Dr. Man Ho Au received his PhD degree from the University of Wollongong in 2009. He is now an assistant professor and a director of the Monash-PolyU-CC Joint Lab on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency at Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include information security and blockchain technology. He has published over 130 refereed papers in top journal and conferences, including ACM CCS, ACM SIGMOD, NDSS, IEEE TIFS, TC, TKDE, etc. He is a recipient of the 2009 PET runner-up award for outstanding research in privacy enhancing technologies. He received Best Paper Awards from conferences including ACISP 2016 and ISPEC 2017. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 31 and his work has been cited over 3100 times. He is an expert member of the China delegation of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 working group 2 - Cryptography and security mechanisms. He is also a committee member of the Hong Kong Blockchain Society R&D division.

Dr. Matthew Au is a versatile veteran in technology, securities and banking.  He was awarded degrees in computer science from Cornell University (B.Sc.) and University of Toronto (M.Sc.), in law and economics from University of London (LL.B.), Carleton University (M.A.) and University of British Columbia (Ph.D.) respectively. He is the principal of MKA Law Office, a Hong Kong law firm with practice areas covering corporate, commercial, securities, IT./I.P., and cross-border transaction. He had served as software engineer and database specialist at Bell Canada and IBM Canada, and as product manager at Bank of America, department head at Goldman Sachs, for a total of over 20 years. Dr. Au is also a member of Hong Kong Computer Society, Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute, Hong Kong Law Society, Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and Hong Kong Institute of Patent Attorneys.

Mr. Dennis Cai is the President (Policy and Compliance) and member of Board of Directors of Internet DotTrademark Organisation Limited. He was the Assistant Secretary-General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and Secretary-General of Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) where he oversaw IP and domain name dispute resolution proceedings and the setting up of different policies for new gTLDs in Hong Kong. He is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (HKIArb), Licensing Executive Society China (Hong Kong Sub-Chapter), Hong Kong Institute of Directors (HKIoD), and Hong Kong Institute of Legal Translation (HKILT). He is also a holder of two legal masters’ degrees, namely LL.M. in WTO Laws and MA in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution.

Dr. Albert Wai-Kit Chan is the Managing Partner of the Law Offices of Albert Wai-Kit Chan, PLLC, practicing in all areas of intellectual property law (including patents, trademarks, copyrights, business transactions, litigation, licensing, technology transfer, evaluation, and trade secrets) and specializing in biotechnology. He works extensively with clients ranging from individual inventors to well-established prestigious research institutes in the U.S., China, and abroad. Dr. Chan is founder and director of the United States-China Intellectual Property Institute, Inc., a non-profit organization. Dr. Chan is a registered foreign lawyer in Hong Kong, where he also heads Albert Wai-Kit Chan Intellectual Property Limited.

Dr. Keith Chan is a pharmaceutical scientist, a regulator, a professor and an entrepreneur. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutics from University of Minnesota in 1980. He is currently Senior Advisor of Cornerstone IP Foundation, Professor at the Graduate Institute of Intellectual Property and Technology Management, College of Commerce, National Chengchi University at Taiwan. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Institute of International Intellectual Property at Beijing University Law School. He also serves as Director of International Affairs, GloboAsia LLC, Rockville, MD, USA and as advisors for several research institutes and regulatory agencies in Asia, as well as consultants for several pharmaceutical firms in Asia and in the US.

His co-foundered GloboMax LLC, a drug development organization, in Hanover, Maryland in 1997 and served as consultant for numerous multi-national pharmaceutical and biotech firms in the US, Europe and Asia. GloboMax was acquired by ICON, plc in 2003 and Dr. Chan exited from the operation. He also worked for the US FDA as Division Director at the Office of Generic Drugs. He served as adjunct Professor at the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland at Baltimore for many years and also served as Adjunct Professor and National Board of Advisor, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota since 1984. He also taught in Asia including National Defense Medical Center, National Yang Ming University in Taiwan and Shang Yang Pharmaceutical University in China. He worked for Ciba-Geigy Corporation in Ardsley, New York for 15 years and held various senior and management positions. He published more than 150 abstracts and research articles in peer- reviewed journals and over 200 professional presentations. He was elected as fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) in 1995 for his scientific accomplishments on drug absorption in humans.

