Mr. Hou handles a number of cases relating to patent examination, reexamination, invalidation, infringement lawsuit and other IP related matters, including participating in matters including all kinds of analysis including pre-litigation analysis and pre-invalidation analysis; patent invalidation, patent infringement litigation relating to Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and commercial patents. Before joining Liu, Shen & Associates, Mr. Hou Zhiyu worked for a well-known foreign company as an electrical engineer for years.
Representative cases:
- SEP infringement analysis of standard essential patents for foreign companies such as Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics
- Patent infringement risk analysis for Lenovo
- Patent validity assessment and infringement risk analysis for Samsung Electronics V. Huawei in a series of patent infringement and invalidation cases in China, 2016-2017
- Patent validity assessment and infringement risk analysis for Qualcomm V. Apple in a series of patent infringement and invalidation cases in China, 2018-2019
- Representing a Taiwanese Touch IC company in a patent invalidation case in China, maintaining target claims valid, 2020
- Invalidation case between Samsung Electronics V. Ericsson in the patent invalidation case in China , global settled, 2021
- Patent validity assessment and infringement risk analysis for a well-known Chinese network communication equipment in a series of patent infringement and invalidation cases in United States, 2021-2022