Speakers

Mr. Peter Kam-Fai Cheung is Hong Kong’s former Director of Intellectual Property and Registrar of Patents, Designs & Trademarks.  As a World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Panelist, he settled two international disputes. He was the lead intellectual property negotiator in Hong Kong’s free-trade agreements.

Mr. Cheung’s academic qualifications include: BA, LLB, PCLL, LLM, LLM Int L and Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Executive Fellows Program. He was twice invited to speak in Harvard’s Asia Business Conferences.

Mr. Cheung holds positions as Mediator and Arbitrator of WIPO; Panelist of Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre, Arbitrator of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration; and Council Member of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.

Prof. Fong obtained his LL. B & LL.M. degrees from National Taiwan University, College of Law.  He received his LL.M degree from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1987 and J.D. degree from Cornell Law School in 1990.  After graduate from Cornell Law School, Prof. Fong practiced corporate law in a Philadelphia law firm, Stradley, Ronen, Stevens & Young, before he became a partner at a local law firm in Taiwan.  

Currently, Prof. Fong is serving as Emeritus Professor at National ChengChi University.  Before retirement, he served as the jointly-appointed professor at College of Business and College of Law at NCCU and in charge of Biopharmaceutical Section of NCCU’s EMBA program.  In addition academic work, Prof. Fong serves in various governmental agency committees, such as Legal Affairs Committee of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).  

Because of his diverse experience, Prof. Fong is also a prolific writer.  He has authored more than a dozen books and over 200 academic articles, plus over 300 non-academic newspaper and magazine articles. Prof. Fong specializes in areas such as corporate law, securities regulation, intellectual property law, intellectual property management and licensing law. Presently, Prof. Fong teaches at NCCU’s College of Law, College of Business, EMBA and DBA (Doctoral of Business Administration) program.

Ms. Patricia Fong is the Unit Head of Intellectual Property Management in the funding schemes division in Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC). She manages the Intellectual Property (IP) team in implementing Patent Application Grant (PAG) and liaising with Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) for government funding projects. Ms. Fong is qualified solicitors in both Victoria, Australia and Hong Kong. She has over 10 years’ IP advisory experience for multidisciplinary business, including insurance, finance, real estate, automobile, medical, education, fashion, finance, computer and media industries. Before joining HKPC, Ms. Fong worked as the legal adviser of a leading technology-powered retail financial services group, in which Ms. Fong has been advising the group in respect of IP matters in their legal tech, fintech and health tech projects. Further, she was also a legal practitioner in a top-tier international law firm and had a wide-ranging practice covers IP prosecution, protection and management, enforcement, litigation and technology transfer.

Danny Friedmann is an Associate Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law. His research generally focuses on intellectual property and specifically on AI and copyright law, trademark law, geographical indications, patent law, and law and technology.

His articles are published by peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of World Intellectual Property, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, European Intellectual Property Review, Benelux Trade Marks and Design Rights (BMM) Bulletin and GRUR Int., and Asia Pacific Law Review. His recent work was published in the student-reviewed journals IDEA and CWILJ. An article in NYU JIPEL is forthcoming.

In 2021, Danny was awarded by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) for co-editing and co-authoring ‘Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market.’ His monograph is titled “Trademarks and Social Media, Towards Algorithmic Justice” (Edward Elgar Publishing, September 2015). In 2014, the Research Committee of CUHK granted Danny the Postgraduate Research Output Award. His book chapter on Google and China was quoted by the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union in C-131/12 Google Spain in 2013.

He has taught at CUHK, where he completed his PhD in Laws, and also at City University of Hong Kong, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his LL.M. and LL.B. (Meester in de rechten) at the University of Amsterdam. Danny also holds a B.B.A. degree from Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen, the Netherlands.

Dr. Taorui Guan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, University of Hong Kong. His research work is primarily concentrated on the development of technology markets, legal reforms in response to emerging technologies, the interplay between intellectual property and finance, and China’s innovation system. He publishes his findings in both Chinese and English. From 2019-2020, he held the Thomas Edison Innovation Law and Policy Fellowship at the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy of George Mason University. He won the John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics in 2021.

In the classroom, Dr. Guan instructs students on intellectual property and information technology, copyright law, and Chinese intellectual property law. He also acts as a tutor in a course that provides an introduction to Chinese law.