Even though his major career works are in the States, he also assists Asian pharmaceutical and biotech companies over the last 14 years. He had organized numerous workshops and conferences in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea. He served and still serving as a scientific advisor for many regulatory agencies in Asia. He lectured frequently in the Asia in the hope to upgrading their pharmaceutical industry. Over the last several years, he had successfully in assisting many Asian companies in their technology transfers and licensing. His most recent accomplishment was to lead a Taiwan company to complete a new drug development program starting from IND up to NDA. The drug is now marketed and launched in Japan, United States, Taiwan and Europe for the treatment of chronic kidney diseases and end stage renal disease involving dialysis.

BSc Biochemistry (Warwick, UK), MSc Business Management (Imperial, UK), MSc Biochemical and Biomedical Science (CUHK)

Mr. Grover Cheung is the co-founder of Qi Diagnostics Limited which is developing a revolutionizing non-invasive diagnostic technology of “A breath analyzer to diagnose multiple diseases”. He also co-founded Groken Bioscience Limited, an integrated genomic sequencing and bioinformatics services provider to universities, research institutes and pharmaceutical companies.

Mr. Grover Cheung obtained two master degrees in business management and biomedical science from Imperial College London and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. While he was the Regional Manager in BGI, he established the sales and marketing team for research sequencing service and clinical genomics service. He also leads the Bioinformatics Cloud Laboratory of BGI providing customised bioinformatics analysis to researchers and pharmaceutical companies in Asia. Under his leadership, the market share and sales revenue of BGI has increased significantly.

Dr. Chow specializes in technology transfer to the market, he worked in the industrial biotech field for 18 years and his last position in a Hong Kong/China based company was as General Manager. Dr. Chow led a team with more than one hundred staff, He and his staffs have developed over 20 international standard diagnostic instrument and diagnostics kits, established over 50 clinical diagnostic services, and owns patents for various inventions.

Dr. Chow is also concurrently the external research grant auditor of several Hong Kong universities, further exemplifying his leading position in the industry. He is now working in mainland China focusing on advising foreign companies on how to establish in China, helping them bring their product and technology to the Chinese market using medical technology experience.

Dr Angela Daly recently joined the CUHK Faculty of Law. She is a comparative socio-legal scholar of technology regulation, and is the author of Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution (Palgrave 2016) and Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap (Hart 2016). Dr Daly is currently the leading Chief Investigator on a UK Intellectual Property Office-funded project examining 3D Printing and Intellectual Property Futures in Developed and Emerging Economies (2016-2018).

Yao Deng Esq. obtained an LLB from Wuhan University and an LLM in Intellectual Property in the University of Aberdeen respectively. He is a Senior Partner of Lifang & Partners Law Firm in Guangzhou. Mr. Deng has been practicing for more than 20 years, with extensive experience in IP. He represented clients in several high-profile cases which were chosen as model cases of IP at the provincial level. Mr. Deng has presented multinational entities such as Microsoft Corporation and Business Software Alliance (BSA) as well as government agencies for a long time. He also published more than 20 monographs and papers on IP.

Mr. Deng currently serves as a consultant of the Supreme People’s Court (Beijing), Legal Consultant of Guangzhou People’s Government, professional legal consultant of Guangzhou People’s Government, professional copyright consultant of Guangzhou, and off-campus master supervisor of the Faculty of Law in South China University of Technology.

Xiaoqing Feng, Professor and Doctoral Tutor of the China University of Political Science and Law, Director of the Institute of Intellectual Property Law, Head of the National Key Discipline of intellectual property law, and Head of the Research Centre for Intangible Assets Management in the China University of Political Science and Law. Prof. Feng is also the Vice President of Intellectual Property Law Association of China. Doctor of Laws of Peking University, and Post-doctoral Fellow of Renmin University of China Law School.

Prof. Feng chaired 3 National Social Science Fund Projects, in which two of them are major projects, and had published 14 personal monographs such as “Zhishi Chanquan Fa Liyi Pingheng Lilun”. Prof. Feng has published more than 80 papers in CSSCI publications such as “Chinese Journal of Law” and “China Legal Science”, and nearly 20 English papers in foreign publications such as the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA and Journal of World Intellectual Property. The papers were awarded 5 items of provincial level Second Prize or above. Prof. Feng has a number of honorary titles, including “Outstanding Middle-Aged Experts” in the National Millions Talent Project (2014), “New Century Excellent Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education” (2010), “The First Batch of National Intellectual Property Leaders” (2013), Nomination Award of the National Top Ten Outstanding Young Jurists (1999), Expert Enjoying Special government allowances of the State Council (2016), Excellent Teachers in Beijing (2016), Cultural Masters and “Talents Four in a Group” (2017, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC), and the Third Batch of Leading Experts in Philosophy and Social Science of the National “Million People Plan” (2017).

