On April 29, 2025, the graduation ceremony of the first "China Green Technology IP Management Clinic (IPMC)" was successfully held in Beijing. The camp was hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and undertaken by the Bluetech Clean Air Alliance (BCAA). From its official launch in October 2024 to its conclusion at the end of April 2025, the five-month accelerator camp conducted three intensive training sessions, one study visit to BOE Group, and organized domestic and foreign IP mentors to provide nearly 100 one-on-one customized counseling sessions for enterprises. All 25 green technology enterprises participating in the camp received exclusive IP strategic roadmap reports and graduation certificates jointly issued by WIPO and Chuanglan Alliance. The first UN IP Management Clinic invited 11 mentors, including 5 international mentors and 6 Chinese mentors. This article details the information of these 11 mentors.
International Mentors of the First IP Management Clinic
Audrey YAP Yusarn, Managing Director
Audrey Yap is the Managing Director and Co-founder of Yusarn Adurey, a Singapore-based company in ASEAN. Established in 1999, the company focuses on intellectual property and commercial law, providing IP legal consulting and intellectual capital management as part of a comprehensive suite of IP solutions. These solutions include building strong IP portfolios, such as patent drafting and application support, as well as the application of transaction expertise to monetize IP. Audrey Yap is qualified as a lawyer in Malaysia and Singapore. She was also admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in September 1999 and is a registered patent agent in Singapore. Additionally, she is a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA) and a TÜV SÜD Professional Singapore Certified Management Consultant (PMC).
Omer HIZIROGLU, Head of Azur Strategy
Omer is the head of Azur Strategy, an IP and innovation management consulting firm based in the south of France. Omer has 20 years of experience in technology-based transactions. His background in venture capital and enterprises has equipped him with comprehensive experience in consulting clients across the entire innovation value chain. His business mainly focuses on collaborating with technology-intensive SMEs to provide portfolio management, transaction, and strategic services at the international level. He frequently speaks at international conferences and corporate training sessions and also serves as a mentor to help universities formulate technology transfer policies. As a member of the WIPO GREEN Advisory Board, he actively participates in it, demonstrating his dedication to addressing climate change challenges through technological expansion. Previously, Omer was the Managing Partner of TLS.IP, a strategic intellectual property firm. Before TLS.IP, he was a venture capitalist and a General Partner at Diffusion Capital Partners, an early-stage technology venture capital firm. He is actively involved in LES International ("LESI"), serving as a board member and Vice President. As Co-Chair of the Global Technology Impact Forum, he and LESI remain actively engaged. He is still a proud member of LES France. Since 2015, Omer has been recognized as one of the IAM Global 300 Leading IP Strategists. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University in the United States, a Master's degree from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and a Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk University in the United States. Omer is a member of the Istanbul, New York, and Massachusetts Bar Associations and holds Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and EUKTS expert certifications.
Chung Min KWAN, Partner of Viering Jentschura & LLP; Partner of Viering Jentschura & mbB
Kwan Chung Min is a partner of Viering, Jentschura & Partner LLP and mbB, and a Singapore patent attorney. Viering, Jentschura & Partner is a leading intellectual property firm in Singapore and Germany. With profound expertise in electrical engineering, LED driver design, precision engineering, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing technology, Chung Min helps Singaporean and international companies align their IP applications with broader business goals. He provides IP-related training and consulting to companies in various jurisdictions. Chung Min was listed in the IAM Patent 1000 for his client-centric approach and is an Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. He is also the first recipient of scholarships from the Singapore Intellectual Property Academy and the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property Summer Institute.
Tony LAN, Senior Patent Attorney of Yusarn Audrey
Tony graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences (First Class Honors) in Biomedical Science and received the Singapore Government International Undergraduate Scholarship. Later, he obtained a Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law (GCIP) from the NUS Faculty of Law and the Singapore Intellectual Property Academy, a Master's degree in Intellectual Property Management, and a Doctoral degree in Technology Intelligence and Intellectual Property Strategy from the Department of Engineering and Technology Management at NUS, all with distinction. He was awarded the Singapore Patent Agents Association (ASPA) Book Prize for achieving the highest score in Paper A (drafting of patent specifications) in the 2016 Singapore Patent Agent Qualification Examination. Before joining Yusarn Audrey, Tony worked at a boutique patent firm, handling patent work including patent drafting, prosecution, and registration. Later, he pursued a doctoral degree at NUS, receiving a postgraduate scholarship specializing in technology intelligence and IP strategy, and accumulated rich experience in patent searching, patent landscape analysis, and patent portfolio management, covering a range of technical fields such as wind turbines, LEDs, stem cells, and cloud computing. Tony has a strong interest in IP-related research - he has co-authored several publications in international journals (biomedicine and patent management), an academic book on patent portfolio deployment, and presented on patent management and strategy at academic conferences in Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, and the United States.
