On December 16, Mr. Yao Guanyang, partner of Liu, Shen & Associates, was ranked into the listing of “Chinese Excellent IP Lawyers Top 50”. This is the third consecutive year for Mr. Yao to be on the list.
Jointly initiated by two famous media in IP field, IPRdaily and IPHOUSE, the selection sourced data from the IP judgment library of IPHOUSE, and the candidate lawyers were selected and scored according to the number of cases, representative cases, the winning rate, the lawyer’s working experiences, the quality of client, the honors and awards, and overall evaluation by well-known corporate counsel jury, based on the cases completed in the past two years.
Since the launching of this event, more than 300 nominations have been received via the self-recommendation channel of IPRdaily and IPHOUSE, among which 200 lawyers were shortlisted for on-line voting after data cleaning of more than 1.3 million IP judgment documents of IPHOUSE. Finally, 50 Chinese outstanding IP lawyers successfully made the list by 300,000+ public on-line voting and the overall evaluation by a jury consisting of 50 well-known corporate counsels.
Personal Profile
Devoted to providing IP legal services related to patent and trade secret, Mr. Yao Guanyang has extensive experiences in complicated patent invalidation, patent infringement and administrative litigation, patent licensing negotiation, trade secret dispute, IP due diligence, enterprise patent mapping and strategy consultation.
As the lawyer in charge of the litigation team, Mr. Yao has handled many patent related disputes on behalf of the well-known enterprises at home and aboard, covering new energy, construction machinery, textile machinery, daily necessities, sports equipment, software, communication, electronic product, home appliance, medical device and other fields. Many of cases represented by Mr. Yao were ever selected as annually representative cases by courts at all levels.
In addition to handling of cases, Mr. Yao also contributes to probono legal services. He took part in the trial hearing of IP protest cases for many times as an expert in the Beijing Procuratorate Expert Pool, and actively participated in mediation of IP litigation as a court mediator. As a representative of IP field, Mr. Yao also devoted himself to the expert service for the Intellectual Property Protection Office in 2021 China International Fair for Trade in Services. In 2021, Mr. Yao was selected into the IP protection service expert pool of the Beijing Patent Attorneys Association.
In order to better popularize the IP system and law, Mr. Yao has been interviewed by the China Intellectual Property News and other media for many times. At the same time, he actively took part in IP conferences on-line and off-line to deliver speeches and exchange view with domestic and foreign peers, and published many articles in Asia IP, IAM, Lawyer Monthly, World IP Review, MIP and other media to introduce China’s IP system to the world.
Other Honors
“1000 Foreign-Related Attorney Talent Pool” by the Ministry of Justice
IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists (2021)
Benchmark Litigation: IP litigation Recommended Lawyer (2021)
Chambers and Partners: IP litigation Lawyer (Asia-Pacific 2020) (Greater China 2022)
“100 Beijing Leading IP Talents” by the Capital Intellectual Property Services Association (2020)
List of Foreign-Related Attorney Talent Pool Of Beijing Lawyers Association (2020)
“Top Lawyer of Haidian District” by Bureau of Justice of Haidian District (2019)