Prof. Yahong LI – Associate Professor and Director of the LLM Program in Technology and IP Law at HKU Department of Law, and Associate Director (IP) at HKU Technology Transfer Office
Prof. Yahong Li specializes in IP law with a focus on cross-disciplinary study of IP, culture and technological innovation. She is the author/editor of Patents and Innovation in Mainland China and Hong Kong: Two Systems in One Country Compared (CUP, 2017), Copyright, Internet and the Balance of Rights (HKU Press, 2016), Imitation to Innovation in China: The Role of Patents in Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industries (EE, 2010), and International and Comparative Intellectual Property: Law, Policy and Practice (2nd edition) (LexisNexis, 2021), and published in top journals including IIC, LIT, QMJIP, Cardozo AELJl, and UPenn JIL. She is a recipient of the faculty research output prizes, and HKU-Cambridge Visiting Fellowship and HKU-Melbourne U. honorary fellowship, and has visited, delivered public lectures and taught courses at Harvard, Max Planck, WIPO, CREATe Center of Glasgow U. Santa Clara U., SMU, PKU and Zhejiang U., and was appointed as an Honorary Professor of Jinan University. She delivered multiple keynote speeches and presented at more than 100 international conferences.
Prof. Li is a member of Executive Committee of the ATRIP, a council member of the China IP Law Association, an honorary advisor of the Hong Kong Institute of Patent Attorneys, a Global Network Council Representative of Hong Kong’s Creative Commons, and a Scientific Member of Canadian Institute for International Law Expertise. She sits in the Expert Committees of the following institutions: Peking University Great Bay Area IP Institute, the China National Copyright Trading Platform, and IP Utilization and Protection of Guangzhou ETDZ.
She has supervised more than 15 PhD students, and teaches the courses of Copyright and Creativity, International and Comparative IP Law, and IP, Innovation and Development.