Ms. Zhao joined Liu, Shen & Associates in April, 2008.

Ms. Zhao obtained the qualification as an attorney at law in 2009 and obtained the qualification as a patent attorney in 2009. Ms. Zhao’s current practice mainly focuses on patent enforcement including patent litigation and administration proceedings, patent prosecution and invalidation in the technical fields of Material Science & Engineering, Semiconductor device and process, Display technology, Medical device, Virtual reality technology, Three-Dimensional display technology, Sharing item technology and so on. Ms. Zhao’s services also include providing patent strategy consultation and patent searching report and FTO. Also, Ms. Zhao has assisted Chinese applicants in patent application filing and prosecution with foreign patent offices, such as USPTO, EPO, JPO, KIPO, etc.

Ms. Zhao had a bachelor's degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2002 and had a doctor's degree from Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. 

I. Civil Litigation

1. Aux v. Gree (2017), patent infringement litigation and related patent invalidation, Ningbo People's Intermediate Court, representing the plaintiff (patentee). 

2. Beijing Perfect Light V. Ceaulight (2016), patent infringement litigation, Beijing intellectual property court (First Instance), representing the defendant.

II. Patent Invalidation or Administrative Litigation

1. HRID - NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING d.o.o. za razvoj i primjenu tehnologija v. INETEC Institute for Nuclear Technology D.O.O (2014), patent invalidation, patent Reexamination Board of the SIPO, representing the invalidation petitioner. The Board held the patent entirely invalid.

2. Skyworks Solutions Inc. v. Patent Reexamination Board of the SIPO (2016), Beijing intellectual property court, representing the plaintiff.

3. Kunshan shangli packaging products co. LTD. V. Shanghai cui ling glass products co. LTD.(2016), patent invalidation, patent Reexamination Board of the SIPO, representing the invalidation petitioner. The Board held the patent partially invalid.

4. Altek Corporation V. Shenzhen O-film Technology Co., Ltd. (2017), patent invalidation, patent Reexamination Board of the SIPO, representing the patentee. The Board held the patent valid.

5. Altek Corporation V. Kunshan titanium microelectronics technology co. LTD. (2017), patent invalidation, patent Reexamination Board of the SIPO, representing the patentee. The Board held the patent valid.

6. Wuxi Little Swan Company Limited V. Haier (2016), patent invalidation, patent Reexamination Board of the SIPO, representing the invalidation petitioner. The Board held the patent entirely invalid.

7. A domestic famous communication corp. V. a global famous communication corp. (2016), patent Reexamination Board of the SIPO, representing the invalidation petitioner. The Board held the patent entirely invalid.

Publications

“The coping strategy of the enterprise relating to ownership dispute of the service invention”, 7^th Intellectual Property Forum held by All-China Patent Attorneys Association in 2017 (published as the outstanding thesis).