Xinmeng Fan

IP Director

Conova Pharmaceutical

Personal Profile


Fan Xinmeng holds a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from Peking University Health Science Center, is a qualified Chinese patent agent, and has also passed China's bar exam. She currently serves as Director of Intellectual Property at Keymed Biosciences, where she leads end-to-end IP management across the full lifecycle of the company's pipeline assets: patent landscape analysis, freedom-to-operate (FTO) assessments, global patent filing strategy, patent application drafting, prosecution, and portfolio operations. She is also deeply involved in IP due diligence for business development transactions and in the drafting of IP provisions in agreements.
Prior to joining Keymed Biosciences, she held positions at the Patent Examination Cooperation (Beijing) Center of the Patent Office, CNIPA, and in the IP department of a domestic pharmaceutical company, giving her a strong command of both pharmaceutical patent examination practice and the practical needs of industry. With long-standing expertise in biopharmaceutical intellectual property, she has also published multiple academic papers.