Beijing
Patent
Mechanical Engineering,Medical Devices,Precision Instruments
Chinese,English
EDUCATION:
Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University Master Degree
Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Tsinghua University Bachelor Degree
Ms. Liu joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2016. She specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination, patent invalidation, IP litigation, and client counseling with a focus on mechatronic engineering, medical equipment, automotive engineering, and MEMS, etc.
Ms. Liu became a qualified patent attorney in 2016 and obtained her lawyer's qualification certificate in 2018.
Main Clients Ms. Liu Worked for:
- Google, Schneider, TE Connectivity, VALEO, etc.
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
Ms. Liu has participated in many cases about patent analysis, patent invalidation or patent infringement litigation including:
- Patent infringement litigation and related patent invalidation, a well-known household appliance company;
- Patent infringement litigation and related patent invalidation, a well-known electric company;
- Patent Invalidation, a well-known medical instrument company (patent owner);
- FTO analysis, a US medical device startup company;
- Patent invalidity analysis for a known UK company
Publications
Ms. Liu did research focused on microfluidic chips, in vitro diagnosis, in vitro fertilization, and forensic analysis during her Master study. Her selected publications are:
- “Separation of sperm and epithelial cells based on the hydrodynamic effect for forensic analysis”, Biomicrofluidics 9, 044127 (2015);
- “The construction of an interfacial valve-based microfluidic chip for thermotaxis evaluation of human sperm”, Biomicrofluidics 8, 024102 (2014)
- “In vitro hyperthermia based on a multi-mode detection chip with impedance sensing”, Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology),2016, 56(7): 751-758.
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
Telecommunication,Computer Science,Internet Technology,E-commerce,Artificial Intelligence,Big Data Processing,Electronics Engineering,Semiconductor
Chinese,English
Ms. QIAN joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2001 and became a qualified patent attorney in 2002. She specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination, patent invalidation, and client counseling with a focus on Automatic control; Telecommunication; Electrical & Electronics; Semiconductor; Computer Science; Internet.
Ms. QIAN had a master's degree from Beijing Institute of Technology in 1994. Before joining this firm, Ms. QIAN worked as an electronic product developer for six years. She received training in France in 2009.
All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)
Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
Beijing
Patent
Mechanical Engineering,Vehicle Engineering,Material Science,Inorganic Material
Chinese,English
Ms. Qu joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2000 and became a qualified patent attorney in 2002. She specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination, patent invalidation, and client counseling with a focus on Textile machinery; Textile technology; Mechanical engineering; Vehicle; Security Element; Optical; Welding; Metallurgy; Material science; Storage and Display devices.
Ms. Qu obtained a master degree majoring in textile engineering in 2000 from Xi'an Polytechnic University. She received training from Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP, U.S.A .in 2006.
All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)
CHINESE NATIONAL GROUP OF AIPPI
Beijing
Patent
Mechanical Engineering
Chinese,English
Education:
Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University, Master’s Degree of science, with major in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University, Bachelor’s Degree of science, with major in Fluid Mechanics
China University of Political Science and Law, Civil, Commercial and Economic Law School, Study Program of Master’s Courses, major in Intellectual Property Law
Training:
Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C., Summer training on US Patent Law and related, June 13~July 13, 2019
Qualification: Patent Attorney (2012)；Attorney at Law (2017)
Ms. TAN began her legal career in patent laws and joined Liu Shen & Associates in June, 2011. She specializes in patent enforcement including patent prosecution, re-examination, patent validation and litigation in the technical field of Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Medical Devices and so on. Ms. TAN’s services also include providing opinions and strategy consultations for corporations, and providing legal advice.
Before joining Liu Shen, Ms. TAN worked as a researcher on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval at Canon Information Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd, specializing in algorithm study on multi-language Segmentation, Automatic Summarization, Keyword Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, Language models, Character Encoding Techniques and Recommendation System.
I. Civil and Administrative Litigations
Ms. Tan has been engaged in multiple patent infringement litigations and all results of the cases are good, including, typically, a series of infringement litigations of WAGO as the patentee, infringement litigation of KOBOTA as the patentee, which was selected to be one of "Ten Representative Cases of IP Litigations of Janpanese Cooperations in China within Three Years".
Ms. TAN has been also engaged in mutiple administrative litigations related to re-examination and invalidation cases. In an administrative litigation related to invalidation with KOBOTA as the patentee, the adverse results in the invalidation procedure and the first instance were reversed and the case finally won in the second instance in the supreme court.
