Ms Alexandra Yang > Fangda Partners > Beijing, China > Lawyer Profile

Fangda Partners
27/F North Tower Beijing Kerry Centre
1 Guanghua Road Chaoyang District
Beijing 100020
China
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Partner

Career

ALEXANDRA YANG IS A PREEMINENT IP TRIAL LAWYER FOCUSING HER PRACTICE ON HIGH-PROFILE IP AND ANTITRUST LITIGATION. MS. YANG ADVISES AND WORKS WITH MULTINATIONAL AND HIGH-TECH COMPANIES IN INDUSTRIES SUCH AS TELECOMMUNICATIONS, ELECTRONICS, PHARMACEUTICALS, AND IT, REGARDING GLOBAL IP ISSUES.

Alexandra Yang is one of China’s premier IP litigators.  As a recognized consulting expert to the Chinese Supreme Court’s IP Research Center, she has extensive experience in every area of IP law, including patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secrets.  Ms. Yang represents many Fortune 500 companies and leading technology companies in their most important matters, such as Apple v. Qualcomm, Apple v. Ericsson, Apple v. IWNCOMM, Apple v. Corephotonics, Apple v. Unwire Planet, Apple v. IPCOM, Intel v. VSLI, Intel v. Yide, Microsoft v. Neodron, Microsoft v. WSOU, LinkedIn v. WSOU, Cisco v. Dunjun, Meta v. Wireless Wonders, IBM v. IVTC, OPPO v. Sharp, VIVO v. Nokia, Xperi v. Samsung, Astellas v Chia Tai-Tianqing, Pfizer v. CNIPA, Eli Lilly v. Watson, New Balance v. Zhou.  Many cases led by Ms. Yang are groundbreaking in furthering development of the intellectual property and competition laws in China.  She has taken more than thirty cases to trial in the Supreme Court, with four recognized as “Annual Top Cases” by the Supreme Court.  She argued the Eli Lilly v. Watson case before the Supreme Court which is the only invention patent case being recognized as a “Guidance Case” by the Supreme Court from 2010 to 2020. Ms. Yang has been consistently ranked as a leading IP litigator in Chambers, Legal 500, IAM Patent 1000, WTR, Managing IP, Benchmark litigation for her IP practice in China.  The most recent awards include: Band 1, Intellectual Property Litigation, Chambers and Partners (2023), Band 1 Patent Litigator, IAM Patent 1000 (2023),  Band 1 trademark Litigator, WTR (2023), leading individual, Legal 500 (2023), Patent Star, Managing IP (2023), litigation Star, Benchmark (2023) and others.  IAM recognizes Ms. Yang as one of the “the country’s most formidable patent litigators.”  WTR has also recognized Ms. Yang as “the crème de la crème of Chinese IP litigators” who “is heavily involved in multiple high-profile disputes,” and “the teams she develops always create and execute winning legal strategies that yield outstanding results.”  Ms. Yang is the only Chinese lawyer ranked in Tier 1 by both IAM for patent litigation and WTR for trademark litigation through 2019 to 2023. The IP litigation team she leads at Fangda has been consecutively named as “Band 1 China IP Litigation Firms” ten years in a row from 2014 to 2023 by Chambers & Partners.

Education

  • Peking University, School of Law, LL.M.
  • Yanshan University, School of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, B.E.

Lawyer Rankings

China > Intellectual property: PRC firms

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Alexandra Yang – Fangda Partners

One of the few firms in China with an established IP appellate litigation and advocacy practice, Fangda Partners‘ enviable track record includes numerous appearances before both the country’s provincial high courts and PRC Supreme Court. On the non-contentious side, the practice covers domestic and cross-border deals involving procurements, acquisitions, assignments, licensing, brands, patents and copyright. The team is co-led by renowned IP litigator Alexandra Yang and former Shanghai High People’s Court judge, James Hu. The department further includes IP infringement and anti-counterfeiting specialist Richard Lin; Fang Qi, an adviser to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, petrochemical, telecoms, and manufacturing companies; and Hans She, whose experience covers high profile non-contentious proceedings. Also key to the group, Claudia Yun assists with IP-related transactional and litigation work, while Tingting Liao predominantly focuses on patent litigation and invalidation matters, as well as trade secret disputes. The counsels to note are Christine Dong and Lin Qin.