Wang Haiyang
Partner
Areas of practices

Intellectual Property, Antitrust Law,

Practice experience
Lawyer Wang Haiyang, a senior partner, senior intellectual property specialist, and head of the legal service team for the seed industry. He mainly engages in intellectual property research and legal services for the seed industry, anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition services, resolution of agricultural administrative disputes, and handling of civil, administrative and criminal intersection cases related to seeds.

Since he started serving the seed industry in 2007, he has always adhered to the work principles of "focus, concentration, and professionalism", and adhered to the working idea of "specialization, refinement, uniqueness, and innovation". He has accumulated rich practical experience in intellectual property rights and dispute resolution in the seed industry, and has achieved remarkable results in systematically researching agricultural high-tech enterprises, accurately identifying risk points in the breeding, propagation and promotion links of seeds, and effectively establishing a risk prevention and control system. He has participated in the legislative research, drafting, and revision activities of laws, regulations and regulatory documents such as the Seed Law, the Regulations on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, the Beijing Seed Regulations, the Interim Measures for the Protection and Management of New Varieties of Plants in the Hainan Free Trade Port (for Trial Implementation), the Provisions on the Reexamination of New Varieties of Agricultural Plants, and the Work Specification for the Examination of Objections to the Rights of New Varieties of Agricultural Plants (for Trial Implementation). Many of his opinions and suggestions have been absorbed or adopted.

As an expert guest on columns of China National Radio (CNR) such as Well-off Farmhouse, Rural Classroom, Morning News of Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers, and Daily Focus, he explains laws through cases, popularizing agricultural legal knowledge and common sense of identifying fake agricultural materials for the vast number of farmers. On March 14, 2019, he was invited to participate in the media live broadcast interview activity of CCTV's financial program "3.15 Co-governance and Shared Consumption, Assured Consumption". On December 2, 2024, he was invited to be a guest on the CCTV17 Agriculture and Rural program and participated in the interview recording of "Protection and Application of Intellectual Property Rights in the Seed Industry".

Lawyer Wang Haiyang has profound theoretical foundation, solid professional knowledge and rich practical experience in the field of protection of new varieties of plants. He is good at handling difficult and complex civil, administrative and criminal cases in the field of the seed industry. Since he started practicing, the cases he has represented are spread across many provinces in the Northwest, Northeast, North China, East China, Central Plains, Southwest and other regions. He has handled more than hundreds of dispute cases involving the rights of new varieties of plants, technical secrets, product liability, planting and breeding recycling contracts, etc. of agricultural (seed) companies and agricultural scientific research institutes (institutions), which has greatly safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of the parties.
Work experience

Join Gaopeng Law Firm since June 2023. 


Worked in Beijing Zhengxin Law Firm, Beijing Hanliang Law Firm, and Grandall Law Firm (Beijing). 


Before practicing, he worked in Shen County Tobacco Monopoly Bureau of Shandong Province, and accumulated rich experience in the field of seed industry during the period of providing legal services for De Nong Seed Industry Co., Ltd., Beijing Golden Nonghua Seed Industry Technology Co., Ltd..
Educational background
Central University of Finance and Economics 
Master's degree: Law
Social positions
Part-time Research Fellow of the Institute of Rule of Law in Agriculture and Rural Areas,Jilin University
Guest Professor of Tonghua Normal University
Arbitrator of Weifang Arbitration Commission
Member of the Legal Service Team of the China Seed Association
Director of the Research Society of Science and Technology Law of Beijing Law Society
Mediator of Beijing Multi-Mediation Development Promotion Association
Expert in the Expert Database of Intellectual Property Rights in Beijing
Expert in the Expert Database of Intellectual Property Rights in Hainan Province
Expert in the Expert Database of Intellectual Property Rights in Dalian City
Expert in the Expert Database of Intellectual Property Rights in Hulunbuir City
Expert in the Expert Database of the Intellectual Property Protection Center in Sanya City
Interview Examiner for Lawyers Applying for Legal Practice of the Beijing Lawyers Association
Member of the Professional Committee on Legal Affairs of Agriculture and Rural Areas of the Beijing Lawyers Association
Member of the Research Association on Knowledge Industry Business of the Chaoyang Lawyers Association in Beijing
Awards
Qualification for Practicing in the Fund Industry
Representative cases
Litigation Cases Concerning New Varieties of Plants / Anti-monopoly filings for concentration of business operators / Investment, Merger and Acquisition Projects in the Seed Industry /
  • Represented in more than a hundred dispute cases involving the infringement of the rights of new varieties of plants, including but not limited to cases heard by the Supreme People's Court, Beijing Intellectual Property Court, and Intermediate People's Courts in cities such as Harbin, Changchun, Jinan, Shijiazhuang, Lanzhou, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Urumqi, Wuhan, Hefei, Nanchang, Changsha, Kunming, Nanjing, and Qingdao.

