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Fangda Partners
27/F North Tower Beijing Kerry Centre
1 Guanghua Road Chaoyang District
Beijing 100020
China
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Position

Partner

Career

Alexandra Yang is a preeminent ip trial lawyer focusing her practice on high-profile ip and antitrust litigation. Ms. Yang advises and works with multinational and high-tech companies in industries such as telecommunications, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and it, regarding global ip issues.

Alexandra Yang is one of China’s premier IP litigators.  As a recognized consulting expert to the Chinese Supreme Court’s IP Research Center, she has extensive experience in every area of IP law, including patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secrets.  Ms. Yang represents many Fortune 500 companies and leading technology companies in their most important matters, such as Apple v. Qualcomm, Apple v. Ericsson, Apple v. IWNCOMM, Apple v. Corephotonics, Apple v. Unwire Planet, Apple v. IPCOM, Intel v. VSLI, Intel v. Yide, Microsoft v. Neodron, Microsoft v. WSOU, LinkedIn v. WSOU, Cisco v. Dunjun, Meta v. Wireless Wonders, IBM v. IVTC, OPPO v. Sharp, VIVO v. Nokia, Xperi v. Samsung, Astellas v Chia Tai-Tianqing, Pfizer v. CNIPA, Eli Lilly v. Watson, New Balance v. Zhou.  Many cases led by Ms. Yang are groundbreaking in furthering development of the intellectual property and competition laws in China.  She has taken more than thirty cases to trial in the Supreme Court, with four recognized as “Annual Top Cases” by the Supreme Court.  She argued the Eli Lilly v. Watson case before the Supreme Court which is the only invention patent case being recognized as a “Guidance Case” by the Supreme Court from 2010 to 2020. Ms. Yang has been consistently ranked as a leading IP litigator in Chambers, Legal 500, IAM Patent 1000, WTR, Managing IP, Benchmark litigation for her IP practice in China.  The most recent awards include: Band 1, Intellectual Property Litigation, Chambers and Partners (2023), Band 1 Patent Litigator, IAM Patent 1000 (2023),  Band 1 trademark Litigator, WTR (2023), leading individual, Legal 500 (2023), Patent Star, Managing IP (2023), litigation Star, Benchmark (2023) and others.  IAM recognizes Ms. Yang as one of the “the country’s most formidable patent litigators.”  WTR has also recognized Ms. Yang as “the crème de la crème of Chinese IP litigators” who “is heavily involved in multiple high-profile disputes,” and “the teams she develops always create and execute winning legal strategies that yield outstanding results.”  Ms. Yang is the only Chinese lawyer ranked in Tier 1 by both IAM for patent litigation and WTR for trademark litigation through 2019 to 2023. The IP litigation team she leads at Fangda has been consecutively named as “Band 1 China IP Litigation Firms” ten years in a row from 2014 to 2023 by Chambers & Partners.

Languages

English,Chinese

Memberships

Admitted to practice in the PRC

Admitted to practice before the State Intellectual Property Office

Education

Peking University, School of Law, LL.M.

Yanshan University, School of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, B.E.

Lawyer Rankings

China > Intellectual property: PRC firms

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Alexandra Yang – Fangda Partners

Fangda Partners largely assists multinational clients with complex litigation cases in China before provincial High Courts and the Supreme People’s Court. The team is well-versed in a range of IP issues including patent and trade mark infringement, copyright litigation, unfair competition and trade secret issues. Clients of the firm come from a variety of sectors, from technology, gaming and e-commerce to telecoms, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. The team has been particularly active in anti-unfair competition and anti-monopoly cases recently. IP trial lawyer and antitrust specialist Alexandra Yang co-leads the team from Beijing alongside Shanghai-based James Hu. Hu handles patent, copyright and trade mark litigations, while Beijing-based Fang Qi assists electronics, telecoms and pharma clients with complex IP cases. Over in Shanghai, Tingting Liao is an expert in patent infringement cases and Muran Sun specialises in patent and trade secret litigation. Associates Christine Dong and Lin Qin are noted for their knowledge in contentious IP matters from Beijing and Shanghai, respectively.