IP Expert

Overview

Xia Zheng is the founder of AFD China Intellectual Property Law Office and BHTD Law Firm. She has worked in the IP field for more than 30 years and has been actively involved in IP prosecution, post-grant proceedings, enforcement and litigation, and strategic counseling. Under her leadership, the firms work seamlessly across practices to provide comprehensive advice that leads to innovative and advantageous results for our clients.

Zheng has successfully assisted clients, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, in securing IP assets and protecting IP rights. She has obtained honors including the titles of National IP Talent, Long-term Contribution Award for China’s Patent and Intellectual Property, a patron winner of the Outstanding Patent Attorney Awards, an advisor to local innovation and entrepreneurship programs, IAM Patent 1000’s world-leading patent professional, an Asia IP Expert, and Managing IP magazine’s IP Star.

Zheng’s academic pursuit of a chemistry degree at university and a Master’s of Engineering degree at a graduate school in China, and her further study in organic chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Illinois, where she passed doctoral qualification examination and obtained a Master’s of Science, coupled with her research experience respectively in an research institute and Human Genome Sciences (USA), her further pursuit of a master’s degree in intellectual property from Franklin Pierce Law School of the University of New Hampshire, her training at an IP Institute, the China Intellectual Property Training Center, the All-China Patent Attorneys Association, Legal Training Centers and the China Copyright Protection Center, and her IP working experience as patent manager, patent attorney, trademark attorney, department head, general director assistant, director and partner in enterprises and IP firms respectively, have all laid a solid foundation for her outstanding professional performance in IP practice and management, as well as for her excellent communication and cooperation with clients.