Xia, Jerry
GEN Law Firm | Partner
Jerry Xia is the founding & managing partner of GEN Law Firm’s Shanghai & California offices and also chairs the firm’s patent and trade secret litigation practice. He has over 20 years of experience in both private and in-house practice. Previously, he was Honeywell's Chief IP Counsel in Asia Pacific.
Mr. Xia's practice focuses on providing strategic advice to international clients in the areas of IP (both contentious and non-contentious) and policy advocacy & government affairs in China. Most notable is Mr. Xia's achievement in China IP litigation. He has handled numerous award-winning IP lawsuits in China, including e.g. history-making preliminary injunctions and record high punitive damages in patent litigations and unprecedented criminal conviction of trade secret stealers based on remedial cost incurred by the rights holder.
Mr. Xia has been continuously recognized by IAM Strategy 300 and Patent 1000, WTR, Lexology, Chambers, Legal 500, MIP, ALB, etc.