Representative Contentious IP cases in China

• Represented Sogou in more than 20 patent invalidation and infringement lawsuits against Baidu, involving human-computer interaction technologies such as input methods, the Internet and smart terminals; this series of cases was called “China’s first Internet patent case" and was rated as an Outstanding Deal in Commercial Law of 2019 and 2020; some of the cases were voted by the Supreme Court of China as exemplary cases in intellectual property law

• Represented the defendant Sony in a standard essential patent infringement litigation initiated by Xi’an Xidian Jietong involving mobile phone technology before Beijing Intellectual Property Court; this case was voted as one of the ten most important IP cases tried by Beijing IP Court in 2016

• Represented Sony in a patent invalidation case before the Patent Reexamination Board, involving WAPI standard patents; this case was nominated as the first case of the top 10 cases before the Patent Reexamination Board in 2016

• Represented Kudelski Group, NagraVision and Open TV in a series of patent infringement litigations against Apple involving digital security, smart phone technology before Beijing Intellectual Property Court; this case was voted as one of the ten most important IP cases tried by Beijing IP Court in 2016

• Represented Hengbao Co. Ltd. in a patent infringement case before Beijing High Court against Watchdata Technologies, involving physical authentication methods for making online payments; this case was selected as one of the “Top Ten Hot IP Cases in 2016" by the IPhouse

Semiconductors

• Represented Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. in handling patent invalidity and infringement litigation in the semiconductor field, including forensics, slicing, technical feature comparison, etc.

• Represented Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. in responding to a patent infringement war in the semiconductor field initiated by a world-renowned semiconductor company, involving semiconductor design processes and devices, and finally helped the client reach a global settlement with the semiconductor company

• Represented JCET in patent invalidation, patent and trade secret infringement cases and patent ownership disputes involving semiconductor packaging

• Represented an American semiconductor company handling the consultation of trade secret rights protection, involving the production technology of memory chips across China, the United States and Taiwan

• Represented a semiconductor company in Wuhan in handling patent application acceleration matters; based on a full understanding and elaboration of the patented technology, successfully obtained the patent for the client. The technology involved “acoustic resonator"

• Represented Fudan Microelectronics in negotiating with U.S. and European companies on patented technologies related to international standards for radio frequency technology, and drafting the license agreement

• Represented Rambus on technology licensing matters with partners in China’s joint venture projects, involving DRAM chips

• Advised Zhongke Cambrian Technology Co., Ltd., a unicorn in the chip field, in the process of IPO on intellectual property issues, and Cambrian has been successfully listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board

• Represented an internationally renowned chip company in anti-monopoly investigations held by relevant state agencies involving technology, intellectual property rights, and standard patents

• Represented Actions in contract review involving integrated circuits and chips

• Represented Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. in the potential patent infringement and software copyright infringement cases and issuing a C&D Letter

• Represented a domestic high-tech company to negotiate a license with FINISAR on a core standard patent on the photoelectric converter technology

• Represented Shaanxi Wright Optoelectronics, a domestic OLED material giant, in patent stability and non-infringement analysis and patent license negotiations, and successfully assisted the client to reach a patent license with a company, involving organic compounds and manufacturng processes in the OLED field

Wireless Communications and Internet

• Represented Qualcomm in preparing for a standard-essential patent litigation involving frequency-hopping spread spectrum

• Represented Samsung, the defendant in a patent infringement litigation, successfully invalidated the plaintiff’s patent and obtained a ruling to dismiss the suit

• Represented Qualcomm in preparing for a standard-essential patent litigation, involving frequency-hopping spread spectrum

• Represented Tencent before the Beijing No.1 Intermediate Court on invalidity of patent claims involving the “People around" technology of WeChat and won the case, and this case has been widely followed by the media and the industry. The winning rate of similar cases is only 11%

• Represented an internet company in a series of patent invalidation and administrative litigation against Alibaba, involving online payment, identity verification, online certificate authentication, etc.

