Yong Zhang

Practice Areas

Attorney Yong (Christopher) ZHANG now serves as a Senior Partner of Dentons Shenzhen Office. Having been practicing law for 17 years, attorney ZHANG has grown into a legal expert in handling intellectual property actions.

He has a deep understanding of intellectual property issues and rich practical experience in team set-up and case management, is able to formulate effective and professional legal strategies and plans to protect the rights and interests of clients to the greatest extent. ZHANG has provided legal services for many large multinational enterprises and has handled thousands of intellectual property litigation cases for large e-commerce platforms. He is also able to provide clients with full-process and efficient legal services in many areas including but not limited to corporate legal affairs and intellectual property management and protection.

Career

2009-01-01 - Now, Senior Partner of Beijing Dacheng (Shenzhen) Law Firm

2005-11-01 -2008-09-01 Chief of Litigation Department, BYD Co., Ltd.

2004-04-01-2005-08-27 Intern lawyer of Beijing Guoda Law Firm.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Designs Committee of the International Trademark Association

Deputy Director of the Copyright Professional Committee of the Guangdong Lawyers Association

Member of the Foreign Intellectual Property Center of the Guangdong Lawyers Association

Director of the Copyright Law Committee of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association

Convener of the Technology Innovation Law Research Center of the Shenzhen Futian Lawyer's Service Committee

Head of the Software and Information Industry Legal Service Group of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association

Publications

Associate Editor of "Corporate Intellectual Property Compliance Practices and Guidelines", Law Press, 2023

Co-authored the article "Comparison of Judicial Practice of Batch Litigation of Internet Intellectual Property Infringement in China and the United States ---Taking Trademark Infringement and Copyright Infringement Cases as Examples", won the Excellent Article Prize of the Periodical International Law Insight, 2023

"Legal Risk and Control of Co-branding" in 2023 was included in Wolters Kluwer Legal Database and China (Zhejiang) Lighting Industry Supply Chain Supporting Conference, 2023

"The impact of NFT on Copyright" published on the Wechat Official Accounts of Dacheng Shenzhen Office, 2023

Personal

Attorney ZHANG also serves as the convener of the Technology Innovation Law Research Center of the Shenzhen Futian Lawyer's Service Committee, the head of the Software and Information Industry Legal Service Group of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association Deputy Director of the Copyright Committee of Guangdong Lawyers Association, Director of the Copyright Law Service Committee of Shenzhen Lawyers Association, a member of the Shenzhen Pool of Advisory Experts for Overseas Intellectual Property Protection, member of the International Trademark Association (“INTA”), and a member of the China Trademark Association (“CTA”).