Wen Zou

Practice Areas

MS. ZOU SPECIALIZES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION, CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PROTECTION OF TRADE SECRETS, OVERSEAS LITIGATION MANAGEMENT, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPLIANCE AND CRIMINAL RISK MANAGEMENT.

Ms. Zou is experienced in handling highly adversarial and complex cases. Since practicing laws as a lawyer, Ms. Zou has provided legal services to multinational companies, internet giants and listed companies including LyondellBasell, Bilibili and Deren on criminal and civil matters involving trade secrets protection, achieving positive results by obtaining preliminary injunctions, conviction of infringers and high compensation. Ms. Zou has represented leading companies in the field of semiconductor, medical device, and communications industry, including NICHIA, EDAM, HC SemiTek and Ericson, in numerous patent litigations between competing companies as well as SEP litigations. Ms. Zou has contributed to overseas litigation management for clients and represented them in the parallel litigations in China. Additionally, Ms. Zou has assisted numerous multinational and domestic clients, including SHEIN, XIAOGUANCHA and Anker, in protecting their core trademarks, domain names and other IP rights.

Ms. Zou was listed in the Chambers Greater China Region Intellectual Property Litigation category and was honored by LEGALBAND as one of the Top 15 Female Lawyers in China, one of the Top 15 Economic Crimes Lawyers in China, and received a Special Recommendation for Intellectual Property Litigation. Additionally, she was acknowledged by China Business Law Journal as one of The A-List Elite Lawyers.

Career

Ms. Zou joined Fangda as a partner in 2022. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Zou had practiced law for 16 years with deep expertise in the field of criminal and IP disputes. Ms. Zou obtained her practice license in June, 2019 in Shenzhen.

Professional Memberships

Vice President, Biomedical Intellectual Property Branch, Guangdong Precision Medicine Application Association

Expert, Trade Secret Protection Base Expert Group of Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province

Industry Expert in the field of Trade Secret, Zhejiang Province Trade Secret Expert Group

Expert, Domain Name Dispute Resolution Expert Group of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre

External Expert, Shenzhen Market Supervision and Administration Bureau

Expert, Shenzhen Fair Competition Review and Competition Law Expert Group

Expert, China (Shenzhen) Intellectual Property Protection Center Overseas Rights Protection Expert Group

Expert, Capital Intellectual Property Services Association Trade Secret Committee

External Expert, Shenzhen Brand Protection and Development Association

Publications

Research Report

A Legal Research Report on Cases of Trade Secret Disputes Arising from Employee Turnover（2019-2021），Wen ZOU & LexisNexis, May 2022;

A Legal Research Report on Cases of Trade Secret Disputes Arising from Employee Turnover（2015-2018），Wen ZOU & LexisNexis, May 2019.

Essays & Articles

Frontier Observation of Trade Secrets: The Secrets in Big Data (Wen ZOU, Xueqing LIU), Legal Person, July 4, 2022;

Trade Secrets 2022 (2nd Edition) (Jerry XIA, Ning DONG, Wen ZOU), Law Business Research Ltd, April 2022;

Practical Analysis of Punitive Damages in Trade Secret Infringement Cases (Wen ZOU, Xueqing LIU), IP LEAD, February 2022;

Interpretation of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone’s Anti-Unfair Competition Regulations (Draft) from the Perspective of Trade Secrets Practice (Wen ZOU, Xueqing LIU), LexisNexis, December 2021;

The Impact of Amended Trade Secrets Law in 2020 (Wen ZOU, Wenmin XIAO), Wolters Kluwer, February 2021;

Brief Analysis of Highlights of Recent Amendment of Criminal Part and Judicial Interpretation of Trade Secret Law from the Perspective of Practice (Wen ZOU, Yanyan DENG, IP LEAD, October 22, 2020;

Analysis on the Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Civil Cases Concerning Trade Secret Infringement Disputes (Draft for Comments) (Wen ZOU, Xueqing LIU), IP LEAD, June 17, 2020;

Implications of the US-China Phase One Trade Deal on Trade Secret Enforcement (Jerry XIA, Wen ZOU, Jing HE), LEGALBAND, March 2020；

The New Situation and New Problems of Trade Secret Protection (Wen ZOU), LexisNexis, January 2020；

Probing into the Handling of IP Cases Involving Civil and Criminal Matters (Wen ZOU, Jiaxin ZHANG), IP LEAD, October 2019;

China’s New Legislative Efforts to Improve Protection of Trade Secrets (Wen ZOU), LEXOLOGY, September 2019；

Standard for Determination of Client List as Trade Secrets and Suggestions (Wen ZOU, Anbi XU), IP LEAD, December 2018;

The Connections between Trade Secrets and Patents (Wen ZOU, Yue LIU), IP LEAD, October 2018;

Comprehensive Introduction on the Jurisdiction over Trade Secret Cases from Three Perspectives (Wen ZOU, Yuan ZHENG), IP LEAD, January 2018.