Lei Lu Attorney-at-law

Working Experience

2021.9-Now   Shanghai Glinks Law Firm   Intellectual Property Attorney

2019.6-2021.8   Unitalen Attorneys at Law Shanghai Branch   Patent Attorney

2012.3-2019.5   General Electric (China) Co., Ltd.   Patent Manager

2003.6-2012.3   ZTE Corporation   Intellectual Property Consultant

2001.6- 2003.6   Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.  R&D Engineer

Education Background

1998.9-2001.6, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Optoelectronics, postgraduate

1991.9-1995.7, Anhui Normal University, Physics, Bachelor’s degree

Introduction

Mr. Lu Lei has been engaged in technology and intellectual property-related work in domestic communication companies and multinational enterprises, and has rich experience in corporate intellectual property management, patent agency, counseling and dispute resolution. In terms of corporate IP management, he has established patent management systems within companies, involving risk control, communication mechanism, practice flow and quality management; in terms of patent agency, he has written and defended a large number of cases, involving industries such as communication, semiconductor, artificial intelligence, medical and home appliance; in terms of consulting, he has provided patent layout and mining, patent warning, comprehensive patent analysis and FTO (Free to Operate) to business departments within companies; in the field of dispute resolution, he has been involved in licensing negotiations and patent infringement disputes involving standard patents, as well as patent invalidation in the fields of medical devices and communication equipment.

Lu Lei has in-depth research and unique insights in the field of intellectual property, and has published several professional articles in journals and platforms such as “Patent Agent”.

Representative Cases

1. Licensing negotiations and responses to litigated infringement of communication standard patents, involving analysis of license rates, review of license agreements and analysis of product infringement.
2. Categorize and value patent assets within an enterprise, create a combination of documents on infringement comparisons based on competitors, and prepare a database for business negotiations and litigation in advance.
3. Combed and established IP practice processes based on Six Sigma quality management methodology, and developed normative documents such as guidelines, templates and best practices for various points in process control.
4. Represented more than two thousand patent application and defense cases, including cases filed for the first time in China, cases entered into China from abroad and cases filed for the first time in the United States.
5. Searchedrelevant U.S. patents, decompose and compare features, and issued legal opinions regarding an electronics group’s products to be exported to the U.S., thereby reducing the risk of objective infringement and avoiding the determination of willful infringement.
6. In a patent infringement case of an NPE v. communication terminal enterprise, provided the defendant with a response strategy, initiated patent invalidation procedures, and finally made the plaintiff withdraw the lawsuit based on the stability of patent rights.

Academic Publications

1. Analysis on Software Patent Infringement
2. Discussion on the Composition of Crimes in Intellectual Property False Litigation
3. Brief Discussion on the Logic of “Innovative Thinking” in Intellectual Property