Overview:

Mr. Liu’s practice focuses mainly on patent prosecution. He has successfully represented multiple clients, including some gigantic multinational corporations, in patent procurement and reexamination. He has handled hundreds of patent filings and prosecution cases in pharmaceuticals, agricultural pesticides, foods, cosmetics and related areas. Mr. Liu has also drafted and filed many patent applications for domestic clients and helps the clients obtain patent rights in countries/areas outside China, such as USA, Japan, and Europe. Mr. Liu is a member of patent search team of NTD life sciences and chemistry group, and has many years of experience in prior art search, patentability and validity assessment, and Freedom to operate/clearance search and analysis.

Education and Training:

• 06-07, 2016, Ceipi Summer School, France
  
• 1997-2004, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, M.M.

Qualification:

Patent Attorney since 2011                        

Technical Areas:

Chemistry and Biotechnology: Pharmaceuticals; Chinese traditional medicine; Agricultural pesticides; Foods; Cosmetics; etc.

Professional Affiliations:

All-China Patent Agents Association                        

Working Language:

English, Mandarin

Representative cases:

• Assessing the stability of a patent of a well-known multinational agricultural chemical company to foresee the challenges it may encounter in an potential invalidation case;
• Assessing the validity of an allowed transdermal patch patent for a client before initiating invalidation of the patent;
• Performing FTO search and analysis regarding a pharmaceutical chemical compound for a well-known multinational pharmaceutical company.