Catherine Zheng

Catherine is the Head of the Patents and Designs Practice and a Partner in the China IP Practice.

Catherine specialises in China intellectual property protection strategy and contentious matters. Catherine’s extensive experience covers all aspects of China IP ranging from IP litigation and enforcement, to IP portfolio management, trade mark, copyright and domain name protection, to trade secret protection, data privacy and cybersecurity, and IP-related commercial transactions, including IP exploitation, technology transfer, joint ventures and complex M&A. For the past 20 years, she has successfully represented a large number of local and international companies in litigation at all levels of the Chinese courts, and actions before the different levels of administrative bodies. Catherine advises on complex patent litigation matters, with a particular focus on patent validity and infringement issues, and has won high profile patent litigation cases in the Higher People’s Court of Guangdong Province and the Supreme Court of China.

Catherine has acted on numerous complex commercial transactions including one of China’s largest outbound technology transfer deals. Catherine has also advised many pharmaceutical and biotech clients on IP protection, enforcement and commercialisation in China, and is well-versed in protection of plant variety rights, a fast-developing and strategically important area.