Yanfang Wang

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25+ years of experience

Language:

English, Chinese

Present Function:

Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Intellectual Property School of ECUPL.

General Expertise:

Certifications and/or licenses

Language Certification：IELTS Testing Overall Band Score7.5

Professional legal or litigation experience related to the scope of competence of the PMAC

Judicial Experience：Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China，where served for 25 years（From July 1996 to August 2021） in progressive roles: from clerk（1996） to Judge(2004), Presiding Judge（2014） and Senior Judge Second Grade（2017）.Adjudicated more than 2,000 IP cases about trademark law, copyright law, competition law and SEPs since becoming a judge of the Supreme People’s Court.

Memberships and/or accreditations

Arbitrator at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center. 
Arbitrator at the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration.
Member of the Expert Pool for Response to Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute of China National Intellectual Property Administration.
Expert advisor to the Internet Trademark and Brand Committee of the China Trademark Association.
Expert to the second batch of the Shanghai Expert Pool for Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response Guidance.
Intellectual Property Technical Consulting Expert for the High People's Court of Henan Province and the People's Procuratorate of Henan Province.
Arbitrator at the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center.
Member of the Expert Pool of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of China.

Practical experience of conducting mediation or conciliation or judicial settlement conferences or out-of-court dispute settlements in disputes related to the scope of competence of the PMAC

Judge of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China(since 2004), organized the parties to mediate and ultimately achieved good results in some intellectual property cases.For example, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. v. IDC Corporation over standard essential patent (SEP) licensing fees was the first case in which a Chinese court ruled on SEP royalty rates in the telecommunications field ( serving at the Supreme People’s Court at the time and presided over the case as the chief judge, ruled for a retrial and decided to elevate the case for review. During the retrial process, the court organized mediation between the two parties and, based on their joint application, issued a mediation document, thereby concluding the litigation proceedings for the case).

Serving as a member of the CNIPA’s Overseas IP Dispute Response Expert Pool（since March 2022）and an expert to the second batch of the Shanghai Expert Pool for Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response Guidance（since October 2023）.