TEAM

XIAORONG LV (Partner, Patent Attorney)

Qualifications:
Doctor—Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

She published intellectual property-related academic papers in Chinese core journals and SCI journals, and compiled for "International Science and Technology Frontier" (China Science Publishing & Media), "Industrial Patent Analysis" (Intellectual Property Publishing House) and other publications more than 30 articles. Her Yicifang Data Technology Co., Ltd. provides project services like patent layout, patent early-warning, and patent evaluation for scientific research institutions, R&D companies, industry associations, Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission and so on.

Practice Areas:
Patent searching, scientific and technological strategy consulting, overseas intellectual property early-warning, industrial patent analysis, patent layout, patent evaluation

Technical Fields:
optoelectronic technology, nanotechnology, new energy, new materials, intelligent manufacturing, high-end chips, biomedicine
ZHIXIN HE (President)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Industrial Automation—TongJi University, China
Master of Electronic Engineering—Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

He acts for businesses in patenting inventions, registering designs and advising on freedom to operate in China and overseas.
He has a business focus and specializes in advising on freedom to operate and possible infringement issues. He also drafts and prosecutes commercially focused patent and registered design application, and handles contentious proceedings.

Practice Areas:
Patent filing and examination, Patent searching, Patent opposition and revocations, Strategic Protection of IP, Preparation and filing of Application, Freedom to Operate

Technical Fields:
Mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering, Information and communication technology
YANHONG LUO (Patent Attorney)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Information and intelligence research—Peking University, China
Master of Computer Science—University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, America

Before entering the field of intellectual property, Ms. Luo graduated from Peking University with a major in software engineering and has more than ten years of overseas study and research and development experience. Her research and development work involves various technical solutions combining software and software and hardware. In particular, she has been engaged in system, network and application software research and development for seven years in well-known American companies.
After sixteen years of practical experience in patent prosecution, it has provided well-known domestic and foreign companies such as Samsung, Ford, Baidu and Megvii with high-level patent protection in the fields of software, artificial intelligence, electronic circuits, and electrical equipment plan. Ms. Luo joined Zhixin & Partners Law Firm Ltd. in November 2021 and will be responsible for the management and construction of the company's artificial intelligence team.

Practice Areas:
Foreign-related patent business; Patent mining, search and analysis and patent layout of new technologies; Patent reexamination and invalidation.
NA LIU (Patent Attorney)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology —— Qingdao University, China
Master of Degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology ——Dalian University of Technology, China

After graduating from Dalian University of Technology, she was admitted to China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and has been engaged in patent substantive examination for many years in the Patent Examination Cooperation Center. At present, she is mainly responsible for patent agency management, from drafting patent application documents, replying to office actions, to invalidation of reexamination and administrative reconsideration.

Practice Areas:
In addition to professional fields such as chemistry/medicine, his field of work is also proficient in material search and analysis; in addition, he is also good at providing intellectual property consulting services in patent search, consultation, infringement analysis, and reexamination.
PENGCHENG CHEN (General Manager)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Chemistry—Peking University, China

Familiar with prior art search, FTO search, patent application preparation, filing and prosecution in technical fields including chemistry, pharmacology and mechanical engineering, and have rich experience in international and domestic patent filing and prosecution. At the same time, he is in charge of translation and proofreading of international application documents.

Practice Areas:
Preparation, filing and prosecution of international patent application and domestic patent application, invalidation, infringement prosecution, patent translation and proofreading
RENQING WEN (COO)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of German philology—Mianyang Teacher's College, China

Since joining Zhixin in 2017, Renqing Wen worked as a patent consultant. She has been engaged in a number of and various types of patent searching and analyzing projects. She has accumulated rich experience in patent search and analysis, and has repeatedly participated in customer training, which deepens her professional knowledge in communication with customers. During the project implementation process, focusing on the needs of customers, starting from the actual needs of enterprises, she effectively provides valuable services to corporate customers. In addition, her practice also involves patent portfolio management, searching for patent applications and the assistance of invalidity and infringement matters.

