Zhen (Katie) Feng (Shanghai IP Agency)
Office Managing Partner Intellectual Property, Media, and Technology
Languages
English, Mandarin, Taiwanese
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Chambers Greater China Region 2023"If you have an IP infringement issue, I'd go to her. She knows her stuff and is a great litigator."
Zhen Feng (also known as Katie Feng) has been in private practice for more than 20 years. She started as a general litigator and now focuses on IP litigation and brand protection. She is admitted in both the PRC (1998) and New York, USA (2003). Katie is fluent in English, Mandarin and Taiwanese.
Katie is a partner and director of Hogan Lovells (Shanghai) Intellectual Property Agency Service Co., Ltd., an IP service affiliate established under Hogan Lovells International LLP. Practising in a market that has seen a huge upswing in patent filing, trademark filing and IP ligation in the past decade, Katie has opportunities to handle numerous cases involving complex and cutting-edge IP issues.
In this process, she became widely recognized in the IP area and has built a track record of success. Katie is also a strategic advisor. She advises numerous clients from diverse backgrounds on formulation and implementation of IP enforcement strategies in China through a combination of administrative, civil, and criminal actions. She also provides proactive advice and analysis on how to secure and obtain IP rights from the start-up of a business, and how to monetize IP rights when the business grows.
Katie is a former member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) Board of Directors and a former chief editor of INTA's China Bulletin publication.
Chambers Greater China Region 2022"We appreciate her on-the-ground experience in handling complex IP enforcement programmes and her pragmatic approach in advising available actions against each target."
Representative experience
Advising a leading American manufacturer of turbochargers and turbo technologies on their patent assertions against multiple Chinese turbocharger infringers before the Shanghai IP court.
Advising a leading developer of broadband terminal technologies on how to act against patents filed in China that have copied the client’s technology regarding satellite and antenna.
Advising one of the world's leading mechanical and plant engineering firms and its China subsidiary on defending the patent infringement allegations before Anhui Hefei Intermediate People’s Court.
Representing a multinational electronics manufacturer on litigation campaigns in China targeting wholesale markets offering counterfeit products.
Representing the world’s largest toy company on action strategies in China against copycat products, representing it in a series of high-profile copyright, trademark and unfair competition lawsuits.
Credentials
- LL.M., Wake Forest University
- LL.B., Xiamen University
- New York
- People's Republic of China
- New York Bar Association
- International Trademark Association