Barry Franks started working in IP in 1983 following his graduation from the University of Bath in the UK with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with French. Barry has pursued an exceptionally broad career – both geographically and operatively, starting with ten years as an examiner at the EPO in The Hague. He moved to Sweden and spent two years as an entrepreneur before returning to the world of IP as a patent attorney in Stockholm and Uppsala. After five years’ experience of drafting, prosecuting and using IP for small, medium and large companies in fields as diverse as diapers (what he calls the “biohazard industry”) and fuel rod extractors for nuclear power plants (a different type of potential hazard), he was headhunted by a global healthcare company Amersham Pharmacia Biotech which subsequently became part of GE Healthcare. He spent almost seven interesting and educative years there as in-house counsel, first in Sweden and subsequently in the UK, responsible for its European hardware IP portfolio. The commercial outlook and pragmatic decision-making skills acquired in industry have been put to first-rate use since he returned to Sweden and re-entered private practice. In addition to advising his clients on freedom-to-operate, due diligence, IP strategy and IP management, he started to specialize in oral proceedings before the EPO. He is recognized by his peers for his enthusiasm for (and skill in winning) difficult oral proceedings. As well as a good working knowledge of French, Dutch and German, he is fluent in Swedish - which is much appreciated by his local clients when it comes to advising them on the finer points of IP law or discussing strategies.

Barry lectured for many years for the Swedish Patent Office and the Swedish IP Academy and in recent years has been invited to lecture on oppositions and oral proceedings in China, India, Mexico and, of course, Hong Kong, where his practical advice mixed with relevant anecdotes has been warmly received.  He has also contributed chapters to a number of well-known IP reference books.

Barry regularly appears in the Intellectual Asset Management magazine “Patent 1000” as a peer-nominated “highly recommended individual” for patent prosecution and is also honoured as a peer-nominated “IP Star” by Managing Intellectual Property magazine.

Danny Friedmann is Visiting Professor at the Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen. He was also Castetter Visiting Scholar at the California Western School of Law in San Diego and International Guest Speaker of the EU Centre for Global Affairs at the University of Adelaide. Previously Friedmann was Research Associate, Lecturer and Tutor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Friedmann received his PhD in Laws from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013, his LLM from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2006. Friedmann received the Post Graduate Research Output Award 2013 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Friedmann has been involved with WILMap of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society since 2014. His monograph, called 'Trademarks and Social Media, Towards Algorithmic Justice' was published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2015. His peer-reviewed articles are published by Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Oxford University Press), European Intellectual Property Review, Benelux Trade Marks and Design Rights (BMM) Bulletin and GRUR Int. His book chapter on Google and China was quoted by the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Google Spain C-131/12 in 2013.

His blog called IP Dragon, http://ipdragon.org, which he founded in 2005, is widely read. In 2015 Friedmann became member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice. Since 2016, he is Principal Commentator at the University of Macau for the external examination of oral defences of theses. Email: ipdragon@gmail.com

Dr. Fu is a Doctor of Laws in Intellectual Property of the China University of Political Science and Law, Postdoctoral Fellow of School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University, Researcher of the Research Centre for Intangible Assets Management in the China University of Political Science and Law, Director of the China Law Association on Science and Technology. Dr. Fu has published a number of academic papers on core periodicals such as “Chinese Journal of Law” (co-authored), “Jurists Review” (co-authored), “Intellectual Property” and “China Legal Science”. Dr. Fu also chaired at the 2016 National Social Science Fund Youth Project, and was awarded a special grant from the Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and a financial support. Dr. Fu is also a main researcher participating in two major projects of the National Social Science Fund and 11 other items including entrusted projects for the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, China Association for Science and Technology, National Copyright Administration of the People’s Republic of China, State Intellectual Property Office, local Publication Bureau, and Intellectual Property Strategic Planning Research projects of state-owned and private large enterprises and institute of scientific research and development.

