Chang Tsi & Partners

Intellectual Property / Patent Prosecution / Corporate Law

COO / Partner

Chief Operating Officer, Chang Tsi & Partners Director, vice president and General Counsel, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group General Manager of Legal Department, General Manager of Online Management Department, General Manager of Patent Affairs Department, Baidu Group

Chinese/English

Master's supervisor at Peking University Law School Researcher at the Intellectual Property Center of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law Technology ethics expert at the Ministry of Science and Technology Member of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Education Base of the Ministry of Education Council member of the China Copyright Association Vice chairman of the China Intellectual Property Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce

Master's degree in intellectual Property Law, Peking University Law School (2009) Bachelor degree in Electronic Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2005)

Philip Qin, a lawyer, is the Chief Operating Officer of Chang Tsi & Partner. With over a decade of experience, he has served numerous large-scale internet enterprises, bringing an international perspective and rich management experience in corporate legal affairs, intellectual property rights, risk control, compliance and other areas. Prior to joining Chang Tsi, Mr. Qin served as a director, vice president, and general counsel at Alibaba Cloud, where he established a comprehensive risk control system and achieved significant results in litigation and dispute resolution, legal research, intellectual property, contract management, corporate governance, and etc. He received high recognition from the industry.

Previously, he held the positions as the General Manager of Patent Affairs Department, General Manager of Online Management Department and General Manager of Legal Department at Baidu Group. During his tenure, Mr. Qin helped the companies to win many awards such as "National Intellectual Property Demonstration Enterprise", "China Top 100 Innovation Enterprises" (the first echelon), and Asia IP Elite. He also contributed to the companies’first-ever highest award in the patent field, the“China Invention Patent Gold Award,”as well as the“China Invention Patent Silver Award”and etc.

As the Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Qin is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the law firm. He coordinates, supervises, and manages the firm’s operations to ensure efficient functioning and the delivery of high-quality services to the clients. As the Vice Director of the firm’s management committee, he is in charge of managing patent application and commercial legal business, directly overseeing the work of the patent application department, patent process department, and commercial legal department.

Representative Cases Representing several cases of unfair competition for internet companies, representative case was honored as one of the top ten innovative intellectual property cases by the Supreme People's Court of China, and was written in the White Paper on Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property of the Supreme People's Court of China Representing internet storage, cloud services infringement of copyright dispute cases, with one of the representative cases being honored as one of the“Fifty Typical Intellectual Property Cases in Chinese Courts”by Supreme People’s Court. Acting in disputes over copyright infringement caused by new technologies like peer-to-peer, among which a copyright case that a large copyright party against a large internet company was awarded the“Best Case of EU media Infringement Law”. First Case: Internet open platform copyright infringement dispute (Platform liability).