Shanghai

Patent

Mechanical Engineering

Chinese,English

Mr. Fengku Tao, patent attorney, senior engineer, is a member of the mechanical department of the firm，at Shanghai Branch. Mr. Tao’s current practice includes patent application with a focus on fluid machinery, universal machine, and mechanotronics. His working languages are Chinese and English.

Mr. Tao obtained a bachelor degree in 1982 in fluid machinery from Gansu University of Technology. Mr. Tao joined Liu, shen in 2005. Prior to joining the firm, he worked in Ministry of Machine building Harbin Power System and Engineering institute and Heilongjiang Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation as a senior engineer.

Beijing

Patent

Mechanical Engineering

Chinese,English

Ms. Tian joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2001 and became a qualified patent attorney in 2004. Ms. Tian’s current practice includes patent registration procedure, all kinds of subsequent prosecutions of granted patents and in charge of renewal group.

Ms. Tian had obtained a bachelor degree in 1995 from Northwestern Polytechnical University majoring in Plastic Forming Technology and Equipment. 

Beijing

Trademark

Chinese,English

Ms. Tian joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2004 as trademark attorney and became a qualified attorney at law in 2006.  Before joining Liu, Shen & Associates, Ms. Tian worked in Tax and Legal Service section of PriceWaterhouseCoopers Beijing Office and has been qualified as China CPA since 2001. 

Her expertise includes providing full-range service on trademark prosecution, including availability search and analysis, filing, licensing, assignment, opposition, and invalidation; representing clients before courts in administration litigation on authorization and determination of trademark rights; counseling services in respect of trademark strategy and comprehensive trademark issues. 

Education

LLM, University of Sydney, Australia

B.A. of English Linguistics and Literature, Peking University

B.A. of Economics, Peking University

Typical Trademark opposition/invalidation & Litigation Cases

-      Magellan Textile Holdings Limited v. LUO Jiangwei and his associated parties, representing Magellan Textile Holdings in the above mentioned series opposition/invalidation and litigation cases based on prior copyright over the “PP PRETTY POLLY” logo and the close relationship between the goods falling in dissimilar classes.

-      BlueScope Steel Limited v. Guangzhou Lian He Gang Jie Gou You Xian Gong Si, representing BlueScope Steel in series opposition cases based on the close relationship between the goods and services and the business relationship between the two parties

-     R… And Everything Else, Inc. v. YE Jianfeng, representing R… and Everything Else in litigation against the opposed mark based on close relationship between the goods falling in dissimilar sub-classes.

-      BLANCPAIN SA v. Golden Circle Limited, representing Golden Circle defending in the opposition and litigation cases against BLANCPAIN’s challenge based on claim of “well-known” trademarks of BLANCPAIN and its Chinese version. 

-     Joseph Schulte-Ufer KG v. Miji Electronics and Appliances(Shanghai)Ltd., representing Joseph Schulte-Ufer KG in invalidation and the successive litigation cases against Miji based on their business relationship between the parties.

Typical Counseling Cases

-      Comprehensive IP counseling including trademark, copyright and domain name protection for a multi-national corporation and its WOFE in China for over ten years

-      Trademark counseling services for five European based companies for ten years. 

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

China CPA

Beijing

Patent

Bio & Pharmaceutical,Life Science

Chinese,English

Dr. Tu joined Liu, Shen & Associates in early 2015 and got the certificate of patent attorney in 2015. He specializes in patent application drafting, prosecution, reexamination and Infringement analysis, with a profession in the fields of immunology, cell biology and molecular biology, especially in immunotherapy, cancer treatment and antibody drugs.

Before joining Liu, Shen & Associates, Dr. Tu got his Ph.D. of Cell Biology from Infection and Immunity Center, Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy. During his Ph.D research, he participated in several projects involving antibody drug development and cancer treatment. 

Dr. Tu has drafted high quality patent applications in different technical fields including immunotherapy, antibody drugs and applications in cell biology. Dr. Tu has also handled a large number of prosecutions and reexaminations of applications in various fields, and has gained abundant experience in the patent practice in China, US, EP and other countries.

Beijing

Patent,Copyright

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

Chinese,English

Ms. Wan started practice in intellectual property affairs in Liu, Shen since 2007. Ms. Wan provides intellectual property related services such as patent drafting, patent prosecution, litigation, patent analysis, patent search, patent navigation, patent monetization, legal counseling, intellectual property strategy and so on for several clients, and gets widely praised as Excellent Patent Attorney Awards and so on. Ms. Wan also has been invited as an honored guest to attend clients’ production release conferences. Ms. Wan is dedicated to providing a wide range of high-quality intellectual property services for clients. Ms. Wan handles intellectual property affairs in the field of Electronics & Computer Science, Internet Technology, Signal and Information processing, Image Processing, Semiconductor Technology, Telecommunication, and Automation etc..