Tianxiang He (China P. R. 1984) is Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. Dr. He holds an LL.B. degree (Huaqiao University, China, 2007) and a Master degree in International Law (Jinan University, China, 2009). Dr. He received his degree of Ph.D. in IP law at Maastricht University (the Netherlands, 2016), where he was Researcher at the Department of International and European Law, and Ph.D. Fellow at Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR), and another Ph.D. degree in Criminal Law at Renmin University of China (2017).

From August 2012 to July 2013, Dr. He worked in the Research Center of for the Legal Systems of Intellectual Property of Waseda University as a visiting researcher. In Europe, the Ius Commune Research School conferred to him an Honorable Mention in the Ius Commune Prize 2014.

As of 1st August 2016, Dr. He is working as Assistant Professor in School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. Dr. He is also acting as an External Fellow in IGIR, Maastricht University. He is also serving as reviewer of Journals such as Asia Pacific Law Review, Hong Kong Law Journal.

Mr. Ji holds a bachelor degree in Packaging Engineering from Zhengzhou University, a bachelor degree in Management from Renmin University of China and a master degree in Law from China University of Political Science.

Mr. Ji previously served in the Design Department of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), where he was involved in administrative enforcement of patent law, IP market management, and IP business management. Mr. Ji was the primary investigator of a series of high-profile research projects and drafted a few of important policies and management rules at the national level, such as National IP Strength Status Report, State IP Strategy and Intellectual Property Development Management Regulations.

Mr. Ji’s work "Patent Regime in China," was awarded the 2nd Prize in the State Intellectual Property Strategy Article Competition. He was one of the editors of "Typical Cases of Patent Disputes Analysis", " View Submit Norms of Design Patent Application”, etc. Additionally, he has published quite a few of essays about patent in the mainstream Chinese media.

Mr. Ji currently serves as (1) Vice President, Patent Protection Association of China; (2) Executive Member of the Council, China intellectual property News; (3) Executive Director, the Youth Federation of National Intellectual Property; (4) Expert of Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Association Experts Database, (5) Hi-Level Talent of Zhuhai City; and (6) Patent Attorney of China National Patent Agents Association.

Dr. Kenneth Kam is the co-founder of Qi Diagnostics Limited which is developing a revolutionizing non-invasive diagnostic technology of “A breath analyzer to diagnose multiple diseases”. He also co-founded Groken Bioscience Limited, an integrated genomic sequencing and bioinformatics services provider to universities, research institutes and pharmaceutical companies.

Dr. Kenneth Kam is passionate about building things from bottom up. Dr. Kam established a method to differentiate fake and genuine abalone when working in the Hong Kong Government laboratory as their reporting officer. The method has been incorporated into the routine testing method under the Trade Description Ordinance to protect consumer rights and law enforcement against fraud. The method has led to prosecution of dishonest traders.

Dr. Kam joined BGI in 2010. He established "International Affairs Department" an infrastructure to effectively connect BGI subsidiaries all over the world to the Shenzhen headquarter. This has greatly smooth out the operation and facilitate effective communication. He also leads product development, initiate technology transfer from BGI to European countries and steer the development of clinical test to suit local needs. He is the Vice President of BGI before he leaves at 2014.

Dr. Kam has been on the Dean list for outstanding students consecutively for 3 years during his undergraduate study in HKUST, recipient of Jebson Educational scholarship, Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship, Wong Ching Yee Medical scholarship and the Croucher Foundation Scholarship. He also served as the Business development consultant of Geneformics limited and as a council member of GLG.

• Advisor, Asia Innovation & IP Society
• Co-founder & Vice Chairman, Asia Pacific Cloud Apps Alliance
• Board Director & Ambassador to Shenzhen, Invotech
• Co-founder, Hong Kong Industry-University-Research Collaboration Alliance
• Founding President, CASPA (Chinese American Semi. Prof. Assoc.) PRD Chapter
• Founding CIPO, NetLogic Microsystems Inc.

Mr. Kwok has been working in the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley since 1979, with extensive trend-setting and start-up (among which being the founding team-member of the last 3 companies) experiences at IDT, Quality Semiconductor Inc., PMC-Flash and NetLogic Microsystems Inc. – 3 IPO’s & 1 M&A, covering business developments, then cutting-edge technology developments and applications, IP portfolio developments and licensing, manufacturing operations, as well as product developments and product engineering.

