Ms. Zhang has engaged in IP field since 2003 and ever worked in Zhongzi Law Firm and Unitalen. Starting with foreign related patent prosecution, Ms. Zhang has extended her professional spectrum to cover litigation and commercial matters, after practice of several thousand patent applications. Ms. Zhang’s practice was very diversified, covering patents, trade secrets, copyrights, prosecution, litigation, transactions and various advisory work for clients of varying profiles in terms of size, culture and industry, including American Fortune 500 companies.
Ms. Zhang is an expert of the Intellectual Property Working Committee of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation(CPCIF), and a part-time tutor of China University of Political Science and Law.
Her typical legal service includes:
- Represented a petrochemical company in Luoyang to handle 10 cases of patent ownership disputes and trade secret misappropriation with its competitor (heat exchanger, burner, gas sealing valve);
- Represented CEO of a medical device company in Suzhou to handle a patent ownership dispute with a well-known scientific research institution in China (in vitro molecular diagnosis);
- Represented an environmental-tech company in Xi’an to handle a patent infringement dispute with its competitor in Shandong (RTO explosion-proof device);
- Represented a well-known university in China to handle a dispute of breaching a trade secret contract with a heavy machinery company (rubber-diaphragm forming machine);
- Conducted FTO and trade secret misappropriation risk analysis in IPO process of a Nanjing medical device company on the scientific innovation board (pelvic floor diagnosis and treatment);
- Represented a company in Baotou to invalidate a patent of a polymer material company in Japan (bulletproof fiber);
- Represented a company in Jiangsu to invalidate a patent of a material company of the USA (alkoxysilane);