IP Expert

Overview

Mr. Jacob Zhang has expertise in patent prosecution and invalidity, patent civil and administrative litigation, patent due diligence and freedom-to-operate investigation, IP anti-counterfeiting, etc., and he is very experienced in patent cases in technical areas of software, internet, electronics, telecommunications, semiconductors, display, mechanics, etc.

Since 2007, Jacob has represented a number of different Fortune 500 companies in more than 1,000 patent prosecution and litigation cases, among which a patent invalidity case was selected as the No. 1 case of the Top 10 cases of the Reexamination Board of the Chinese Patent Office in 2016; patent civil litigation and related invalidity cases were selected by state-run media as the No. 1 case of the Top 10 typical patent cases in 2018; and a litigation case that he was involved in was selected by the Supreme People’s Court as one of the Top 10 IP litigation cases of Chinese courts in 2019. Jacob and his team manage the global patent portfolios comprising thousands of patents in various jurisdictions on behalf of their Chinese clients.

Jacob was recognized as the 2021 IAM Patent 1000 Individuals for both patent prosecution and litigation (only three professionals in China won the dual awards) and as the Outstanding Patent Attorney in Beijing by the Beijing Patent Attorneys Association.