II. Invalidation Cases
Ms. TAN has represented more than then invalidation cases and achieved good results in most of the cases, including multiple cases as to invention of KOBOTA, cases as to utility model of Leili group, cases (including a case in Taiwan) as to utility model of Conjoin, case as to invention of WAGO, case as invention of VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbH, etc.
III. Consultations
- IP Due Diligence to a before investing medical device company, sensing device company, as requested by a venture capital
- Project of constructing IP system for a well-known domestic enterprise L: patent mining, strategy for IP protection
- Project of patent patent portfolio for a well-known international enterprise: searching, strategy for filing, drafting applications
- Providing infringement studies for domestic and international companies, including battery, bump, vehicle parts, medical device, farm machinery, etc.
- Providing validity studies for domestic and international companies
- Providing FTO studies for domestic and international companies
- Software copyright registration/training
- Certification of Hi-tech enterprise
v. Publications
- "The Boundary Element Method (BEM) solving the water wave effect on the aerodynamics of a vehicle flying close to the water surface", Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2003.4, second author.
- “What are the advantages and pitfalls of administrative enforcement?” on Managing Intellectual Property –China IP Focus 2019
All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)
All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)
Others
Be selected in the talent database for foreign matters of ACLA in 2021
Be selected in the expert database for IP protection of ACPAA
Beijing
Trademark
Chinese,English
Ms. Tian joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2004 as trademark attorney and became a qualified attorney at law in 2006. Before joining Liu, Shen & Associates, Ms. Tian worked in Tax and Legal Service section of PriceWaterhouseCoopers Beijing Office and has been qualified as China CPA since 2001.
Her expertise includes providing full-range service on trademark prosecution, including availability search and analysis, filing, licensing, assignment, opposition, and invalidation; representing clients before courts in administration litigation on authorization and determination of trademark rights; counseling services in respect of trademark strategy and comprehensive trademark issues; as well as domain name dispute cases.
EDUCATION：
LLM, University of Sydney, Australia
B.A. of English Linguistics and Literature, Peking University
B.A. of Economics, Peking University
Typical Trademark opposition/invalidation & Litigation Cases
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned British company famous in designing and producing household electric appliances in hundreds of oppositions and invalidation actions, and successfully opposed/invalidated third parties’ trademarks designating dissimilar goods/services based on well-known status of client’s house mark. The said case series won the third place in the top ten outstanding cases of non-litigation trademark disputes selected by the Intellectual Property Professional Committee of the All China Lawyers Association in 2023.
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned French company famous in designing and producing outdoor sports/works gears in hundreds of oppositions, invalidation actions, non-use cancellation actions and domain name dispute cases, and successfully removed those marks and domain names maliciously filed by a group of affiliated trademark squatters.
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned German company famous in manufacturing protective films for industrial use in a number of opposition and invalidation actions in which the adverse party and their affiliated repeatedly filed various forms of marks imitating their stylized mark out of bad faith on similar and dissimilar goods/services.
- Ms. Tian represented a British company famous in designing and producing socks and stockings in series opposition/invalidation and litigation cases based on prior copyright over their stylized logo mark and the close relationship between the goods although classified in dissimilar classes.
- Ms. Tian represented famous Australian company manufacturing building materials in series opposition cases based on the close relationship between the goods and services and the business relationship between the two parties.
- Ms. Tian represented famous fashion design company in litigation against the opposed mark based on close relationship between the goods falling in dissimilar sub-classes.
- Ms. Tian represented an Australian beverage company in defending against the opposition and litigation cases in which the adverse party claimed well-known status of their cited mark in luxury products.
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned German company famous in designing and manufacturing cooking utensils in invalidation action and the successive litigation case against their Chinese dealer based on their business relationship.
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned Chinese company famous in food industry especially in Beijing area against their competitor from Suzhou in an invalidation case and successfully defended the client’s trademark right during the invalidation action, successive first and second instances before Beijing IP Court and Beijing High Court.
Typical Counseling Cases
- Comprehensive IP counseling including trademark, copyright and domain name protection for a multi-national corporation and its WOFE in China for over ten years
- Trademark counseling services for five European based companies for ten years.
Awards：
The 3rd place in the top ten outstanding cases of non-litigation trademark disputes selected by the Intellectual Property Professional Committee of the All China Lawyers Association in 2023.
All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)
China CPA
Beijing
Patent
Bio & Pharmaceutical,Life Science
Chinese,English
Dr. Tu assists clients in all aspects of patent related matters, including drafting and prosecution of patent applications, re-examination and invalidation procedures, validity/patentability analysis, freedom-to-operate opinions, landscape analysis and due diligence, with a profession in the fields of life science, especially biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and immunotherapy.