His academic credentials include an S.J.D. and an LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law. During his doctoral studies, he received the Chinese Government Doctoral Scholarship. He also earned an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from Renmin University of China, where he was named a Distinguished Graduate and was awarded a National Scholarship for Graduate Students. His initial degrees, a BA in Business English and an LL.B., were obtained from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, where he was the recipient of the National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students and the First Class Scholarship for two years running.

Having successfully passed the Chinese Judicial Examination, Dr. Guan is also a member of the New York State Bar. His professional affiliations include membership in the Chinese Law Society.

Dr. Jingjing He is an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has gained a Master’s degree from the University of Bristol, UK, and a Ph.D. from the same institution. She has completed her post-doctoral research at the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and used to be a visiting PhD at the University of Cambridge. She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the University of Turin, Italy, as well as an Edwards Fellow at Columbia Law School, USA. She serves as the Deputy Head of the research team on “Research on Regulations for Data Compliance in the Health Industry” under the National Health Commission, as the leading legal expert for the first approved data export security assessment case approved by the Beijing Cyberspace Administration, as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Financial Technology Law Research Center, an expert member of the first advisory commission for the Beijing Financial Court, and an expert member of the Expert Committee of the Hangzhou Data Security Alliance. Her main research areas include international law, data compliance and AI related regulations. She has led several provincial and ministerial-level projects, including a major project funded by the National Social Science Fund, and has participated in multiple data governance research projects for the National Health Commission, the People’s Bank of China, and the Central Cyberspace Administration.

She has served as an Assistant Head of the Financial Street Court of the Beijing Xicheng District People’s Court, a Council Member of the User Council Committee of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, a Council Member of the China Arbitration Law Research Association, the Executive Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the Ad Hoc Arbitration Committee of the China Arbitration Law Research Association, and a Council Member of China Behavioral Law Society. She also serves as an arbitrator for various arbitration institutions, including China Maritime Arbitration Commission, Shenyang Arbitration Commission, Qingdao Arbitration Commission, Nanning Arbitration Commission, and Nantong Arbitration Commission.

Prof. Tianxiang He currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. A multi-faceted academic, Dr. He’s extensive educational background includes an LL.B. degree from Huaqiao University, China (2007), and a Master’s degree in International Law from Jinan University, China (2009). Furthering his studies, he accomplished two distinct Ph.D. degrees: one in IP Law from Maastricht University, the Netherlands (2016), and another in Criminal Law from Renmin University of China (2017).

From August 2012 to July 2013, Dr. He worked in the Research Center for the Legal Systems of Intellectual Property of Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan as a visiting researcher. In Europe, the Ius Commune Research School conferred to him an Honorable Mention in the Ius Commune Prize 2014.

From August 2016 to June 2023, Dr. He enhanced his pedagogical skills as an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. His dedication and academic prowess led to his promotion and substantiation to Associate Professor in July 2023. He also continues his affiliation with Maastricht University as an Associate Member of IGIR.

Dr. He is the accomplished author of the book Copyright and Fan Productivity in China: A Cross-jurisdictional Perspective (Springer), alongside numerous articles published in top-tier journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Computer Law & Security Review, The University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, Hong Kong Law Journal, and Asia Pacific Law Review.

Presently, Dr. He extends his expertise by serving on the editorial board of the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (CJCL), published by the esteemed Oxford University Press.

Prof. K.K. Walter Ho is presently an Emeritus Professor of the School of Life Sciences and Consultant to the Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services (ORKTS) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)  Prof. Ho started his career in teaching and research at The University of Hong Kong and CUHK, with research interests in the structure and function of serum lipoproteins, opiate addiction and endorphins, cloning and expression of fish growth hormone gene and compounds from Chinese medicine having lipid lowering activities.   Key positions he held before retirement included Director of the Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services, CUHK, Managing Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology and the Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry, CUHK.   Other than his academic role, Prof. Ho also actively participated in the promotion of biotechnology in Hong Kong. From 1995 to 1999, he was a member of the Biotechnology Committee under the Hong Kong Government Industry Department. He is also a founding and council member of the Hong Kong Biotechnology Association.  In addition, he has organised a number of conferences and workshops on various topics related to the business of biotechnology. Prof. Ho is an honorary professor at the Guangzhou Medical University and the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China. He has served as consultants to several biotechnology companies in Hong Kong. 

