Ms. Song joined Liu, Shen
& Associates in 1996 and became a qualified patent attorney in 1998. She
specializes in patent prosecution, invalidation, counseling, and patent
litigation with an emphasis on polymer, catalyzer, petrochemicals, health care,
environmental sciences, battery, semi-conductive material, chemical engineering
and pharmaceuticals.
Ms. Song got her
qualification as an attorney at law in 2000. Starting from Joining Liu Shen, Ms.
Song helps clients of all sizes to establish and grow patent portfolios, align
intellectual property strategies, establish their freedom to operate, and
resolve infringement disputes. Ms. Song has extensive experience in patent
invalidity proceedings and patent infringement lawsuit especially in chemical
fields and has represented numerous corporations in intellectual property
disputes including patent invalidation and infringement litigation inChina.
Ms. Song received a Bachelor’s
degree and a Master’s degree in Polymer Science fromSichuanUniversityin 1986 and 1989. She then studied in China University of Politics and theJohnMarshallLawSchoolfrom 2002 to 2004, and obtained a Master’s Degree of Law in 2004. Before
joining Liu Shen, Ms. Song worked as an engineer in the Beijing Leather
Industry Research Institution.
Representative cases that Ms. Song has led or
participated include
- EMS-CHEMIE
AG (Switzerland)
v. ATOFINA (France), representing Atofina, invalidation;
- Total
Petrochemicals (Belgium)
v. Exxonmobile (US), representing Total Petrochemicals, invalidation &
administrative litigation, one of ten leading cases of 2011;
- Ineos (UK)
v. Total Petrochemicals, representing Total Petrochemicals, invalidation;
- Total
Refining & Marketing (France) v. Exxonmobile (US), representing Total
Refining, invalidation and patent license;
- Milliken
(US) v. Shanxi Chemical Institute (Chinese), representing Milliken,
infringement litigation;
- Idemitsu
KoSan (Japan)
v. Qijing El. Co. (Taiwang), representing Qijing, infringement litigationn;
- Arkema
(France) V. Mexichem Amanco (Mexico),
representing Arkema, invalidation & administrative litigation;
- Celanese (Nanjing) V. Daicel
Chemicals Industries. LTD (JP), representing Daicel, invalidation & infringement
litigation
Publications that Ms. Song has authored include
- Patent
prosecution inChina,
China Invention and Patent Magazine, 2003.