He played a critical role bringing 2 foundation-disruptive technologies mainstream (>90% global market share), laying the foundation for the Information Technology Era: CMOS addressing Hardware platform for Moore’s Law scalability at Integrated Device Technology, Inc. as the “Yield Guru” and Network Search Engine/Knowledge Based Processor addressing Network Real-time Interactive “QoS” platform for Metcalfe’s Law scalability at NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. as its “Founding Chief IP Officer” and “Product Development Champion”.

His “IP” experiences covered in 1989 at Quality Semiconductor Inc. with tech transfers to Japanese strategic partners, then extended to technology licensing to top-tier companies at Programmable Microelectronics Corp. from 1996 to 1998.  The highlight of his IP experiences was being the Founding CIPO at NetLogic Microsystems Inc. (NMI) to conceive and establish the IP portfolio development strategy and blueprint making NMI, though a SME, a dominating IP powerhouse in Silicon Valley (recognized by IEEE in 2006) – IPO in 2004 for ~US$250M & M&A in 2011 by BRCM for US$3.7B.

He returned to Hong Kong/PRD in 2002 and has been promoting application/modern service platform developments and Innovation/IP management in China.  Mr. Kwok was the co-editor of “Handbook of Best Practices In Intellectual Property Management” in Chinese.  He served on the HKSAR IP Working Group from 2013 to 2015.

He has a BSES and a MSEE from the University of Texas at Austin.

Ryanne is a co-founder and the Head of Lawyer Relations of Zegal, formerly known as Dragon Law. Founded in 2013, Zegal is the fastest growing Legal Tech company operating across the Asia Pacific and Europe. Today, more than 20,000 business users and lawyers across the globe trust Zegal’s software to solve legal problems in an affordable and efficient way. Before joining Zegal, Ryanne was a lawyer at Mayer Brown JSM, and qualified in Hong Kong and the England and Wales.

Johnson Lam was graduated from the University of Hong Kong and was admitted as a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong SAR in 2005.

Johnson specialized in the intellectual property laws. His areas of practice include the registration of trade marks, domain names, designs and patent; trade mark opposition, revocation, restoration and rectification proceedings; handling domain name disputes; enforcement actions relating to anti-counterfeiting and custom actions; assignment and licensing of intellectual property rights etc.

Johnson has also completed a Master of Laws (China Laws) co-hosted by the City University of Hong Kong and the Remin University of China.

Johnson frequently gave talks in relation to IP laws in Hong Kong and China, such as The Law Society of Hong Kong delegation to Chongqing in 2012 and 2013-2015 Asia Adult Expo.

Mr. William C.W. Lam holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Social Science and a Master’s Degree of Business Administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Laws from the University of London and has attended the College of Law in England. He is admitted as a lawyer in both Hong Kong and England. Mr. Lam is one of the founders of Hui & Lam Solicitors LLP and he has had experience working in international law firm and multinational company.

Mr. Lam has rich experience in M&A, joint venture, PE funds formation, corporate restructuring and commercial legal services. He has recently handled and successfully completed IPO’s for various kinds of companies in Hong Kong and has played leading roles in multi-billion M & A transactions.

An entrepreneur who is passionate in building projects that create positive impacts.

Equipped with statistical and financial training, Kenneth started his career as actuary in a multinational insurance company. He gradually moved into non-traditional actuarial roles such as M&A, and greenfield projects strategy formation.

Before founding Letz BIG, Kenneth was one of the starting members who had taken pivotal role to build a new health and wellness programme for the company from ground zero to full operation in 10 markets within 5 years. He had extensive involvements in business planning and strategy formation, partner negotiations, legal and operational document drafting, product research and development, technical product pricing, and experience monitoring.

Jyh-An Lee is an Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he currently serves as the Deputy Director of the LL.B. Programme in the Faculty of Law. He holds a J.S.D. from Stanford Law School and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. Dr. Lee has published extensively in English and in Chinese on various aspects of intellectual property and Internet law. His research appears in leading academic journals, such as Wake Forrest Law Review, Oregon Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Review, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), Hastings Business Law Journal, American University International Law Review, UMKC Law Review, Jurimetrics, Washington International Law Journal, etc. He is also the sole author of two books: Coding a Free Society: Open Source Strategies for Policymakers (VDM Verlag Müller Press, 2007) and Nonprofit Organizations and the Intellectual Commons (Edward Elgar, 2012).