Prof. Ho obtained his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968 and Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1972.

Robert D. Katz has practiced intellectual property law for almost 40 years. His experience encompasses virtually every aspect of intellectual property law.  Mr. Katz has also represented both domestic and foreign client in business transactions.

Robert has been first chair in a large number of patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition, and trade secret cases including jury trials, and has also handled arbitrations and mediations. He has obtained and opposed preliminary injunctions and briefed and argued appeals in State and Federal Courts. Robert has also handled patent interferences, reissues, IPR’s and Derivation proceedings, and reexamination proceedings as well as trademark oppositions and cancellations in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

In addition to his active litigation practice, he has counseled clients on patent and trademark validity and infringement issues, has negotiated and drafted numerous license agreements, and has prepared and prosecuted numerous patent applications in many different areas of technology. Those technologies emphasize inorganic and organic chemistry, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, but also include medical devices, materials science, polymer chemistry, nanotechnology, semiconductors, nuclear energy, and green technology.

Mr.Kwan has been in the industry for more than 20 years and has extensive experience in the Greater China region.

Prior to joining Odysseus Capital, Thomas was a Director with PwC Corporate Finance Hong Kong in charge of M&A and fund-raising activities within the region. Thomas’ expertise includes leading M&A transactions, both buy and sell-side, and fund raising projects and advisory services including deal origination, target identification, business strategy, structural and regulatory advice, and pricing and negotiation strategy.

Before joining PwC, Thomas was Vice President of OCBC Investment Banking Business based in Hong Kong responsible for IPO and M&A transactions. Prior to joining OCBC, Thomas was Senior Manager (Head of M&A Advisory, Southern China) of KPMG Corporate Finance. He was also Manager of Rabobank’s M&A team in Hong Kong and previously worked at McKinsey & Co’s Corporate Finance and Strategy practice.

Thomas graduated as a member of Beta, Gamma, Sigma of HKUST MBA program, and holds a BSc degree in Finance from the City University of Hong Kong. He holds a type 6 licence from the SFC in Hong Kong to advise on corporate finance transactions.

LLB,Peking University; LLM, Peking University; LLM,Chicago-Kent College of Law

• Founding Partner of Long An Law Firm Shenzhen Office
• Vice Chairman of Long An Development Council

Since commencing his practice in 1986, Mr. Xiangdong Lai has handled over a thousand cases involving various types of litigation, arbitration, and other non-litigation matters. These cases have covered fields such as banking, insurance, securities, IT, manufacturing, transportation, culture, and real estate. Some of his representing cases were awarded as Typical cases of the Year by Chinese Lawyer Association.

Mr. Xiangdong Lai is known for his experience and expertise in complex civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, and has been highly-recognized by a number of legal publications as an outstanding PRC arbitration lawyer.

Some of the notable clients Mr. Xiangdong Lai has worked with or is currently serving include Walmart, DuPont, Philips, Siemens, Decortpart, Ricoh, Foxconn, Ping An, CMB, Hiang Kie Pte Ltd., Venture Corporation Limited, Trans Elite Group Sdn Bhd, Ajanta Limited, and others.

Mr. Xiangdong Lai has served as Panel of Arbitrators of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Shenzhen International Arbitration Court (SCIA), Beijing Arbitration Commission(BAC), Shanghai Arbitration Commission(SHAC), Guangzhou Arbitration Commission(GZAC), South China (Hong Kong) International Arbitration Centre (SCIAHK), China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC)

• China Business Law Journal “The A-List 2020: Top 100 Lawyers in China”
• 1,000 National Talent of Foreign-Related Lawyers, Ministry of Justice

