Liu, Shen & Associates

Patent

Vice President

Ms Yali joined in the firm in 1997 and mainly specializes in patent prosecution, re-examination, patent invalidation, patent licensing, IP litigation, and client counseling with a focus on electrical engineering, automatic control, telecommunication, electronics, computer science, the internet, business methods, big data, and artificial intelligence.

Ms. Shao also leads various legal service projects and legal research, including:

Patent Analysis Services:including patent infringement analysis, patent searches, and invalidation possibility analysis;    Patent Licensing Services: including SEP (Standard Essential Patent) licensing under the FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) framework, and various non-SEP licensing services;    Patent Protection Research: including patent protection research in specific technical fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), 2G/3G/4G/5G telecommunication standard technologies, Wi-Fi standard technology, and audio/video codec technology;    Patent Legal Research: various researches on patent law and related regulations, with suggestions for law and regulations amendments.

Representative Researches led and participated by Ms. Shao include:

-     A series articles on SEP (9 articles in total), 2023;

-     Report on Intellectual Property Protection for Artificial Intelligence (in Chinese and English), 2021;

-     Report on Intellectual Property Protection for Artificial Intelligence, 2019;

Chinese，English

Member of All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

Member of All-China Patent Agents Association (ACPAA)

Patent Committee member & Programme Committee member at Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI)

President of Patent Committee at AIPPI China Group

Ms. SHAO had a master's degree in automation from Beijing Jiaotong University in 1995. Before joining this firm, Ms. SHAO worked as a teacher at Beijing Institute of Technology for two years. She received training from Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington D. C. in 2004.