LIN Li

Area of Practice
Ms. Lin specializes in patent prosecution. She has an background in science and technology as well as law. Her expertise and experience comes from 18 years of government employment in the patent area. She is familiar with all relevant laws, regulations and practices in all areas concerning patent examination procedural and substantive issues, reexamination or invalidation, administrative litigation, patent exploration, administrative enforcement, patent strategy, patent management, and IC layout design protection.

Working Experience

Ms. Lin joined Lifang & Partners and Beijing Intellectual Property Institute (BIPI) in September 2007 to specialize in patent prosecution. From 2001 to 2005, she served as a patent examiner on the Patent Re-examination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), where she was responsible for substantive patent examination, re-examination and invalidation, and undertook a great number of patent administrative litigation cases. From 1998 to 2000, she was an investigator in the legal affairs sector in the Patent Office of SIPO, responsible for administrative review and patent related matters. From 1991 to 1997, she was an assistant investigator in the SIPO patent administration department, responsible for patent exploration, administrative enforcement, patent strategy study and patent administration for State Council ministries and commissions. In 1988-1989, she was an editor with Industrial Property, the official journal of the former China Industrial Property Society (now China Intellectual Property Society). In 1983-1987, she was assistant engineer of integrated circuit technical inspection and was responsible for quality management of military products. She received SIPO’s Meritorious Civil Servant Award in 1989 and 1999.

Education
-Postgraduate Course of International Commercial Law (IP major), Peking University, 1989-1991
-Bachelor of Science, Semi-conductor Physics and Apparatus, Physics Department, Sichuan University, 1979-1983
-Training and exchange courses in the European Patent Office (Germany and the Netherlands) and in South Korea

Qualifications
Ms. Lin became a Chinese licensed patent attorney in 2005 and practices in both Chinese and English.

Concurrent Post

Research fellow, Beijing Intellectual Property Institution (BIPI)

Publications

Ms. Lin has wrote or participated in the compilation of a number of academic articles and books during her years of work in the patent field, including:

-          Patent Law in Cases, Intellectual Property Press, 2008

-          Patent Management — China IP Course Book, Intellectual Property Press, 2001

-          Review of Typical Patent Dispute Cases, Intellectual Property Press, 2001

-          “Establishment and Implementation of A Patent Strategy”, Collected Papers of the IP Practice Symposium,  sponsored by China Intellectual Property Society, Dec/1998

-          Research Report on HDTV Patent Strategy, composed by State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and Ministry of Electronic Industry, Aug./1996

-          “On Legislation for IC Layout Design Protection”, Science-Technology and Law, published by China Law Association on Science and Technology, vol. 3 (1991)