During his studies at Stanford Law School, Dr. Lee was appointed the John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Prior to joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he taught at National Chengchi University and was an Associate Research Fellow in the Center for Information Technology Innovation at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was the Legal Lead and Co-Lead of Creative Commons Taiwan (2011–2014) and an advisory committee member for Copyright Amendment in the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) at the Ministry of Economic Affairs (2011–2014). Professor Lee is currently a member of the advisory board of the European Center for E-Commerce & Internet Law affiliated with the University of Vienna. In 2016, he was appointed a domain name dispute resolution panellist by the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) and continues to serve in this capacity. Dr. Lee is also the Director of the Academic Committee for the Asia Innovation and Intellectual Property Society. Before starting his academic career, he was a practicing lawyer in Taiwan, specializing in technology and business transactions.

Alice Lee is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, specialising in property law — real property/land as well as intellectual property. She has published books, book chapters, articles and practitioner texts, taught undergraduate and postgraduate students, engaged students and the public in IP law reform consultation, and exchanged knowledge with government departments and non-governmental organizations. She has been part of the team that launched Creative Commons HK and has served on consultative committees and statutory bodies including the Advisory Committee on the Review of the Patent System, the Management Committee of the Consumer Legal Action Fund, the Town Planning Appeal Board, the Telecommunications (Competition Provisions) Appeal Board, the Municipal Services Appeal Board, and the HKSAR Passports Appeal Board. Since she was appointed the Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) of the HKU Faculty of Law in 2011, she has explored new theories and practices for learning, and created opportunities for students and alumni to connect with the industry and reach out to the public. The teaching awards she received in recognition of her dedicated teaching have become the impetus for further explorations in student empowerment.

Ivy joined Wideband in 2009 and obtained her Master of Laws Degree in Soo Chow Law School of Taiwan.

She has extensive experience in patent and trademark prosecution for over 10 years. She provides services relating to filing, prosecution, maintenances, use, opposition, invalidation, revocation, non-use cancellation and letter of consent of trademark.  In addition to trademark matters, she is also engaged in patent filing, prosecution, maintenances, and provides protection strategies for domestic and foreign clients.  She is attendees of INTA, APAA, and AIPPI international conferences since 2010.

Edward is a successful inventor and entrepreneur in high technology over 30 years. He has over 10 years of experience in the research and development of new compounds to treat cancer. He currently holds over 50 patents of US, Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. He is a wealth of knowledge regarding intellectual property and process of acquiring patents in many countries. Not only is he an expert at identifying active compounds in plants, he has a particularly understanding in patenting biological inventions.

Bryan Mercurio is Professor and Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), having served as Associate Dean (Research) from 2010-2014. Professor Mercurio is a leading expert in the field of international economic law (IEL), with a particular interest in WTO law, the intersection between IEL and intellectual property rights, free trade agreements and increasingly international investment law. He is the author of one of the most widely prescribed case books on WTO law (2012 2nd edition, Hart Publishing, with Simon Lester and Arwel Davies) and editor of the leading collection on bilateral and regional trade agreements (2015 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, with Simon Lester and Lorand Bartels). He has published articles in all of the leading trade journals (some of his work is available for download at http://ssrn.com/author=346439) and will soon be completing a three-year project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council which investigates the pharmaceutical patent regime in Hong Kong with a view to making recommendations for regulatory amendments in line with the needs and priorities of Hong Kong.

Professor Mercurio has taught as a member of the faculty of law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and as visitor at several universities in Australia and North America. He has held visiting positions at a number of institutions in Asia, Europe and the United States and is currently a Professorial Visiting Fellow at UNSW and Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School. Prior to joining the academy, Professor Mercurio worked both in government and in private practice. He continues to advise law firms, international organizations, NGOs and several governments on a wide range of international trade and investment matters.

An active participant in a number of associations, he was a member of the founding committee and served on the inaugural Executive Board of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), a founding member of the SIEL Intellectual Property Law Network, a founding member of the Asian International Economic Law Network and is a Member for Hong Kong in the Asian WTO Research Network. In 2010 he authored the case for the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition and from 2013-2015 served as a member of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development/Evian Group E15 Expert Working Group on Trade and Innovation.

Henry Pau obtain his first degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from The University of Hong Kong in 1990 and master’s degree in business administration and Management from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1997.

