Professionals
NIE, Huiquan Partner, Deputy General Manager, Senior Patent Attorney Working Languages: Chinese, English Download
Practice Experience:
Ms. NIE Huiquan has expertise in patent invalidity, patent litigation, patent prosecution, patent analysis, patent strategy and portfolio management, patent due diligence and FTO search, etc.. Ms. Nie’s technical background is particularly in mechanical, automatic, electrical and electronic technologies, semiconductor, image processing, display and lighting, mechanics, automation, etc. Ms. NIE has represented well-known companies from around the world in over 1,000 patent cases. She has been recognized by many clients for helping them win a lot of important invalidation and litigation cases, including CIMC, LG Electronics, Delta Electronics, ZTE, and Dajiang. For example, in 2019, she represented HKC who was accused of patent infringement in a series of patent infringement lawsuits concerning “LCD panel” and helped the client won the series of lawsuits, and in 2018, she represented the patentee, Jiangsu New Century, won a significant administrative lawsuit before the appeal court by revoking an invalidation decision on a key patent. She was awarded “Three-star Patent Attorney” by the China Intellectual Property News in 2017 and was awarded “Outstanding Patent Attorney” by the Beijing Patent Attorneys Association in 2018. Ms. NIE has written many articles on patent practice, including the article "How to Objectively Determine the Technical Facts Disclosed by a Reference Document" which was rated as an excellent paper in 2015 by the All-China Patent Attorneys Association and the article "How to Use Technical Effects and How to Describe the Same" which was rated as an excellent paper by ACPAA at the 7th IP Forum held in 2017.Ms. NIE joined Lung Tin in July 2006.
 
Ms. NIE was licensed to practice as a Chinese Patent Attorney in 2004, and is one of the first batch of litigation attorneys recommended by the All-China Patent Attorneys Association in 2013.
Work Experience:

Lung Tin Intellectual Property Agent Ltd., Partner, Deputy General Manager, Senior Patent Attorney

Education/Trainings:

Master’s Degree, China University of Political Science and Law,in Economic Laws (IP)
B.Eng., Shandong University of Science and Technology, in Mechanical Design and Manufacturing
 

Social Activities and Honors:
Member of Expert Advisory Committee of Supreme People's Court Intellectual Property Case Guidance Research Base (Beijing)
Training Lecturer of China National Patent Agent Association
Training expert certified by Capital Intellectual Property Service Industry
Three-star Patent Attorney, by the China Intellectual Property News
Outstanding Patent Attorney, by the Beijing Patent Attorneys Association

 

Publications/Presentations:
Speaker, “Analysis of What are High-quality patents and How to Avoid Common Misunderstandings Thereof by Studying High-damage Patent Litigation Cases”, Beijing, IPRdaily Live Broadcast, August 2020
Speaker, “Study of How to Determine ‘Significant Differences’ between Designs in Practice by Analyzing the JMC Design Patent Invalidation Case", headline on IPRDAILY, May 2019
Author, “New Development in Chinese Practice on Calculation of Patent Damage Awards” , December 2018 Issue, China Intellectual Property
Lecturer, “How to Respond to Office Actions and Make Amendments to the Patent Application”, 14th Patent Attorney Training Program held by ACPAA, November 2018, Beijing, China 
Author, “Use of Invalidation Grounds in combination”, October 2018 Issue, Intellectual Property Lawyers' Collection (3rd) 
Author, “How to Use Technical Effects and How to Describe the Same”, June 2018 Issue, Developing the Quality of Intellectual Property Services and Deepening the Implementation of Innovation-Driven Development Strategy
Author, “Overview of Development in the Calculation of Amount of Patent Infringement Compensation from Judicial Cases”, May 2017 Issue, Patent Agency
Speaker, “How to Improve Patent Quality of Enterprise”, the 11th Sino-US Companies’ IPR Forum, November 2018, Beijing, China
Author, “Judicial Practice of Determination of ‘Substantially the Same’ in Design Infringement”, September 2016 Issue, Intellectual Property Lawyers' Collection (2nd)
Author, “Application of Psychological Contract Concept in Quality Management of Patent Agents”, September 2016 Issue, Intellectual Property Lawyers' Collection (2nd)
Author, “Interpretation of the Working Mechanism of Disclosure to Defend Inventiveness”, May 2016 Issue, Patent Agency 
Author, “How to Objectively Determine the Technical Facts Disclosed by a Reference Document”, January 2016 Issue, Collection of Excellent Papers on Application of Articles 22 and 23 of the Chinese Patent Law, 2015 Academic Seminar held by ACPAA
Author, “Discussion on the Identification of Commonly Used Technical Means in the Practice of Inventiveness Examination”, January 2012 Issue, Theory and Practice on Inventiveness / Article 22 of the Chinese Patent Law
Working Languages:
Chinese, English