Dan He

Practice Areas

IP Licensing & Enforcement, White Collar Crime & Criminal Compliance

Career

Equity partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm

Work Highlights

In his years of practice, Mr. He has represented a large number of litigation and arbitration cases spanning varied criminal, civil, and administrative fields, and he is especially astute in technical intellectual property disputes (most notably trade secrets and patent litigation). Mr. He has handled many difficult and complex cases involving Fortune 500 companies, winning multiple cross-border trade secrets cases involving both civil and criminal elements, each valued at over CNY 100 million. Many cases have been selected into guiding cases compiled by courts and intellectual property bureaus at all levels. Apart from work in resolving complex disputes, Mr. He also leads his team to provide comprehensive legal services to 985 universities and affiliated industries, key state-owned enterprises, listed companies, government agencies, etc. He has published several papers and books with great industry influence in the areas of IPR compliance, development of high-value patents, listing of science and technology innovation companies, patent infringement litigation, and protection of trade secrets.

Technical intellectual property litigation legal service performance (patent, trade secret, technology-based contract disputes)

Represented a Hubei steel construction engineering enterprise and a Guangdong company in a series of patent right ownership (trade secret) disputes, which is selected as one of the top ten outstanding intellectual property service cases in Wuhan.

Represented a Hubei metallurgical technology engineering company and a Beijing company in a series of patent right ownership (trade secret) dispute cases, winning the final trial in the Supreme Court.

Represented a Hubei laser technology company and a Shanghai company in a series of patent right ownership (trade secret) dispute cases, which is selected as one of the top ten outstanding intellectual property service cases in Wuhan.

Represented a German company in a criminal case against a company's employees for trade secret crimes, involving an amount of over one billion yuan.

Represented a Hubei company and a Shandong company in a criminal, civil and administrative case of trade secrets, involving an amount of more than 100 million yuan.

Represented a Hunan company and a Wuhan foreign company in a civil case of trade secrets, involving an amount of more than 100 million yuan.

Represented a Shandong equipment manufacturing enterprise in an administrative investigation and handling of appearance patent case, which is selected as one of the top ten typical cases of national patent administrative protection.

Represented an iron and steel smelting equipment company in a patent administrative investigation case, confirming infringement and successfully obtaining compensation.

Represented a Fortune 500 communication technology company in Shenzhen in response to a patent infringement and patent invalidation dispute filed by a company in Wuhan.

Represented a railroad construction company and a Hunan company in a patent infringement dispute, and successfully obtaining compensation, which is selected as one of the top ten outstanding intellectual property service cases in Wuhan.

Represented a Wuhan medical device company and a Japanese Fortune 500 company in a dispute over patent infringement, confirming that it is not liable for infringement.

Represented a Wuhan pump company in a patent infringement dispute against a Fortune 500 company in the United States, confirming that it does not assume liability for infringement.

Represented a Swedish audio equipment company in a patent infringement dispute against a Guangdong company, confirming that it does not bear the infringement liability.

Represented a Shenzhen electronic equipment company in a series of patent infringement defense cases, all successfully confirming infringement and obtaining compensation.

Represented a listed cultural company in Guangdong in a series of patent infringement cases, and successfully confirming the infringement and obtained compensation.

Represented a listed electric power company in Hubei in a series of patent invalidation cases, which is selected as one of the top ten outstanding intellectual property service cases in Wuhan.

Acting a number of patent administrative litigation cases with an administrative organ in Wuhan as the defendant, were successful.

Represented a Beijing technology company in a dispute over a computer software development contract with a Wuhan company, winning the final trial in the Supreme Court.

Represented a Guangdong research institute in a dispute over a technology development contract with a listed company in Hubei, and successfully reaching a settlement.

Represented a university in a technology-based contract dispute involving trade secrets with a Wuhan company, winning the case and obtaining full compensation.

As the chief and sole arbitrator of Wuhan Arbitration Commission, successfully handling more than ten difficult and complicated intellectual property disputes and technology disputes every year.