Boon Keat TAN (Gilbert), Regional IP Advisor of Yokogawa Electric Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore)
Gilbert is one of the few IP professionals with approximately 40 US patents. He has over ten years of experience in integrated circuit design, research and development, and product development. Some of the patents written by Gilbert have been transacted. Gilbert has solid knowledge in circuits, system design, and IC chip manufacturing processes. His IP-related work and experience include: patent portfolio management, managing external consultants, IP litigation support, trade secret litigation support, patent harvesting, patent drafting and prosecution, European patent opposition procedures, patent sales, merger and acquisition support, conducting IP training, and IP seminars.
Chinese Mentors of the First IP Strategy Accelerator Camp
Lin Wei, Senior Partner of Beijing Docvit Law Firm
Lawyer Lin Wei has a composite educational background in automation and law. His practice areas include patents, copyrights, competition and antitrust, data protection, etc. Lawyer Lin Wei provides intellectual property services to well-known Internet and high-tech enterprises such as ZTE, Xiaomi, Vivo, Meituan, Kingsoft, Kuaishou, and Niu Technologies, as well as to national ministries and commissions and large commercial institutions such as the Ministry of Transport, Peking University, Qilu Pharmaceutical, Hengrui Pharmaceutical, Yangtze River Pharmaceutical, Ping An Group, and Financial Street Holdings. In 2017, he was awarded the "2017 Recommended Outstanding Young Lawyer" by CLECSS. From 2018 to 2023, he was consecutively selected into the "China's Top 100 Legal Elites" by China Business Law Journal. From 2018 to 2023, he was consecutively selected into LEGALBAND China's Top Lawyers - Antitrust and Competition Law, Intellectual Property (Litigation). In 2019 and 2023, he was selected into the Top 50 China's Excellent Intellectual Property Lawyers in the 1st and 4th sessions co-selected by IPR Power and IPRdaily. In 2020, he was selected into LEGALBAND Client's First Choice: Top 15 Intellectual Property Generalists. In 2021, he was selected into LEGALBAND China Lawyers Special Recommendation List Top 15 - Automobile and New Energy. In 2022, he was selected into LEGALBAND Compliance Lawyers Top 15 and the TOP 15 LEGALTECH LAWYERS list. In 2023, he was selected into LEGALBAND China Lawyers Special Recommendation List Top 15 - High-tech and Artificial Intelligence. In 2024, he was listed in the Chambers Competition Law/Antitrust (Chinese Firms) and Intellectual Property: Litigation (Chinese Firms) Lawyer Directory in Chambers Greater China Guide 2024.
Liu Yuanxia, Senior Partner and Senior Patent Agent of Beijing Docvit Law Firm
Liu Yuanxia has 22 years of practice experience, specializing in patents, trade secrets, and antitrust. She focuses on intellectual property protection in the fields of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, chemistry (organic and polymer), and materials, providing clients with legal services including patent application, patent reexamination and invalidation, administrative litigation, infringement litigation, antitrust litigation, trade secrets, as well as patent validity analysis, infringement risk analysis, trade secret analysis, freedom-to-operate opinions, and patent layout. Liu Yuanxia's IP career began in 2002. She has worked at the State Intellectual Property Office (during which she was seconded to the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court as a people's juror) and well-known law firms. Later, in 2014, she founded Beijing Zhiyuan Tongchuang Intellectual Property Agency with her team. Liu Yuanxia is good at formulating practical and effective case strategies and action plans based on clients' own situations and needs, starting from clients' interests. She has successfully provided professional services to clients in many patent infringement and invalidation cases. She is skilled in combining her experience in examination and search, court trials, and litigation agency to comprehensively consider the stability of patent rights and the impact on possible infringement, providing clients with practical and effective services. At the same time, she has written a large number of applications for domestic enterprises and has won unanimous praise from clients in terms of patent layout and the construction of the protection scope of claims.
Zhao Lijie, Senior Partner and Director of Intellectual Property Center of Beijing Yinghe Law Firm
Lawyer Zhao Lijie is a senior partner of Yinghe Law Firm, focusing on internal and external intellectual property legal services for enterprises for nearly 15 years, with main practice areas in IP litigation and non-litigation legal services. He is one of the few practicing lawyers in China with rich experience in serving start-ups, unicorns, listed companies, etc., in different capacities such as external lawyer, patent agent, as well as patent director, IP director, and legal director of well-known enterprises. Lawyer Zhao is proficient in his profession, having hosted many influential non-litigation projects and litigation cases. He edited practical books such as Guidelines for Intellectual Property in IPO of Sci-Tech Innovation Board Enterprises, Modern Enterprise Compliance Guidelines, Patent Layout, and professional reports such as White Paper on Data Compliance of Chinese Enterprises, and was awarded honors such as "China's Outstanding Intellectual Property Manager" and "China's Top 50 Intellectual Property Elite Lawyers Under 50". He once served as the first IP and legal director of AI unicorn [Megvii], and was the founder of the basic system of legal affairs, IP, and compliance management of Megvii; he also served as the product line patent director of BOE, a leading enterprise in semiconductor display. Benefiting from years of practical legal operation and management experience in leading technology enterprises, Lawyer Zhao has a deeper understanding and thinking of technology and business beyond the lawyer's position, and is good at helping clients solve legal problems by combining client needs with business reality. Currently, he is committed to providing professional and practical legal services to enterprises in industries such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, new energy, Internet of Things, medical devices, high-end equipment, cultural and creative industries, especially innovative and entrepreneurial enterprises.
