Liu, Shen & Associates

IP Litigation

Partner

Mr. Yao specializes in providing legal service related to patent law. Based on the extensive experiences from patent prosecution and litigation in almost fifteen years, Mr. Yao has deep understanding on the spirit of China patent legal system. As the leading attorney, Mr. Yao has handled patent disputes for various international and domestic enterprises. Mr. Yao has the expertise to design overall litigation strategy based on specific cases and also the strong ability to summarize and analyze case details for the best of the clients. Mr. Yao is proficient in patent searching, with excellent skills in making searching strategy based on combined searching resources, establishing solid basis for the success of patent invalidation.

In technical field, Mr. Yao successfully represents France Staubli in a patent infringement case on textile machinery, which is selected as one of 2013 Top 10 IP cases in Jiangsu High Court. The corresponding patent administrative case is selected as one of 2017 guiding cases in Supreme Court. In telecommunication field, Mr. Yao participates a high-profile SEP infringement lawsuits, involving complicated determination of patent infringement, overloaded evidence summarizing and new FRAND issues. Further, Mr. Yao also provides patent related services for various enterprises, such as Qualcomm, Samsung , Schneider, Siemens, Knipex, Aux, Opple, GoerTek, OFO, Delphilaser, and is highly praised by the clients.

Mr. YAO keeps a close eye on development in IP law system in China and is active in reviewing IP hot issues and providing opinions in law amendments. Mr. Yao has solely or jointly published research articles on many topics on patent law. Mr. Yao has made presentations in many international IP conferences, with heated responses.

Chinese，English

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)

Beijing Aeronautics and Astronautics University (2005)；

US John Marshal Law School (2014)；

China University of Political science and Law (2017)