Prof. Lam obtained his BSc and MPhil in Biology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 and 1987, respectively. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in molecular biology from Northwestern University in the USA, he worked as a post‐doctoral fellow at New York University from 1992 to 1996. Prof. Lam is currently the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Life Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is concurrently the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), RGC-AoE Center for Genomic Studies on Plant-Environment Interaction for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security and Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability. Prof. Lam’s outstanding academic achievements have been recognized by several awards including Medal of Honour by HKSAR Government (2023), SingTao Leader of the Year Award (Education/Professions/Technology & Innovation) (2023), the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Award 2016 (Science and Technology; Second Class) from the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Research Excellence Award of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2005-2006; 2012-2013; 2019-2020); Second-Class Award for Science and Technology (Zhejiang Province, China) (2007); Second-Class Award for Scientific and Technological Achievements (Beijing, China) (2001). Professor Lam’s research focuses on climate-smart agriculture, plant and agrobiotechnology, and genomic studies on crop-environment interaction. He has published over 230 publications in premier scientific journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Communication, PNAS, Lancet, Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, Plant Journal, Journal of Biological Chemistry, New Phytologist, Plant Cell & Environmental, and Journal of Experiment Botany, etc.

He has achieved high-impact scientific breakthroughs and the findings, tools, and data developed to contribute significantly to soybean research and breeding. Prof. Lam successfully combined advanced technologies with traditional wisdom to breed new stress-tolerant soybeans. Four stress-tolerant soybeans developed by Prof. Lam and his collaborators have been approved for field application in Northwest China. One forage soybean has also been developed in collaboration with breeders from Shanxi, and approved for application in Shanxi Province. Besides, to address global climate challenges through climate smart agriculture, Professor Lam is extending his research collaboration and initiated cultivation and breeding programs for soybean improvement in South Africa and Pakistan.

Timothy is a Senior Partner and Head of the Corporate and Commercial Practice at Longan & Lam LLP. He regularly acts for publicly listed companies in Hong Kong, United States, Australia, as well as private clients.

Timothy has extensive experience in dealing and setting up multi-jurisdictional corporate structures. His work often requires cross-border transactions involving the United States, Australia and China. 

Timothy obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy), Bachelor of Laws and Master of Strategic Public Relations at the University of Sydney. He also obtained a Master of Laws from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Industrial Property from the University of Technology Sydney, a Master of Applied Law (Commercial Litigation) from the College of Law Australia, a Master of Buddhist Studies and a Master of Buddhist Counselling from the University of Hong Kong. He also recently completed a Graduate Diploma in International Maritime Arbitration conducted by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a Professional Diploma in Private Wealth Management conducted by the Society of Trustee and Estate Practitioners. He is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong, New South Wales, Australia and New Zealand (Non-practicing). Timothy is fluent in English and Cantonese.

Timothy is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP).

Before joining HKU, Dr. Rocky Law was the Director of Praxis Green Consulting Limited. Dr. Law provided advisory and coaching services to startup companies in the areas of IP protection, technology/product development strategy and marketing strategy. He also assisted startup companies in fund raising activities in the PRD region.

Dr. Law worked for a year as Computer Officer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) before returning to Hong Kong to join Amoy Food Limited (subsidiary of Danone Group at that time) as Research Manager in 1996. He was responsible for all soy sauce related technical matters in Amoy, including development of new soy formulations and industrial processes, provision of technical advices to QA, QC, production, sales and marketing departments, and assisting business expansion team by screening M&A opportunities.

Dr. Law started to develop his career in the area of knowledge transfer after joining the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2001 as Development Manager in the Technology Transfer Center (TTC) with special responsibility for all life science related intellectual properties, particularly in the areas of traditional Chinese medicine, biotechnology, medical device, and pharmaceuticals….etc. He started to promote proactively entrepreneurship when he became the Associate Director of TTC in 2007. Dr. Law then gradually moved to the area of entrepreneurship and became the Director of Entrepreneurship Center in 2010. After working in HKUST for about 10 years, Dr. Law has obtained an extensive experience in knowledge transfer industry. Dr. Law is still actively involved in mentoring students and providing advices to startup companies from universities. 

Dr. Law is the founding members of the Hong Kong Food Safety Association (HKFSA), Hong Kong Medical and Healthcare Device Industries Association (HKMHDIA) and the Hong Kong Business Angel Network (HKBAN), and a member of professional associations, including Modernized Chinese Medicine International Association (MCMIA), Licensing Executives Society of China, Hong Kong Chapter (LES) and Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) in UK.

Dr. Law obtained his BSc degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan in 1987, and his MSc and PhD degrees in Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK in 1990 and 1995 respectively. Dr. Law obtained his MBA degree by completing an EMBA course at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong in 2007.

