Ningling Wang

Partner

Ningling Wang serves as the managing partner of the firm's Shanghai Office. Her practice involves patent prosecution, opinions, due diligence, client counseling, licensing, and patent litigation in the areas of chemicals, chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, semiconductor materials, and nanotechnology.

Ms. Wang has extensive experience working with multinational and Chinese companies, providing legal advice on IP portfolio management, due diligence, licensing, and trade secret protection and enforcement. She has been involved in various cases before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and U.S. district courts.

Ms. Wang speaks frequently at conferences and seminars in China and internationally on patent-related topics. She taught a graduate course on U.S. IP law at Renmin University of China Law School and a graduate course on U.S. IP law, with patent mock trial, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School. She also serves as a program professor of Law at China Science and Technology University.

Highlights

• Defended five Chinese LED companies in ITC litigations.
• Conducted due diligence for multinational and Chinese companies.
• Represented multinational and Chinese companies in IP portfolio management, licensing, and trade secret protection and enforcement.
• Represented a large U.S. pharmaceutical company in an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) litigation.
• Law clerk to the Honorable Ann Aiken of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, 2000.
• Managing editor of the Oregon Law Review, 2000-2001.
• Worked at Liu, Shen & Associates in Beijing, China, 1994-1995; and Genentech, 1998.

Professional Recognition

• Order of the Coif.

Professional Activities

• Licensing Executives Society International (vice-chair, Asia Pacific Committee, 2010-present)
• Licensing Executives Society, China (Board of Directors, 2009-present)
• American Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai (co-chair, IP Committee, 2010-2012)
• BayHelix Group
• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Bar Association

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "Recent Trends Enforcing Standards Essential Patents in the U.S.," China IP News Special IP Week edition, April 12, 2013.
• "How to Use US IP Judicial System," China IP News, March 6, 2013.
• Coauthor. "How to Reduce IP Litigation Costs in USA," Corporate Legal Affairs, Oct. 2012.
• Coauthor. "Opportunities for Third Parties To Launch Prior Art Attacks Under America Invents Act (AIA)," Managing Intellectual Property Chinese edition, Sept. 2012.
• "IP Due Diligence for Chinese Companies," China Business Update, Aug. 2012.
• Coauthor. "IP Considerations for Firms Doing Business in China and India," Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, June 1, 2012.
• Coauthor.  "Highlights of U.S. Patent Law Reform," China IP News, Feb. 8, 2012.
• "Impacts of America Invents Act on Chinese Import and Export Companies," Imp-Exp Executive, Nov. 2011.
• Coauthor. "What Could Chinese Companies Learn from i4i v. Microsoft Case?" LexisNexis China Legal Review, June 2010.
• Coauthor. "Intellectual Property Due Diligence in View of Global Innovation," China Intellectual Property, April 2010.