Zhen (Katie) Feng > Hogan Lovells International LLP > Shanghai, China > Lawyer Profile
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PARK PLACE, 18TH FLOOR
1601 NANJING ROAD WEST
SHANGHAI 200040
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Zhen (Katie) Feng
Work Department
Intellectual Property, Media, and Technology
Position
Office Managing Partner
Career
Zhen Feng (also known as Katie Feng) has been in private practice for more than 18 years. She started as a general litigator and now focuses on IP litigation and brand protection. She is admitted in both PRC (1998) and New York, USA (2003).
She is a partner and director of Hogan Lovells (Shanghai) Intellectual Property Agency Service Co., Ltd., an IP service affiliate established under Hogan Lovells International LLP. Practising in a market that has seen a huge upswing in patent filing, trademark filing, and IP ligation in the past decade, Katie has opportunities to handle numerous cases involving complex and cutting-edge IP issues.
In this process, she became widely recognized in the IP area and has built a track record of success. Katie is also a strategic advisor. She advises numerous clients from diverse backgrounds on formulation and implementation of IP enforcement strategies in China through a combination of administrative, civil, and criminal actions. She also provides proactive advice and analysis on how to secure and obtain IP rights from the start-up of a business, and how to monetize IP rights when the business grows.
Katie speaks frequently on IP issues and regularly contributes articles on development of international IP law. She is the editor of the International Trademark Association China Bulletin. She currently serves on the Board of the International Trademark Association.
Languages
English, Mandarin, Taiwanese
Memberships
New York Bar Association
International Trademark Association
Education
LL.M., Wake Forest University
LL.B., Xiamen University
Lawyer Rankings
China > Intellectual property: foreign firms
(Hall of Fame)Hogan Lovells International LLP has an impressive track record in patent linkage and term extension, as well as the protection of employee-related trade secrets, where the team is the first port of call to clients operating in the healthcare, internet and tech sectors. Furthermore, IP litigation is an area of strength thanks to the firm’s associated law firm in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone called Hogan Lovells Fidelity. Leading the team are three partners spread across China. In Beijing, the dual-qualified (China and US) head of Asia IPMT Helen Xia is an expert in IP litigation, portfolio management, obtaining and enforcing IP rights, and commercial licensing. In Shanghai, Zhen (Katie) Feng
specialises in IP disputes and brand protection work; and head of the IPMT Hong Kong team Eugene Low. Other recommended individuals include counsels Grace Guo (Beijing), whose practice ranges from trademarks and copyright to domain names, patents and trade secrets; and Yu-An Chang (Shanghai), a regular advisor to international and Chinese companies on the procurement, protection, enforcement and commercialisation of IP assets.
Lawyer Rankings
- Intellectual property: foreign firms China
- Hall of Fame China > Intellectual property: foreign firms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Intellectual property: foreign firms
- Life sciences and healthcare: foreign firms
- Fintech: foreign firms
- TMT: foreign firms