LIU, Mitchell

Mitchell Liu has both qualifications of lawyer and patent attorney, which make him capable to provide all-around resolution strategies for clients. Mitchell Liu always focuses on intel-lectual property legal service relevant to dispute resolution and non-litigation matters. In particular, technology-related intellectual property dispute resolution cases.

Mitchell Liu’s team provides legal services for domestic and international clients, which covered on different types company, including large private or public domestic companies and central and local state owned enterprises, foreign invested enterprises incorporated in China, financial banks, other financial institutions and investment funds, etc. and which covered on different industries, including mechanical manufacturing, semiconductor, chemical material, medicine, Internet technology, media, etc.

Mitchell Liu is the member of IP Department which is comprised of 86 practicing lawyers，among which nearly 20 lawyers are also patent attorneys. Senior partners, senior IP coun-sellor and experienced lawyers constitute the team. These lawyers not only include the litiga-tion lawyers who previously worked in Supreme People's Court, Higher People's Court, all-level Procuratorates and governmental departments as well as legislative organizations, but also many of them now still serve as arbitrators from different arbitration organizations of regions. Therefore, we are able to provide clients with effective solutions on the ground of their deep understanding upon application of laws and regulations, government approvals and supervision requirements, together with all kinds of complicated legal procedures .

Mr. Liu has represented several intellectual property cases with benchmarking significance, such as acting for Samsung, Korea to handle patent infringement cases and patent inva-li-dation cases；acting for Brother Industries, Ltd. (Japan) in both court and administrative proceedings against local Chinese infringers；the patent infringement case filed by 3M of the United States, which was selected as one of the Top 10 IPR case of Shanghai court in 2012; Represented Youku against Dianshimao Software on preservation measure application for unfair competition case, which was selected as the one of Top 10 IPR case of Shanghai court in 2018；Represented Taiyuan Heavy Industry’s Invention infringement disputes, which was selected as the one of Top 10 IPR case of Shandong Province court in 2018；provide legal service to Shanghai Mikrona Co., LTD. for trade secret criminal case relevant to its’ ex-serving employee；provide legal service to ASR MICROELECTRONICS for trade secret criminal case. Additionally, two patent infringement lawsuits with a target value of over 100 million yuan; trademark contract arbitration cases between domestic companies and well-known US companies. These cases have had a good impact at home and abroad, arousing concern in society and the industry.

Education Background

• Mitchell Liu graduated from Fudan University with Juris Master Degree; graduated from Shen Yang University with Bachelor Degree in Economic Law; graduated from Shen Yang Sci-ence and Engineering University with Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Electronics Engineering.

Social Titles

• Mitchell Liu is the deputy chairman of Intellectual Property Committee of Shanghai Bar As-sociation, Secretary general of Intellectual Property Association of China（Shanghai）Pilot Free Trade Zone, Director of China Law Association on Science &Technology . Mr. Liu is the representative of the 11th Shanghai lawyers Congress and the member of the Executive Committee of Allbright Law Offices

Honors

• Mitchell Liu was named as recommended lawyer in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021 for in-tellectual property litigation business. He was awarded 2016 ALB China Top 15 IP Lawyer and was awarded China Ex-cellent IP lawyer Top50 in 2018-2019. He was awarded Recom-mended Lawyers of Legal 500 in Asia-Pacific. He was awarded Elitist Volunteer of Shanghai EXPO in 2010 by Shanghai EXPO Executive Board during his tenure as "Legal Adviser on Vol-unteer Work for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo in China” and was awarded "Advanced Lawyers for the Expo" by the Shanghai Bar Association. It has also been hired by the Shang-hai Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Committee as the "Sixth Volunteer Lawyers of Consumer Rights in Shanghai".

Professional Articles

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