Session 1: Where, When and How to Litigate in China
Mark Cohen joined Berkeley Law in 2017 as a Senior Fellow and Director of BCLT’s Asia IP Project. With over 30 years’ experience as a law firm attorney, in-house counsel, government official, and adjunct and visiting professor of law, Cohen was previously Senior Counsel and Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce/Director of the USPTO. He is widely recognized as the leading expert in the U.S. on intellectual property law in China. As Director of the BCLT Asia IP Project, Cohen is working with BCLT sponsors and faculty directors to develop collaborative relationships with academic institutions and other partners in Asia, including organizing workshops, conferences, and other events that bring data-driven insight to the complex IP landscape in China and other Asian fora. Mark hosts the popular blog www.chinaipr.com, serves as an advisor to the IP database iphouse.cn, and has published books and articles on China’s IP system, antitrust law in China, civil and administrative enforcement of IP, and foreign law firms practicing law in China.
Fei Deng is a Vice President at CRA. She has testified as an economic expert in various Chinese courts on IP and antitrust issues, and has published extensively both in English and in Chinese.
David Kappos is a partner at Cravath and leader in the field of intellectual property, including IP management and strategy, the development of global IP norms, laws and practices and the commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets. From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Kappos served as Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he advised the President on IP policy matters. He was instrumental in achieving the passage and implementation of the 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. From 2003 to 2009, he served as IBM’s chief intellectual property lawyer.
Randall Rader, former chief judge of the Federal CIrcuit, is also a professor at Tsinghua University law school where he teaches an intellectual property class each semester. Judge Rader also continues to consult with business, governmental, and judicial leaders in China about intellectual property laws and policies.
Session 2: Using China’s Multi-Track System: Criminal, Civil and Administrative Infringement Litigation
YANG Guoxu has been working with CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office for more than 30 years and is now based at its Silicon Valley Office. Mr. Yang has physics and electrical engineering background and received law degrees from Renmin University of China and Franklin Pierce Law Center in NH, USA. Mr. Yang has extensive experience in patent prosecution and enforcement.
LEI Lingfei is Legal and Policy Director of Intel China, responsible for IP policy, manufacturing and operation legal support. He served in various roles before joining Intel, including at Legislative Office of the State Council.
Kurtis MacFerrin is Senior Patent Counsel at Google in San Francisco, responsible for patent strategy for Android. That includes managing the Android patent portfolio, and risk management and patent counseling for Android. Kurtis is also responsible for China patent policy for Google. Prior to Google, Kurtis was a patent litigator at the law firms of Fish & Neave and Fish & Richardson, then led patent litigation at Applied Biosystems and Life Technologies.
BIAN Renjun is an assistant professor at Peking University Law School. Her research focuses on empirical studies of Chinese patent law.
Joe Simone is the founding partner of SIPS, a firm with offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong that is focused on registration and enforcement of IP rights in Greater China. Aside from his work for SIPS, Joe is active in supporting research and advocacy efforts of industry associations focused on IP protection in China, most recently in relation to online enforcement and bad faith trademark registration.
Cynthia Tregillis is the Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel for Western Digital Corporation, a leading data infrastructure company driving innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access, and transform data.
Liaoteng Wang is the Managing Partner in the Silicon Valley office of Beijing East IP, focusing on client maintenance and development in Silicon Valley.Beijing East IP is a top full-service IP firm founded by Dr. Lulin Gao, the Founding Father of China’s Patent System, serving a full spectrum of global innovators – from startups to unicorns to Fortune Global 500 corporations – on their intellectual property needs in China and globally for almost 20 years.
LEI Yongjian is a trademark lawyer practicing in China and one of the leading partners of the trademark department of WANHUIDA IP. He graduated from Peking University and received his LLM degree from Standford
Session 3: Trade-Related Impacts – Improvements and New Challenges
Timothy Bickham is a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Based in Beijing since 2019, Tim is the firm’s Managing Director of China IP and Litigation. Tim’s practice focusses on representing Chinese companies with their U.S. litigation and regulatory matters.
Chris Carr is a tenured Professor of Business Law and Public Policy in the business school at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He is also a four-time Fulbright Scholar and Specialist (Italy, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tunisia), and teaches as a visiting professor in the MBA program at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. Professor Carr earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska, master’s degree in political science from UCLA, and law degree with cum laude distinction from Santa Clara University.
Sharon Qiao is Senior Partner, Head of Litigation Group of Lusheng Law Firm. Sharon has a rich experience in IP strategy, IP litigation and enforcement. She has led hundreds of IP cases, many of which have been selected as noteworthy cases of the year by courts at all levels, including the Supreme People’s Court for their unprecedented nature. She has participated in the formulation and revision of related laws of China regarding intellectual property, with much of her suggestions and opinions being adopted by the legislative and judicial authorities.
Feng (Janet) Zheng is a Partner at Wan Hui Da Law Firm. She practices in the areas of intellectual property law with a focus on patent litigation and related patent invalidity actions, patent licensing, FTO, trade secret, software copyright, unfair competition, trademark and anti-trust matters. She is highly recognized by clients and was elected among iam Patent 1000 globally of the year 2019 and 2020, and was elected among 15 rising star lawyers in China by ALB.
Riccardo VECELLIO SEGATE, LLM (Utrecht), is the Talent Program PhD Candidate in International Law at the University of Macau and an incoming Visiting Student Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously selected as an Exchange Scholar at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. He has worked for private and public entities all around Europe and Asia, including the European Commission, Oxford University Press, and Expo 2015 SpA.