises and Public Organizations.

Prof. Jyh-An Lee is an Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he serves as the Director of the LLB Programme and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies (starting from 1 August 2019). He holds a J.S.D. from Stanford Law School and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. Dr. Lee has published extensively in English and in Chinese on various aspects of intellectual property and Internet law. His research appears in leading academic journals, such as Wake Forrest Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Oregon Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Review, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), Hastings Business Law Journal, American University International Law Review, UMKC Law Review, Jurimetrics,  Washington International Law Journal, etc. He is also the sole author of two books: Coding a Free Society: Open Source Strategies for Policymakers (VDM Verlag Müller Press, 2007) and Nonprofit Organizations and the Intellectual Commons (Edward Elgar, 2012).

During his studies at Stanford Law School, Dr. Lee was appointed the John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Prior to joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he taught at National Chengchi University and was an Associate Research Fellow in the Center for Information Technology Innovation at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was the Legal Lead and Co-Lead of Creative Commons Taiwan (2011–2014) and an advisory committee member for Copyright Amendment in the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) at the Ministry of Economic Affairs (2011–2014). He has been the Legal Lead of the Creative Commons Hong Kong Chapter since October 2018. Professor Lee is currently a member of the advisory board of the European Center for E-Commerce & Internet Law affiliated with the University of Vienna. In 2016, he was appointed a domain name dispute resolution panellist by the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) and continues to serve in this capacity. Dr. Lee is also the Director of the Academic Committee for the Asia Innovation and Intellectual Property Society. Professor Lee has been featured on BBC News, ABC News, Bloomberg News, and Financial Times as an expert on intellectual property and Internet law. Before starting his academic career, he was a practicing lawyer in Taiwan, specializing in technology and business transactions.

Prof. Alice Lee is an Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, chairman of the University Teaching Exchange Fellowship Panel and of the Law Faculty Teaching and Learning Quality Committee. She specializes in real property and intellectual property education, co-founded Creative Commons Hong Kong in 2008 and initiated an IP Ambassador Programme with the Intellectual Property Department of the HKSAR Government in 2016. She has served on consultative committees and statutory bodies including the Advisory Committee on the Review of the Patent System (leading to the Patents (Amendment) Ordinance 2016). She has received two University outstanding teaching awards and the inaugural student-led Teaching Feedback Award, and has been mentoring colleagues since she became a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy in 2017.