Vincent has over 20 years’ experience in the Wealth Management industry and is currently the Executive Director of IABFM Asia. In his role, Vincent oversees the operation running of the business and the IABFM Asia and Greater China Executive team, whilst retaining responsibility for key client relationships.

In 2003, Vincent started the training and wealth management business with his resources in mainland China and Hongkong. He obtained authorised official training centre operation right from IABFM (International Academy of Business and Financial Management), a non- profit based training institute. He provided certified wealth management programs to major banks in mainland China, which includes China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, Communication Bank of China and etc. He trained more than 30,000 wealth mangers, private bankers, insurance consultants and family business owners. He established a membership based supporting office to provide family offices and wealth management backend services to the HNWIs for setup of funds, trusts, and family offices from the members’ referrals.

Vincent has in-depth industry knowledge and excellence across a range of technical disciplines, to provide services in overseas funds, trusts and investment structures for Asian family businesses.

• IABFM Greater China, Executive Director
• Yozma Fund, Partner
• 中關村京港澳青年創業創新中心平行基金負責人

Yahong Li is a graduate of Stanford Law School, holding the JSM and the JSD. Yahong Li is a graduate of Stanford Law School, holding the JSM and the JSD. She is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong and an Honorary Professor in the China Academy of Sciences University.

She specialises in intellectual property (IP) law with a focus on the 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 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017), China Chapter in International Copyright Law and Practice (LexisNexis, 2015 onward), Imitation to Innovation in China: The Role of Patents in Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industries (Edward Elgar, 2010), and International and Comparative Intellectual Property: Law, Policy and Practice (LexisNexis, 2005). She has published in the top-tier IP journals including International Review of IP and Competition, Law, Innovation and Technology, Queen Mary Journal of IP, Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, Computer Law and Security Review, Journal of IP Law and Practice, European IP Review, and UPenn Journal of International Law. She was twice awarded the faculty research output prizes and was a recipient of the competitive Cambridge-HKU and Melbourne-HKU fellowships. She has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School, Max Planck Institute of Innovation and Competition, Berkeley Law School, Peking University and Zhejiang University; and Visiting Professor at Santa Clara Law School, University of Salzburg, Peking-Shenzhen Transnational Law School, Singapore Management University, Jinan University, among others. She has spoken at over 100 international conferences, and delivered keynote, public and guest lectures at, inter alia, CREATe Center, WIPO IP Summer School, Law Society of Hong Kong and many universities in mainland China.

She is an Executive Committee Member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), a Council Member of the China IP Law Association, an Honorary Advisor of the Hong Kong Institute of Patent Attorneys, and the Global Network Council Representative of the Hong Kong Creative Commons. She is a Principal Researcher for “Hong Kong Patent Landscape” project of Hong Kong Productivity Council, and an active member in the project of “IP Trading Centre” of Hong Kong Coalition. 

She has supervised 18 PhD students on various topics across copyright and patent laws. She teaches the courses of International and Comparative IP Law, IP, Innovation and Development, and Copyright and Creativity at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

He is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on IP and competition policy trends and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps stakeholders understand the world around them. He consults internationally on various IP and antitrust issues. 

He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee and on the Executive Committee of the US IP Alliance. In 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. He serves on the Members Consultative Group of the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics.” The IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list.  

He is under contract with Oxford University Press for a new book titled Infringement in Intellectual Property Law and is co-editor of Inclusive Innovation, Big Data, And Artificial Intelligence. His publications feature in leading flagship and specialty law reviews, including the Florida Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the Stanford Technology Law Review, and the Berkley Technology Law Journal. Thomson Reuters (West) selected three of his articles as the best IP articles of the year in 2018, 2021, and 2022. He has also contributed to practitioner-focused publications for the American Bar Association, Law360, IPWatchdog, IP Watch, and IP Magazine. In addition, legal publications, specialty blogs such as Patently-O, and mainstream media sources such as Forbes, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Slate, The Hill, The Daily Journal, RealClearPolicy, and USA Today featured his views on current legal developments. In addition, he serves as a peer reviewer for the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), Cambridge University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Carolina Academic Press, Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.