Other types of intellectual property litigation legal service performance

Represented a famous wine producer in Wuhan in a dispute over trademark infringement and unfair competition, confirming that the infringement is established and obtaining compensation.

Represented a well-known liquor company in Hubei in a dispute over a trademark license contract, winning the case and obtaining full compensation.

Represented a famous beverage company in Shenzhen in a trademark infringement and unfair competition case against a company, confirming the infringement and obtaining compensation.

Represented a well-known software company in Wuhan in a trademark infringement and unfair competition case against a company in Beijing and Shanghai, confirming the infringement and obtaining compensation.

Represented a multinational hotel chain management company in Hong Kong in a dispute against a company in Guangdong，confirming non-infringement of trademark rights, and winning the case.

Represented a 985 university in Hubei in a number of trademark opposition, re-examination, revocation and administrative litigation cases, which is selected as one of the top ten outstanding intellectual property service cases in Wuhan.

Represented a well-known university in Singapore in several trademark opposition, re-examination and administrative litigation cases in China.

Represented a famous French Foreign wine enterprise in a series of administrative investigation and punishment cases of well-known trademark infringement. Accepting its commission as the victim's representative to participate in the investigation, prosecution and trial proceedings of the suspected criminal case of selling counterfeit registered trademarks, and the suspects are all criminally sanctioned.

Represented a well-known educational listed company in Wuhan in a series of copyright infringement and unfair competition cases, confirming the establishment of infringement and obtaining compensation.

Represented a well-known brand in Hubei in a dispute over the copyright ownership of a work of calligraphy, which is selected as one of the ten typical intellectual property cases of Hubei High Court.

Represented more than ten national publishing houses in Beijing in a series of book copyright defense cases in Hubei, confirming that the infringement is established and obtaining compensation.

Represented a number of copyright dominant enterprises in Beijing and Shanghai in a series of cases to defend their rights, confirming that the infringement is established and obtaining compensation, and is selected as one of the top ten typical cases of intellectual property protection of Hunan High Court.

Represented a number of film and television rights holders in Beijing in a series of cases to defend the copyright of films and MTVs, confirming that the infringement is established and obtaining compensation.

Represented a number of companies in a series of cases concerning copyright infringement and unfair competition of game works, confirming that the infringement is established and obtaining compensation.

Legal Services for Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance

Providing criminal consulting to a college teacher suspected of the crime of picking quarrels and provoking troubles.

Providing criminal defense counsel to a company’s senior executives suspected of offering bribery to a legal person.

Providing criminal consulting to a logistics group’s executive suspected of bribery.

Providing criminal defense counsel to a company’s technical director suspected of trade secret related crimes in the first instance, second instance, and retrial.

Providing criminal defense counsel at various stages of the case and other legal assistance to executives of a company suspected of illegal mining for the suspected crime and other matters related to it.

Acting for a foreign-funded company in reporting trade secret crime and network security crime to the authorities and prompting the competent authority accept our filing of a criminal case of illegally obtaining computer information systems.

Providing criminal defense counsel to a company’s technical director suspected of espionage.

Providing criminal defense legal services to the technical director of a software company suspected of trade secret related crimes.

Providing criminal consulting to executives of a company suspected of network security crimes.

Providing dispute resolution services to criminal suspects and victims of crimes of violating commercial secrets in criminal litigation.

Providing criminal compliance services to many state-owned enterprises and listed companies.

Providing dispute resolution services to criminal suspects and victims in a number of cases of unauthorized production of goods bearing registered trademarks.

Languages Spoken

Chinese,English

Professional Memberships

Director, Intellectual Property Professional Committee of Hubei Lawyers Association

Standing Director, Hubei Law Society Intellectual Property Law Research Association

Standing Director, Wuhan Lawyers Association

Director, Intellectual Property Committee of Wuhan Lawyers Association

Vice Chairman, Wuhan Intellectual Property Research Association

Arbitrator, Wuhan Arbitration Commission

Education