Alexandra Yang
Greater China Region Guide 2024
Band 1 : Intellectual Property: Litigation (PRC Firms)
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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.
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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.
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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 (2022), Band 1 trademark Litigator, WTR (2022), leading individual, Legal 500 (2022), Patent Star, Managing IP (2022), litigation Star, Benchmark (2022) 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 2022. The IP litigation team she leads at Fangda has been consecutively named as “Band 1 China IP Litigation Firms” nine years in a row from 2014 to 2022 by Chambers & Partners.
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