Speakers

Tao Zhang

Partner

HanKun Law Offices

Personal Profile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dr. Tao Zhang's practice focuses on patent litigation, patent prosecution and invalidation, patent searches, patent transactions, and other IP-related counseling.  He has extensive experience in providing legal services to both domestic and multinational clients.  Before joining Han Kun Law Offices, Dr. Zhang practiced with CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office as deputy director of the patent litigation department for five years and as a senior patent attorney for seven years. 
Dr. Zhang has helped many industry-leading clients to obtain patents in China, and provided a variety of legal services, including drafting and responding to office actions, prior art searches, freedom-to-operate searches and analysis, and consulting. 
Dr. Zhang has successfully represented many clients before the China National IP Administration and the courts in various patent invalidation, administrative litigation, and civil infringement cases.  He is frequently in charge of handling large and complex cases and is widely recognized and trusted by his clients for obtaining excellent results.

EDUCATION
Dr. Zhang received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1998 and a Ph.D. degree in 2003 from Tsinghua University.

QUALIFICATIONS
Member of the PRC Bar

Member of the PRC Patent Bar

WORKING LANGUAGES
Chinese, English