LIU SHEN & ASSOCIATES

HOU,Guang

Partner | Patent Attorney | Attorney at Law

技術分野:

Telecommunication , Computer Science , Internet Technology , E-commerce , Artificial Intelligence , Big Data Processing

TEL: 86-10-6268 1616

FAX: 86-10-6268 1818

EMAIL: mail@liu-shen.com

履歴:

Dr. Hou joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2006 and was qualified as patent attorney in 2007 and attorney at law in 2009, and now has many years’ experience in the field of IP law inChina. He specializes in patent prosecution, patent re-examination, patent invalidation, software copyright registration, IP licensing & assignment, IP due diligence, IP litigation, and client counseling with a focus on communication, computer networks, multimedia, electronics, and physics.

 

Dr. Hou has been providing legal opinions in litigation and consultation cases since 2011. In particular, he has presided over many cases in the fields of standard research, prior art searching, infringement analysis, and invalidation analysis. He also led the team in various due diligence cases such as China Telecom Investment acquisition case and SUEZ NWS acquisition case. He is seasoned in FRAND licensing/infringement litigation and invalidation proceedings of standard-related patents, and quickly adapts to new areas and difficult issues, developing new business form under the background of new technologies such as machine learning, cloud computing, blockchain and etc. In the field of copyright, in addition to NFT digital collectibles, he also specializes in legal compliance issues of software project involving open source software, and has unique insights into commercial application strategies in connection with open source licenses such as ASL, GPL, and MPL. The clients served by Dr. Hou include not only international industry giants such as Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, Google, Volvo, etc., but also domestic new start-ups such as Iluvatar CoreX and Rayz Technologies.

 

Dr. Hou has extensive experience in patent infringement analysis, including evaluation of relevance of commercial patents with respect to target products, essentiality of communication standard essential patents to standards and technical specifications, and also validity of patents against prior art references by searching.

 

Dr. Hou received a PhD degree from theUniversityofScienceand Technology of China (USTC) in 2003. Before joining this firm, he had worked as a postdoctoral fellow at USTC for three years. He has had an internship at D Young & Co LLP,UKfrom February to May in 2013.

 

活動歴:

Representative litigation cases that Dr. Hou has participated include:

-      Wang Jianbo v. Microsoft, patent infringement and patent invalidation, 2008.

-      Shanghai Ke Dou v. Samsung, patent infringement and patent invalidation, 2015.

-      Shenzhen, Huawei v. Samsung, patent infringement and patent invalidation, 2016-2018.

-      Shenzhen, Samsung v. Huawei, patent infringement and patent invalidation, 2016-2018.

-      Beijing, Samsung v. Huawei, patent infringement and patent invalidation, 2016-2018.

-      Guangzhou, Samsung v. Huawei, patent infringement and patent invalidation, 2016-2018.

-      Quanzhou, Samsung v. Huawei, patent infringement and patent invalidation, 2017-2018.

-      Beijing, Samsung v. Shenzhen Netac, patent invalidation, 2018.

-      Beijing, Samsung v. Immersion, patent invalidation, 2018.

-      Shanghai, CCDL v. Wanda Media, patent infringement and patent invalidation, 2018.

-      Suzhou, Tama v. Xinfuyuan, patent infringement and patent invalidation, 2019-2021.

-      Beijing, Samsung v. Ericsson, patent invalidation, 2020-2021.

-      Beijing, BOCO Inter-Telecom v. Zhizhen Technology, patent infringement, patent invalidation and unfair competition, 2021-2022.


Professional Presentations given by Dr. Hou include:

-      “Inventiveness of Invention in Chemical and Bio Technology Fields”, 2014.

-      “On Swiss‐type Claims”, 2015.

-      “Standard Essential Patent and FRAND Principle”, 2016

-      “On FRAND-Encumbered Patent Licensing Disputes in ICT Sector”, 2018

-      “FTC v Qualcomm from a Royalty Perspective”, 2019

-      “Blockchain & NFT – A terminological introduction”, 2022


Publications that Dr. Hou has authored include:

-      “The contentious monopoly”, Managing Intellectual Property, 2016.

-      “The intersection between IP and the Internet of Things”, Managing Intellectual Property, 2019.

-      “China future of IP: Cooperation is necessary for the IoT”, Managing Intellectual Property, 2020.

-      “Future of IP – China: A closer look at AI and trade secret protection”, Managing Intellectual Property, 2021.

-      “Future of IP – China: The valuation and prosecution of standard-related patents in the 5G era”, Managing Intellectual Property, 2021.

-     “Review of open source license agreement terms from the perspective of IP compliance”, TBP, 2022

-      “Features of Ethereum-based NFT blockchain technology”, TBP, 2022

使用言語:

Chinese,English

所属団体:

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)