Li Zheng, Ph.D.

Director

  • Li Zheng, Ph.D.
  • Phone: + 86 21 5068 3315

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  • Duane Morris & Selvam LLP
    Room 303B, GuoHua Life Financial Tower
    No. 1501 Century Avenue
    Pudong District
    Shanghai, China

Li Zheng, Ph.D. is a director in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Duane Morris & Selvam LLP. He practices in the area of intellectual property law focusing on all aspects of U.S. patent law.

Dr. Li holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and a Juris Doctor degree, both from the U.S. Before starting his legal career, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was the first inventor of two U.S. patents relating to wireless communications.

Dr. Li is a USPTO registered Patent Attorney, and has been admitted to practice law in North Carolina. Dr. Li also held the legal practicing certificate in the PRC when he worked with a leading Chinese law firm.   

Dr. Li provides patent-mining, patent preparation and prosecution, patent portfolio management and legal opinions to dozens of clients from multinational corporations to startup companies. He also represented Chinese companies in Federal District Court litigations and US ITC 337 investigations.

Dr. Li is specialized in handling IP disputes relating to Cross-border e-commerce as well. He successfully helped online sellers reinstate removed listings, deal with temporary restraining orders (TRO) and get attorney fees back.

He is a native speaker of Mandarin and speaks fluent English.

Areas of Practice

  • Patent Prosecution
  • Patent Litigation
  • Patent Invalidation
  • IP Disputes relating to Cross-border e-commerce

Admissions

  • People's Republic of China
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
  • North Carolina

Education

  • North Carolina Central University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2017
  • University of Delaware, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 2011
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology, M.S., Electrical Engineering, 2006
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology, B.E., Electrical Engineering, 2003

Experience

  • Duane Morris & Selvam LLP
    - Director, 2024-present
  • King & Wood Mallesons
    - Of Counsel, 2021-2024
  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
    - Associate, 2019-2021
  • Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
    - Associate, 2017-2019
  • Patterson + Sheridan LLP
    - Patent Agent, 2016-2017
  • Coats & Bennett PLLC
    - Patent Agent, 2013-2016
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    - Post-Doctoral Researcher, 2011-2013