Dr. Tu started his IP career with Liu, Shen & Associates in 2015. Prior to joining Liu, Shen & Associates, Dr. Tu obtained his Ph.D. of Cell Biology from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, and B.S. of Biology from Wuhan University in 2009. During His Ph.D. research, Dr. Tu focused on identification of target molecules and development of therapeutic antibodies for cancer treatment.
From 2015 to 2021, Dr. Tu majors in drafting, prosecution and reexamination of patent applications in a variety of technical fields of biopharmaceutical and biotechnology, including immunotherapy, antibody/ADC drugs, vaccines, gene therapy, gene editing, stem cell, enzymatic science, transgenic animals and microbiology, before multiple patent offices (CN, US, EP, JP, KR and others). He has gained in-depth understanding in Chinese IP laws and patent practice, as well as laws and practice under other major jurisdictions.
From 2018 to 2021, Dr. Tu has done significant work in patent invalidation and pre-litigation analysis, validity/patentability analysis, freedom-to-operate opinion, landscape analysis, trade secret and due diligence for foreign and local enterprises, including a number of programs relating to antibody/ADC drugs, immunotherapies and gene therapies.
Representative cases that Dr. Tu has participated include
- Assisting a pharmaceutical company in Beijing in a license-in agreement of two bi-specific antibody related projects from an international enterprise (2019);
- Assisting a pharmaceutical company in Shanghai in its IPO, providing IP related due diligence on its product pipelines (2020);
- Assisting a pharmaceutical company in Beijing in a license-in agreement of an antibody-drug conjugated (ADC) related project from an international enterprise (2020);
- Assisting an investment corporation in investing multiple ADC related projects of several pharmaceutical companies in Beijing and Zhejiang (2020-2021);
- Providing freedom-to-operate opinions for an international pharmaceutical company regarding its two therapeutic polypeptide related products (2020);
- Assisting an investment corporation in investing a microbial fermentation related project of a company in Beijing (2020-2021);
- Assisting an investment corporation in investing a T cell therapy related project of a company in Beijing (2021);
- Assisting a pharmaceutical company in Beijing in its IPO, providing IP related due diligence on the product pipelines (2021);
- Assisting an investment corporation in investing an oncolytic virus related project of a pharmaceutical company in Zhejiang (2021);
- Providing freedom-to-operate opinions for an oncolytic virus related project for a pharmaceutical company in Guangdong (2021);
- Assisting an investment corporation in investing several cell-based therapy projects of a pharmaceutical company in Guangdong (2021);
- Providing landscape analysis regarding a therapeutic peptide product for an international enterprise (2021).
Beijing
Patent,Copyright,Other
Telecommunication,Computer Science,Internet Technology,E-commerce,Artificial Intelligence,Big Data Processing,Electronics Engineering,Electrooptical Technology,Medical Devices,Semiconductor
Chinese,English
Ms. Wan started practice in intellectual property affairs in Liu, Shen since 2007. Ms. Wan provides intellectual property related services such as patent drafting, patent prosecution, litigation, patent analysis, patent search, patent navigation, patent monetization, legal counseling, intellectual property strategy and so on for several clients, and gets widely praised as Excellent Patent Attorney Awards and so on. Ms. Wan also has been invited as an honored guest to attend clients’ production release conferences. Ms. Wan is dedicated to providing a wide range of high-quality intellectual property services for clients. Ms. Wan handles intellectual property affairs in the field of Electronics & Computer Science, Internet Technology, Signal and Information processing, Image Processing, Semiconductor Technology, Telecommunication, and Automation etc. Ms. Wan drafts patent applications and handles patent prosecution practice for many large domestic and foreign technology companies, and has participated in a large number of patent lawsuits, infringement analysis of standard essential patents (SEP), patent invalidation cases, patent search, analysis and navigation projects and FTO projects and so on.
Ms. Wan was admitted as a patent attorney in 2007 and admitted as a Chinese lawyer in 2009.
Ms. Wan received her Master of Laws (LLM) degree from The John Marshall Law School (JMLS) in Chicago, IL, USA, with a major on Intellectual Property Law, fall, 2012. During the study, she got a CALI Award by winning the highest grade on Substantive Patent Law class, and received the Graduate with Honors Award. Ms. Wan received her Master and bachelor's degrees both from Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication (BUPT) with a major on Signal and Information Processing Technology during 2000-2007. Before joining Liu, Shen, Ms. Wan worked in France Telecom R&D Beijing as an intern researcher in 2006.
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
I. Civil Litigation
- Samsung v.s. Ericsson patent invalidation request cases.
- Samsung v.s. Benxing lawsuits and related patent invalidation request cases.
