Education Experience

·  China Pharmaceutical University, Pharmaceutical Science, B.S.,1991

·  University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Biology, M.S., 1996

·  China University of Politics and Law, Civil and Commercial Law, LLM, 2004

Professional Experience

Mr. Cheng started his IP career in 1997 and was qualified as a patent attorney in 1998.  His practices focuses primarily on prosecution, invalidation, enforcement and other related issues of patent, and his technical specialty covers pharmaceuticals, biology, chemistry etc.  After having practiced IP law in other two top 5 IP law firms in China for 5 years, he joined CHINA SCIENCE in 2002 and successively held the posts of Department Director, Director, Vice President, Executive Vice President, and President.

Honors and Membership

·  One of the First Group of High Level Talents in China Patent Agency Industry (awarded by All-China Patent Attorneys Association (ACPAA), 2013)

·  Beijing Outstanding Patent Attorney (awarded by Beijing Patent Attorneys Association, 2018)

·  Evaluation Expert of National Intellectual Property Strategy Research Topics (invited by the Office of Leading Group for Formulating National Intellectual Property Strategy, 2005)

·  External Expert for Evaluating the Examination Quality of the State Intellectual Property Office (invited by ACPAA, 2010)

·  Council Member of China Intellectual Property Society

Selected Publications

·  Jinshan CHENG, Patent Attorney: Discovering More Potential Inventions of Scientists, China Science Daily, 2010.

·  Jinshan CHENG, Comments on Rule of Estoppel in the U.S.in the view of a Case Judged by the Federal Circuit Court, China Patent Agency,2006.

·  Jinshan CHENG, Comments on Sufficient Disclosure of Description in the U.S. in the view of a Case Judged by the Federal Circuit Court, China Patent Agency, 2005.

·  Jinshan CHENG, Liyan ZHANG, Yue LI, How to Comprehend Double Patenting in China, Journal of the Japanese Group of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, 2003.

·  Jinshan CHENG, Yue LI, How to Comprehend Article that “for any identical invention-creation, only one patent right shall be granted,” China Patent Agency, 2003 & Practice on Patent Administrative Litigation in China, Law press China, 2003.

·  Jinshan CHENG, Special Issues on Drafting the Patent Application Specification for Biotechnology Inventions, China Patent Agency,2002.

·  In 2020, selected as “Leading Talents in Beijing Intellectual Property Service Industry”