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Grace G. Wang
Grace G. Wang
Partner

Email: wangguixiang@weihenglaw.com

Tel: +86 18614038220

Office: Beijing

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Practice area

Intellectual property disputes resolution and transaction
Experience

Ms. Wang joined W&H Law Firm in April 2017. Before joining W&H, she practiced as a senior IP lawyer in Zhong Lun Law Firm from 2014 to 2017, and worked as an in-house IP counsel from 2003 to 2013. She was once in charge of all the IP license and litigation matters in ZTE Corporation, and managed the IP team to handle all kinds of global IP matters in Suntech Power Corporation.

Ms. Wang is specialized in and good at handling IP disputes and IP transactions, especially in the patent field. She has provided legal services for clients from China, United States, Europe and Japan in patent invalidations, patent disputes, trade secret disputes, technical contract disputes, copyright disputes, competition disputes, IP licensing projects and FTO (Freedom to Operate) projects. She is highly praised for her ability to provide systematic solutions of IP protection and IP risk management as well as her high responsiveness, precision and decisiveness.

Ms. Wang represented clients in number of patent disputes involving Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and advised clients in some SEPs licensing projects. Ms. Wang represented clients in many copyright disputes and unfair competition disputes, in some of which she assisted clients to obtain preliminary injunctions successfully. Ms. Wang also has professional experience in handling IP administrative enforcement and customs protection issues in China.
Education-Background

Temple University Beasley School of Law, LL.M.

Renmin University of China, LL.M.

Hefei University of Technology, Bachelor of Engineering.
Language-Skills

Mandarin and English
Classic-Cases

Represented TCL in a patent infringement litigation relating to a potential SEP against Royal Dutch KPN;

Represented Alibaba UC group in a series of unfair competition litigations, successfully won injunctions;

Represented Coolpad in a patent infringement litigation and patent invalidation case relating to a potential TD-SCDMA SEP;

Represented Aux in two patent infringement cases relating to potential WCDMA SEP;

Represented TY in a series of copyright cases, copyright enforcement and customs protection issues;

Represented Maxmore in a series of patent administrative enforcements, patent infringement litigations and patent invalidation cases;

Advised TCL in IP due diligence and transaction project;

Advised Sunniwell in HDMI patent licensing project;

Advised British Telecom in a patent licensing project;

Advised Tencent in a patent licensing project;

Advised Smartdot in a software source code licensing project;

Advised D-Line (Europe) in a patent protection case;

Advised Startimes in an IP due diligence and transaction project;

Advised Samsung on patent issues;

Advised Tencent on unfair competition issues;

Advised Adisseo on trade secret issues and represented Adisseo in several patent invalidation cases;

Advised Crystal Lagoons on IP licensing and technology import & export project.
Honors and Awards

Ms. Wang was rewarded as one of the “Outstanding IP Manager in China”by China IP Magazine in 2011.

Ms. Wang was rewarded as one of the “Next Generation Star” by Legal 500 in 2016.
Insights

Patent Protection in China, co-editor, Intellectual Property Publishing House (IPPH), 2018
Government-consultants