Haidong Yu

Practice Areas

Mr Yu is a licensed Lawyer, Patent Attorney and Senior Partner of Lifang & Partners. He is also the author of several practitioners guides to patent law, which have been well received by readers. His books include The Guidance of Patent Practice which is used by many who are studying for the Chinese patent bar.

Mr Yu has abundant experience in intellectual property litigation, patent re-examination and invalidation, antitrust reviews and litigation, as well as trade secret and technical contract disputes. In addition, Mr Yu also handles many non-contentious matters, including long-term legal services, moot court, IP due diligence investigation, IP risk warning and analysis, cross-licensing, patent standardization, equity-based incentive policy design, and other matters.

Mr Yu has worked as an IP professional at CNIPA and some multinational companies including Samsung. He has practised intellectual property law for 15 years. He has gained significant insights from his experience in handling IP matters of great international influence. Many of the cases that he led or participated in have been selected as Supreme People’s Court Top 10 IP Cases and Chinese Court Typical 50 IP Cases, Typical Cases of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court on its 5th Anniversary, and so forth.