Ms. Wan was admitted as a patent attorney in 2007 and admitted as a Chinese lawyer in 2009.

Ms. Wan received her Master of Laws (LLM) degree from The John Marshall Law School (JMLS) in Chicago, IL, USA, with a major on Intellectual Property Law, fall, 2012. During the study, she got a CALI Award by winning the highest grade on Substantive Patent Law class, and received the Graduate with Honors Award. Ms. Wan received her Master and bachelor's degrees both from Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication (BUPT) with a major on Signal and Information Processing Technology during 2000-2007. Before joining Liu, Shen, Ms. Wan worked in France Telecom R&D Beijing as an intern researcher in 2006.  

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

I. Civil Litigation

-     A Chinese electric information technology company v. a multinational mobile device manufacturer, patent infringement litigation, Shanghai intellectual Court, representing the defendant. This case is pending. 

-     A Chinese mobile device manufacturer v. a multinational mobile device manufacturer, a series of SEP and Non-SEP patent infringement litigations, Shenzhen, Xi’an and Beijing, representing the multinational mobile device manufacturer; the cases are pending. 

-     A US communication company v. a US mobile device manufacturer, several patent infringement litigations, representing the US communication company; the cases are pending.

II. Free-to-Operate (FTO) consultation
-     SOFTWARE MOTOR CORPORATION FTO consultation (2017).
-     Chehejia (China) Corporation patent map, Patent Portfolio, and patent mining.

Published Articles include

-     Technology mining: the key to extracting maximum patent value, pages 13-17, China: Managing the IP Lifecycle 2018/2019, in English.

-     Study on cited references which were not disclosed enough to judge novelty and inventiveness, Intellectual Property Frontier, 2016, Volume 1 (January –February), in Chinese

Domestic conferences that Ms. Wan has participated in include

-     An English speech titled with “Business-Method-Related Patent Prosecution in China” in 2014 AIPPI China IP Seminar.

Awards that Ms. Wan has been honored with include

-      “A” Class Patent Attorney Awards, awarded by Tencent Ltd.;

-     Excellence for the Future Awards, awarded by Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) for winning the highest grade on Substantive Patent Law class during study in The John Marshall Law School (JMLS) in Chicago, IL, USA;

-     Graduate with Honors Awards for GPA >3.75, awarded by The John Marshall Law School (JMLS) in Chicago, IL, USA.

Product release conferences that Ms. Wan has been invited to include

-     TAH Intellectual Health Watch Product Release Conference. 

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

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

Beijing

Patent

Mechanical Engineering

Chinese,English

Education:    China Gas Turbine Research Institute  Master

Work experience: Since 2008 Liu, Shen & Associates

Beijing

Patent

Material Science,Chemical Engineering

Chinese,English,German

Dandan Wang joined Liu, Shen & Associates in July 2013 as a patent engineer, and she passed the patent attorney qualification examination in 2015. From joining Liu Shen, she has been dealing with patent prosecution such as drafting new applications, responding to office actions and reexaminations in the areas of chemical technology, material and electrochemistry, water treatment, superconducting and magnetic materials, and biochemistry.

Dandan Wang got her Bachelor's Degree and her Master's Degree in Chemistry from University Leipzig (German) in 2007 and in 2012 respectively. From November 2011 to December 2012, she was a research assistant in Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig. From January to May in 2013, she was a research associate in University Leipzig, Department of Super Conductivity and Magnetism. 

Beijing

Patent

Material Science,Polymer,Chemical Engineering

Chinese,English

Ms. Wang joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2007 and became a qualified patent attorney in 2009. She specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination and client counseling with a focus on polymeric materials, photoelectric materials and devices (including liquid crystal display, organic light emitting diode, electrochromic device, batteries, and the like), fine chemicals and chemical engineering. Ms. Wang has handled more than 700 new applications and more than 1000 Office Actions up to the end of 2015.

Ms. Wang got a master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2007. 

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Beijing

Patent

Mechanical Engineering

Chinese,English,Japanese

Mr. Wang joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2007, mainly responsible for the communication with Japanese clients, and engages in patent related intellectual property business, including patent prosecution, patent invalidation and patent litigation, etc.

Mr. Wang got his qualification as an attorney at law in 2010, and became a qualified patent attorney in 2014. Since he joined the firm, he has dealt with a large number of patent related legal counseling, participated in several patent lawsuits involving patent infringement and patent invalidation, and acquired rich experience in terms of patent licensing, customs protection and network rights defense as well.

