On June 20, 2021, Benchmark Litigation, the global leading litigation ranking agency, announced the inaugural edition of Benchmark Litigation China. It is the first time for the Benchmark Litigation to launch an authoritative regional guide focused on the Chinese legal market across different cities and provinces. Liu Shen & Associates was honorably recommended in the field of intellectual property in the Beijing List by virtue of its outstanding litigation strength, technical skill, and professional reputation.
Mr. Tao Fengbo (managing partner of the firm) was named as a Litigation Star in the IP category, and Mr. Yao Guanyang (partner) was named as a Future Star in the IP category.
Mr. Tao Fengbo specializes in patent invalidation, litigation and
dispute resolution, and counseling on IP strategies and patent search and
analysis. He also engages in patent
prosecution works in the field of electronic material, semiconductor, display,
and mechanical engineering. Since 1998,
he has handled dozens of patent related proceedings before the courts and some
cases relating to trademarks, trade secrets, and copyright issues. Mr. Tao has represented a number of
multi-national corporations for litigation cases to defense and enforce their
intellectual properties in China, and helped the foreign companies with
contractual issues, licensing, and other IP-related issues in China.
Devoted to providing IP related legal service, Mr. Yao guanyang has
extensive experiences in complicated patent invalidation, patent infringement
and administrative litigation, patent licensing negotiation and etc. At the same time, Mr. Yao also provided legal
advices in patent effectiveness analysis, infringement analysis, licensing
negotiation, IP due diligence investigation, enterprise patent mapping and
strategic counseling, business strategy formulation and etc. Several winning cases of patent infringement
litigation represented by Mr. Yao were selected as typical IP cases and Top 10
cases in Supreme Court and in local courts.
Benchmark Litigation is currently the only one professional
reference guide focusing exclusively on dispute resolution and holds an
authoritative position in the industry. All the lists are based on the interviews with
litigants, dispute solving experts and clients, the extensive research in the
recently handled cases by the firms, and the analysis on the opinions provided
by legal practitioners in the fields/jurisdictions. The top law firms and outstanding lawyers in
the dispute resolution field winning unanimous praise from clients and peers
were finally selected.