Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Firm overview:

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius’s Greater China team, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, advises clients across industries on comprehensive patent and IP matters, including prosecution, portfolio management, licensing, enforcement, and litigation. In early 2025, the firm was reported to have closed its Shenzhen office, which opened in June 2023.

Leveraging extensive local experience and global expertise, the team guides Chinese and international clients through China’s evolving IP laws and cross-border patent challenges, helping them protect, manage, and enforce their intellectual property effectively and strategically.

Team overview:

Yalei Sun is a partner advising clients across hardware, software, telecommunications, medical equipment, and energy sectors on patent strategy, prosecution, licensing, and dispute resolution. He guides Chinese companies on patent portfolio management, IP due diligence, litigation, settlement negotiations, and US regulatory compliance, and works with Chinese law firms to help foreign clients enforce patents in China. Fluent in Chinese and English, Sun combines his technical background as a software engineer with legal training from Tsinghua University and Stanford University to navigate complex cross-border patent challenges.

Technology lawyer and patent litigator Shaobin Zhu left the firm in November 2024 to join DLA Piper.