Mr. Xiang specializes in technological intellectual property protection and enforcement and has represented a lot of intellectual property litigation cases including the high-profile patent infringement cases between Qualcomm and Apple and has cases listed as Representative Annual Cases of SPC. Mr. Xiang has also worked as in-housel IP counsel for fortune 500 companies and has extensive in-house IP counseling and licensing experience for multi-national companies. Recently, Mr. Xiang has represented several top-tier investment firms to conduct IP due diligence and handle dispute resolutions in the investment sector and served as perennial legal counsel for several start-up companies.

Work Experience

Mr. Xiang is a partner at Yuanhe & Twelve Tables and serves as of counsel at Jun Wang & Associates. He has held long-term positions at Vestas, the world’s largest wind power company, and ABB, a global leader in power and automation technologies, where he managed IP matters in the China region. Additionally, Mr. Xiang worked for several years at King & Wood Law Firm and LexField Law Firm and then co-founded Twelve Tables Law. He has served as a member of the Patent Law Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association. From 2013 to 2017, he was the Vice Chair and subsequently Chair of the Patent and Innovation Committee of the QBPC (Quality Brands Protection Committee). Mr. Xiang is admitted to practice law by the China Bar Association and the California Bar. He is qualified to represent client before the CNIPA (China National Intellectual Property Administration) and passed the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) qualification exam.

Typical Cases He Represented Include

• Represented Danfoss in initiating trademark and copyright infringement litigation and successfully obtained full damages supported from the court.
• Represented Shandong Jingdao Semiconductor to defend a patent infringement accusation and won.
• Represented Lenovo in a patent infringement civil proceeding and invalidation and won.
• Represented TCL CSOT in multiple patent infringement civil proceeding and invalidations and successfully settled with the plaintiff.
• Represented Qualcomm in fifteen cases against Apple for patent infringement, and won two preliminary injunctions in Dec. 2018.
• Represented Qualcomm in three cases to defend Apple’s accusation of patent infringement.
• Represented Qualcomm in three declaratory judgment actions to defend Apple’s request of confirming non-infringement.
• Represented Immersion against Apple before Beijing High People’s Court for patent infringement.
• Represented Skyjet Digital Printing Equipment in a patent infringement appeal case before SPC and successfully won.
• Represented Mindray to defend its patent before CNIPA.
• Represented Tsinghua University in a 3D printing technology related patent infringement case.
• Represented a publicly listed medical service company to defend a 100 million RMB patent infringement accusation.
• Represented a domestic industry leader before SPC to enforce its trade dress against a local competitor. The case was listed as one of the Annual IP cases of SPC in 2010.
• Represented a US audio industry leader to enforce its software copyright against a local competitor and won.