Haoming (Howie) Ying, one of Yuanze partners, is the member of the first group of International Legal Service Leading Lawyers of Guangzhou City, also a member of the International Legal Service Pioneer Lawyers of Guangdong Province. Howie Ying graduated from George Washington University Law School and Shanghai University. Before joining Yuanze, Howie has for years worked in ZTE Corporation and several top tier law firms in China, such as Zhonglun and Lifang & Partners. Howie Ying holds the Patent Attorney Bar.

Howie Ying focuses on intellectual property law practice, also specializes in providing foreign affairs related legal services, is skilled in intellectual property licensing, granting, infringement litigation/arbitration, invalidation and administrative actions, as well as trade secret dispute resolution. Howie has represented multiple international well-known companies in a series of intellectual property litigations in China, several of which are Fortune Global 500, such as OKI, Unicharm, Samsung, Ya-man, Sony, Breville, and Southern Medical University.

Howie Ying is also professional in outbound direct investments and foreign direct investment. Howie has provided legal services for several well-known Chinese publicly listed companies such as Kingfa Sci. & Tech. Co., Ltd. in multiple outbound direct investments in the U.S., Mexico, and Southeast Asia, among which the incorporation of new subsidiaries, mergers and acquisitions, purchase of lands, construction of plants, negotiation of private power supply are involved. Howie has excellent English proficiency, is capable of negotiating on behalf of clients in various of business transactions.

Intellectual Property

• Represented OKI in a series of intellectual property infringement, ownership dispute litigation, and administrative actions in China, many of which have been heard through the re-trial procedure by the Supreme Court

• Represented SONY in the first infringement litigation involving standard-essential patents in China against IWNCOMM

• Represented SAMSUNG in a series of patent infringement litigation, invalidation and administrative actions in China

• Represented UNICHARM and YA-MAN Ltd. in a series of intellectual property protection legal actions in China

• Provided patent infringement avoidance analysis for the Southern Medical University in its National Key Research and Development Program - "Microecology and Medical Testing"

• Provided patent application planning and infringement avoidance analysis for the Southern Medical University in the biological artificial liver program

• Provided patent evaluation analysis for Shaanxi Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in multiple business transactions involving the patent value capitalization

• Represented ATEN in a series of patent infringement disputes in Guangdong Province

• Provided legal service regarding the personal information protection and data export compliance for a publicly listed company in Guangzhou in a tens of millions of dollars medical product quality arbitration in the U.S.

• Provided legal service for a Chinese household appliance company vs. a well-known Australian company in a technology export project

• Represented a Chinese domestic well-known medical healthcare brand in a trademark infringement and unfair competition litigation

• Represented a famous Chinese domestic fashion brand in a trademark infringement case

• Represented Fashion Wei Internation Group against its former employee in a business defamation and unfair competition litigation

Company Law and Overseas Investment

• Provided legal service for Kingfa Sci. & Tech. Co., Ltd. in multiple outbound direct investments in California and Tokyo, in collaboration with U.S. and Japanese lawyers

• Provided legal service for Kingfa Sci. & Tech. Co., Ltd. in the outbound direct investment in Mexico, among which the incorporation of new subsidiaries, purchase of lands, construction of plants, negotiation of private power supply, mergers and acquisitions are involved

• Provided legal service for a Shanghai sportswear brand and its founders in the domestic and overseas Round Trip Investment (the registration pursuant to “Circular 37”, and the setup of the Red Chip Structure)

Others

• Represented Zhuhai Kingfa Biomaterial Co., Ltd. in the European Commission anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of certain aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters

• Provided legal service and worked with U.S. lawyers for a Chinese well-known medical device company in a $50 million U.S. commercial arbitration, obtained a complete defense victory following trial, prevailing on every claim brought by the claimant

• Provided anti-fraud investigation legal service for Electrical Components International and its Chinese subsidiaries

• Provided legal advisory service for a well-known luxury clothing brand in Guangzhou

• Provided legal advisory service for a special steel processing enterprise in Guangzhou

The George Washington University

Shanghai University

English, Madarin