Areas of Practice
Ms. Wang focuses her practice on patent and technology transaction areas. Ms. Wang had been working consecutively in LungTin IP firm, the Patent and Licensing Department of Novozymes China and later in AnJie Law Firm. She joined Lifang & Partners in June 2021.
Ms. Wang mainly works for high-tech companies, especially those in the fields of pharma, biotechnology, chemistry and chemical engineering. She represents clients in patent invalidation and infringement litigation. As a legal counsel to a number of biopharmaceutical companies, she helps the clients with patent strategy development, establishment of enterprise IP system, patent prosecution, and provides clients with patent validity analysis, FTO analysis, etc.
In the past few years, Ms. Wang has represented many domestic companies in the negotiation of technology licensing and R&D collaboration with foreign companies and universities, covering the fields of gene editing, drug development, medical devices, cosmetics, semi-conductor and other technical fields, and helped clients draft and review contracts.
In addition to China patent practice, Ms. Wang also has a deep understanding and practice in major foreign countries such as the United States, Europe and India, and can provide clients with a global perspective on patent protection strategies. During her nine years’ working period as an inhouse IP counsel, Ms. Wang had worked on global IP issues for several business units, including managing a series of European patent opposition and appeal cases between Novozymes and its competitors, and participating in licensing negotiations to settle Novozymes’ global IP disputes. Ms. Wang had also worked as a team member in a plenty of R&D projects, with rich experiences in patent landscape analysis, design around and IP risk management.
Representative Matters
Represented a Chinese Biotech company in license negotiation with Broad Institute on CRISPR-Cas9 patent portfolios, and reviewed its agreement;
Represented Cure Genetics Co. Ltd on its R&D collaboration and licensing negotiation with Boehringer Ingelheim and reviewed its agreement;
Represented a Chinese Biotech company on a R&D collaboration negotiation for CAR-T and drafted agreement;
Advised Sinocompound Catalysts Co. Ltd on technology licensing from MIT and drafted sub-license agreement;
Advised Bluepha Co. Ltd on its technology collaboration with Sinochem Group;
Represented a start-up biopharma company on acquiring new drug technology;
Represent a Japanese cosmetic company on technology licensing with a Chinese company and reviewed its agreement;
Provided opinions on IP strategy of a pharmaceutical project for Shanghai Chengwei Changqing Equity Investment Management Company;
Represented a U.S. company for IP due diligence in a M&A deal in China;
Drafted the book of “IP Guideline for outbound investment” for Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce (including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, IP due diligence and IP protection for trade fairs);
Patent infringement analysis for a series of design patents, patent infringement analysis for medical instrument and biopharma patents;
Provided patent layout consultation, patent infringement analysis and patent design around analysis for Wanhua Chemical Co.,
Representing Rhodia Chemical for its patent infringement litigation against Zibo Jiahua Advanced Materials Resources Co.,
Representing Personal Genomics Taiwan INC., against Pacific Bioscience Company in the case of patent infringement and invalidation related to gene sequencing;
Representing BISSEL in a series of patent infringement and invalidation cases against TINECO related to floor cleaning machine;
Advised a European pharma company on technology transaction dispute with a Chinese company, including litigation strategy related to trade secret infringement, IP ownership dispute and HKIAC Arbitration;
Represented Philip Morris on a design patent infringement lawsuit against a Chinese company;
Represented FRX Polymers, Inc on administrative litigation for patent reexamination;
Represented Novozymes on a patent infringement litigation against local enzymes companies;
Represented Novozymes on managing a series of EP opposition/appeal cases against Genencor and AB Enzymes;
Represented Novozymes on managing patent invalidation cases in China.
Professional Affiliations
Member of All China Lawyers Association
Member of All-China Patent Agents Association
Member of LESI (Licensing Executives Society International)
Advisory Expert for National Overseas IP Dispute Settlement
Awards
Recommended Patent Transactions Individual, IAM Patent 1000, 2024
Recommended Intellectual Property Lawyer, The Legal 500, 2017
Education
LLM, Temple University
M.Sc. in Biochemistry, Tsinghua University
B.Sc. in Biological Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University
Qualifications
China Licensed Lawyer
China Licensed Patent Attorney
Working Languages
Mandarin Chinese
English