• Represented Sogou in a lawsuit seeking declaration of non-infringement against Jiugong involving the input method technology; the Supreme People’s Court of the Intellectual Property Court made a final judgment confirming that Sogou does not infringe Jiugong’s patent; this case has seen the final ruling of the Supreme Court in retrial, denying Jiugong’s request for review

• Represented NETGEAR in a patent infringement case filed by Shenzhen Dunjun Technology Co., Ltd., involving wireless router products and related technologies

• Represented NETGEAR in response to patent administrative investigation cases and parallel patent invalidation cases in multiple local intellectual property offices filed by a well-known foreign NPE, involving wireless router products and related technologies

• Represented NETGEAR in responding to patent infringement lawsuits filed by a well-known foreign NPE’s Chinese licensees in multiple courts, involving wireless router products and communication-related technologies

• Representing NETGEAR in a litigation against a series of malicious litigations filed well-known foreign NPE’s

• Represented Microsoft (China) in a copyright infringement lawsuit before the Supreme Court of China for retrial involving operating system fonts

• Represented Microsoft in a lawsuit against Zhongyizhongbiao before the Supreme Court of China involving a font patent

• Defended Microsoft in a patent infringement lawsuit involving XBOX before the Beijing No.1 Intermediate Court

• Represented RealNetWorks in an arbitration on software technology licensing disputes before China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC)

• Represented RealNetworks in a software copyright infringement dispute involving audio/video encoding and decoding technique in mobile phones and computers

• In the SAP v. YOK case, successfully represented the plaintiff, SAP, in a series of software copyright infringement cases before the Shenzhen Futian Court; the court ruled that the defendant YOK committed copyright infringement and issued an injunction

• In the SAP v. YOK case, successfully represented the plaintiff, SAP, in a software copyright and unfair competition case before the Shenzhen Nanshan Court; the court ruled that the defendant YOK committed copyright infringement and unfair competition

• Represented Samsung, the defendant in a patent infringement litigation, and successfully invalidated the plaintiff’s patent and obtained a ruling for dismissing the suit before the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court

• Represented Ericsson (Sweden) for invalidation of a number of invention patents filed by a domestic company

• Successfully represented Ubiquiti, a U.S. client, in a software copyright infringement lawsuit before Shenzhen Intermediate Court

• Represented Shenzhen RoadRover Technology Co., Ltd in a series patent invalidation cases involving car multimedia navigation system and won the cases

• Represented an Australian company for preparation of filing a patent infringement lawsuit in the field of telecommunications

• Represented Shenzhen Ultra Multi-dimensional, a leading company in the field of 3D display, and won the first trial on the 3D mobile phone invention patent infringement case

• Represented Huawei to conduct research and analysis on intellectual property related legal issues in the AI field, and issued analysis reports including intellectual property protection strategies, intellectual property clause drafting, medical AI legal risks, etc.

• Represented Ant Technology Group Co., Ltd. in evaluating the stability of a series of patents involving data processing and search engine technology

• Advised Google on Chinese intellectual property legal issues

• Advised IBM on legal analysis opinions on the use of open source software

• Represented British Telecom in negotiating on standard essential patent licenses, involving wireless communication technology

• Represented Amazon on applying a new top-level domain name and establishing a domain name registration center

Electronics

• Represented Nikon Corporation (Japan) in invalidation proceedings and administrative cases that ruled dismissal of the request for review involving several invention patents in the field of lithography

• Successfully represented Haier in a series of patent infringement cases before the Supreme Court of China against several chip makers

• Represented Verily, a life science company under Google, in a patent litigation, involving medical electronic devices

• Represented 720 Degrees suing Nintendo’s electronic game devices for patent infringement, involving Nintendo’s Switch with a cumulative global sales of more than 60 million units, and this case should be the first patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo in recent years

• Represented Shenzhen Jiedian Technology Co., Ltd. in a series of patent administrative litigations against Shenzhen Laidian Technology Co., Ltd., involving mobile charging, Internet communication technology, etc. (2019)

• Represented South Korean Netmarble in a copyright infringement and unfair competition case against Shanghai Kehuan Information Technology Co., Ltd. and obtained an award of large damages in the first instance. The original judgment was upheld in the second instance

• Represented AVIC Lithium Battery Co., Ltd. vs. Leitian Winston Battery Co., Ltd. in a patent infringement case involving solid-state batteries

