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Our President

Linda LIU, Ph.D. in chemical engineering ,the founder and president of Linda LIU & PARTERNS, Chinese patent attorney( license number: 11277001； practice area: pharmaceutical chemistry, material chemistry).

Languages

(1) Native language: Chinese
(2) Foreign languages: English, Japanese

Educational background:

1. Graduated from Department of Chemistry of Beijing Normal University in 1988, B.S.
2. Graduated from Department of Chemistry Department of Beijing Normal University in 1991, M.S. in pharmaceutical chemistry.
3. Graduated from Engineering Department of Yokohama National University, Beijing University of Science & Technology in 1998, Ph.D.
4. Further study on patent prosecution practice in the Chemistry Department of Nakamura & Partners, Japan, 1999
5. Further study on patent prosecution practice in the Chemistry Department of British Bout Wade Tennant, Britain, 2000
6. English Training in Oxford University, Britain, 2000

Working experience:

1. Lecturer of the Science Department of Beijing University of Science &Technology, Beijing, August 1991- February 1997
2. Patent Attorney in Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agent Co., Ltd., Beijing, December 1984 - October 2002
3. Representative of Japanese Branch Office, Sanyou Intellectual Property Agent Co., Ltd., Tokyo Japan, August 2000 – October 2002
4. Researcher in Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP),
5. Founding LINDA LIU & PATNERS, August 2003 – Now

Linda LIU has original view and made deep study on IP, especially conducted detailed comparative research on Japanese and Chinese IP, and published many theses in this filed. During the period from January, 2002 to June, 2003, she published 23 theses in the authoritative Japanese periodicals or magazines (see STUDIES). The contents of these articles cover patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, copyright, conflict between different intellectual properties, service invention. For example, Schedule of Comparison between the Japanese Patent Law and its Chinese Counterpart, which was published in November 2002, in No.2 of IP Prism, sponsored by the Japanese Economy Investigation Committee; Schedule of Comparison between the Japanese trademark Law and its Chinese counterpart, which was published in May 2003 in the same above magazine, and Changes and Prospects of Intellectual Property System After China's Entry Into the WTO, published in Patent Research, NO.34, October 2002.

The working staff of the firm also actively write and publish articles or theses, making academic research besides dealing with the patent prosecution.