- Qualcomm v.s. Apple patent invalidation request cases.
- Samsung v.s. Huawei lawsuits and related patent invalidation request cases.
- A technology company in Beijing, China v.s. an electronic technology company in Xiamen, Fujian, administrative investigation case and related patent invalidation request cases.
II. Free-to-Operate (FTO) consultation
- FTO case of an American motor company.
- Patent map, patent layout, patent mining and FTO cases of an information technology company in China.
III. Patent Analysis consultation
- Providing patent licensing related services for a large American computer service company.
- A large multinational mobile equipment company v.s.A large China mobile equipment company communication standard essential patent SEP infringement analysis.
- Providing a series of SEP infringement analysis in the communication field for a Japanese electrical appliance manufacturing company.
- Providing patent maps and analysis in the field of smart home for a Japanese electrical appliance manufacturing company.
HIGHLIGHTS
Published Articles include
- New Regulations on AI Generated Content Services in China, Liu, Shen & Associates newsletter, May 2023, in English
- Latest Case of Personal Information Protection Law and Its Inspirations, Liu, Shen & Associates newsletter, May 2022, in English
- Interpretation of Inventive Step Examination Rule of Inventions Involving Business Rules, in Top Ten Typical Cases of Patent Reexamination Invalidation in 2020, Liu, Shen & Associates newsletter, May 2021, in English
- The Supreme People’s Court Issued the Opinions on Lawfully Strengthening Punishment of Intellectual Property Rights Infringements, Liu, Shen & Associates newsletter, September 2020, in English
- Patent Issues Involved in Open Source Software, July, 2019, Liu, Shen & Associates NewsLetter, in English
- Big Data Analysis Method for Patent documents in the Information Age, February 26, 2019, IPLINK ASIA, in English
- Technology mining: the key to extracting maximum patent value, pages 13-17, China: Managing the IP Lifecycle 2018/2019, in English.
- Study on cited references which were not disclosed enough to judge novelty and inventiveness, Intellectual Property Frontier, 2016, Volume 1 (January –February), in Chinese
Domestic conferences that Ms. Wan has participated in include
- An English speech titled with “Business-Method-Related Patent Prosecution in China” in 2014 AIPPI China IP Seminar.
Awards that Ms. Wan has been honored with include
- “A” Class Patent Attorney Awards, awarded by Tencent corporation;
- Excellence for the Future Awards, awarded by Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) for winning the highest grade on Substantive Patent Law class during study in The John Marshall Law School (JMLS) in Chicago, IL, USA;
- Graduate with Honors Awards for GPA >3.75, awarded by The John Marshall Law School (JMLS) in Chicago, IL, USA.
All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)
All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)
Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
Member of the Party Construction Working Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association
Deputy Secretary General of Science and Technology Law Professional Committee of Beijing Haidian District Lawyers Association
Member of Foreign-related Legal Services Professional Committee of Beijing Haidian District Lawyers Association
Member of Professional Committee of Intellectual Property (Information Network and Hi-tech) of Sichuan Lawyers Association
Member of Training Committee of Sichuan Lawyers Association
Beijing
Patent
Mechanical Engineering,Medical Devices
Chinese,English
Mr. WANG began his legal career in patent laws and joined Liu, Shen & Associates in September, 2000.
Mr. WANG obtained the qualification as an attorney at law in 2004 and obtained the qualification as a patent attorney in 2002. Mr. WANG’s current practice mainly focuses on patent enforcement including patent litigation and administration proceedings, patent prosecution and invalidation in the technical fields of mechanical engineering, Industry Automation, Robot, Medicine Apparatus, Optics, display device, and so on. Mr. WANG’s services also include providing clearance opinions and patent strategy consultations for corporations, providing legal advice, and giving training on patent laws and related issues. Also, Mr. WANG has assisted Chinese applicants in patent application filing and prosecution with foreign patent offices, such as USPTO, EPO, JPO, KIPO, etc.
Mr. WANG obtained a bachelor degree and a master degree for Mechanical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Mr. WANG further obtained a master of law degree (LLM) from The John Marshall Law School in the United States of America in 2007.
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
I. Civil Litigation
• JAKKS Pacific vs. Beijing Yuqing (2008), patent infringement litigation, Beijing First Intermediate Court (First Instance) and Beijing High Court (Second Instance), representing the plaintiff (patentee).
The Court decided in favor of the patentee in patent infringement proceedings and the defendant was ordered for injunction and damages of RMB 200,000.
• Kohler v. East Plumbing (2008), patent infringement litigation relating five Kohler’s Design Patents, Beijing First Intermediate Court (First Instance) and Beijing High Court (Second Instance), representing the plaintiff (patentee).