• Represented Shenzhen RoadRover Technology Co., Ltd in a series of patent invalidation cases involving car multimedia navigation system worldwide and won the cases

• Advised Suzhou Jinshahu Venture Capital Management Co., Ltd. on intellectual property due diligence and FTO investigations on the target company, involving mobile phone identification and recycling technologies

• Represented Chaojun Plastic Electronic Products (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. to conduct global technical and legal analysis on the free implementation of ink cartridge-related technologies

• Represented UNIZ Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. in the comparison and analysis of the target companies’ products and patents involving 3D printers

• Represented Hefei Taihe Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. in the investigation of FTO, involving solenoid valve technology

• Represented Egis Technology Inc. in patent stability evaluation matters, involving optical fingerprint technology

• Represented NAGRA, a European group company, in patent package licensing and transfer matters, involving more than 500 global patents, involving electronic payment cards, NFC, etc.

• Advised Cognex, a global visual industry supplier, in a potential software infringement matter

• Represented Changsha Intelligent Driving Research Institute Co., Ltd. to provide legal services on domestic autonomous driving processing data compliance and transaction matters

• Advised Schneider on intellectual property issues, such as due diligence in the mergers with and acquisitions of Chinese companies

Chemistry and Energy

• Represented the world-renowned petrochemical company Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) in a series of patent infringement cases involving polymer manufacturing and separation technology

• Represented the world-renowned petrochemical company Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) in multiple patent invalidation cases, and successfully invalidated the target patents in whole or in part, involving the manufacturing process of polyarylene ether and solvent recovery technology

• Represented an American chemical company in a trade secret dispute involving the preparation process and equipment of new chemical materials

• Represented Organic Waste Systems NV, a Belgian waste disposal company, in a series of patent infringement lawsuits against multiple infringers in the Zhengzhou Intermediate People’s Court, involving environmental protection, green energy technology, and government projects, and won damages in RMB  6 million for the client, and the cases have been upheld by the Supreme People’s Court in the second instance

• Represented Organic Waste Systems NV, a Belgian waste disposal company, in an invalidation case before the National Patent Office and successfully maintained the validity of the patent

• Represented ExxonMobil, a global petrochemical giant, in potential patent infringement disputes, involving the heterophasic polypropylene technology

• Represented BASF, a lobal petrochemical giant, in conducting pre-litigation work such as patent infringement investigations, and prepared to file a patent infringement case involving surface treatment agent technology

• Represented Huntsman, a world-renowned manufacturer of fine chemicals, in a patent invalidation litigation involving the polyisocyanurate technology

• Represented Shenzhen Xinhao, a high-tech company in the optoelectronics field, in a lawsuit for breach of contract with Corning, a global giant in the field of special glass. The contract involved a trade secret dispute over secondary glass strengthening technology

• Represented Yara International, a world-renowned fertilizer and chemical products company, in a patent ownership dispute with its former employee, involving the chemical field

• Represented Energy Recovery Inc, a well-known American energy recovery company, in a patent infringement case involving energy recovery and seawater desalination technology

• Represented a well-known Sichuan pharmaceutical company in China in a criminal dispute on trade secrets involving pharmaceutical equipment and processes, and the judge of first instance announced all the defendants guilty of infringing trade secrets

• Represented Tianjin Lianli Chemical Co., Ltd. in winning a patent infringement lawsuit against a chemical company in Zhejiang

• Represented Tianjin Lianli Chemical Co., Ltd. in winning a trade secret infringement lawsuit against a chemical company in Zhejiang

• Represented Florida Food in handling patent invalidation cases and obtained favorable decisions, involving food chemistry

• Represented a Norwegian chemical company in a case where a former employee stole the company’s trade secrets and applied for a patent without authorization

• Represented Qoros Auto in the patent cases involving hybrid technology of oil and electricity

• Represented Air Product, the world’s leading industrial gas company, in handling special equipment safety compliance matters, involving chemical equipment

• Represented Exxon in a series of patent stability analysis cases involving chemical materials and manufacturing processes

