Professionals

Vincent) ZHONG

Vincent Zhong

Senior Consultant in Licensing & Overseas Business

Executive Summary

Accomplished senior executive and professional with over 30 years’ experience and expertise in Intellectual Property Management, Licensing, Knowledge Transfer, Spinout Coaching, Investment, Corporate Management and International Business. A seasoned leader and entrepreneur who is capable and have experience to start a business from idea or IP to IPO, excels at managing comprehensive projects, licensing scheme and business from scratch to finish, strong international background and experience, skills at combining commercial knowledge, marketing skill, operation strategies and legal thinking, and is zealous in teaching and building up a stronger network in TT, KM and IP.

Languages

 English, fluent
Chinese, Native

Academic Background

2015–DBA in Technology Innovation and Management (Intellectual Property) | Huazhong University of Science and Technology

2005--MBA | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

1992–BSc in Mathematical Statistics | Sun Yat-sen UniversitySocial Responsibilities

Social Responsibilities

Adjunct Professor| Soochow University

Adjunct Professor| Fujian Engineer College

Dean | National Technology Transfer Professional Training Center (Guangdong Province)

Member | HKUST MBA Advisory Board           

Chairman| IP Finance Specialists Committee of Nanshan District in Shenzhen City    

IP Finance Specialist | National IP Operation Center Platform in China

Specialist | Shenzhen City Intellectual Property Specialist Committee

Work Experiences

May. 2023– Present 

Senior Consultant in Licensing & Overseas Business| Junlong Law Firm. – Shenzhen, China

  • Provide professional opinion and service to facilitate overseas licensor, patent firm to build up seamless partnership to have better patent prosecution, protection and monetization;
  • Help domestic companies to form better solution for their IP in different overseas market.
Dec. 2018 – Present

Co-Founder, COO | Novarizer Research Institute Inc. – Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan  

The company is one of professional companies which provide services in Technology Transfer Professionals training, Spinout coaching, Technology Transfer, Startup investment, Innovation Assistance and global business partnership. As COO, I:

  • Facilitating the universities and institutes to design and start licensing scheme,  setup and grow the spinouts
  • Setup and managing National Technology Transfer Professional Training Center (Guangdong Province) to provide Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, Licensing training courses
  • Measured performance and proposed iterations to improve user experience and the main business KPIs
Mar. 2016– Jul. 2018

CEO| GTF-Glorious Investment Management Co. – Shenzhen, China

The company managed a fund with the focus of investment of IP related activities, technology startup and KT spinouts. As CEO, I:

  • Set up the company based on SEC regulation, and raised fund from LPs.Designed a new investment model and analysis methodology for the intangible asset related investment, including IP intense business, licensing activities, spinout investment and licensing practices.
Jun. 2014– Apr. 2016

Vice President| Sinofaith intellectual Property Group -Shanghai, China

Sinofaith is one of largest comprehensive IP, KT companies in China. As VP I:

  • Worked with CEO to help company redesign the business model and bring the new revenue stream by Patent Monetization service, investigation service, litigation service in order to bring the company to go public
  • Rebuild professional patent and startup service teams to provide one stop technology service solution, help VC to evaluation the projects. Helped the company acquired and migrated a US based IP service company
Jul. 1992- Nov. 1998

General Manager | Zhuhai Gold Yacht Chemical Industrial Ltd.- Zhuhai, China

Gold Yacht is a company with focus on medical disinfectant and sterile agent, which technology licensed from a research institute.  As General Manager I:

  • Grew the company from edge of bankruptcy to enjoy the number one market share in Guangdong province for last 30 years
  • Worked with different research institutes and companies to introduce more and more disinfectant related technologies into our product lines, like household use.

 

Publications

Books

1.Patent Assessment and Protection

2.Report of Patent Navigation Report and Litigation Study for LED industry

3.Dao of IP

4.STRATEGIES FOR PATENT PROTECTION AND ENFORCEMENT

Practice Experiences

Mr. Ding has both qualifications as an attorney at law and a patent agent in China. He has long focused on patent dispute resolution, especially in patent, trademark, trade secret and unfair competition, and has been a leader in non-litigation business in intellectual property transfer transactions, FTO investigation and analysis, patent layout, patent mining, and patent applications.

Mr. Ding has represented his clients to win quite a number of high-profile cases, some of which were elected as typical intellectual property cases of the year across the nation:

  1. Mr. Ding represented the Plaintiff to sue the defendant infringing integrated circuit layout design proprietary rights, and won the case after a final instance trial by the Supreme People’s Court. The case was elected as one of the “TOP ten nationwide intellectual property rights related cases of 2020”.
  2. Mr. Ding led the legal team to carry out an analysis with respect to the patent infringement cases decided by Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court from 2013 to 2016, and finally published an intensive legal white paper of 2017, which won a gold medal and thus was funded by Shenzhen Administration of Market Regulation.
  3. Mr. Ding represented Suzhou Saixin to sue the defendant infringing integrated circuit layout design proprietary rights. This case was elected a typical intellectual property dispute case across the courts located in Guangdong province.
  4. Mr. Ding was engaged as a leading counsel by a number of known tech giants, including Shokz and Chic, Netac, to initiate all-round patent right infringement actions in China, providing comprehensive support for the clients’ IP rights.
  5. Led by Mr. Ding, the director of the firm, Junlong Law Firm has won some nationwide honors, including “Outstanding Legal Service Team in Guangdong Province” in 2018 and 2019, “Top 10 Rising Intellectual Property Litigation Service Law Firms” in 2020, and became a member law firm of the Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Association.