SHANGHAI INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ADMINISTRATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of IP for the Business Division of WIPO
Prior to joining WIPO, Mr. Guy PESSACH was a law professor at the faculty of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in intellectual property, law & technology and the creative industries. He was also a Fulbright scholar, a residential fellow at the Information Society Project in the Yale Law School; a visiting professor at the Columbia Law School, the City University of Hong Kong, UBC and the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law School.
Prior to his academic career, PESSACH clerked for Justice Zamir at the Israeli Supreme Court and worked at the economic department of the Israeli State attorney's office. He also worked at the Israeli Antitrust Authority; the Bank of Israel and was a private legal counsel in the area of intellectual property.
Rui Wenbiao holds a Juris Master's degree. He was formerly Chief Judge of the Intellectual Property Division and member of the Adjudicatory Committee of the Shanghai Second Intermediate People's Court, as well as Chief Judge of the Intellectual Property Division and member of the Adjudicatory Committee of the Shanghai High People's Court. Rui was appointed as Deputy Director General of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration (SIPA) in the year 2015. He has served as Director General of SIPA and Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of SIPA since November 2018.