James Hu

Mr. James Hu specializes in dispute resolution, particularly in litigation and arbitration regarding intellectual property, antitrust, competition, and commercial transaction.

Mr. Hu has joined Fangda from year 2000. Prior to joining Fangda, Mr. Hu had worked in a Shanghai court for years.

With over 30 years experiences in dealing with complex and high-profile litigations and arbitrations involving patent, copyright, trademark, antirust, unfair competition and commercial transaction, Mr. Hu has advised numerous multi-national and domestic clients and has been highly recognized.

Mr. Hu's representative cases involving standard essential patent (SEP) disputes include but not limited to InterDigital v. Huawei, the first-ever SEP licensing rate-setting litigation and the first-ever SEP antitrust litigation in China which received high attention and was cited in many other FRAND cases worldwide, and OPPO v. Nokia, the first-ever landmark decision made by a Chinese court on global rate-setting for 5G SEPs which also received high attention worldwide.

Admitted to practice in the PRC

Fudan University Law School

LL.M

East China University of Politics and Laws

LL.B