About

Jerry Xia is deputy general counsel and chief intellectual property (IP) counsel – Asia Pacific at Honeywell, a US conglomerate with almost $40bn in global revenue. In this role, Xia manages a range of IP matters for every Honeywell business operating in the Asia Pacific region with his team of nine based in Shanghai and Beijing. In addition to successfully adapting to tough regulations such as the PRC Patent Law and Patent Law Implementing Regulations, Xia also has a particularly strong record of leading the company’s IP enforcement and litigation in China. Through his achievements at Honeywell since 2007 Xia is ‘widely recognised and respected in the local and international IP community’. He is listed by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) as an “IP Expert” in the industry and information technology field and has been the recipient of a series of industry awards for his work on landmark cases. He credits his achievements in managing high profile cases in part to ‘designing and implementing effective internal processes that fit our business operations to manage our IP portfolios under a clearly set strategy for IP protection’. Prior to his current position, Xia worked in the Hong Kong and Shanghai offices of the international law firm of Baker McKenzie, practicing all aspects of Chinese IP law between 2004 and 2007. Prior to that, he was a legal manager at Datang Mobile, a renowned telecom technology leader and equipment supplier, and also worked for the Sino-Europe Technology Transfer Center in the Netherlands.