Recently, Beijing Haidian Lawyers Association released its first listing of Leading Lawyers of Haidian District, among which Mr. Zhang Xiang, partner of Liu, Shen & Associates, was honorably identified.
Equipped with an excellent technical and legal background, Mr. Zhang Xiang, partner of Liu, Shen & Associates, has devoted himself to the intellectual property litigation. Mr. Zhang was graduated from Tianjin University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical electronics, a double bachelor's degree in technical economics and a master's degree in mechanical manufacturing and automation. He obtained a LL.M degree in intellectual property law from John Marshall Law School in the United States. He is qualified as both patent attorney and attorney-at-law.
Calling Attention with Numerous Cases
Mr. Zhang Xiang has rich experiences of intellectual property litigation, and the representative cases represented by him have won high praise and profound influences.
Typical case of trade secret misappropriation (in 2020-2021): representing a large environmental field company in the second instance to sue a listed company and a senior executive for trade secret misappropriation, with compensation of nearly 100 million RMB awarded by the court of the first instance.
Typical IP litigations against a IPO company of Science and Technology Innovation Board (in 2020-2021): Goer Co., Ltd. v. Suzhou Minxin Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (IPO Company) for the disputes of patent ownership, patent infringement and unfair competition.
Typical patent infringement case in the field of automobile new energy (in 2020-2021): CATL v. TAFEL for the battery patent infringement case, 100+ million RMB compensation involved.
Typical patent infringement case in the field of high and new technology (in 2020-2021): a domestic company v. Alibaba company, Apple company, etc., involving a two-dimensional code scanning payment technology. The case aroused widespread attention in society and the media. The video of live broadcast of the trial of Famahang company v. Alibaba Company attracted more than 600,000 clicks and over 1,000,000 followers.
Typical patent infringement administrative cases before IP Office (in 2019-2021): handled a series of patent infringement administrative cases before the IP Office of local governments, including: Lingkong company v. a bike-sharing company of oFo (publicly heard on International Intellectual Property Day of April 26, 2019), Lingkong company v. a mobile phone company of Jinli, Famahang company v. Alibaba Company, Aimaxin company v. a foreign mobile phone company, etc.
Typical patent related cases between two giant mobile phone companies Huawei and Samsung (in 2016-2019): a series of litigations with great influences in the industry (40+ patent infringement cases and 40+ patent invalidation cases, relating to SEP in the field of communication and commercial use of mobile phone), representing Samsung, globally settled. Some cases of them were recognized as 50 typical intellectual property judicial cases in China in 2019, 10 typical intellectual property judicial cases in Beijing in 2019, 10 typical intellectual property judicial cases in Guangdong Province in 2019, 10 typical intellectual property judicial cases in Shenzhen in 2019, 10 typical innovative intellectual property judicial cases in Guangzhou, 10 typical intellectual property judicial cases in Fujian Province in 2018, and 10 typical patent invalidation cases before CNIPA in 2018.
Typical case of standard essential patent license fee (in 2018-2019): the standard essential patent license fee dispute between two international giant companies, involving billions of license fee, which was finally settled and recognized as an outstanding transaction in 2019 by Commercial Law.
Typical foreign-related case of patent infringement of mobile phone operating software: (in 2013-2020): a patent infringement litigation together with a patent invalidation litigation in the field of mobile phones, involving more than 100 million RMB compensation, and were recognized as 90 outstanding cases of foreign-related litigation in China and published in the book Outstanding Cases of Foreign-related Legal Services published in August 2021.
Sharing Experience for Developments
Being an honorary lecturer of the Intellectual Property Publishing House and a patent litigation lecturer of the All-China Patent Attorneys Association, Mr. Zhang has the heart to share his litigation experiences by delivering speeches and publishing academic articles, and strives to propagate the frontier legal information and promote the developments o