Mr. Yu specializes in providing legal services related to patent law, including patent prosecution, patent invalidation, Patent litigation and client counseling, with a focus on communication technologies, electronics & circuit, signal processing, computer technologies, artificial Intelligence, Internet & e-commerce technologies.

Based on 17-year experiences in patent prosecution and litigation, Mr. Yu deeply understands the patent legal system of China. Mr. Yu has the expertise to design litigation strategies suitable for specific cases and adjust and implement the strategies with progress of the cases. As a leading attorney, Mr. Yu has handled patent disputes for various international and domestic companies. In recent years, Mr. Yu have represented many Multination and Chinese companies to successfully handle a series of high-profile patent infringement lawsuits.  

Mr. Yu has also conducted various patent analysis and evaluation affairs, including FTO analysis, patent validity analysis, pre-litigation analysis, SEP analysis, etc., providing powerful support for the clients in their decision-making in China. Mr. Yu has also prosecuted a large amount of patent applications for clients, covering wireless communication, AI, medical devices, IoT, electronics,etc.

Mr. Yu obtained his L.L.M. degree from John Marshall Law School in U.S. in 2015 and obtained his master's degree and bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 2004 and 2001. He also received training from a US law firm in 2007.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

1.   Represented Qualcomm in Qualcomm v. Apple: handled over four patent infringement litigations and patent invalidation cases in wireless communication and smart device fields and won all the patent invalidation cases; the litigation cases have been settled.     

2.   Represented Samsung in Huawei v. Samsung: handled over three SEP and Non-SEP patent infringement litigations and related patent invalidation cases in wireless communication and smart device fields, and won most of the patent invalidation cases; the litigation cases have been settled.  

3.   Represented SolarEdge in SolarEdge v. Huawei: handled three invalidation cases in Solar Inverter field; the three cases are ongoing.

4.   Represented Novatek in Novatek v. Focal Tech: handled one invalidation case in touch detection field and won this case.  

5.   Represented Skyworks in Skyworks v. ChiefTech: handled the patent infringement litigation and related patent invalidation case in power management device; the case was settled.

6.   Represented Skyworks in Skyworks v. Sanet: handled the patent infringement litigation and related patent invalidation case in power management device; the case was settled.

7.   Entrusted by an International pharmaceutical company to conduct due diligence on a Chinese medical device company in which they will invest, including conducing a FTO analysis for a certain capsule gastroscope which is the key product of the Chinese company.

8.   Entrusted by an investment company to conduct a FTO analysis on a certain multiple-axis machine tool produced by a Chinese company so as to provide support for the investment decision-making.

9.   Entrusted by a Japanese wireless communication company to conduct patent mapping in natural language analysis field and in digital marketing technology field respectively to support their R&D decision-making.

10. Entrusted by an AI-based chip company to provide analysis on compliance risks in view of related provisions of USA.

Articles:

-     “China’s evolving patent system”, 2015 annual meeting of The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)

-     “Consideration on technical effect under priority system”, Asia IP, 2018

Presentations:

-     “Watch or March – IP Protection Strategy in China”, MIP IP in Asia Forum 2016, London & Paris

-     “Updates on standard essential patents in China”, AIPPI Japan, China, Korea Trilateral Meting 2018, Nagoya, Japan

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

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

Committee member of China National Intellectual Property Youth Association