Amy practices law exclusively in the field of intellectual property, including litigation and prosecution matters, with a specific concentration in the areas of semiconductor, automation, electrical circuit, computer software and networks, telecommunications, e-commerce before the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), and the Court.

With extensive experience in patent prosecution and litigation, Amy has served as a trial counsel in many patent invalidation proceedings and lawsuits, representing a lot of well-known enterprises. She successfully applied “prior use” evidence to test the validity of a game patent which was the first time in China. Her opinion in the super multidimensional optoelectronic display case (ZL201010229920.2) was approved by the panel of the PRB, and the case was selected by the PRB as one of ten 2015 typical patent invalidation cases. In addition, she achieved a high success rate in the invalidation and litigation related to the computer protocol, surveillance, medical circuit, and 2G/3G SEP patents. She started her patent profession since 2002. Amy Zhang was awarded as Chinese 1-star to 5-star Outstanding Patent Attorney in 2012 – 2016 respectively.

Lung Tin Law Firm, Partner, Attorney at Law (CN), Attorney at Law (New Jersey, US), Senior Patent Attorney (CN), Patent Attorney (US)

Lung Tin Intellectual Property Agent Ltd., Partner, Senior Patent Attorney, Manager of Electricity Agent Department

Sanyou Intellectual Property Agent Ltd., Patent Attorney

J.D., University of Richmond, USA

LLB, Peking University

B.Eng., Engineering Taiyuan University of Technology

Lecturer, US Claim Construction, Patent agent training section held by the IP office of Shanxi Province, 2018, Xi’an

Lecturer, Comparison Overview of U.S. Patent Practice, Lung Tin Advanced Training Course on Chinese IP Laws & Practices, 2016-2018, Beijing

Speaker, 3D Printer International Intellectual Property Protection and Chinese Enterprises' Response, Additive Products Seminar, 2016, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province

Speaker, How to Help Inventions in Chinese Computer Software, Network, Communication and Business Method Incubate the US Patent “Golden Egg,” All-China Patent Attorneys Association (ACPAA)'s Forum, 2013, Beijing

Lecturer, ACPAA’s 3^rd Term of Domestic Pre-Training Course for the John Marshall Law School Training, 2012, Beijing

Lecturer, ACPAA’s 2^nd Term of Domestic Pre-Training Course for the John Marshall Law School Training, 2011, Beijing

Author, Practical Consideration in America’s Restriction and China’s Unity Practice, (Co-authored with Dr. Qinghong Xu, Licensed American Patent Attorney), Oct. 2018 Issue, Lung Tin IP Newsletter

Author, Reliance on Common knowledge in the Art – Comparative Studies on Practice in SIPO and Other Patent Offices, Lung Tin IP Newsletter, Jun. 2016 Issue.

Author, Patent Software in China: What Do You Need to Know, Feb. 2016 Issue, Lung Tin IP Newsletter

Author, How to evaluate Inventiveness of Claimed Invention, in Chinese (Selected into the Book of “Collection of Excellent Papers of the Symposium on Patent Prosecution,” 2015 No. 267265, ISBN 978-7-5130-3892-8, Intellectual Property Publishing House

Author, How to Help Inventions in Chinese Computer Software, Network, Communication and Business Method Incubate the US Patent “Golden Egg,” (Winner of the Excellent Paper Award of 2013 High-end Academic Seminar on Patent Examination and Patent Prosecution), 2013 No. 247531, ISBN 978-7-5130-2372-6, Intellectual Property Publishing House 

Author, Inventiveness and Non-obviousness: Insights into Prosecution Practice in China and America, Jun. 2013 Issue, Lung Tin IP Newsletter  

Author, Comparative Study in Written Description Requirements between patent laws of China and America, (Selected into the Book of “Papers of High-End Academic Seminar on Patent Examination and Patent Prosecution”), 2012 No. 233345, ISBN 978-7-5130-1562-2/D 1572(4408), Intellectual Property Publishing House

Author, Standard to be Considered of Applying New-Matter bar of Article 33 of Chinese Patent Law, 2011 Issue, No. 3, China Patent Agency

Author, Two Steps and Three Types of Judgment - A Brief Analysis of the 2006 Guidelines on The Examination of Applications involving Computer software related Inventions and Case Studies, 2007 Issue, China Inventions and Patents

Outstanding Patent Attorney, China Intellectual Property Newspaper Office (2012)

Two-star Patent Attorney, China Intellectual Property Newspaper Office (2013)

Excellent Paper Award Winner, High-level Academic Seminar of Patent Examination and Patent Prosecution

“National Intellectual Property Leading Talent”, the Second Batch, SIPO (Now CNIPA)

Member, Teacher Resources of National Patent Information, SIPO (Now CNIPA)

Expert, Expert Consultation Committee of the Intellectual Property Case Guidance Research Base (Beijing), Supreme People's Court

Vice-Chairman, National Intellectual Property Federation of Youth

Five-star Patent Attorney, China Intellectual Property Newspaper Office