Asher Yan advises on a wide range of intellectual property matters, including prosecution, enforcement, and litigation, and also transactions and commercial deals. His practice spans trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, domain names, and so on.
He has a strong track record of success before Chinese courts and local administrative authorities. He also handles Customs protection, online takedown actions, and domain name disputes, and advises on commercial IP matters such as franchising, licensing, transfers, acquisitions, and audits.
Asher advises clients in a diverse range of industries, including hospitality, pharmaceuticals, fashion, entertainment, sports, high technology, artificial intelligence, software, and telecommunications.
Asher is a solicitor of England and Wales and has passed the PRC bars for both lawyers and patent agents. Prior to joining DLA Piper, he worked at another leading international law firm.
