Mingzhao is the president of AFD China. He leads the firm’s strategic management and operation teams. Mingzhao focuses his practice on intellectual property (IP) prosecution, post-grant proceedings, dispute solutions, litigation, and counselling. He is a patent attorney registered before the CNIPA and a patent litigation attorney registered before the Supreme People’s Court of China.
Before joining AFD China, Mingzhao received systematic R&D training in an R&D company and worked as an IP legal assistant, patent engineer, department head, and assistant general director, while and after receiving training in IP rights-related laws and patent and trademark practice at the China Intellectual Property Training Center, legal training at several legal training centres, and copyright training at the China Copyright Protection Center.
