Beijing

Patent

Telecommunication,Computer Science,Internet Technology,E-commerce,Artificial Intelligence,Electronics Engineering,Image Processing

Chinese,English

Ms. Yongjuan YUE is double qualified as patent attorney and attorney at law with years of experiences at Liu, Shen & Associates. She joined in the firm in 2016 and mainly specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination, patent invalidation, patent licensing, IP litigation, and client counseling with a focus on electrical engineering, automatic control, telecommunication, electronics, computer science as well as Internet & e-commerce.

Ms. YUE handles a number of cases relating to patent examination, reexamination, invalidation, administrative lawsuit, infringement lawsuit. She has been participated in pre-invalidation analysis, searching analysis and patent protection studies for specific technical fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Autonomous vehicles, etc.

Ms. YUE had a doctor's degree in Pattern Recognition & Intelligent System from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. Before joining this firm, Ms. YUE worked as an examiner at CNIPA for 10 years (2006-2016).

Representative cases:

-    2020-2024, in several patent licensing negotiations and related disputes between a foreign giant company and certain giant domestic and foreign giant companies for each time, representing the foreign giant company to process patent selection and analysis, patent litigation strategy 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 and invalidation procedure;

-    2020, Fuxinwei v. Skyrelay, representing Fuxinwei to attend the invalidation procedure;

-    2019, Longjia v.Hapu electrical LLC, representing Longjia to attend the invalidation procedure;

-    2018, Samsung V. Benxing, representing Samsung Electronics to attend to invalidation procedure and administrative lawsuit;

-    2018, Samsung v. Immersion, representing Samsung Electronics to attend to invalidation procedure;

-    2018, Samsung v. CCDL, representing Samsung Electronics to attend to invalidation procedure;

-    2017, Samsung v. Netac, representing Samsung Electronics to attend to invalidation procedure;

Representative Publications:

-    “CNIPA Releases Amended Patent Examination Guidelines”, LS newsletter, March 2021

-    “Practical Prosecuting of Standard-related Patent Applications In China”, http://www.iplink-asia.com/articles/88, November 2019

-    “Intellectual Property Protection of Digital TV Technology”, Video Engineering, No.S2,2013.

-    “Technicality Examining of Patent protection Object”, China Invention & Patent, No.12,2011

-    “Search Strategy Research of Image Field”, Patent Examination Research (2010), ISBN：9787513008549

Representative Research:

-    Directing of the research and participating the drafting of the report Intellectual Property Protection for Artificial Intelligence, 2019

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Beijing

Patent

Electronics Engineering,Material Science,Semiconductor

Chinese,English

PROFILE

Education: Master's degree

University: Beijing University of Technology (2007)

Qualification: Patent Attorney (2009) / Attorney at Law (2020)

SUMMARY

Ms. Zhai obtained her master degree in Materials Physics and Chemistry from Beijing University of Technology on 2007.

Ms. Zhai joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2007, became a qualified patent attorney in 2009, and obtained the qualification as an attorney at law in 2020. She specializes in patent prosecution and re­examination with a focus on semiconductor device and preparation process, material science and process, storage, display device, electronic device, photoelectric device, and participated in patent litigation cases such as Patent invalidation, Patent validity analysis, Administrative litigation, Infringement litigation, etc. Through years of patent practice, she has gained good reputation from clients.

Ms. Zhai received training from Centre for International Intellectual Property Studles (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg, in 2014.

Representative cases that Ms. Zhai has led or participated include

-     Infringement analysis, validity analysis, and preparation of infringement litigation on a series of patents relating to Soc processor and semiconductor package, for a Semiconductor manufacturer M, 2021-2024.

-     Samsung vs. LED Wafer Solutions Ltd, patent infringement and the corresponding patent invalidation, representing Samsung, 2022.

-     An well-known international Telecommunication company and chipset manufacturer Q vs. an well-known international Telecommunication company A in patent invalidation heard by the Patent Reexamination Board of CNIPA, and the corresponding administrative proceedings initiated before Beijing IP Court, representing the patentee Q, and the patent right was maintained, 2018-2021

-     Yang Jun vs. Minju Lee in patent invalidation, representing the patentee Minju Lee, and the patent right was maintained, 2021.

Publications that Ms Zhai has authored include:

-     “浅析中国和美国专利创造性判断之异同 (A Brief Analysis of the Similarities and Differences in making a determination of obviousness between China and the United States)”, published on Liu & Shen’s official account, 2023.

