Emil Zhang

October 30, 2022

Emil Zhang is the Director of European IPR Department, Huawei, where he has specialized in IP, contract, litigation, and legal management for many years. He has participated in high profile company-level litigations, including EU trade defense investigation (anti-dumping, anti-subsidies, safeguard) and major patent litigation. He has led the company’s patent infringement assertions across the world as well as company-level cooperation projects with major industrial peers, customers, and suppliers. He focuses now more on IP related litigation, patent licensing program and trade defense investigations.

Explainer: Standard Essential Patents and National Security

July 10, 2024

By Christopher Borges Technology standards are a critical domain of international cooperation and competition in high technology. Standards create a common language for communication about technology and innovation, allowing firms to collaborate and develop interoperable products. At the same time, for some critical and emerging technologies such as telecommunications and artificial

Assessing the Patent and Trademark Office’s Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions

June 3, 2024

By Alexander Kersten As new applications of artificial intelligence (AI) become more sophisticated, AI tools are increasingly used to assist in the process of invention. However, given that inventorship is limited to natural persons under U.S. law, AI’s growing utilization has raised questions around whether AI-assisted inventions should receive patents,

Securing IP and the Future of Pandemic Preparedness

May 30, 2024

By Jeffrey Depp In December 2021, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) at a Special Session of the World Health Assembly created an intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (“Pandemic Agreement”). The