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  • Provided legal services for a case of concentration of business operators declaration of a certain doctoral joint-stock company in Beijing, with a transaction amount of over 2 billion yuan. The declaration was advanced efficiently. 34 days after the case was registered through the ordinary procedure, a decision not to prohibit the concentration was successfully obtained.

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  • Provided special legal services for a certain agricultural listed company in Beijing in setting up a company through overseas investment, and offered special legal services for the equity investment, merger and acquisition projects of the listed companies, Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group Co., Ltd. and Longping High-Tech Co., Ltd.

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Thesis and books
●Works:

Monograph:"A Comprehensive Guide to Seed Legal Practice:145 Practical Q&A and In-depth Analysis of 38 Typical Cases of New Varieties of Plants",published by China Legal Publishing House in June 2022;
Co-authored:"Interpretation of the Administrative Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China and Analysis of Typical Cases",published by China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House in May 2021;
Participated in the compilation of:"Annual Report of Chinese Intellectual Property Lawyers(2021)",published by China Legal Publishing House in May 2021,"Annual Report of Chinese Intellectual Property Lawyers(2023)",published by China Legal Publishing House in May 2023,"Legal Handbook for the Protection of Rights of New Varieties of Plants",published by Hainan Publishing House in June 2023,and"Q&A Series on Common Issues in Agricultural Law Enforcement-Seed Industry Volume"(Department of Laws and Regulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs).
Research Projects:The Ministry-level Legal Research Project of the China Law Society in 2021,"Research on the Relationship between Variety Approval and the Protection of New Varieties of Plants"(Second Author),Project No.:CLS(2021)D90,completed on November 10,2021;The Project of the Department of Seed Industry Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs,"Special Research on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the Seed Industry"(Participated in the special research on safeguarding the rights of new varieties of plants),August 2021.

●Theses and Articles:

"Conflicts and Coordination between Variety Approval and the Protection of New Varieties of Plants",published in China Intellectual Property,No.180 in 2022;
"Analysis of the Legal Regulation of the Protection of New Varieties of Plants from the Perspective of the Civil Code",published in China Seed Industry,No.4 in 2021;
"Suggestions and Countermeasures for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Seed Enterprises under the COVID-19 Pandemic-Taking the Infringement of Selling Fake and Inferior Seeds Online as an Example",published in the Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on March 9,2020;
"Viewing the Legal Issues of the Protection of the Names of New Varieties of Plants from a Case of Infringement of the Trade Name of Rice",published in the"IP Yingxiangli"of the Intellectual Property Research Center of Central University of Finance and Economics on February 1,2018;
"On the Countermeasures for Improving the Protection of the Rights of New Varieties of Plants of Seed Enterprises",published in China Seed Industry,No.12 in 2016;
"Existing Problems in the Protection of New Varieties of Plants of Seed Enterprises in China",published in China Seed Industry,No.10 in 2016;
"The New'Housing Policy'Provisions are Legally Binding",published in the Economic Information Daily of Xinhua News Agency on August 10,2010;
"The Protection of the Rights of New Varieties of Plants by Seed Enterprises",published in China Seed Industry,No.9 in 2009.
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