Professional Memberships
One of the first group of national exerts on overseas IP disputes and litigations
Member, Intellectual Property Committee of Chinese Society of Technology Economics
Member, Intellectual Property Law Association of China Law Society
Member and lecturer, China Intellectual Property Society
Member, International Bar Association (IBA)
Researcher, Intellectual Property Research Center of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Arbitrator, Yantai Arbitration Commission
Selected as a member of Beijing Lawyer Association's Foreign Lawyer Pool, Beijing Intellectual Property Expert Pool, Yantai Intellectual Property Expert Pool, Shenzhen’s first batch of experts for overseas intellectual property rights protection, and the first batch of experts for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Intellectual Property Talent Port Expert Database
Personal
Dr. Peng Zhang specializes in various IP disputes and litigations, antitrust and competition law disputes, trade compliance and remedy, especially in matters in the areas of information technology, telecommunication, media, and entertainment. Dr. Zhang obtained the bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Tsinghua University and has obtained PhD in Law and undertaken postdoctoral research in Intellectual Property Law. He served as the examiner in China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) for 13 years. After joining Zhong Lun, he has handled hundreds of patent infringement lawsuit, patent invalidation petitions, technology secret lawsuits, technology-related copyright lawsuits and technology-related antitrust disputes, among which include dozens heard by the Supreme People’s Court of China, involved with forefront legal contentions, and have had significantly wide social impact. Dr. Zhang is also experienced in enterprise intellectual property strategies. He has visited Kirkland & Ellis LLP. and has deep research experience in transnational IP litigations and IP transactions.
Several cases he delt with has been selected into the 100 guiding cases of five-year anniversary of the establishment of the IP Court of the Supreme People’s Court, the ten guiding trade secret cases of Beijing IP Court, and the ten guiding antitrust and anti-unfair competition cases of Beijing IP Court. Dr. Zhang has been recommended in the Intellectual Property Dispute and Litigations and TMT categories by Chambers from 2023 to 2025 consecutively and by Legal 500 in the Intellectual Property Dispute and Litigations and TMT domains for the same years. Dr. Zhang’s other distinctions include making into the 2024 ALB China Top 15 IP Lawyers list, honored as Disputation Resolution Star 2025 by Benchmark Litigation, included in the IP Stars 2025 by Managing IP, and named A-List Legal Elite by China Business Law Journal. His mandate of Motorola v. Hytera cross-border IP cases has been lauded by the 2025 Asia-Pacific Legal Awards of Benchmark Litigation. This case and the Glanz v. Meige patent cases, also handled by Dr. Zhang, have been selected as 2024 Outstanding Transactions of China Business Law Journal.
Dr. Zhang maintains a strong commitment to staying at the forefront of intellectual property developments. He has actively participated in revisions of regulations and contributed to formulation of major policies. Additionally, Dr. Zhang has compiled and co-authored over 10 books as well as articles and other publications, offering up-to-date analysis of a wide range of complex patent issues. Dr. Zhang taught patent law as an adjunct professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology. He also held a research professorship at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. By virtue of such demonstrated in-depth knowledge of intellectual property, as substantiated by his substantial academic work, he holds the distinguished honor of being a member of China’s Tip-top IP Talents Program.
Work Highlights
IP cases and antitrust cases
Series of cases (including cross-border litigation cases)
• Represented Motorola Solutions, Inc. and its Chinese subsidiary in series of patent infringement, patent invalidation, antitrust disputes, and standard essential patent license fee dispute cases against Hytera Communications Co., Ltd. (one of these cases has been selected into the ten guiding antitrust and anti-unfair competition cases of Beijing IP Court)
• Represented Interdigital Inc. in several standard-essential patents disputes
• Represented a telecommunication company in an abuse of dominant market position case
• Represented a global multinational chemical company in an abuse of dominant market position case and a patent licensing agreement dispute case
• Represented Huawei in disputes with a company over a series of cross-border disputes over 5G standard-essential patents and 4G standard-essential patents
• Represented Huawei Digital Power in a series of disputes over photovoltaic patents against SolarEdge
• Represented ZTE Corporation in a series of cross-border disputes with a company over 5G standard-essential patents and 4G standard-essential patents
• Represented the American company C3 Nano Ltd. in a series of patent invalidation disputes and administrative lawsuits against Cambrios Film Solutions Corporation over metal nanowires, a conductive material for folding screens
• Represented an American telecommunications company in a series of disputes over abuse of dominance and standard-essential patents license fee recognition
• Represented an American chemical company in a series of disputes over abuse of dominance and patent licensing contracts
• Represented Yilong Electronics Co., Ltd. in dispute in its chip series
• Represented China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation Limited and Sinopec Petrochemical Research Institute in series patent invalidation dispute, patent administrative lawsuit in Petrochemical field
• Represented Chongqing Huike Jinyu Optoelectronic Technology Ltd, Hefei Huike Jinyang Technology Ltd and Innolux Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. in series of patent infringement dispute, patent invalidation dispute, patent administrative lawsuit (before the Intellectual Property Court of Supreme People's Court)
• Represented Beijing Grace Laser Technology Co., Ltd. in a series of trade secret infringement disputes and patent ownership disputes with Beijing Beamtech Optronics Co., Ltd. before the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court, with the dispute over the trade secrets of a laser chipping device honored as one of the top ten guiding cases of infringement of trade secrets by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court
• Represented Bgrimm Technology Group Co. Ltd. in a series of patent ownership disputes, technology transfer contract disputes, and technical service contract disputes with Chenzhou Jingtao Environmental Protection Technology Co. Ltd. before the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court
• Represented Beijing Tanneng Technology Co., Ltd. against Oberta Pieuleache, a French company, in a series of patent infringement, patent invalidation, and damage liability disputes caused by malicious intellectual property litigation
Supreme People's Court (including Intellectual Property Court) cases
• Represented Revo Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Hongbo Li, Harbin Jump Car Distribution Ltd. in the retrial of utility model patent infringement dispute (Retrial case before the Supreme People's Court, successfully overturned the judgement of the second instance and succeeded during the retrial)
• Represented Motorola Solutions, Inc. in the retrial of a patent administrative dispute before the Supreme People's Court
• Represented the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in response to a patent administrative dispute retrial case before the Supreme People's Court
• Represented Fuzhou Rongxun Building Materials Technology Ltd. in the retrial of a patent infringement dispute before the Supreme People's Court
• Represented Kunshan Tong Plastic Machinery Manufacturing Ltd. in the retrial of a patent infringement dispute before the Supreme People's Court
• Represented Galanz in the second instance of a patent infringement dispute against Zhongshan Meige Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. before the Intellectual Property Court of Supreme People's Court, with the case being one of the Intellectual Property Court's 2023 Intellectual Property Awareness Week Centralized Public Sessions Cases and selected as one of the 100 guiding cases on the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court
• Represented Aux against Gree in response to the second instance of the patent administrative dispute and the second instance of a series of patent infringement disputes before the Supreme People's Court, with the case being selected as one of the Intellectual Property Court's 2023 Intellectual Property Awareness Week Centralized Public Sessions Cases
• Represented Changsha Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Ltd. in response to a patent administrative lawsuit before the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court and successfully overturned the disputed decision upon request to exam and invalidate an invention patent, thereby safeguarding the validation of the client's core patent
• Represented Shenzhen Chenggu Technology Co., Ltd. in the retrial of invention patent infringement dispute and integrated circuits design dispute against Chenggu and Skyrelay (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. before the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court
Dr. Peng Zhang ’s bio can be found here: https://en.zhonglun.com/team/zhangpeng.html