-     “Influence of Amendments Under Article 33 for Stability of Patent Rights”, Asia IP, 2016.

-     Ms. Zhai's work has been well recognized by customers and won the prize of “Best Patent Attorney” awarded by Samsung Company in 2015.

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Beijing

Patent

Electrooptical Technology,Mechanical Engineering

Chinese,English

Mr. Zhang joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2012 and became a qualified patent attorney in 2014 and an attorney at law in 2018. He specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination, patent invalidation, IP litigation, and client counseling with a focus on optical engineering and mechanical engineering.

Major clients: DYSON; SIEMENS; SONY; KONE; etc.

EDUCATION

XI’AN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY                 SEP 2005-JUL 2009

Major: Optical Engineering (Bachelor)

BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY                 SEP2009-MAR 2012

Major: Optical Engineering (Master)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Beijing Lawyers Association

Beijing

Patent

Telecommunication,Computer Science,Internet Technology,Electronics Engineering,Image Processing

Chinese,English

Ms. Zhang joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2005 and became a qualified patent attorney in 2007. She specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination, patent writing, and client counseling with a focus on data/image processing, electrical engineering, telecommunication, electronics, computer science, electronic design as well as Internet.

Ms. Zhang got her qualification as an attorney at law in 2007.

Ms. Zhang had a master's degree from Beijing University of Technology in 2005, major in Circuit & System. She received a professional training atJohnMarshallLawSchoolinUSAin 2011, relating to U.S. Patent Law and Practices.

Representative cases:

-    2020, in several patent licensing negotiations and related disputes between a foreign giant company and certain giant domestic and foreign giant companies for each time, representing the foreign giant company to process patent selection and validity analysis;

-    2021, in several patent licensing negotiations and related disputes between a foreign giant company and certain giant domestic and foreign giant companies for each time, representing the foreign giant company to submit Invalidation Request;

-    2022, in several patent licensing negotiations and related disputes between a foreign giant company and certain giant domestic and foreign giant companies for each time, representing the foreign giant company to process patent selection and validity analysis;

-    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, representing the foreign giant company to process patent correlation and validity analysis;

-    2024, in several patent licensing negotiations and related disputes between a foreign giant company and certain giant domestic and foreign giant companies for each time, representing the foreign giant company to submit Invalidation Request.

Representative Publications:

-    “SEP policies in major regions”, LIU&SHEN’s WeChat official account, December 2023;

-    “A closer look at governmental and regulatory support of AI”, second author, Managing IP, Spring 2021.

Beijing

Patent

Computer Science,Electronics Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Vehicle Engineering

Chinese,English

Mr. Zhang joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2012 and became a qualified patent attorney in 2014. He specializes in patent prosecution works on internal combustion engine; automobile; electrical & electronics; mechanical engineering; and so on. Since 2012, he has drafted many patent applications, including translating and proofreading many patent applications, and has answered many office actions for some famous corporations, such as NISSAN, SIEMENS and SKF, and also deals with some patent reexamination cases, covering the fields of fuel cell, vehicle’s engine and the like.

Mr. Zhang had a Ph.D. degree from Tianjin University in 2010. Before joining this firm, Mr. Zhang worked as a researcher at a scientific and technical corporation for two years. 

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Shanghai

Patent

Telecommunication,Computer Science,Internet Technology,Electronics Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Medical Devices

Chinese,English

Ms. Zhang joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2020 and she qualified as a patent attorney in 2017. She worked as a patent attorney in another patent agency in Shanghai in 2017 to 2020.

Ms. Zhang specializes in patent mining, patent portfolio planning, patent search, patent prosecution, re-examination and client counseling in the fields of Computer Science, Internet Technology, Telecommunication, Electronics Engineering, Mechanic Engineering.

Ms. Zhang achieved her master degree in Textile Engineering from Donghua University in 2016.

-Ever serving as an external patent attorney for Schneider Electric, to participate in the company's technological innovation meeting to explore potential patentable technologies, actively communicate and cooperate with R&D engineers, provide patent services such as infringement analysis, patent mining and review patent drafts, with focus on electronic, electrical engineering, software methods, etc.