• Represented Enze Fund under China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation to conduct due diligence on the legal status, ownership, assignment and licensing status of intellectual property rights of the invested target company, assess the stability of the target company’s core patents, and assess the target company’s core patents to evaluate whether they infringe other’s patent rights, involving the field of fuel ethanol

• Represented Enze Fund under China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation to conduct due diligence on the legal status, ownership, assignment and licensing status of intellectual property rights of the invested target company, involving the field of fuel cell

• Represented Enze Fund under China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation to conduct due diligence on the legal status, ownership, assignment and licensing status of intellectual property rights of the invested target company, investigate whether there are compliance and infringement risks for the core personnel of the target company's technical team and the source of the technology, involving the field of optical energy-saving materials

• Represented China National Nuclear Power Co.,Ltd to conduct due diligence on the legal status, ownership, transfer and licensing status of intellectual property rights of the invested target company, and investigate whether the core personnel of the target company’s technical team and the source of technology have compliance and infringement risks, involving the field of uuclear power field

• Represented Sumitomo Chemical, a world-renowned chemical company, in technology-related disputes, including drafting and reviewing related intellectual property agreements and conducting due diligence of related intellectual property rights, etc.

• Represented Shenzhen Xinhao Photoelectricity Technology Co., Ltd and provided patent stability and non-infringement analysis for its Initial Public Offerings (IPO) process, involving cell phone cover glass technologies; Xinhao has been listed on GEM of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange

• Advised a U.S. cosmetics manufacturer on contract drafting and reviewing transactions with a Chinese raw material supplier

• Represented Schott, a world-renowned special glass supplier, in its intellectual property business in China, including working on contract-related legal risks, patent stability analysis, patent infringement analysis, etc., involving cell phone cover glass manufacturing processes and materials

• Advised Jiangsu Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. in intellectual property and held lectures on intellectual property protection for it

• Represented Washington Nuclear New Energy Company, funded by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, to negotiate with a Chinese company on the licensing of nuclear power generation technology and the establishment of a joint venture company, involving the field of nuclear energy

• Advised Northwest Electric Power Design Institute in perennial legal consulting services, including review and negotiation of foreign-related software development agreements, legal advice on font infringement issues, etc.

• Advised TBEA Xinjiang New Energy Co., Ltd. in response to a software copyright infringement lawyer’s letter issued by a graphics software company and issued a legal opinion

• Represented a company under China National Nuclear Corporation in technology introduction from the United States and Singapore and licensing negotiations, involving the field of cadmium telluride solar cells

• Represented Hanwha Solar in conducting patent due diligence on solar technology

• Represented Shandong Power Construction No. 3 Company in the negotiation of solar power technology import project with eSolar (United States)

Biology and Pharmacy

• Represented DNA Genotec in a patent invalidation litigation concerning saliva DNA sampling tubes, involving technology of biochemistry and DNA collectors

• Represented Hunan Qianshan Pharmaceutical in patent infringement disputes

• Represented ResMed, a world-renowned personal ventilator manufacturer, in responding to cases involving invention patents and utility patents infringement, and finally won a favorable settlement

• Represented Shanghai Cathay Biotechnology R&D Center Co., Ltd. and other related companies in the trade secret infringement cases against Shandong Hanlin Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Zhizhou Wang, Minghua Ge, Wubo Cao, Yuantong Chen, Li Huang and other related companies

• Advised China Resources Pharmaceutical Group in foreign drug import transactions to obtain relevant patents and know-how on medicines

• Represented Beijing Tianxinshi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. to conduct FTO analysis

• Represented Pharma Mar in evaluation of stability of drug patents

• Advised Pharma Mar on the policy of extending the protection period of pharmaceutical patents

• Represented Future Industry Investment Fund in cross-border investment projects with the world’s leading pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, assisted the client in establishing joint ventures in China and obtaining exclusive licenses and assignments of the joint venture’s pharmaceutical patents and technologies

Machinery

• Represented Bombardier, a large multinational company in the field of German aviation and ground transportation, in patent reexamination cases involving technologies used on monorail trains

• Represented Kautex, a tier 1 auto parts manufacturer, in a series of patent infringement litigation, patent administrative litigation and patent invalidation cases, involving auto parts and mechanical structure