He has been working in several sizable consulting firms, such as Oracle, Ernst & Young for many years, and stepped into the construction area in 2013.  He led the CWRS Project for Construction Industry Council for two years from December 2013.  He founded CiSystem Solutions Company in 2016 to develop IoT AI platforms for the construction industry.

As the legal counsel of Orange (formerly known as France Telecom) for its North Asian telecommunications and IT businesses for eight years, Dr. Poon has been advising on various telecommunications and digital transformation matters including cloud computing, mobile applications, machine to machine and data privacy. Before starting his legal professional career, Dr. Poon acquired LLB/BA double degree and LLM degree of National Taiwan University, LLM degree of University of Virginia, and PhD degree of Peking University (specializing in economic law). Before joining Orange, Dr. Poon was an associate at Baker & McKenzie and afterwards a senior associate at Clifford Chance, engaging in various China and international commercial, project, finance and M&A matters. Dr. Poon is a solicitor in Hong Kong and a qualified attorney in Taiwan and New York State, and has taught a number of Chinese law courses in the Open University of Hong Kong.

Chung-Lun Shen is a Professor at College of Law, National Chenchi University in Taiwan. He obtained S.J.D. degree at School of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington, U.S. in 2006, and has been dedicating himself to studies of some significant issues of intellectual property law, especially in the field of patent law since 2006. He has published over 40 articles in Taiwanese, U.S. or European Journals. Professor Shen is also appointed as a distinguished lecturer by Taiwan Intellectual Property Court and Intellectual Property office to deliver the lectures on patent law to help the judges and patent examiners to recognize the updated tendency of international and comparative patent law. To implement his profession to the IP practices, Professor Shen works as a member at the Petitions and Appeals Committee of the Ministry of Economic Affairs to review the cases of patent and trademark appealed against the administrative decisions made by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office. Regarding Professor Shen’s international service and experience, he is a member of International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, ATRIP, and is also among the affiliated faculty of The Center for Intellectual Property Research, School of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington, U.S.

Recently, Professor Shen has been sponsored by the Ministry of Technology of Taiwan to explore the issues of essential patents and FRAND (“fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms”) in a comparative base, and review the development of related judicial cases under patent laws in the various jurisdictions, including US., EU, China and Taiwan. Meanwhile, he also studies upon the practical issues about the interaction between the patent reissuing and the post-grant review through a U.S-EU-China-Taiwan comparative view. The study on the impact of emerging technologies over patent law, including patent infringement on the issues of cross-border and divided transactions under the electronic commerce, as well as the 3D printing, is among Professor Shen’s 2017-2018 academic objectives. The study upon artificial intelligence and intellectual property Law will be expected as Professor Shen’s academic project from 2018 on.

Professor Joseph Wing-On Tam is the Founder and Chairman, DiagCor Bioscience Incorporation Limited. Professor Tam is a research pioneer with over 30 years of teaching and research experience in the biotechnology and diagnostics sector. Professor Tam is a Visiting Professor at UCSF, Baylor Medical College and Medical College of Georgia, Scientist of National Institute of Health, Associate Professor and Honorary Associate Professor of Medical Faculty of Hong Kong University. He is the Founder and President of the Hong Kong Biochemistry Association.

With the support of UNESCO, Professor Tam organized and trained the first group of scientists in China and Asia Pacific Regions on recombinant DNA research in 1983. During his years of teaching and research at HKU, Professor Tam invented and patented the “flow-through hybridization technology.

Following his passion for Molecular Diagnostics, Professor Tam established DiagCor in 2006. He strives to influence and inspire the talent of Hong Kong’s next generation in biotechnology.

Michael S. Thomas is the Chief Innovation Officer and President of Adaptive Global Solutions, LLC (“AGS”). AGS is a technology and development company dedicated to creating solutions to social problems. AGS collaborates with private, academic and industrial partners to make those solutions a reality: from Concept, to R&D, Development to Proof of Concept, then to full-scale production, marketing and licensure. AGS has partnered with Ideation/HK and several corporate and individual US entities, to develop the Fire Extinguishing Device and System (“FEDS”), and future endeavors.

