Jason Pang

Practice Areas

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, ANTI-UNFAIR COMPETITION, LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION

Professional Memberships

■ Secretary-General, All-China Lawyers Association Education Committee Chairman of the Beijing Alumni Association of the Southwest University of Political Science and Law

■ Executive councilor, China Law Association on Science and Technology; one of the first experts to engage in research on science and technology legislation

■ Special Member, Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council legal advisory group for Chinese-funded Enterprises

■ Professor, China University of Political Science and Law (6 years)

■ Participant in the preparation of the propositions for the National Judicial Examination for many

■ Director, of the All-China Lawyers Association IP Committee, as well as deputy director and executive member for over 10 years.

■ Deputy director, Beijing Intellectual Property Protection Association. Mr. Pang is active in business training for IP lawyers, and has compiled a business guide.

Experience

Jason Pang is a member of JT&N’s Management Committee. His practice focuses on intellectual property, commercial law and litigation, and all aspects of legal advice to the high-tech industry across the spectrum of corporate and litigation matters.

Widely acknowledged as one of the premier IP law experts in China, Mr. Pang has been instrumental in promoting IP legislation and IP-related judicial practice in China. He has extensive experience structuring integrated IP strategies for clients, and has an active practice advising clients on IP matters involving patents, technology contracts, trademarks, special packaging and decoration of well-known commodities, domains, commercial secrets, copyright, franchising and network IP. Mr. Pang has acted on behalf of clients in numerous landmark IP cases in China. He participated in the drafting process for the national science and technology laws, including the amendment of the PRC Intellectual Property Law, and has worked on the formulation of national PRC IP strategy.

In the high-tech area, Mr. Pang participated in the planning research for China’s national long-term strategy on science and technology development. As a partner at JT&N, Mr. Pang has presided over the transition of the firm’s IP practice from traditional fields to include new businesses, such as network IP, E-commerce, licensing trade, franchising and high and new technology, with clients concentrated in high and new technology enterprises. His clients include listed companies, multinational corporations, and growth-based enterprises and industries, including information technology, telecommunications, biogenetics, biological medicine, materials, electronics, software, multimedia and manufacturing. Mr. Pang assisted in drafting the Implementing Regulations for the PRC Technology Contract Law.

In the commercial law and litigation field, Mr. Pang serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the Beijing Arbitration Commission, and is an expert in the design of comprehensive litigation strategies. Mr. Pang has represented clients in many important commercial litigation cases involving disputes in connection with loan, guarantee, insurance, engineering, and import and export matters, and has acted as the chairman of the legal advisory groups. He has extensive experience in contract disposition and settlement solutions, negotiation, conclusion, performance and remedies for breach.

Work Highlights

■ Series of cases on Five-Stroke Typing patent rights

■ Trademark infringement case involving use of “恒升” against “恒生”

■ Trademark infringement involving “Great Wall” wine against COFCO

■ Case of copyright infringement of the dance choreography “Thousand-hand Kuan Yin”

■ Case of online copyright infringement brought by six authors, including Wang Meng

■ Case of infringement of MP3 search copyright of Baidu

■ Case of infringement of copyright of Han Wang handwriting recognition software

■ Case of Transtar Machine Translation software infringement

■ Selected Clients

Mr. Pang acts as legal counsel to COFCO, China Cultural Corporation Group, China Investment Corporation, China Leasing Corporation, China Disabled People’s Arts Troupe, Motorola, BASF, Rohm & Haas, Bayer, DHL, Lenovo, Digital China, Han Wang, Baidu, Datong Mobile, Quanjude, Hang Seng, Aigo, Funshion Online, 51.com, China Camc Engineering, CNICTC, May Star, Beijing Urban Construction Group, Beijing Central Iron & Steel Research Institute, Beijing Green Umbrella, Lucky Group, Henan Shenma Group, Dukang Group, Zhejiang Yinlun, Wenzhou Kangnai, Chongqing Lifan, Shanxi Aluminium Plant and Xinhua FTSE Index

■ Infringement of patent right to drilling injector method

■ Patent infringement suit against Motorola

■ Dispute in connection with technology contracts of Beijing Central Iron & Steel Research Institute

■ “Crocodile” trademark infringement suit