Personal description

Yue Guan is an associate based in the firm’s Beijing Office, where he has been practicing since 2020. He practices in the area of patent law with a focus on patent infringement, reexamination, invalidation proceeding and prosecution, with his areas of technical expertise primarily focusing on chemistry, pharmaceutical and mechanics.

Before joining the firm, Yue used to work for China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) as an examiner for about six years, mainly engaged in the substantive examination and reexamination of the invention patent applications in the chemical field. The experience equips him with a better understanding of China’s patent prosecution landscape and allows him to advise clients in respect of patent drafting, examination, reexamination, invalidity, as well as administrative and civil litigations.

A select list of Yue Guan’s recent work includes:

● Representing a domestic pharmaceutical conglomerate in prevailing in an invalidity proceeding and the ensuing administrative litigation against a competitor;

● Providing FTO legal opinion for a domestic material magnate;

● Providing patent validity analysis for a foreign material giant;

● Providing legal opinion for a domestic pharmaceutical corporation;
● Representing a domestic chemical corporation to invalidate a pesticide patent;
● Representing a pharmaceutical giant in a patent administrative litigation;
● Representing a foreign financial equipment manufacturer in various patent matters, including patent infringement litigations, patent invalidity proceedings and the ensuing administrative litigations;
● Representing a foreign bicycle accessories manufacturer in patent infringement litigations and invalidity proceedings.