With a background in Law, Psychology, Healthcare, and Biotech, Michael views social problems from the perspective of adapting technology to achieve a better quality of life.  Michael has a BA in Psychology from Marist College and a Juris Doctorate in Law, from City University of New York Queens School of Law, with a specialization in Health Law. Michael has 20 years of experience in contract management and negotiations in the healthcare industry, including positions at New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Legal Affairs Office, Columbia University Clinical Trials Office, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, and Ascentage Pharma Group/HK for its US and Australia operations.

As an inventor, Michael has been mentored by Dr. Albert Wai-Kit Chan, Ph.D., Esq. in the patent application and development process since 2002. Michael’s current focus is to prototype and launch the FEDS Drone: a System to deliver non-incendiary methods of fire extinguishment, capable of operating within the midst of the fire environment. Other projects in discussion with Dr. Chan include large-scale aquifer water recovery and replenishment, adapting technology for virus receptor surface analysis, and IED detection.

Dr. Angelia (Jia) WANG is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining PolyU, She was a Postdoc Research Fellow at the Applied Research Centre of Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia, School of Law, Singapore Management University and a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. Her research interests lie in the areas of intellectual property law, law and technology and company law. She teaches core subjects like Company Law and Legal Aspects of E-Commerce at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

• Business field
• Intellectual Property Law
• Corporate and Commercial Law
• Dispute Resolution

Practice experience
During his practicing, Mr. Wu provides litigation and arbitration service to hundreds of clients including such as Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, BSA, Dyson, Lenovo, Yonyou, 37 Game, Sophia Home Collection, Co., Ltd., Guangdong Highway Bureau, the 5th Engineering Co., Ltd. of China Railway 25th Bureau Group. He also serves as special or permanent legal counsel to hundreds of companies including Guangdong Highway Bureau, Guangzhou Government Affairs Center Management Office, Guangzhou Buddhism Association, Guangzhou Women’s Union, Guangzhou Jinguo Social Work Service Center, Guangzhou Copyright Office, Guangdong Daily-use Chemical Chamber of Commerce, Guangdong IP Rights Safeguarding Center, Guangzhou Libai Group, SCIENT (Guangzhou), Guangzhou GB Technology Co., Ltd., In Technology Group, etc.

Mr. Wu has plentiful practicing experience, solid legal theory foundation and sophisticated litigation skills. He is adept in studying legal problems and planning the case as a whole. He has handled more than 600 cases involving IP, construction engineering and real estate areas since he began practicing in law, obtaining outstanding achievement in those areas and being well received by clients.

Due to his excellent professional performance, four of his cases have achieved “Outstanding Deal Award” from Guangzhou Lawyers Association and the IP cases he handled have been awarded as “Top 10 Typical IP Cases of Guangzhou Lawyers” for fourth.

• Education Background
• LLM, Peking University

Rong Xie is a partner of the Law Offices of Albert Wai-Kit Chan, PLLC. His practice involves patent and trademark prosecution, patent interference, IP due diligence, licensing, technology transfer, IP-related business transactions and cross-the-border investments. He also helps clients formulate IP strategies and secure regulatory approvals. Mr. Xie has been working extensively with technology start-up companies in China and the U.S. Over the years, he has represented    both industrial and institutional investors and has advised clients in various industries including automotive electronics system, building material, construction, chemistry, healthcare, fashion, software, and energy.

Mr. Xie has been an active speaker on patent law development and technology transfer between China and the U.S. He has also been actively involved in legal organizations including, among others, United States-China Intellectual Property Institute, Inc. (a New York Not-For-Profit Corporation). Mr. Xie co-taught IP classes at CUNY law school in 2013.

Mr. Xie has a bachelor’s degree of law from Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (formerly known as “Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade”) (Shanghai, China), a master’s degree of law from Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, U.S.), and a master degree of science in computer science from Pace University (New York, U.S.). He is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the State of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Dr. Shaojun Zhang is an Associate Professor in the School of Accounting and Finance and Deputy Director of the Faulty of Business - Belt and Road Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He graduated from Tsinghua University with double Bachelor’s degrees and obtained his Master’s and doctoral degrees from Florida State University. He was affiliated with Nanyang Technological University before he joined PolyU in 2009. He is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and has served on the Board of Directors of the Asian Finance Association since 2010. Dr. Zhang has given lectures at universities in the U.S., mainland China, Singapore and Hong Kong, and received the Faculty of Business Prize for Outstanding Performance in Teaching in 2016. He has published research papers in leading academic journals and received multiple best paper awards. His main research interest is to understand the price formation process in financial markets.