Areas of Practice
Ms. Li received her master's degree from Tsinghua University and joined in Lifang & Partners in 2016. She is competent to deal with corporate compliance and international intellectual property issues.
Ms. Li focuses on IP area and corporate compliance, and is skilled in handling copyright, unfair competition litigation and non-litigation business. In the field of litigation, Ms. Li has represented many well-known companies, such as Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, Trimble and Dassault to deal with software protection in China, represented press, education and technology companies in work infringement cases, represented established domestic platforms in unfair competition cases, assisted in handling standard essential patent disputes of renowned communication enterprises at home and abroad. Additionally, for corporate compliance, Ms. Li has assisted domestic and oversea well-known enterprises in communication, semiconductor, internet and industrial enterprises in institutional improvement and special projects of IP, trade secret, U.S. export control, data compliance and open-source software. Ms. Li also served as a legal consultant for several companies, providing professional legal advice on daily consultations.
Notable Cases
- Represented Dassault in suing a car design company for computer software infringement, which was included in the 50 Typical Intellectual Property Cases of Chinese Courts in 2023 published by the Supreme People's Court and the Top Ten Cases of Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property of Beijing Courts in 2023 published by the Beijing High People's Court.
- Represented Microsoft, Autodesk and other renowned companies in suing a number of end user software copyright infringement cases, and achieved satisfactory results.
- Represented a well-known workplace social platform in unfair competition litigation, assisted the client to successfully defend its core business model, and the case was selected as a typical case of intellectual property disputes involving digital economy in Beijing Haidian District People's Court.
- Assisted a well-known semiconductor company in establishing its internal US export control system, and provided consulting services on matters related to US export control.
- Assist well-known Internet enterprises in establishing intellectual property management systems and trade secret management systems.
- Assisted a number of domestic and overseas companies in the Protection Impact Assessment of cross-border transfer of personal information, and assisted clients to successfully complete the filing of standard contracts.
Publications/Articles
- Annual Review on Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution in China (2021)&(2020), Commercial Dispute Resolution in China: An Annual Review and Preview (2021)&(2020), China Legal Publishing House, 2021&2020 (with XIE Guanbin, LI Fengfeng)
- Chambers Copyright Global Practice Guide (2020) (with ZHANG Bin, etc.)
- Fair Use of API Software Code - A Case Study of Oracle v. Google, Lifang Observation, Apr. 2021 (with ZHANG Yan, LI Qiufeng)
- Handbook of Electronic Evidence Collection and Verification of Intellectual Property, LexisNexis, 2020, (with ZHANG Bin)
- Handbook of Intellectual Property Risk Prevention in Electronic Game Industry, LexisNexis, 2020, (with ZHANG Bin)
- Blue Book on Compliance and Protection of Unfair Competition Related to Intellectual Property, 2019, (with XIE Guanbin, ZHANG Bin, etc.)
- Blue Book on Damages for Intellectual Property Infringement Cases in China, 2019, (with XIE Guanbin, ZHANG Bin, etc.)
- Mechanical Licensing Collective in US Music Modernization Act, Lifang Observation, Jul. 2019, (with ZHANG Juanxia, etc.)
- Highlights and Main Contents in US Music Modernization Act, Lifang Observation, Jun. 2019, (with ZHANG Juanxia, etc.)
- Brief Analysis of the Inspiration and Reference of the U.S. Music Modernization Act to China's Digital Music Copyright Licensing Model, Lifang Observation, Jun. 2019, (with ZHANG Juanxia, etc.)
- Legislative Trend of Critical Information Infrastructure Protection System, Lifang Observation, Jul. 2017
Education
- LLM, Tsinghua University
- B.A of English, Northeastern University
Qualifications
- China Licensed Lawyer
Working Languages
- Mandarin Chinese
- English