Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Chinese
• English

Lawyer Overview

Tony has 15 years of experience assisting high-tech and biotech companies with their intellectual property matters in the United States and in China. His practice focuses on patent litigation and portfolio management, technology transfer, and the formation and financing of technology start-ups. Since moving to China in 2004, Tony has represented multinational companies with enforcing their intellectual property rights in civil actions and through criminal sanctions. He also has represented Chinese companies with building and acquiring intellectual property on a worldwide basis. In addition, he counsels the Shanghai government on life science industry and intellectual property matters.

At the start of his career Tony practiced patent law for six years in San Diego, California and represented a wide range of high-tech and biotech companies in patent litigation, prosecution, and licensing. During this time his life science IP practice included genetic engineering, drug therapeutics, medical devices, chemistry, diagnostics, herbal medicine, and DNA chips.

Tony then became the first in-house patent counsel for Watson Pharmaceuticals, a leading global generic drug and specialty pharmaceutical company. At Watson, he was responsible for intellectual property strategy and litigation relating to the commercialization of generic drugs and proprietary pharmaceutical products. In 2000, Tony founded a biotechnology company in Silicon Valley to develop products for drug discovery with the support of venture capital investors in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He also studied molecular biology at Vanderbilt University before beginning his legal studies.

Tony's recent representations in China include:

• a U.S. retail chain in defending a patent infringement lawsuit in China and invalidating a Chinese patent

• an Asian software company in a criminal enforcement against trade secret theft

• U.S. biotechnology companies in R&D collaborations and drug development partnerships in China

• Chinese biotechnology companies in patent licensing and technology transfer agreements with U.S. biotechnology companies and

• Chinese companies in defending patent and trademark infringement lawsuits in federal district courts in the U.S.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• ITC Section 337
• Licensing & Technology Transactions
• Life Sciences

West Practice Categories

Copyrights, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, Patents, Technology Licensing, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Harvard University

Published Works

• The Radical Third Amendment, 2009 China IP Focus, Managing Intellectual Property, 2009
• What Does the Third Amendment to China's Patent Law Mean to You?, 2009
• What Does the Third Amendment to China's Patent Law Mean to Pharmaceutical Companies?, 2008
• 850,000 Lawsuits in the Making, Economist, 2008
• Traps for the unwary, China IP Focus 2008, 2008
• New Patent Approach is Needed for Pharmaceutical Research in China, PharmAsia, 2008
• Beijing High Court Upholds Viagra Patent in China - IP Perspectives, 2008
• Insider Analysis: Defending IP in China Lends Vigor to Patent Process, Viagra Case Demonstrates, Pharma Asia News, 2007
• How to litigate patents in China, China IP Focus 2007, 2007
• From Infringer to Competitor: Recent Changes in IP Protection in China, Jones Day IP Perspectives, 2006
• Declaration of Non-Infringement: Forum Shopping Comes to China, China IP Focus, Managing Intellectual Property, 2006
• Forum shopping comes to China, China IP Focus 2006, Managing Intellectual Property, 2006
• How to Protect Pharmaceutical Products in China With or Without a Patent, 2006
• Keeping China Healthy, China Business Review, 2004
• Crackdown on IPR Bandits, Financial Times, 2004
• ITC Investigation, Asian Counsel, 2004
• Western Ways, Good and Bad, Financial Times, 2004

Address

30th Floor, Shanghai Kerry Centre
1515 Nanjing Road West
Shanghai 200040 20004, China

Phones

86.21.2201.8079 (Business Phone)

Faxes

86.21.5298.6569 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com