Beijing

Patent

Mechanical Engineering,Vehicle Engineering,Precision Instruments

Chinese,English

As one of the first group patent attorneys qualified inChina, Ms. Ma started her professional career with the Patent and Trademark Agency of CCPIT in 1983, and participated various preparation works with respect of patent agency operation inChinabefore the promulgation of the first Patent Law of China which was entered into force on April 1, 1985. Ms. Ma worked in mechanical patent division and patent administration division respectively in Patent and Trademark Agency of CCPIT and accumulated rich experiences in handling patent application related matters.

In 1993, Ms. Ma joined Liu, Shen & Associates and became a partner in 1995. As an attorney, Ms. Ma’s expertise and experiences are patent filing, prosecution and invalidation proceedings in the field of mechanical engineering and design patents, as well as providing legal opinions on patent operation related matters. Ms. Ma was invited to join the research project “Third Amendment of the Patent Law” with respect of design patent. As one of the managing partners, Ms. Ma heads the firm’s Patent Docketing Department, and is responsible for coordinating the firm’s patent operations and clients relations.

In 2011, Ms. Ma received “Asia Women in Business Law Awards” and is the only recipient of “Best in Patent and Trademark Prosecution” for her achievements in patent and trademark practice as well as her role in shaping Liu, Shen & Associates into one of theAsia’s leading IP firms.

Ms. Ma graduated from the Beijing University of Science and Technology (B.S. 1983), majoring in mechanical engineering. She received professional training at an intellectual property law firm inGermanyfrom 1986 to 1987. 

-      MIP «Coping with Article33 inProsecution»

-      Patent Attorney’s Service and Working Process, 2013 «专利代理事务及流程» - Practicing Training Tutorial Series for Patent Attorney《专利代理人执业培训系列教程》

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Attorneys Association (ACPAA)

Association Internationale pourla Protectiondela Propriété Intellectuelle(AIPPI)

International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)

Licensing Executives Society (LES) 

Beijing

Patent

Medical Devices,Bio & Pharmaceutical,Chemical Engineering

Chinese,English

QUALIFICATION

Patent Attorney (2012)

Attorney at law (2015)

EDUCATION

The John Marshall Law School (LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law with honors, 2017)

Peking University (Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry, 2010)

Peking University (Bachelor in Pharmaceutical Science, 2004)

INTRODUCTION

Dr. Mou is a partner at Liu, Shen & Associates, who was qualified as attorney at law and patent attorney, and is experienced in the analysis and mining, global protection strategy, patent portfolio management, legal consulting, due diligence, and dispute resolution of patents, as well as the management and protection of trade secret.

Before joining Liu, Shen & Associates in 2010, Dr. Mou had a one year experience of R&D in the HIV department of GSK in NC, USA. He also worked for Bayer China Limited with the IP affairs in 2015.

Dr. Mou has a good scientific background in the pharmaceutical industry and legal knowledge in IP related laws and regulations, fully understanding the business strategy, scientific development, and legal protection of the drugs, and has experiences in global portfolio and protection strategy in about 20 countries including China, U.S., Japan, Europe, Korea and others.

Dispute resolution

-      A university in the U.S. vs. Chinese Patent Office, representing the university attending the first and second instance trials of the administrative proceeding (2018-2020)

-      A MNC pharmaceutical company vs. its distributor, representing the pharmaceutical company invalidating patents of the distributor (2020-2021)

-      Representing Pfizer and successfully defending the patent covering a commercial polymorph (2019)

-      Involving in an arbitration case between a domestic pharmaceutical company and an American company (2020)

-      Involving in the negotiation of trade secret affairs between a domestic pharmaceutical company and an American company (2019)

Legal consulting

-      Providing the due diligence services to a domestic Life Sciences Group Co., Ltd. for investing a company (2020)

-      Supporting the IP affairs of a company in Shenzhen for capital injection (2019 and 2020)

-      Analyzing the marketing of generics of a drug for a company in Shenzhen (2020)

-      Providing legal opinions to a company in Suzhou for licensing-in a clinical candidate from an American company (2020)

-      Providing suggestions regarding the management and portfolio strategy of patents for a startup in Shanghai (2020)

-      Providing strategy of patent portfolio management for a listed company in Shanghai (2020)

-      Providing the due diligence service for a pharmaceutical company in Beijing (2020)

-      Providing comments on fighting against patent infringement for Tsinghua University (2020)

-      Providing legal comments on patent portfolio for a company in Henan (2020)

-      Drafting Non-disclosure agreement for a company in Shenzhen (2019)

-      Providing advice regarding management and protection of trade secret for a company in Fujian (2018)

Presentations and Publications

-      Enforcement of Trade Secrets: The Practical Realities (AIPPI 2020 World Congress)

-      The Management and Protection of Trade Secret Assets from the Perspective of Business Competition (2020)

-      Rational protecting measures for trade secret protection (2020)

-      Judgments of the trade secret cases from the Supreme Court (2017)

-      Introduction to three approaches to expedite patent prosecution (2020)

-      Amending a Markush claim in an invalidation procedure becomes more difficult (2018)

-      Practice and tips in drafting a pharmaceutical patent (2018)

-      Legal concepts and its purposeful explanation (2017)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)

Beijing

Patent

Electrical Engineering,Electrooptical Technology,Material Science,Semiconductor

Chinese,English

Ms. Xiaomeng MA joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2016. She specializes in patent applications, re-examination and client counseling with a focus on display device, semiconductor device and process, material science, optical device, quantum dot, electrical engineering and automatic control.

Ms. Ma became a qualified patent attorney in 2018 and she has participated in many patent applications, re-examination and client counseling every year.

Ms. Ma had a master's degree in physical electronics from Peking University in 2016.

Publications: “Case analysis on Double Patenting Forbidden”, IP LINK, November 2023

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Beijing

Patent

Mechanical Engineering,Vehicle Engineering,Medical Devices

Chinese,English,German

Ms. Meng joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2010, became a qualified patent attorney in 2011 and got her qualification as an attorney at law in 2015. She specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination and patent invalidation with a focus on Mechanical and Electro-mechanical devices, Automobiles, Medical devices, Paper Machinery as well as Energy & Power Engineering etc. 
 
Ms. Meng obtained a master's degree from Technical University of Munich in Germany in 2009. 

Ms. Meng participated in the patent invalidation case about “Calendaring roll for paper-making calendaring machine”. Ms. Meng and her colleague represented a german client and successfully invalidated the patent. 

Ms. Meng made a speech with the theme “Thinking about the technical problem to be solved practically” in Liu, Shen & Associates.

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)