• Represented Bombardier, a large multinational German company in the field of aviation and ground transportation, in patent reexamination cases involving monorail train

• Represented Kelly Slater Wave Co. LLC in the United States in a potential infringement case involving wave generators related to wave machines

• Represented SWEP International Co., Ltd. as the invalidation petitioner in filing a patent invalidation request. The patentee is a Swedish company whose technology involves brazing stainless steel products and methods

• Represented the patentee ERICO International in an invalidation case involving technology of strengthening welded bar joints and won the case

• Represented Shanghai Harbor Group in a patent infringement case against Chenghe Construction before Dongying Intermediate People’s Court

• Represented Shanghai Harbor Group in a patent infringement case against Nantong Jintong Construction Engineering Company before Nantong Intermediate People’s Court

• Represented Xinhe Xiongfei Pile Machinery Factory in a patent infringement litigation with Weihai Haitai Hoisting Machinery Co., Ltd., involving Programmable Logic Controller pile cranes

• Advised Sichuan Shuangma Cement Co., Ltd. in its trademark, patent, technical know-how and other intellectual property protection matters, involving cement manufacturing technology

• Advised Beijing Automobile Baihui Technology Development Co., Ltd., a third-party think tank in the field of electric vehicles, in long-term legal service on software system service contracts

• Represented Shanghai Harbor Group in negotiating patent infringement issues with French Mena, and successfully repelled the French company

Others

• Represented Hyperice, a professional rehabilitation technology company for athletes, in patent invalidation and related infringement lawsuits, involving fascia guns

• Represented Ninebot and Segway in an invalidation case involving self-balancing vehicle unicycle technology

• Represented Ninebot and Segway in a patent infringement lawsuit before Beijing Intellectual Property Court and Beijing High Court involving self-balancing personal transporter technology, and related patent invalidation before the Patent Reexamination Board

• Represented the U.S. company BRADY in a trademark infringement litigation, and won the case in the first instance, second instance and retrial

• Represented BRADY in a domain name dispute with a domestic company before the Beijing Higher People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Court

• Represented BRADY in a trademark infringement and unfair competition disputes against two domestic companies due to improper registration and use of domain names

• Represented LEGO in a series of rights protection actions such as trademarks and unfair competition

• Successfully represented U.S. Ubiquiti in a trademark criminal case before Shenzhen Baoshan Court of Guangdong Province, and the defendant was convicted of counterfeiting trademarks

• Provided legal service for a Shanghai-based company in suing a Zhejiang-based company for infringement of copyright, trade secrets and unfair competition in the first domestic intellectual property infringement case in the financial information industry

• Represented Shenzhen Neewer Technology Co., Ltd. to file for arbitration before the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center for a .com domain name

• Represented the Bill Gates & Melinda Foundation initiated by the world’s richest man in technology licensing negotiations with Vanke, involving battery-free vaccine storage equipment

• Represented a government-affiliated institution directly controlled by the People’s Bank of China to review the bidding and procurement documents for large-scale software development projects, and provided legal advice on supporting supervision, testing, and related software license and purchase agreements

• Represented Beijing Aqiu Technology Co., Ltd. in patent due diligence services

• Advised Transee on IP ownership terms with partner companies and employees

• Represented a national construction institute to conduct contract review and negotiation for foreign-related software development agreements

• Advised the American Ayla Networks, Inc and the related joint venture company on review and negotiation services for its APP license agreement and intellectual property layout and related licensing agreements

• Represented Yunfeng Company in negotiating with the U.S. Lifetime Company on the introduction of patented technology and drafting a license agreement

• Advised Jiangsu Yueda on due diligence on the target company’s intellectual property rights, involving textile manufacturing technology and design

• Advised Rulersmith IP on a patent infringement case with Shanghai Keling Stationery Co., Ltd.

• Represented Ameziel to conduct FTO on storage rack

• Represented Cushy to conduct FTO on sofa

• Represented Reed Krakoff, a fashion designer, to conduct due diligence on Chinese design patents

• Represented a well-known domestic crafts company to purchase U.S. patents