Guanyang Yao

Mr. Guanyang Yao focuses on providing legal services related to Patents and Trade Secrets. He has extensive experience in handling complicated patent invalidation, patent infringement and administrative disputes and trade secret disputes. Mr. Yao also provides legal opinions on patent validity analysis, infringement and FTO analysis, IP due diligence research, patent portfolio strategy consulting and commercial strategy making.

Mr. Yao is good at designing overall litigation strategies based on each case and also paying attention to the details, with the purpose of providing practical and effective legal opinions to achieve maximum legal rights for clients. As the leading attorney for litigation team, Mr. Yao has represented various domestic and international enterprises in multiple patent disputes, including Qualcomm, Schneider, Aux, Goerteck, covering technical fields such as engineering, automobiles, weaving machine, software, telecommunication, SEPs, home appliance and medical device.

Multiple cases handled by Mr. Yao are selected as annual IP representative cases, such as Qualcomm v. Apple, Samsung v. Huawei and Aux v. other air conditioner manufacturers. Some of his cases provide guidance to pending legal issues such as application of FRAND rules in the telecommunication industry. In a weaving machine patent infringement case, Mr. Yao represented a French company to successfully reverse the Supreme Court decision, which is ranked as Supreme Court 2017 guiding case.

Mr. Yao keeps a close eye on developments of the China IP legal system and actively investigates IP hot issues, providing opinions on amendments of Patent Law. Mr. Yao especially focuses on the hot issues of patent invalidation and infringement in medical device, telecommunication and new energy field. Mr. Yao publishes numerous professional articles on SEP patents, patent case study, patent infringement damages, China patent legal system analysis and so on. Mr. Yao makes speeches in domestic and international IP conferences, such as AIPPI forum and INTA annual meeting.