Mr. Jia obtained a
master’s degree in Communication Engineering from Beijing Institute of
Technology in 2008. Mr. Jia
started his work in IP law in 2010, joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2012,
and qualified as patent attorney and attorney at law. Mr. Jia specializes in
patent prosecution, reexamination, patent invalidation, IP litigation, and
client counselling with a focus on commercial patents (NSEP) and communication
Standard Essential Patents (SEP).
Before
starting his work in the practice of IP law, Mr. Jia worked as a software
engineer in a communication company for two years.
Mr.
Jia has been designated to study for NGB corporation, Japan for 3 months in
2019, and trained the attorneys in NGB on some issues related to prosecution,
invalidation and litigation of Chinese patent practice.
Mr.
Jia is richly experienced in patent invalidation and litigation, and has
represented a number of domestic and foreign giant companies in patent
licensing negotiations and related disputes, invalidation, and infringement
litigation with other domestic and foreign giant companies.
Mr.
Jia has led and deeply participated in several patent relevance assessment
projects and patent validity assessment projects, some of which involving SEP,
and some involving NSEP. In these
projects, Mr. Jia has analyzed dozens of NSEPs to evaluate the relevance degree of patents and
targeted products, analyzed more than one hundred of SEPs to evaluate relevance
degree of patents and communication standards, and analyzed validity of dozens
of patents against prior arts.
Mr.
Jia Hongbo is familiar with China's telecommunication industry standards and
3GPP international standards. He has been committed to the analysis and
evaluation of essential patents for 3GPP standards for many years. He leads the
evaluation team to continuously analyze the patent declarations of each company
in ETSI, and leads the team to analyze declared patents and corresponding
standards, evaluate the real number and proportion of standard essential
patents actually owned by major companies.
Representative cases:
- 2020-2023, in several patent licensing negotiations
and related disputes between a foreign giant company and certain giant domestic
and foreign giant companies for each time, leading
the team representing the foreign giant company to process patent selection and
analysis, patent litigation strategy analysis, patent licensing fee and FRAND
issues analysis, etc.;
- 2016-2019, in a series
of patent infringement and invalidation cases between Samsung Electronics V. Huawei,
representing Samsung Electronics to attend SEP and non-SEP patent infringement
group cases as a core member of the team. The issues involved include the
infringement logic for SEP related cases, calculation of SEP royalties,
determination of FRAND, and determination of injunctions for SEP and non-SEP
cases;
- In the case of a dispute between a foreign giant company
and another foreign giant company, representing the foreign giant company in
patent screening and analysis, litigation strategy analysis, participation in
litigation and invalidation proceedings, etc.;
- Samsung Electronics v. Dunjun, in the patent
invalidation case, representing Samsung Electronics as the invalidation
petitioner, all patent rights were declared to be invalidated in court during
the oral hearing;
- Samsung Electronics v. Netac, in the patent
invalidation case, representing Samsung Electronics as the invalidation
petitioner, all patent rights were declared to be invalidated, and the patentee
did not file administrative lawsuit.
Representative Publications:
- “SEP Patent Strength Analysis,” IPLEAD, December
2023;
- “How to draft a high-value SEP patent application,” IP
ForeFront, November 2023;
- “Future of IP–China: The valuation and prosecution
of standard-related patents in the 5G era,” Managing Intellectual Property -
Asia-Pacific IP Focus 2021
- “Application of Patent Examination Guidelines in
Invalidation Procedures,” Asia IP Vol.10 Issue 8 2018
- “The contentious monopoly,” Managing Intellectual
Property - Asia-Pacific IP Focus 2016
- FRAND Case Selection Volume 1 & Volume 2; 2018