Yazhou Zhang

Partner/Attorney at Law

Practice Area:  IP matters covering trademark/ copyright/ unfair competition/technical contract and etc

Tel: 86-10-59208888 Fax: 86-10-85110961 E-mail: yazhou.zhang@unitalen.com   Office: Beijing

Professional Experience

Mr. Zhang is very good at handling difficult and complex cases in litigation fields of trade mark, copyright (computer software, protection of music and audiovisual products), unfair competition (protection of famous commodity and commercial secrets), and has accumulated rich experience in lawyer’s profession. Mr. Zhang has made efforts to safeguard rights and defused disputes by handling lots of intellectual property cases based on spirits of integrity, respect and friendliness.Since 2009, six IP cases represented by Zhang Yazhou have been selected by the Supreme Court as one of the top ten IP cases of the year, and several other cases have been selected by provincial high courts as one of the top ten IP cases of the year.

In October of 2009, Mr. Zhang attended the “Lecture of Execution of Civil Right” held together by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in Tokyo upon the invitation of JETRO and gave speech about Legal Issues Involved in Network Copyright Infringement of China; in February of 2012, Mr. Zhang attended the “Intellectual Property Salon and the 134th INTA Annual Meeting in Washington” to participate in the discussion about Issues on Trademark Infringement and Determination of Liability for Damages of Vendors upon the invitation of INTA (International Trademark Association); in September of 2013, Mr. Zhang gave speech about China's legal issues involved in typical cases of litigations about trademark infringement in recent years in Seoul upon the invitation of Korea Invention Promotion Association(KIPA).

Mr. Zhang also successively published many articles on various professional journals, magazines and newspapers, including Several Issues on Assessment of Damages in Trademark Infringement Cases, Observation on Application of Article 5.2 of Anti-Unfair Competition Law from Special Package and Decoration of Well-known Goods “FERRERO ROCHER” Chocolate, On Relevant Issues regarding POCO Software (P2P Sofware), Introduction on Legal Mechanism on Protection of Audiovisual Products in China, Analysis on Protection of Bona Fide Third Party in Transfer of Technical Secrets.

Education Background

LL.B., Gansu Institute of Political Science and Law
LL.M., Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Expert of the Supreme Court intellectual property case guidance research (Beijing) base advisory committee
Legal consulting and argumentation expert of sichuan administration for industry and commerce

Professional Qualification: 

Trademark Law Subcommittee of BEIJING LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
China Intellectual Property Research Association

Articles

Mr. Zhang is also successively in all kinds of professional journals published in the newspaper a trademark infringement cases about compensation for sure a few questions from FERRERO ROCHER, FERRERO chocolate peculiar to well-known goods packaging decoration case watch < anti-unfair competition law> article 5, paragraph 2 of the applicable rules in the judicial practice POCO software (P2P) software infringement cases involving issues related to the Chinese audio and video products protection legal system is introduced, as well as the technical secret transfer of a third person in good faith protection problem analysis, etc

Working Language

Chinese English