The Court decided in favor of the patentee in patent infringement proceedings and the defendant was ordered for injunction and damages of RMB 200,000.
• ESCO v. Ningbo Fumei (2008), patent and trademark infringement litigation, Beijing High Court (Second Instance), representing the plaintiff (patentee).
The Court decided in favor of the patentee in patent infringement proceedings and the defendant was ordered for injunction and damages.
• IEE v. Golden T imes (2013), patent infringement litigation and patent invalidation, Beijing Second Intermediate Court (First Instance), representing the plaintiff (patentee).
The infringement litigation was settled before the Court and the defendant agrees to stop the infringing activities.
II. Patent Invalidation or Administrative Litigation
All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)
All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)
Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
Beijing
Patent
Mechanical Engineering,Vehicle Engineering
Chinese,English
Mr. Wang specializes in patent prosecution, patent invalidation, and patent infringement litigation. He specialized in patent prosecution works on the fields of vehicle, industrial device, sport equipment, and other mechanical engineering.
Mr. Wang received a bachelor degree in vehicle engineering from Hebei Industrial University in 1998 and a master degree from China Academy of Machinery Science & Technology in 2006. Mr. Wang had worked in the Beijing Research Institution of Mechanical & Electrical Technology (BRIMIT) for 9 years and joined in the law firm, Liu, Shen & Associates in 2007.
Representative cases that Mr. Wang has led or participated include
- Kedou v. Samsung, patent infringement litigation, Nanjing Court, representing the defendant Samsung. Successful non-infringement defense. Successful invalidation of Kedou’s patent. (2016)
- Hechi v. Samsung, patent infringement litigation, Nanjing Court, representing the defendant Samsung. Successful non-infringement defense. (2015)
- WAGO v. Cixi Aolinsen, patent infringement litigation, Ningbo Intermediate Court, representing the plaintiff WAGO. The court decided that the defendant stop infringement and pay damages. (2011)
- WAGO v. Jinghong, patent infringement litigation, Wenzhou Court, representing the plaintiff WAGO. The court decided for patent infringement and the defendant was ordered for injunction and damages. (2014)
- WAGO v. Dingli, design patent infringement litigation, Ningbo Court, representing the plaintiff WAGO. The court decided for patent infringement and the defendant was ordered for injunction and damages. (2015)
- Xu Zhanqing v. KOBOTA (Japan), patent infringement dispute and patent invalidation proceeding, which involves five patents, representing the patentee. The five cases are still pending. (2013-2015)
- Wei Zhiguang v. Guanghua company, utility model patent infringement dispute and patent invalidation proceeding, representing the defendant. (2012)
- Lilin v. Ruimeng, patent invalidation proceeding, representing the patentee. The patent right is validated. (2013)
- Caihong v. WINTERWARM, patent invalidation proceeding, representing the patentee. The patent right is validated. (2014)
- Oukejia v. Weidi, design patent invalidation proceeding, representing the patentee.
All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)
All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)
Beijing
Patent
Material Science,Semiconductor,Chemical Engineering
Chinese,English
Ms. Xiao joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2007 and became a qualified patent attorney in 2009. She specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination, patent invalidation, and client counseling with a focus on printing technology, display technology, semi-conductive material, metal material, polymer material, and chemical engineering.
Ms. Xiao had a master's degree from Tsinghua University in 2004.
Representative cases that Ms. Xiao has led or participated include
- Arkema (France) V. Mexichem Amanco (Mexico) (assignor: Ineos), representing Arkema.
Beijing
Patent
Mechanical Engineering,Vehicle Engineering
Chinese,English
1. Mr. Xu obtained a bachelor degree of Mechanical Engineering and Automation from Tsinghua University in 2013; and obtained a master degree of Materials Science and Technology from Tsinghua University in 2016.
2. Mr. Xu joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2016; got qualified as a patent attorney in 2016; and got qualified as an attorney at law in 2019.
3. Mr. Xu mainly engages in patent related IP fields, comprising patent application and prosecution, patent invalidation and disputes.
1. Mr. Xu has been handling with patent applications affairs for many multinational corporations (GM, TE, and etc.) for more than 3 years;
2. Mr. Xu drafted many new patent applications for many corporations, including Schneider electrics, Kone elevators, Leili motors, Suez Environnement, and etc.
3. Typical cases:
- Representing a well-known solar cell company AT to invalidate a patent of a German company;
- Representing a well-known semiconductor company LH to protect its patent in invalidation procedure;
- Representing a well-known cement equipment company SM to sue a company for patent infringement.
All-China Patent Attorneys Association (ACPAA)
