Areas of strength for Jones Day's renowned IP China practice range from multinational companies’ inbound disputes, IP transactions and China portfolio strategies, to acting for Chinese companies in outbound litigation; it can also boast its own IP agency in China. The department’s combined sectoral experience encompasses the tech and life sciences sectors in particular. The Shanghai-based Anthony Chen, former co-chair of the IP subcommittee of the American Chamber of Commerce, advises pharmaceutical and biotech companies on navigating China’s pharmaceutical patent linkage system for protecting new drugs. Chen co-heads the team with Haifeng Huang (who splits his time between Beijing and Hong Kong), who has a broad practice covering disputes and transactions involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, antitrust, and tech licensing issues. Guoping Da left the firm for Juniv LLP in October 2022.

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Key clients

Tineco Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
Wybotics Co., Ltd.
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
East Penn Manufacturing Co.
Wikimedia Foundation
LUKOIL
Incyte Corporation
GAW Capital Partners

Work highlights

Represented Tineco in an investigation filed by Bissell Inc. and Bissell Homecare Inc. relating to five asserted patents of wet-dry surface cleaning devices.
Represented Wybotics in a patent infringement investigation before the U.S. ITC.
Defended Hangzhou and its affiliates in several patent infringement lawsuits in the US.