Mr. Jin is a partner of Yuanhe & Twelve Tables, and an of counsel of Jun Wang & Associates. He has rich trial experience in IP litigation. With a physics background, patent litigation experience of more than a decade, as well as patent prosecution experience for several years, Mr. Jin is skilled in handling IP as well as Competition cases involving high technology elements. He is admitted to China bar and SIPO (CNIPA).

From 2017 to 2019, he represented Qualcomm against Apple in several patent infringement cases before multiple Chinese courts, among them, one second instance case was listed as one of the annual top cases of SPC in 2018. In 2012, he won a re-trial patent infringement case before PRC Supreme court, which was named in “2013 annual IP report of Supreme Court”. The rational was later codified to be one article of the Judicial Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law on Patent Infringement (II) issued by SPC.

Mr. Jin is a director of the China Intellectual Property Research Association, a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), and a member of the Patent Law Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association. He has been consistently recognized as a global patent expert by IAM Patent and as an intellectual property expert by Asia IP. Mr. Jin also serves as an intellectual property appraisal expert at the Beijing Jingzhou Intellectual Property Service Center and as an external mentor at the Law School of China University of Political Science and Law for Master’s Degree students.

Representative Cases Mr. Jin Successfully Advocated

• Representing Qualcomm in f if teen cases against Apple for patent infringement and won a preliminary injunction in Dec. 2018. (one of the cases was selected in the “2018 annual IP report of Supreme Court” and was selected as one of the guideline cases of Supreme Court).
• Representing Qualcomm in three cases to defend Apple’s accusation of patent infringement.
• Representing Qualcomm in three declaratory judgment actions to defend Apple’s request of confirming non-infringement.
• Represented a PRC company in a patent litigation re-trial procedure before Supreme Court and prevailed. (This case was selected in the “2013 annual IP report of Supreme Court” and was selected as one of the guideline cases of Supreme Court).
• Represented Qualcomm in a series of patent litigations and patent invalidation procedures against Meizu, and successfully forced the defendant to settle with Qualcomm.
• Represented Nokia as a defendant against GPNE in a patent litigation, and successfully forced GPNE to settle with Nokia.
• Represented De’longhi Kenwood as a defendant against SEB in a series of patent litigations, and successfully forced SEB to settle with De’longhi.
• Represented Huawei in a patent invalidation procedure and prevailed.
• Represented Mitsubishi Chemical in a series of patent litigations against a local company and prevailed.
• Prevailed PRB in a series of patent administrative procedures to keep Nikon’s basic patents to be valid.
• Represent HuntKey in the second instance patent litigation action and reverse the first instance judgment.
• Represented BOSCH Corporation in a computer software copyright Infringement case before Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court against a local company and won.
• Handled anti-trust case between two Chinese pharmaceutical companies, which is the first anti-trust case involving SEP in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Prevailed PRB in a series patent administrative procedures before Beijing Higher Court to overrule the PRB decision and keep Nikon’s basic patents valid.

Professional Experience
Founding Partner, Twelve Tables Law Firm (2019-?)
Partner, LexField Law Firm (2017- 2019)
Senior Associate, King & Wood Mallesons (2011-2017)
Patent Attorney, GeCheng and Co. (2006-2011)

Bar Admission
Member of the P.R.C Bar Association
Chinese Patent Attorney

Education
Master’s Degree in Physics, Tsinghua University (2005)
Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, Tsinghua University(2002)