Electrical Engineering Practice Group services clients’ patent activities in the front-edge of the rapidly evolving electronics and information technologies. Timely renewal of knowledge is critical a good patent prosecution. Understanding of new business models in the industry becomes necessary to fulfilling client’s need for counseling in patent strategy and management of patent portfolios. The Group keeps renewing itself in a way of fashion.

Practice cover all the areas of Electronics: Semiconductors, telecommunications, image processing, multimedia, optical storage, computers, IP-based convergence technologies, and other technical areas overlapping with electrical engineering such as medical systems, process control and intelligent transportation systems.

Technical competence is our advantage: Each of the group members has a degree in electrical engineering, or telecommunications, or image processing, or optical engineering or physics from top-ranked universities like Peking University, Tsinghua University, and BUPT. The senior attorneys used to have R&D experience with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The young attorneys, in pursuing their degrees of Master or PhD, were engaged into research projects in the frontline of technology development. By representing the clients of international companies as industry leaders, the attorneys continue to have access to most important innovations that are shaping the world of future.

Insight into patents: The group is proud to have four senior patent examiners of SIPO. What they bring to the Group is more than the best quality prosecution cases handled by themselves. They provide continuous training to others in the Group and even the entire Firm. They lasting and smooth-going communication with the current examiners help the attorneys and the clients in many ways. As a result of recognition for their seniority in the profession in China, they are more than once involved into discussions and expert opinions for the amendment of the Patent Law, and the Examination Guidelines.

Full range of services: The group’s services have met the needs of companies engaged in R&D, manufacturing and transactions of patent rights with a broad array of products and technologies. The cases drafted by them for international companies were filed to multiple jurisdictions. They worked on technical standard related patent with respect to essentialities and licensing. The counseled clients in the patentability of the contentious business method related inventions that would be not patentable otherwise. They provide support to the Litigation Group of the firm in patent invalidation and trials at courts.

The group is headed by ZHU Jingui and WANG Bobo.