AnJie Broad Law Firm

Intellectual Property

Partner

Nick (Qinghui) Liu is a highly experienced and respected lawyer who concentrates his practice on the full spectrum of intellectual property, litigation and arbitration, antitrust and competition.

Prior to joining AnJie Law Firm (now AnJie Broad), Dr Liu served as a senior judge in the Beijing High People’s Court. He had tried more than 2,000 IP cases, including civil cases regarding patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets and unfair competition disputes, as well as administrative cases regarding patent re-examination, patent invalidation, trademark re-examination and trademark invalidation, many of which had a profound impact on the IP industry practice. Dr Liu specialises in cases involving trademarks, patents and trade secrets.

As a partner of AnJie Broad, Dr Liu has handled numerous high-profile cases, such as Sharp v OPPO (a very famous SEP case in China, which was rated as one of the top 10 IP cases in Chinese courts in 2020), AstraZeneca v Patent Re-examination Board (a milestone case for chemical compound-related inventions, which was rated as one of the 50 typical IP cases in Chinese courts in 2018) and Qualcomm v Apple.

Dr Liu published three IP-related academic monographs, Guideline for Patent Infringement Litigation in China, Application of the Law on Invention/Utility Model Administrative Lawsuits – Rules and Cases and Liability of Internet Service Providers on Indirect Intellectual Property Infringement. These books received wide acclaim among lawyers in China and are regarded as guidelines for resolving various IP-related issues. Dr Liu has also published many influential trademark or IP-related articles and essays in some well-known journals and magazines.

Dr Liu is often invited as a guest of honour by major IP conferences and conventions, where he has delivered keynote speeches on the rules for determining trademark infringement, patent administrative litigation practices and issues, the rules for determining patent infringement and interpreting patent claims, among other topics