Lindong LIU

Business expertise

Attorney Liu Lindong has dual qualifications as Chinese attorneys at Law and a patent attorney. And he is quite familiar with domestic and foreign intellectual property laws and regulations, which enables him to have in-depth appreciation on IP industry and deeper understanding and insight on providing overall solutions for customers' IP issues. And Mr. Liu has rich experience in the protection, layout, confirmation and protection of intellectual property rights of enterprises, especially in patent review, invalidation, administrative complaints, administrative litigation and protection of patent rights.

Working experience:

Mr. Liu has provided professional legal services for a number of well-known enterprises and research institutes at home and abroad since the beginning of his career, such as FORD, NIKE, LG in Korea, Japan Toyota, Otsuka pharmaceutical group of Japan, Umicore international catalyst technology company, Kehui LP company, healthcare group in Singapore, National university of Singapore, Academia sinica of Taiwan, Chinese academy of sciences, Beijing Tongren hospital and research institute in Dunhuang, etc. He has represented more than 1,000 basic patent businesses, and hundreds of invalid patents and litigation businesses.

Typical cases:

1.Patent infringement case of playing the Pi-pa: It was selected into the top ten cases of intellectual property protection in Gansu province in 2010.

2.The patent infringement case of "draw-bar box" appearance design of a famous luggage company: the defendant in the case is a well-known large-scale domestic e-commerce platform JD. And the judgment in this case has a great influence on the determination rules of the safe haven principle in the industry, and was rated as the typical case of intellectual property rights in 2016.

3. An application for invalidation of a patent for an electric unicycle: was rated top ten cases of review invalidation in 2018 by the China National Intellectual Property Administration because it was involving the application of the law on confidential examination and domestic priority. And CCTV 12, China IP News and Sohu had a special report on the case.

4. Leading Enterprise in China's Agricultural Industrialization, "aircraft carrier" of China's vinegar industry -Shuita Group "Luo Guanzhong" old aged vinegar case regarding dispute over invalidation and verification upon patent for invention.

5. Zhejiang enterprise v. British Dyson Technology Co., Ltd. (case regarding dispute over invalidation upon patent for invention “A new type of hair dryer")  

6. In the series of intellectual property rights protection cases of Hangzhou West Lake Music Fountain, the copyright dispute is called "the first case of China's fountain copyright dispute", which has caused great repercussions in the theoretical and practical circles.

7. In the series of patent rights protection and verification cases of Jiangxi Lanxiang Heavy Industry, this case is the first remote trial case of patent invalidation in Jiangxi Province, and it was confirmed as the observation case of the 2019 National Circuit Tribunal Working Conference of the China National Intellectual Property Administration.

8. In the series of patent rights protection and verification cases of “China's leading brand of solid wood furniture" Xingye Furniture, we won a complete victory in all 13 patent invalidation cases in 2020.