Prof. Kung-Chung Liu studied law at the National Taiwan University where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Law and Master of Law. He later obtained his Doctor of Law degree from the Ludwig Maximilian Universität (University of Munich) Germany. Prof. Liu visited Singapore Management University between April 2014 and June 2015 and found the Applied Research Center for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA). He joined SMU as Lee Kong Chian Professor of Law (Practice) in 2017 after he retired as research fellow from Institutum Iurisprudentiae,  Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Prof. Liu’s academic credential is widely recognized in Asia, as he is also co-appointed full faculty member of the Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management, National Chengchi University (2010-), Taiwan, and Renmin University of China ( 2017-).  Prof. Liu has edited and co-edited 14 books with pioneering vision and thought leadership, such as:

• Kung-Chung Liu/Reto Hilty (ed.), Compulsory Licensing─ Practical Experiences and Ways Forward, Max Planck Asian Intellectual Property Law Series (Springer 2015)
• Kung-Chung Liu/Uday S. Racherla (ed.), Innovation and IPR in China and India—Myth, Realities and Opportunities (Springer 2016)
• Kung-Chung Liu/Reto Hilty (ed.), Remuneration of Copyright Owners–Regulatory Challenges of New Business Models (Springer 2017)
• Kung-Chung Liu (ed.), Annotated Leading Patent Cases in Major Asian Jurisdictions (City University of HK Press, 2017)
• Kung-Chung Liu (ed.), Annotated Leading Copyright Cases in Major Asian Jurisdictions (City University of HK Press 2019),
• Kung-Chung Liu, Annotated Leading Trademark Cases in Major Asian Jurisdictions (City University of HK 2019),
• Kung-Chung Liu/Uday Racherla Innovation, Economic Development and IP in India and China— An Analysis of Six Industries (Springer 2019),
• Kung-Chung Liu/Julian Chaisse, The Future of Asian Trade Deals and IP (Hart 2019)
• Kung-Chung Liu/Reto Hilty (ed.), SEPs, SSOs and FRAND­Asian and Global Perspectives on Fostering Innovation in Interconnectivity (Routledge 2019)
• Jyh-An Lee/Reto M. Hilty/Kung-Chung Liu (eds.), Artificial Intelligence & Intellectual Property, Oxford University Press 2021

Dr. Wai Shun Lo is currently General Partner of DL Capitals (點亮資本), an angel investment fund focusing on disruptive and exponential technologies. He is also Adjunct faculty of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (MSc/Entrepreneurship/ IT Management, EMBA/Innovation, OneMBA/Entrepreneurship), and Visiting Professor of PKU (School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship).

His expertise and current interests include Intellectual Property Commercialization, Business Models Innovation and Technology Transfer.

His previous experience includes positions with Bell Labs, Cable & Wireless Innovation, Hong Kong Telecom, and S Venture, an early stage investment company. He had served as Board of Directors for two listed companies in Hong Kong, as panel of assessors of SERAP (Small Entrepreneurs Research Assistance Program), and as Director of the Young Entrepreneurs Development Council.

Dr. Lo was a Senior Researcher at Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Asia-Pacific Research Center. He had conducted many consulting projects for institutions and PE funds such as HK Government (regulatory policy), IFC of World Bank (Investment strategy in China), Intellectual Ventures (Invention Network) and had advised many startups in the past.

He holds BSc and Mphil from CUHK, a Ph.D. from Brown University, and has executive management training from INSEAD.

Dennis Lo is the Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, the Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine and Professor of Chemical Pathology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also the Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Medicine of CUHK. Dennis Lo received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge and the Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Oxford.

Following his training at Oxford, he was appointed as the University Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry and Honorary Consultant Chemical Pathologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, the teaching hospital of the University of Oxford Clinical School. He was also a Fellow at Green College, Oxford.

Dennis Lo returned to Hong Kong in 1997. In the same year, he discovered the presence of fetal DNA in maternal plasma. His group has since remained at the forefront of this field. His group was the first to report the presence of cell-free fetal RNA and fetal epigenetic markers in maternal plasma and pioneered the use of such markers for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis. Dennis Lo and his colleagues were also the first to show that cell-free fetal nucleic acids in maternal plasma could be used for the noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of fetal trisomy 21 and had devised multiple solutions for this hitherto difficult diagnostic problem, including methods based on plasma RNA-SNP allelic ratios, plasma epigenetic markers, digital PCR and massively parallel DNA sequencing. With the use of massively parallel sequencing and the development of novel bioinformatics strategies, Dennis Lo’s group succeeded at deciphering a genome-wide genetic map of the fetus through the analysis of the small amounts of fragmented DNA floating in the blood of pregnant women. This scientific achievement lays the foundation for developing non-invasive prenatal diagnostic tests for multiple genetic diseases in a non-invasive way.