Mr. Wang graduated from Nanjing Normal University with a bachelor’s degree in Japanese in June 2004. He studied at Nagoya City University in Japan since April 2005 and got a master’s degree in education in April 2007. From March 2010 to July 2012, he received distance education at Beijing Institute of Technology and obtained a bachelor’s degree in automotive engineering. 

Representative cases that Mr. Wang has led or participated in include

-     Kubota v. Taizhou Fengling, in the invention patent infringement case of Kubota v. Taizhou Fengling, Mr. Wang and his colleagues represented Kubota, the plaintiff, and finally won the case with Kubota being paid 800,000- yuan tort compensation;

-     Panasonic v. Yinzhou Jingneng Pipe Industry, in the appearance design patent invalidation case of Panasonic v. Yinzhou Jingneng Pipe Industry, Mr. Wang and his colleagues represented Panasonic, and after invalidation procedure and administrative litigation of first and second instance, eventually annulled Yinzhou Jingneng Pipe Industry of appearance design patent.

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Chengdu

Patent

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

Chinese,English

Ms. Wang joined Liu, Shen in April 10, 2017. She specializes in patent drafting, re-examination and counseling on patent issues, Invalid litigation related preparations and other intellectual property related services in the fields of Mechatronic engineering, Telecommunication, and Computer technology, Semiconductor technology, etc.

Beijing

Patent

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

Chinese,English

Ms. Juan Wang is an attorney at law and patent attorney in China at the law firm of Liu, Shen & Associates. She began her legal career in Liu, Shen & Associates since 2006 and was qualified as a patent attorney in 2007 and an attorney at law in 2008.

Ms. Wang is engaging in patent drafting, patent prosecution, patent invalidation, patent infringement analysis, patent validity analysis, and infringement litigation with a focus on telecommunication, electronic circuit, semiconductor, electrical & electronics, and automatics.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

i.    Civil Litigation

1.   Shen Zhen Intermediate Court, International Communication Company v. Chinese Communication Company (2017), SEP patent infringement, representing the plaintiff (patentee).

2.    Xi An Intermediate Court, International Communication Company v. Chinese Communication Company (2017), NSEP patent infringement, representing the defendant.

3.    Bei Jing Intermediate Court, International Communication Company v. Chinese Communication Company (2017), SEP patent infringement, representing the defendant.

4.   XiKeEr Electronic v. XunCheng Electronic (2010-2011), patent infringement, representing the plaintiff (patentee).

ii.   Patent Invalidation or Administrative Litigation

1.   International Communication Company v. Chinese Communication Company (2016-2017), SEP patent invalidation, representing the patentee.

2.   International Communication Company v. Chinese Communication Company (2016-2017), SEP patent invalidation and patent administrative litigation, representing the invalidation petitioner.

3.   International Communication Company v. Chinese Communication Company (2017), NSEP patent invalidation and patent administrative litigation, representing the invalidation petitioner.

4.   International Communication Company v. Chinese Communication Company (2016), NSEP patent invalidation and patent administrative litigation, representing the invalidation petitioner.

5.   HanYu v. LeiLi, patent invalidation (2016), patent invalidation, representing the plaintiff (patentee).

6.   HanYu v. LeiLi, patent invalidation (2016), patent invalidation, representing the invalidation petitioner.

7.   Chen YaoBang v. Obtech (2014), patent invalidation, representing the plaintiff (patentee).

8.   XiKeEr Electronic v. XunCheng Electronic (2010), patent administrative litigation, representing the plaintiff (patentee).

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Chengdu

Patent

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

Chinese,English

Ms. Wang joined in Liu, Shen since 2017. Ms. Wang provides intellectual property related services such as patent prosecution, litigation, patent analysis, patent search, patent navigation, patent monetization, legal counseling, intellectual property strategy and so on for several clients. Ms. Wang is dedicated to providing a wide range of high-quality intellectual property services for clients. Ms. Wang handles intellectual property affairs in the field of Electronics & Computer Science, Internet Technology, Signal and Information processing, Image Processing, Big Data, and Automation etc.

Ms. Wang was admitted as a patent attorney in 2017.

Ms. Wang received her Master and bachelor degrees both from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Minneapolis, MN, USA, with a major on Computer Engineering. Before joining Liu, Shen, Ms. Wang worked as a patent examiner of computer application field during 2015-2017.  

Legal matters that Ms. Wang participated include:

-     Participating patent analysis in a series of patent infringement lawsuits and related invalidation lawsuits between a famous

-     Participating prior art searching & analysis for some patents in the invalidation procedures between two famous domestic companies

-     Patent pool analysis for smart home field

-     Patent pool analysis for artificial intelligence field

Published Articles include

-     The current situation for patent of Hadoop technology, Electronics World, 2018, Volume 4 (February), in Chinese