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ZHENYUAN HU
Partner·
Shanghai
PROFILE REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS AND CASES OTHER INFORMATION Further Reading
DR. HU SPECIALIZES IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION, INTER ALIA COMPLEX DISPUTE RESOLUTION RELATED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COMPETITION, AND COMMERCE. HE HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE AND DEEP INSIGHT IN THE PRACTICE OF LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION.
Education
Fudan University, PhD in law, 2009
Professional Qualification
Admitted to practice in the PRC
Professional Background
Dr. Hu joined Fangda Partners as a partner in 2017. He handled a number of lead cases, and his cases were chosen by the Supreme People’s Court as Guiding Case, Gazette Case, or Top-10 IP Cases of China Courts.
PROFILE
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS AND CASES
- Represent Adient successfully in a patent invalidation proceeding
- Represent Dulwich successfully in administrative litigation over trademark recordal
- Represent MUJI successfully in a trademark infringement lawsuit
- Defend Cargill successfully against a tort lawsuit brought by a strawman in a patent invalidation proceeding
- Defend Dreame successfully in a patent infringement suit about GUI design
- Defend Bilibili successfully in a copyright infringement lawsuit against Tencent
- Advise InterDigital on strategy in a dispute over SEP infringement
- Advise Intel on strategy in a dispute over patent infringement
- Advise Lululemon on legal analysis of IP agreements
- Advise Marriott on legal analysis of potential trademark infringement
- Advise Bosch on legal analysis of IP transfer
- Advise Warburg Pincus on patent license
- Advise Daikin on a legal analysis of patent infringement
- Advise Kobayashi on legal analysis of potential design infringement
- Advise Victrex on legal analysis of trademark infringement
- Advise Vertiv on legal analysis of copyright infringement
- Advise MaxMara on legal analysis of trademark protection
- Advise Covestro on legal analysis of trademark protection
- Represent Shein as an expert witness of the law of China in a copyright lawsuit in the UK
- Represent Zeon in a lawsuit of trade secret misappropriation
- Represent a US semi-conductor incorporation in Global 500 in a lawsuit of trade secret misappropriation
- Protect OTIS successfully for its trade secret by preliminary injunction
- Advise 3M on legal analysis of trade secret misappropriation
- Advise Adagene on legal analysis of trade secret misappropriation
- Advise Genetech on legal analysis of trade secret misappropriation
- Advise Texas Instruments on legal analysis of trade secret misappropriation
- Defend Vivest successfully in a lawsuit of trade secret infringement against Zoll
- Defend Huicheng successfully in a lawsuit of trade secret infringement
- Represent Wengfu in a criminal lawsuit of trade secret misappropriation
- Represent Henkel in a criminal case of trade secret misappropriation
- Advise Apple on strategy in an anti-unfair competition matter
- Advise Abbott on legal analysis of anti-unfair competition
- Defend Ant Group and Alipay successfully in several lawsuits of market dominance abuse before the Supreme Court
- Defend Universal Music Group successfully in a lawsuit of market dominance abuse valued at CNY 90 m. in dispute
- Defend Budweiser successfully in a lawsuit of vertical agreement
- Represent Tiktok successfully in a lawsuit of market dominance abuse against Tencent
- Defend Viscas successfully in a lawsuit of cartel agreement
- Defend Air Product in a lawsuit of market dominance abuse before the Supreme People’s Court
- Defend Honeywell in a lawsuit of vertical agreement before the Supreme People’s Court
- Defend Amazon successfully in a series of lawsuits of market dominance abuse
- Represent Bilibili successfully in a lawsuit over anti-unfair competition against iQIYI
- Advise Wacoal on strategy in an anti-trust matter
- Represent Honeywell successfully in an arbitration of purchase and sales agreement before China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission
- Represent ZIM successfully in a lawsuit of freight forwarding contract
- Defend Adient successfully in an arbitration of JVC dispute before China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission
- Defend Cargill successfully in a lawsuit of tort
- Defend Blackstone successfully in an arbitration of LPA dispute before Shanghai International Arbitration Center
- Defend Covidien successfully in a lawsuit of distribution agreement
- Represent Tenneco successfully in disputes over sales agreement and development agreement
- Defend Henkel successfully in a lawsuit of contract for work
- Advise Citadel on legal analysis of licensing agreements
- Advise Coty on legal analysis of sales agreement
- Advise Department of Health and Social Care of UK on legal analysis of sales agreements
- Advise Luft Hansa on legal analysis of joint venture agreement
- Act as an expert witness of the law of Mainland China for Great Investment before Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
- Advise Swatch on legal analysis of loan agreement
OTHER INFORMATION
- RESEARCHES ON JOINT LITIGATION SYSTEM, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2010
- RESEARCHES ON IP CAPITALIZATION, China Legal Publishing House, 2013
Dr. Hu is also an arbitrator of Shanghai Arbitration Commission, a mediator of World Intellectual Property Organization and Shanghai Commercial Mediation Center.