-Working for many domestic applicants in patent drafting, prosecution, and re-examination, for example, BOE, ByteDance, HYGON, Hubei Xingji Technology, Biren Technology, ESWIN, New Oriental, Tsinghua University.

-Since joining Liu, Shen & Associates, Ms. Zhang has handled about one hundred cases in patent application drafting.

Beijing

Trademark

Chinese,English

Ms. Zhang started her professional career since joining in Liu, Shen & Associates in 2014. She specializes in full-range litigation and non-litigation matters concerning trademark prosecutions, including trademark oppositions, invalidation actions, non-use cancellations, reviews on rejection, administrative litigations, administrative reconsiderations, comprehensive scheme and strategy consultation for client’s trademark portfolio, and contracts and legal papers drafting. Ms. Zhang also provides consultancy services on trademark infringements, unfair competition, domain name disputes, ICP license and recordal, and copyright registration, etc.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND:
-     Beijing Institute of Technology, Master’s Degree in foreign linguistics and applied linguistics
-     Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Bachelor’s Degrees both in English and Laws

1. For a well-known Britain electric appliances company, Ms. Zhang assists the client in trademark prosecutions, trademark strategies and defensive scheming for years, and successfully makes CNIPA to recognize the prior reputation and correspondence relationship of its house marks through serial opposition and invalidation cases and wins dozens of cases in which its house marks are accepted as “well-known trademarks” and protected in dissimilar classes.
2. For a famous French outdoor equipment company, Ms. Zhang provides evaluation and analysis services for trademark strategies, draws up trademark strategy reports, conducts trademark surveillance and strategy research services for its house marks, and wins a series of opposition and invalidation cases. The trademark squatting and hoarding behaviors of a malicious group companies have been severely cracked down, and the client’s trademark protection scope is significantly expanded.
3. For a known German protective film company, Ms. Zhang provides professional services in trademark oppositions, invalidation actions and trademark strategy analysis and consultation, and successfully safeguards the client's prior rights and interests in a series of trademark opposition and invalidation cases, helps the client obtain a wider range of trademark protection, and effectively prevents the client's trademarks from being illegally rushed registered and exploited by several different companies.
4. For a Luxembourgian world-famous 4A advertising group and their subsidiaries in China, Ms. Zhang takes care of their trademark portfolio and provides trademark prosecution services, including trademark applications, review on rejections, assignments and transfers, renewals, oppositions, and invalidations.
5. For an Australian famous extreme sports brand, Ms. Zhang represented the client in administrative litigation procedures on a trademark invalidation case and won favorable decisions in the first and second instances.
6. Ms. Zhang represents different clients in various domain name disputes and wins favorable decisions in all complaints filed to the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre, China Internal Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Dispute Resolution Centre and Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.

HONORS & ACTIVITIES:
1. Ms. Zhang is honored as Level 1 Trademark Attorney in the Trademark Talent Pool by China Trademark Association.
2. On 2023 AIPPI China Youth Seminar, Ms. Zhang made a speech on “Protection of Prior Name Rights of Famous Persons in Combating Bad-Faith Trademark Applications and Registrations” and won the Third Prize.
3. In June – July 2023, Ms. Zhang participated in Boehmert & Boehmert‘s program on “IP Summer Course 2023—Obtaining, Enforcing and Evaluating Intellectual Property Rights in Europe”

ARTICLES:
1. Newsletter – “Brief of Draft Amendment to China Trademark Law in 2023 and the Potential Impact to Trade- mark Strategy in China”, April 2023
2. Newsletter – “How to Knock Out Bad-Faith Trademarks In China — New Trends In CNIPA’S Practice And Possible Strategies against Bad-faith Trademarks”, September 2023

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

Beijing

Patent

Telecommunication,Computer Science,Internet Technology,E-commerce,Artificial Intelligence,Big Data Processing

Chinese,English,Japanese

Mr.Zheng joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2003 and became a qualified patent attorney in 2007. He specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination with a focus on electronics and telecommunication.

Mr.Zheng deals with a large number of cases related to patent application, cases related to patent reexamination, and cases related to drafting every year in the firm.

Mr.Zheng had a bachelor's degree of Physical Electronics from Nankai University in 1994. 

Chengdu

Patent

Telecommunication,Computer Science,Internet Technology,E-commerce,Artificial Intelligence,Big Data Processing,Electronics Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Semiconductor

Chinese,English

Ms. Zhou started practice in intellectual property affairs in Liu, Shen since 2017. Ms. Zhou provides intellectual property related services such as patent prosecution, patent office action response, patent drafting, and standard essential patent analysis.

