Education: (1) Master degree; (2) L.L.M. degree

University: (1) TheUniversityofBristol

                  (2) TheJohnMarshallLawSchoolin theUnited States(2013)

Qualification: Patent Attorney (2008) / Attorney at law (2009)

SUMMARY

Ms. Zhao joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2007. She specializes in patent prosecution and re-examination, patent invalidation, patent evaluation and patent litigation. Her experiences span into broad technology areas including telecommunication, image processing, electronics and circuits, computer and network, e-commerce and semiconductor etc.  

Ms. Zhao got her qualification as a patent attorney in 2008 and as an attorney at law in 2009. She has participated in several patent lawsuits including patent infringement and patent invalidation. Her practice experiences also include the patent infringement analysis, patent invalidation analysis, patent evaluation and FTO analysis.

Ms. Zhao received her master degree in communication system and signal processing from theUniversityofBristol. Ms. ZHAO also studied the Intellectual Property Law of theUSat theJohnMarshallLawSchoolinChicago,USand obtained L.L.M. degree. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Zhao worked in Telecommunications Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe Limited as a researcher.

Representative cases that Ms Zhao has led or participated include

-     Dyson Limited (plaintiff) v. Zhejiang Aike Electrical Appliance Co. Ltd., as the attorney of the plaintiff Dyson won in the first instance and finally settled in the second instance;

-     In the serial cases of Samsung v. Huawei, as the attorney of Samsung, participated in the patent invalidation, and the infringement lawsuit.

Presentation that Ms. Zhao has given include

-    “Prior Art Defense with Case Analysis”, 2014;

-    “How to draft computer program related application”, 2015;

-    “Analysis on Standard Essential Patent (SEP) lawsuit cases in China”, 2016. 

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)