In the area of cancer detection, Dennis Lo has pioneered a number of approaches to cancer liquid biopsy, especially for the detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and genomewide approaches for screening multiple types of cancer.

In recognition of his work, Dennis Lo has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine in 2014, the Future Science Prize – Life Science Prize in 2016 and the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011, as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013 and as a Founding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong in 2015.

Assistant Director of HKU ICB, Doctor of Public Administration from University of Hong Kong, Master of Business Administration from University of Cambridge, UK, with research focus on collaborative innovation

Dr Ma holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include collaborative governance for triple helix innovation, market-driven innovation, technology commercialization and knowledge transfer. He was the Department Head of Innovation and Management at ICB, and is currently the Assistant Director of ICB with strategic focus on knowledge transfer for triple helix innovation through collaboration in university-industry-government network.

In addition to his research and teaching in academia, Dr. Ma has over 20 years of industry sector experience in innovation marketing and strategy management in the Asia Pacific region, with a few global innovation & technology firms including GE, 3M and DuPont. He has also lived and worked in several cities in the Greater China region and received executive trainings at the GE Jack Welch Leadership Center in New York and the National Academy of Governance in Beijing.

At GE, Dr. Ma led the Asia Pacific team to build an innovative business platform (high tech materials market for sports products), which then became a new growth driver for GE Advanced Materials. During his tenure at DuPont, he led the Asia Pacific golf business and market-driven innovation projects in collaboration with several international brands to commercialize the world’s first Bio-based Renewable Thermoplastic Material Technology for golf cores (rubber replacement for ESG impact). The global project created a blue ocean market (more than three times the size of the original market worldwide) and a collaborative innovation ecosystem for the entire golf ball market segment. This project was then received the DuPont Asia Pacific Innovation Marketing Award for its creative business model along with innovative technology.

He is committed to the educational philosophy of ” Sapientia et Virtus (which conveys the application of knowledge to the necessities of life, subject to moral restraints)”.

At Nanyang Law, Yi Neng is involved in both contentious and non-contentious work across a wide range of practice areas, including Intellectual Property (IP), commercial and corporate law, and civil litigation. Yi Neng has around 10 years of experience in handling a diverse portfolio of cases involving contractual disputes, employment disputes, Intellectual Property disputes and other commercial matters for both individuals and companies, whilst ensuring the highest standards of work and professionalism for his clients. Yi Neng is well versed in handling Trademark Oppositions/Revocations before the courts, and also facilitates cost-effective resolutions through alternative dispute resolution outside the courtroom. Yi Neng regularly provides advice on effective brand management strategy and enforcement in the current dynamic business landscape.

Dr. Fang Qi has represented clients in all stages of patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright and antitrust litigation. Fang has extensive experience working with electronics, telecommunication, new energy, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, consumer goods, and manufacturing companies. A number of Fang’s cases have been selected as annual leading or top ten cases by the Supreme Court, the regional high courts and the State Intellectual Property Office. Fang is a frequent speaker on  various  intellectual  property and  antitrust issues and co-author of the treatise “Intellectual Property Rights in China” (Westlaw, Business Laws of China). Fang was named as one of the 100 top attorneys by China Business Law Journal and recommended by Chambers, China Law and Practice and Asialaw as a leading lawyer in the intellectual property litigation.

Fang graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and articles editor of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review.

Cindy is a Senior Partner, Lawyer and Patent Attorney of Beijing Long An Law Firm. She holds a Master’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, a Master’s degree in law from Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA, and an in-service doctor from China University of Political Science and Law. She used to be an expert in the intellectual property case base of the Supreme People’s Court and an Asian chair of International Trademark Association (INTA) LRC. She is currently the co-chair of American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Women in IP Law Global Networking Event, a Lecturer of Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA), a part-time tutor from China University of Political Science and Law, and the director of the intellectual property professional committee of Beijing Chaoyang Lawyers Association.