Ms. Zhou handles intellectual property affairs in the field of Mechanical & Electronic Engineering, Electronics & Computer Science, Semiconductor Technology,

Telecommunication, etc.

Ms. Zhou was admitted as a patent attorney in 2017.

Beijing

Patent

Medical Devices,Bio & Pharmaceutical,Life Science,Chemical Engineering

Chinese,English

Ms. Zhu has expertise in patent litigation, trade secrets, anti-unfair competition and other related intellectual property litigation and non-litigation practice, including administrative enforcement cases, infringement litigations, complaints, contract drafting, review and negotiation, etc.

Before joining Liu Shen, Ms. Zhu was engaged in civil and commercial litigations, investment and financing and other non-litigation businesses in a well-known domestic law firm.

EDUCATION:

Ms. Zhu obtained her Bachelor of Medicine from Xiamen University and obtained her Master's Degree in Law from Jilin University.

QUALIFICATIONS:

PRC Bar Qualification

PRC Securities Practitioner Qualification

Representative cases that Ms. Zhu represented or participated in include:

-    Represented a multinational company vs. a company in Beijing in patent infringement administrative enforcement case. The patent involved the field of oncology drugs. The case was selected as one of the "Top-Ten Typical Cases of Administrative Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Beijing in 2021";

-    Represented a multinational company vs. a pharmaceutical company in Hebei in a patent infringement administrative enforcement case. The patent involved the field of oncology drugs. The case was rated as a "Typical Case of Patent Administrative Protection in 2021" by the CNIPA;

-    Represented a multinational company vs. a Beijing Technology company and a Beijing company in a series of patent infringement administrative enforcement cases. The patents involved the field of diabetes drugs. The related cases were rated as "Typical Cases of Patent Administrative Protection in 2022" by the CNIPA , and were also selected as "Typical Cases of Intellectual Property Administrative Protection in Beijing";

-    Represented a multinational company vs. a company in Shaanxi in a patent infringement administrative enforcement case. The patent involved the field of pesticides. The case was selected as one of the "Typical Cases of Optimizing the Business Environment in the Intellectual Property Field in Beijing in 2023";

-    Represented a multinational company vs. a pharmaceutical company in a series of patent infringement administrative enforcement cases. The patents involved the field of diabetes drugs. The series of cases were selected as one of the "Top-Ten Typical Cases of Intellectual Property Protection in Shanghai in 2023", "Typical Cases of Intellectual Property Administrative Protection in Tianjin in 2023" and "Typical Cases of Patent Administrative Protection in Guangdong Province in 2023";

-    Represented a multinational company in a series of patent infringement civil cases against a pharmaceutical company, and the patents involved in the field of diabetes drugs;

-    Represented a medical device company in patent infringement civil cases, and the patents involved the field of medical devices;

-    Participating in a technical contract project of a company.

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

Beijing

Patent

Mechanical Engineering,Material Science,Chemical Engineering

Chinese,English

Ms. Zhu joined Liu, Shen & Associates in June 2015. She specializes in patent application drafting, patent invalidation, and client counseling with a focus on chemical engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, display technology.

Ms. Zhu graduated from Wuhan Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and technology in June, 2012 and received her Master's degree in chemical engineering and technology from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in June 2015. 

Chengdu

Patent

Telecommunication,Computer Science,Internet Technology,E-commerce,Artificial Intelligence,Image Processing

Chinese,English

Mr. Zou joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2017. Mr. Zou provides intellectual property related services such as patent drafting, re-examination, and patent litigation for several clients. Mr. Zou handles intellectual property affairs in the fields of Telecommunication, Electrical & Electronics, Computer Science, Semiconductor Technology, and Signal and Information Processing and so on.

Mr. Zou has analyzed dozens of communication standard essential patents (SEPs) to evaluate relevance degree of patents and communication standards.

Mr. Zou had a master's degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China with a major on Signal and Information Processing in 2015. Before joining Liu, Shen, Mr. Zou worked as a Telecommunication Algorithm Engineer at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. during 2015-2016.

Representative cases:

-     An international communication company V. a Chinese communication company patent litigation, analyzing communication standard essential patents (SEPs) to evaluate relevance degree of patents and communication standards. (2018-2019)