Fang Qi

Dr. Qi’s primary practice areas cover intellectual property-related transactions and litigation and antitrust litigation.

Dr. Fang Qi has represented clients in all stages of patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright and antitrust litigation. Fang has extensive experience working with electronics, telecommunication, new energy, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, consumer goods, and manufacturing companies. A number of Fang’s cases have been selected as annual leading or top ten cases by the Supreme Court, the regional high courts and the State Intellectual Property Office. Fang is a frequent speaker on various intellectual property and antitrust issues and co-author of the treatise “Intellectual Property Rights in China” (Westlaw, Business Laws of China). Fang was named as one of the 100 top attorneys by China Business Law Journal and recommended by Chambers, China Law and Practice and Asialaw as a leading lawyer in the intellectual property litigation.

Fang graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and articles editor of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review.

Admitted to practice before the SIPO

Admitted to practice before the USPTO

Admitted to practice in the PRC

Admitted to practice in New York

Protection of Information as Trade Secrets in China，Fang Qi and Danae Wu, China Law & Practice, September 2021.

The Fourth Amendment to the Patent Law, Fang Qi and Danae Wu, China Law & Practice, November 2020.

A Panoramic View of China’s Changing IP Landscape, Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, February 2020

Annual Review on Intellectual Property Legislation and Practices, China Law & Practice, February 2020

Highlights from the SPC’s 2018 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Cases, Fang Qi and Melanie Zheng, China Law & Practice, Q3 2019

Review of the Supreme People’s Court’s 2017 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Cases, Fang Qi and Melanie Zheng, China Law & Practice, Q3 2018

How a Foreign Partner Secures its IPR Transfer in China, Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, Q2 2018

Private Antitrust Litigation Guide–China, Fang Qi, Practical Law, December 2017

Parallel Imports and Chinese Intellectual Property Laws, Fang Qi and Keira Li, Practical Law, June 2017

Top Court Boosts Trademark Protection, Tackles Bad Faith, Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, Q2 2017

Legal Basis for Bringing Private Antitrust Litigation Actions, Fang Qi, Practical Law, 2016

Understanding the Courts’ Approach to Trade Secret Cases, China Law & Practice, January 2016

SEP Lessons Learned From Huawei v. ZTE, Fan Guo and Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, August 2015

China: Antitrust Litigation, Fang Qi, The Asia-Pacific Antitrust Review, 2015

What the WeChat Case Says about Court Trends, Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, May, 2015

China: Antitrust Litigation, Fang Qi, The Asia-Pacific Antitrust Review, 2014

The Pains of Judicial Reform, Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, September 2014

Consideration of Economic Evidence by Chinese Courts in Antitrust Litigation, Fang Qi, Yan Luo and Marshall Yan, Competition Policy International, February 2014

Courts Get Tough on Resale Price Maintenance, Fang Qi & Haiyan Tao, China Law & Practice, September 2013

Failing to Define the Relevant Market, Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, July 2013

Curbing Damage Awards, Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, March 2013

Microsoft v. Motorola: License of Standard Essential Patents, Fang Qi, Nye Wang, Technology Innovation and Intellectual Property, 2nd Issue, 2013

Prior Art Defense in Patent Litigation: A Legal Quagmire? Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, January, 2012

Web Search War: Renren v. Baidu, Fang Qi & Tingting Liao, China Law & Practice, November 2011

Searching For a Seller, Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, July 2011

Uneasy Options, Fang Qi, China Law & Practice, February 2011.

Columbia University School of Law

J.D