Xiaodi Ding

Xiaodi Ding is a member of Shanghai Pacific Legal’s Intellectual Property and Antitrust and Competition teams.

In respect of Intellectual Property, Xiaodi has experience in representing clients in both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property affairs. His practice includes patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, unfair-competition, and other intellectual property & technique-related matters and he can provide a full spectrum of IP services. As regards Antitrust and Competition, Xiaodi mainly acts as PRC local counsel representing multinational companies in merger control procedures before the State Administration for Market Regulation. His experience ranges across various industry sectors, including semiconductors, telecommunications, software, media, fast moving consumer goods, traditional and new energy, finance, LNG shipping, etc.

Xiaodi is also qualified as a patent attorney in China. 

Intellectual Property

• Represented a well-known US high tech corporation in securing and expanding its patent rights portfolio in the PRC.
• Conducted prior art searches and drafted several patents for PRC domestic companies.
• Represented several clients in the judicial review of trademark applications before the Beijing IP Court.
• Represented a A-stock listed education related company in massive serious copyright infringement cases against another high-tech company, and successfully secured over 1 million RMB in damages.
• Advised an international multinational corporation in its global patent portfolio re-organization project involving over 9 jurisdictions.
• Advised an international energy group in its IP due diligence targeted at Chinese originating techs.
• Advised a Europe based classification society in enforcing its software copyrights against software pirates on e-commercial platforms.
• Advised client on various IP topics, including intellectual property strategies, IP infringements and invalidations, IP licenses and commercialization, etc.

Antitrust and competition:

• Obtained SAMR clearances for multiple multi-billion dollar LNG production joint ventures involving QatarEnergy, TotalEnergies, ENI, Shell, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhilips.
• Obtained SAMR clearances for several LNG vessel joint ventures involving Japanese shipping companies and their counterparts in China, Malaysia and other countries.
• Advised and represented a large Indonesian mining company in securing SAMR merger control clearance in relation to its US$1.5billion acquisition from a direct competitor of coal mines with exports to China.
• Secured SAMR merger control clearance for multiple joint venture transactions between multinational companies in the renewable energy sector, including solar, wind, hydrogen and battery storage.

• New York University, LLM
• Shanghai University, Juris Master
• University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Information and Technology

• PRC
• PRC Patent Bar
• New York, U.S.A.

• Chinese
• English