With over 20 years’ experience in IP practice, Ms. Quan is adept at patent invalidation and litigation. Proficient in Chinese, English and Japanese, she has also been recognized as one of the first batch of foreign-related lawyers by the Ministry of Justice. Quan has represented thousands of patent and trademark applications, hundreds of patent and trademark reexaminations, invalidation and infringement cases for famous companies at home and abroad. The cases she represented have been selected as “The Summary of the Judgment of the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People’s Court” and “The 14 Typical Cases Concluded by the Intellectual Property Courts of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou” of the Supreme Court, etc. She has repeatedly been selected as “Top 10 Patent Lawyers”, “Top 10 Trademark Lawyers” and “Top 10 IP Barristers” by China IP Forum, and was recognized as ” 2022 Top 15 Female Lawyers” by ALB.

Professor Mai Har Sham has been Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Biomedical Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) since 2020. Professor Sham obtained her BSc and MPhil in Biology at CUHK. She was awarded a Croucher Foundation Scholarship and pursued her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, U.K. She received her postdoctoral training in Developmental Genetics at the National Institute for Medical Research in London before joining The University of Hong Kong (HKU), where she later became Assistant Dean (Research), Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Director of the Centre for Reproduction Development and Growth in the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, and the Associate Vice-President (Research) of HKU. Professor Sham promoted not only excellent research, but also dedicated to medical and science curriculum development. She led the design and establishment of the first Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences curriculum in Hong Kong.

As PVC (Research) in CUHK, Professor Sham oversees the strategic development of research and innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer and research impact in the University. She provides leadership to research institutes and centres, fostering interdisciplinary research and collaboration with academic and industrial partners in strategic research areas. She is in charge of research support services for technology transfer, intellectual property management, start-ups and commercialization platforms to translate research and knowledge into societal impact. Professor Sham is responsible for the administration of research fundings, including university-wide funding schemes to support research equipment and facilities, interdisciplinary group research projects, research talents and partnership with international institutions. She also oversees matters relating to research policies, research data management, ensuring best practices in compliance, research ethics and integrity in the University.

Professor Sham is a Governing Board member of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation (WCRIF) and was the Co-Chair for the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity in 2019. Working together with the international consortium, she promotes responsible conduct of research and good science in universities and research institutions.

As a developmental geneticist, Professor Sham leads a research team focusing on the molecular mechanisms of mammalian development and human congenital disorders. Her research covers areas of gene regulation and molecular signaling, craniofacial and hearing disorders, genetic bases and mutant mouse models of rare human diseases, stem cells, and tissue regeneration. She is currently the President of the Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology. She serves as an Associate Editor for Gene Expression Patterns and an Editor for Cell and Bioscience.

Ernest is an English Barrister who practised at the Bar in London.  Ernest has over fifteen years of experience in Higher Education and has taught in China, London, Malaysia and Singapore. He has received two Lord Dearing Awards (Excellence in Teaching 2017 and Excellence in Educational Leadership 2020) from the University of Nottingham and the Zhejiang Municipal Excellent Teacher Award (2018). Ernest is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom. He is an examiner for several institutions, including the University of London. He has extensive experience in university administration and held the title of ‘Campus Senior Tutor’ at the University of Nottingham, where he was responsible for student engagement, welfare and experience. He has experience in instructing management of organisations in legal training as part of executive education programmes. Ernest is currently completing his PhD at Hong Kong University in Artificial Intelligence, and Intellectual Property Law, supervised by Professor Yahong LI.

Ms. Cody Yip is the Associate Principal Consultant of Intellectual Property Management in the funding schemes division in Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC). Her role involves advising on various aspects of Intellectual Property (IP) protection and the implementation of Patent Application Grant (PAG). Prior to joining HKPC, she has extensive experience in devising strategies and delivering solutions for patent management and cross-border enforcement within a multinational enterprise. She was involved in numerous business advisory projects to support the research and development and guide the commercialization of innovations. Additionally, she was a Chinese patent agent in a prestige patent firm, specializing in managing global patent application processes across diverse technology domains. Before starting her patent practice, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the National Centre for Scientific Research in France.