Hann-jing (Joanna) Ouyang
Biography
Joanna Ouyang is a partner at Baker McKenzie's Taipei office. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution, intellectual property, privacy, and technology law.
Prior to joining the Firm, Joanna served as a judge at the Taipei & New Taipei District Courts, as well as the Intellectual Property (IP) Court, accumulating extensive experience handling a variety of civil, criminal, commercial, and IP-related cases. She also worked as a research judge at the Judicial Yuan judge (2014~2017), participating in discussions and negotiations on numerous legislative amendments, particularly in the areas of finance, economics, antitrust, IP, telecommunications, and healthcare.
Since joining the Firm, Joanna has leveraged her substantial litigation experience and strategic analysis, argumentation, and negotiations skills to achieve favorable outcomes for her clients.
Additionally, Joanna is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E), and is knowledgeable in Taiwan's Personal Data Protection Act and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Representative Legal Matters
- Acted in the appellate court for a world-renowned luxury brand in a trademark parody case, and successfully persuaded the court to reverse the lower court judgment (as well as differ from all previous unfavorable decisions made by authorities in the criminal proceedings), and not only rule in favor of our client, but also unprecedentedly grant our claim to order publication of excerpt of court judgment in up to three newspapers.
- Engaged by a renowned international bank to deal with cross-border disputes in the amount of nearly USD 200 million.
- Acted in the appellate court for a world-renowned luxury brand in a commercial dispute, and successfully persuaded the court to reverse the lower court judgment and obtained a judgment fully in favor of the client.
- Acted in the appellate court for a renowned Taiwanese bank in a civil lawsuit regarding a dispute worth nearly NTD 500 million, and successfully persuaded the court to reverse a substantial part of the lower court judgment.
- Represented an energy company to appeal to the Supreme Court against an unfavorable judgment in the amount of NTD 500 million, and successfully persuaded the Supreme Court to reverse and remand the judgment with grounds favorable to our client.
- Acted in the appellate court for a steel trader, and successfully persuaded the court to reverse the lower court judgment and helped our client retrieve the scammed funds.
- Acted for a tech company in a trade secret misappropriation case, and successfully persuaded the court to not only grant our motion to perpetuate evidence, but also conduct it in a rare way of "disk mirroring" the laptop of the former employee so as to recover deleted files.
- Acted for a global leading technology company in a non-compete lawsuit against its former employee, and helped get a preliminary injunction within time shorter than average, and later on a complete success in the main lawsuit.
- Act for a Japanese technology company in an antitrust administrative lawsuit regarding concerted actions.
- Draft or review various licensing agreements or IP-related agreements for biotech companies, drug companies, cultural and creative companies.
Professional Honors
- Named Recognized Practitioner by Chambers Greater China Region Guide (2024)
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Taipei Bar Association
- Member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Taiwan Bar Association
- Member of the Patent Examination Quality Advisory Committee of the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office, MoEA
- International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Admissions
- Taipei~Taiwan (1997)
Education
- Harvard Law School (LL.M.) (2007)
- National Taiwan University (LL.M.) (2003)
- National Taiwan University (LL.B.) (1997)
Languages
- English
- Japanese
- Mandarin