Renqing Wen assists clients with understanding the technology landscape in order to capture the value of their intellectual assets in China. This includes providing the ground analysis of the innovation landscape, competition, and general risk factors regarding the regulatory & litigation environment.

Practice Areas:
Patent application consulting, patent searching and analyzing
YUE HAN (Patent Attorney)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Computer Information System—Beihang University, China

1999-2001 China Electronic System Engineering Corp. Developer of Computer Software
2001-2006 Patent Examination Cooperation Center of The Patent Office, CNIPA Patent Examiner
2006-2011 Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Ltd. Patent Attorney
2011-Now Haihong Jiacheng Intellectual Property & Partners Patent Attorney

Before engaging in patent prosecution work, he has engaged in patent examination work in the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) for many years, has completed the examination of a huge number of electronic patent applications, and is familiar with Chinese Patent Law, Implementation Regulations, Examination Guidelines and Examination Procedures. Since 2005, he has been engaged in foreign-related patent prosecution work in a well-known patent Agency in Beijing. He has actually carried out a lot of prosecution work from patent application, patent litigation, responding to office action to defense of invalidation, etc.

Practice Areas:
Foreign-related patent prosecution, representing clients during reexamination or invalidation process
SHU XIE (Patent Attorney)

Qualifications:
He studied in the Japanese Department of Yunnan University for one year in 1995, and studied in the Japanese Department of Fu Jen Catholic University for half a year in 2015.

2001-2007    Electrical Department of China Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd.   Patent Engineer
2007-2009    Electrical Department of CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office Patent Attorney
2009-2014    Electrical Department of Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Ltd.   Patent Attorney
2014-Now     Department of Japanese Affairs of Zhixin & Partners Law Firm Ltd. Team Leader

Practice Areas:
Patent prosecution, translation & review (Japanese, English), conducting prior art search or FTO search, making response to office action, representing clients during reexamination or invalidation process

Technical Fields:
Electricity related fields, such as semiconductor, computer, automobile, communication, optics, mechanics, etc.
XI CHENG (CEO)

Qualifications:
Master of German philology—Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

She studied Politics and German philology at Darmstadt University of Technology and graduated with academic degree of Master in Politics and German philology. She is the Executive director at KEYDION, an IP translation expert. She has also about 12 years experience (German/English) as a Project manager/Translator as well as proofreader.

Practice Areas:
Patent Translation, Technical Translation, Deadline Control, Project Management
YUELING HOU (Patent Attorney)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Physics—Taiyuan Normal University, China
Master of Physics—Chongqing University, China

She works as a Patent Attorney and practices in the field of intellectual property, especially in the field of physics, optics, Communication and electricity, engaged in various affairs including patent retrieval, counselling service, drafting application documents for patents, making professional responses to office actions in the substantive examination proceedings. She also is good at handling reexamination and invalidation cases, making patent infringement analysis, etc. Furthermore, she does excellent at devising feasible patent protection strategies for clients. She has already had practical experience in obtaining evidence, application of evidence and defense in litigation involving intellectual property rights.

From 2014 to now, her technical field that applied involves electronics, communication, network, machinery, materials and other fields. Her excellent writing and analysis ability has won wide praise from customers.

Practice Areas:
Patent retrieval, counselling service, drafting application documents for patents, making responses to office actions, handling reexamination and invalidation cases, making patent infringement analysis
HAIQIONG HOU (Leader of Filing Department)

Qualifications:
Polus International College, China

Since the beginning of her career in patent process management in 2015, she has handled tens of thousands of patent application cases in the past 6 years and has gained rich experience in patent process management. Based on her working experience over the years and the firm’s routine practice, she managed to incorporate patent rules into daily work and formed her own theories in establishing patent process management mode and procedures, training patent management personnel and providing high-quality service to clients and applicants.

She started working as the head of Filing Department since 2017, and has gained rich experience in client IP management and program design for application service.

