Rose Zhu

Rose Zhu• Senior Patent Attorney
Attorney-at-Law
Office: Shanghai
Head of Chemistry Department
Practice Areas:    Patent Prosecution and Appeal (Re-Examination);
                           Advising on Patent Portfolio Management;
                           Patent Enforcement and Invalidation.
                           Intellectual Property Due Diligence.

As one of our leading senior patent attorneys, Rose is heading the patent departments of chemistry and biotechnology department.  Based on rich experiences over three decades, she is skilled in dealing with various patent matters, including procurement/registration, licensing, transaction, portfolio management, commercialization and enforcements.

Ms. Rose Zhu is specializing in pharmaceutical and biotechnology matters. With her many years of pharma industry and law firm experience, she helps her clients develop and manage comprehensive patent portfolios that address their business needs for inventions involving pharmaceuticals, biologics, and biotherapeutics for diverse therapeutic areas, biotechnology, chemical engineering, chemicals, diagnostics, healthcare products and polymers, whether through preparation and prosecution of her clients’ inventions or through licensing technologies or a combination of both.

Chinese Patent Office has a lot of published policies and procedures as well as the internal guidelines, cases in SIPO are influenced by many facts and the result is quite unpredictable.  Ms. Zhu is experienced in working with SIPO with her unique skills on patent search, drafting and communicating with examiners. The clients enjoy her opinions and suggestions before actions as well as her prosecution service afterward.  Ms. Zhu provides her clients with strategic perspective on managing business issues and risks and focuses on optimizing business outcomes.

With the unique search and analysis skills, Ms. Zhu participated in many IP projects for our clients, including organize and manage the patent portfolio for Sinopec, L’Oreal, Clarins, enforcement projects for PerkinElmer, Shanghai Focus, China Stirling Engine and a lot of FTO search projects.  Clients are satisfied with the predictable outcomes as well as her reliable service.

Remarkable Projects:

• SINOPEC, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, China's leading energy and chemical company.   Although technical matters concerning this area is pretty challenging and complicated, Rose has made it to guide this client to build up their global patent portfolio and accompany them to obtain promising investments.

  FOSUN, a well-known and respectable global pharmaceutical group.  Rose has been representing this client for many years as the external general patent counsel.  

  SICCAS, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, which is a subsidiary of Chinese Academy of Sciences.  This client has applied many high value patents and Rose has been accompanying this client in going through a tough and difficult time when dealing with office actions concerning their patents in China.  Most of these patent applications were granted finally.

• Working languages: Mandarin; English. 
  Bar Admissions: All-China Patent Attorneys Association; All-China Lawyers Association