In the latest Chambers and Partners 2018 Asia-Pacific Guide, LexField Law Offices topped the rankings for PRC Firm specializing in Intellectual Property: Litigation for the fourth time, in recognition of the firm's outstanding expertise, remarkable achievement and unrivaled client satisfaction. Meanwhile, senior partner Mr. Hongyi Jiang was ranked band 1 within this practice area, and senior partner Ms. Jan Liu also achieved the top ranking within in the field of Intellectual Property: Non-litigation.
Hongyi JIANG
As one of China's premier patent attorneys, Mr. Jiang
served with the Policy and Legislation Division of the State
Science and Technology Commission (former Intellectual Property
Rights Executive Conference Office of the State Council) from 1993
to 1996. During that period, he participated in several
rounds of Sino-US intellectual property negotiations. He went on to
found his private practice in 1996 and has devoted most of his time
to IP litigation- related matters. Headed by Mr. Jiang,
Lexfield's patent litigation team has handled numerous high
profile IP litigation cases, many of which have been selected by
the Supreme People's Court as the annual Top 10 Representative
Cases, or 50 Representative Cases regarding Intellectual Property.
Among several of these cases, Mr. Jiang raised fresh perspectives
regarding the application of patent law which became new judicial
standards and have since been incorporated into the relevant
judicial interpretations. Cases his team is currently handling
include: representing Qualcomm against Apple in a series of patent
infringement litigation cases within China, representing immersion
against Apple regarding patent infringement cases (this is the
first IP-related case Beijing Municipal High People's Court
handed after lifting first instance jurisdiction right), and
representing Huawei against Samsung for partial patent infringement
cases.
Jan LIU
Ms. Jan Liu has practiced intellectual property law since
1988 and is widely recognized as one of China's foremost
trademark attorneys. Ms. Liu has successfully represented many of
the world's leading corporations in various trademark portfolio
management and contentious work as well as unfair competition
matters. She has successfully handled a large number of complicated
trademark infringement cases, domain name disputes, internet
infringement cases and various unfair competition cases. Among her
more notable cases, she has successfully represented several
world-leading companies' efforts to have their trademarks
officially recognized as famous trademarks, subsequently
strengthening their legal security for a wide range of
goods/services. She has also successfully represented many leading
companies in stopping trademark infringements and unfair
competition work.
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