Practice Areas:
Patent application documents examination, time limit monitoring, documents processing, follow-up management and handling of various types of patent procedures
HUA HUANG (Patent Attorney)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Process Equipment and Control Engineering—Southwest Petroleum University, China

He has handled a large amount of patent works since he joined the firm in 2019, including patent drafting, patent applications, making response to office actions for domestic applications and PCT applications entering into China. He has also handled many other kinds of patent affairs, including patent validity analysis, patent Invalidation, pre-litigation analysis, patent mining, and patent counseling for domestic and international companies.

Also, he is engaged in the translation and proofreading work of foreign-related patent documents or notifications.

Practice Areas:
Majoring in patent agent cases, including general machinery, machinery engineering, process technology and other fields
YUTING WU (Junior Technical Translator)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of German—Capital Normal University, China
Master of Education—Philipps University Marburg , Germany

Practice Areas:
Patent Translation, Technical Translation, Legal Translation, Preparing of Office Action
XIAOLAN LI (Coordinator)

Qualifications:
West Normal University, China

Ms. Li has engaged in the intellectual property industry since 2014 and has been responsible for the management of domestic intellectual property process for many years. After many years of practice, Ms. Li has accumulated a wealth of practical experience, especially familiar with Chinese patent law and process work. At present, Ms. Li is mainly responsible for the business negotiation of the preliminary work of the project, the overall planning of agent work, etc.

Practice Areas:
Patent project consulting and planning, project management
XIA ZHOU (Patent Engineer)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Biotechnology—Sichuan Agricultural University, China
Master of Crop Genetics and Breeding—Sichuan Agricultural University, China

During academic research, she published an English core article and two CSCD core articles and was engaged in protein structure analysis in State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, Sichuan University.

She started to work in intellectual property industry in 2020 and works as a Patent Engineer now. Responsible for writing domestic patent application documents, replying to office actions and patent search consultation, involving technical fields such as machinery, biology, etc.

Practice Areas:
Patent writing, application, making response to office action, patent search and consultation
HANYU JIANG (Senior Technical Translator)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of German philology—Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

She studied German philology at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Before she join us in 2013, she worked in renowned Bertelsmann AG as a team leader of German translation department.
MENGXUAN SUN (Senior Technical Translator)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of German Language and Literature—Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Practice Areas:
Patent Translation, Technical Translation, Quality Control & Process Management
CHANG XU (Patent Translator)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of German philology—Chongqing University, China
Master of German Translator—Sichuan International Studies University, China

She has about 5 years long experience as a Translator as well as a proofreader. She has studied legal translation relating to IP law & PCT rules. Additionally, she is engaged in patent translation and proofreading, especially in the field of mechanical engineering, automotive engineering (in particular drive systems such as gear drives, clutches and exhaust systems) as well as locking systems. She also provides support in translation work related to court verdicts and patent-related legal documents.

Practice Areas:
Patent Translation, Technical Translation, Localization
YAOQI LI (Patent Attorney)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Chemical Engineering and Technology—Ocean University of China, China
Master of Chemical Engineering—Ocean University of China, China

He participated in multiple projects of chemical engineering at university. Since 2020, he has entered the field of intellectual property and now works as a patent engineer, responsible for writing domestic patent application documents, answering office actions, patent search and consultation related to technical fields of chemistry and medicine, etc.

Practice Areas:
Patent prosecution including patent writing and application, answering office actions, patent search and consultation.
ZANDUO JIANG(Patent & Trademark Paralegel)

Qualifications:
Bachelor of German philology—Sichuan International Studies University, China

She works as a translator as well as a proofreader, familiar with the operation of different CAT tools and the localization of various documents relating machinery, software, e-learning courses, game… She has also worked as a project manager for over 10 clients, engaged in tracking and controlling the quality and progress of the translation of ca. 1.5 million words.

Now, she works mainly as the patent & trademark paralegal and is responsible for the foreign-related communication and controlling the progress of patent/trademark application.

Practice Areas:
Technical Translation, Localization, Deadline Control, Quality Control, Project Management

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