Deng Yong, Senior Partner of Beijing Docvit Law Firm
Since practicing, Lawyer Deng Yong has been focusing on intellectual property, with main business areas including intellectual property, anti-unfair competition, data compliance, information security, e-commerce, etc. His clients are mainly concentrated in industries such as information network, medical and health, high-tech, cultural media, financial investment, and commercial real estate. Lawyer Deng is good at dispute resolution. In terms of copyright protection, he has handled more than 200 cases involving infringement of computer software, film and television works, literary works for national ministries and commissions and well-known enterprises, and hosted series of new technology cases such as "the first case of copyright infringement in Internet TV" and "the first case of copyright infringement in Internet TV set-top boxes"; in terms of trademark protection, he has handled dozens of trademark administrative and infringement cases for well-known Internet companies and real estate companies; in terms of patent protection, he has handled patent infringement cases for well-known foreign enterprises and emerging domestic enterprises; in terms of anti-unfair competition, he has handled anti-unfair competition cases such as trade secret infringement and commercial slander for leading Internet enterprises; in terms of rights protection, he has provided comprehensive legal rights protection services for internationally renowned architects. Lawyer Deng has accumulated rich practical experience in providing dispute resolution services to many government departments, listed companies, and well-known enterprises, and has unique insights in network rights protection and network competition. He continues to pay attention to emerging fields such as data compliance and information security, and has in-depth research on data compliance operation, data security administrative supervision, and personal information protection. He also holds CISP-PIP (Certified Information Security Professional - Personal Information Protection) and CISP-DSG (Certified Information Security Professional - Data Security Governance) certificates.
Zhang Bingnan, Senior Partner, Lawyer, and Senior Patent Agent of Beijing Docvit Law Firm
Zhang Bingnan focuses on legal services for technical cases in the fields of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, chemistry, and materials. He is good at providing clients with legal services for patent-related dispute cases such as reexamination, invalidation, infringement, ownership disputes, and technical contract disputes, and providing legal opinions on non-litigation cases such as patent validity, infringement risk, freedom-to-operate, and patent layout. In addition, he is also skilled in providing high-quality patent application and related services. Zhang Bingnan holds a Master's degree in Organic Chemistry from Nankai University and a Master of Laws degree from Peking University. His IP career began in 2008, and he has worked in the State Intellectual Property Office and well-known IP firms, engaging in patent examination and patent legal services in fields such as organic chemistry, chemical pharmaceuticals, materials, and pesticides. Moreover, he has experience in synthetic research and development and large-scale production in pharmaceutical enterprises. The clients served by Zhang Bingnan include well-known multinational enterprises such as Bayer, BASF, DuPont, Hospira, and L6 Chemicals, Yihai Kerry; well-known domestic pharmaceutical and medical device enterprises such as Yangtze River Pharmaceutical, Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group, Qilu Pharmaceutical, Simcere Pharmaceutical, Aosaikang Pharmaceutical, Kelun Pharmaceutical, Qirui Pharmaceutical, Renfu Pharmaceutical Yiludeli, and Youli Medical; well-known material and environmental protection technology enterprises such as Century Star Source, Kailuan Group, Zhenghai Magnetic Materials, and Global Green Land; as well as many well-known scientific research institutions, all of which have widely recognized him.
Wen Ken, Patent Director of Beijing Yinghe Law Firm
Wen Ken is the Patent Director of the Intellectual Property Center of Beijing Yinghe Law Firm and an expert in enterprise patent practice. He holds the qualification of Chinese patent agent and is mainly responsible for patent agency business management and case quality control, patent mining and layout for important projects, patent search and analysis, patent invalidation and litigation, and enterprise IP consulting. Over the past 10 years, Mr. Wen Ken has handled more than 1,000 patent technical disclosure evaluation, patent mining and layout, domestic and foreign patent applications, and examination opinion responses. He has led and been responsible for more than 100 patent analysis projects such as patent invalidation search, FTO, patent research, and patent navigation, participated in and assisted in more than 30 patent invalidation and litigation projects, and been responsible for more than 20 enterprise patent strategy planning and business optimization projects. In addition to rich practical experience in patent law, Mr. Wen Ken also has rich experience in invention and creation. He himself is the inventor of more than 50 Chinese patent applications and more than 20 PCT patent applications.
