Haitao Sha

Practice Areas

Mr. Sha has deep legal theoretical background and more than 20 years of legal practice experience. He is mainly engaged in litigation and non-litigation practice in the fields of intellectual property, anti-unfair competition and corporate commercial affairs. Mr. Sha also holds a doctorate in law and a master's degree in computer software engineering, and is adept at handling major and difficult cases with complex technical background and transnational intellectual property disputes.

Mr. Sha has provided professional legal advice on IPR compliance and protection for many large central enterprises and Fortune 500 companies in the fields of computer, semiconductor chip, new energy, bio-medicine, Internet, entertainment and media, etc. He is good at the planning of overall corporate IPR strategy and is widely recognized by clients. Mr. Sha is now an arbitrator of many arbitration institutions such as Hainan International Arbitration Court, and has been engaged in trial work in a court.

Industry Sector Expertise

ANTI-MONOPOLY ,INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ,ANTI-UNFAIR COMPETITION ,CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

Career

·Beijing Jincheng Tongda & Neal Law Firm (Jan.2012-Present)

·Co-Effort Law Firm (Sept. 2009-Dec. 2011)

·Watson&Band Law Firm（Aug. 2004-Aug. 2009）

·Yishi Law Firm（Jul. 2002-Jul. 2004）

Professional Memberships

·Advisory expert of the Supreme People's Procuratorate on civil and administrative cases

·The first batch of Shanghai IPR overseas dispute response guidance experts

·Deputy director of Shanghai Law Association Intellectual Property Committee

·Senior Advisor of Central Center for National Technology Transfer

·Member of the Intellectual Property Committee of All China Lawyers Association

·Member of the Legal Advisory Committee of Shanghai Science and Technology Association

·Arbitrator of several arbitration institutions including Hainan International Arbitration Court

Publications

·Study on Copyright Infringement of Network Playback Devices ，Trial and Legal Practice of Intellectual Property, Law Press, November 2013)

·Legal Reflections on the Legalization of Iphone Jailbreaking" , Shanghai Culture Press, June 2011)

·Fundamentals of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Press, September 2006

·Legal Regulation of Patent Abuse ,Intellectual Property Press, April 2006

·Tutorial on Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age , Higher Education Press, August 2003

·“Patent Protection for the Computer Software Related to Business Methods” ，The Electronic Intellectual Property Journal，February and March，2003

·“Issues on Patent Management Strategies”，Wenhui News，September，9，2003

Work Highlights

·Provided IP legal services for the IPO of Shanghai OPM Biosciences Co., Ltd.

·Provided IP legal services for GDS

·Representing Baosteel Group in a Section 337 investigation on certain carbon and alloy steel products manufactured by China steel companies exported into the US

·Shanghai Yaoyu Culture Media Co., Ltd. v. Guangzhou Douyu Network Technology Co., Ltd. in an appeal case of infringement of copyright and unfair competition dispute (50 typical cases of judicial protection of intellectual property rights in Chinese courts in 2016)

·Abbott Laboratories, Inc. v. Shantou Abbott Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition (50 Typical Cases of Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Chinese Courts in 2010)

·Gema (Shanghai) Painting Co., Ltd. v. Shanghai Gibbon Painting Equipment Co., Ltd.

·NAC Group v. SAIC Group for confirming patent non-infringement

·Zhejiang Anji "bamboo carpet" design patent infringement and patent invalidation cases

·Representing Shanghai Diesel Engine Co., Ltd. in a dispute over the remuneration of the designer of a functional invention (2009 Supreme People's Court Intellectual Property Guidance Case)

·Antitrust litigation dispute between TCL and Ericsson of Sweden

Languages Spoken

Mandarin English

Education