Profile

Experience

• Active in the field of industrial property law since 2005 (including 10 years of professional experience in China)
• Representing a number of well-known global companies in the information technology, telecommunications, Internet and semiconductor industries
• Extensive experience in strategically managing patent portfolios for multi-national clients
• Representation in infringement proceedings for intellectual property infringements in China

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) with a focus on precision instruments and measurement and control technology
• PhD in laser physics and physical optics at Tsinghua University
• Admission as a Chinese patent attorney (2007)
• Admission as a Chinese lawyer (2013)
• Basic training in European patent law in London (2011)
• Training as a European Patent Attorney (since 2016)

Technical specialties

• Information technologies
• Artificial Intelligence
• Optics
• Electrical engineering
• Telecommunications
• Semiconductor technologies

Legal areas

• Experience in the preparation of patent and utility model applications (CN, US, EP and PCT) including the support of the corresponding Examination procedure
• Experience in the review and disposition of patents and utility models in opposition and nullity proceedings
• Experience in patent infringement proceedings
• Experience in creating Freedom-To-Operate analyses
• Experience in the development of patent strategies and the enforcement of patent rights against patent infringers

Patent law activities

• Chinese patent law
• Chinese trademark law

Languages

• Chinese
• English
• German

Courses/Publications/Lectures

• In-house training on Chinese patent law

Interests

• Jogging
• Hiking