Peng LIU

Representative Matters

• Provide legal services in a China-Korea cross-border deal of photoelectric materials between a Chinese company and LG Chem, including legal due diligence, revision and review of acquisition agreement, project negotiation, IP transactions, etc.
• Provide legal services in a Chinese state-owned Li-ion battery investment project in Korea, include Korea's technology export laws compliances, project negotiation, transaction structure design, joint venture agreement and technology licensing contract, etc.
• Legal consulting services for technology transfer and IP management for Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (Dongguan, Guangdong Province);
• Legal services include infringement risk assessment, patent stability evaluation, and licensing negotiation for the technology licensing between a Chinese lithium-ion battery company and LG Chem Co., Ltd. of South Korea
• Due diligence legal services for Tongcheng Travel (0780.HK) in its acquisition of a South Korean travel agency project
• Legal services for the Korean investment project of Yishitong (688733)'s affiliated companies
• Patent stability evaluation and patent invalidation legal services for Wuxi LEAD (300450)
• Legal consulting services for a research institute in China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, including technology achievement transformation, compliance system construction, etc.
• WM Motor vs Geely Automobile: several cases of trade secret infringement and patent ownership disputes.
• Patent infringement and licensing negotiations between HTC and Japan's IP Bridge on 3 standard essential patents (SEP);
• Patent invalidations: Guangdong Midea Refrigeration Equipment vs Zhuhai Gree Electric Appliances Co., Ltd. "axial flow wind wheel" of (one of the top ten patent invalidation cases in 2021)
• Patent due diligence and infringement risk assessment services for Ningde Xingyu Technology Co., Ltd. (02346.HK) in its listing in Hong Kong
• Patent Freedom-to-operate projects: Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Group’s drug import project, a chemical product production line of a research institute under PetroChina, and key quantum computing equipment of Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute, etc.
• Technology import services for the import of a Korean radiopharmaceutical by a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation

Professional Background

• From May 2023, DeHeng Law Offices (partner lawyer, patent attorney)
• April 2021 to April 2023, Beijing Yingke Law Firm (partner lawyer, patent attorney)
• March 2018 to March 2021, Beijing Global Law Firm (partner lawyer, patent attorney)
• October 2017 to February 2018, Jingtian & Gongcheng Law Firm (lawyer)
• July 2016 to September 2017, Renren Desai Law Firm (trainee lawyer)
• July 2014 to June 2016, Assistant Director of Technology Transfer Center, Office of Science and Technology Development, Peking University, managing the transformation of scientific and technological achievements of Peking University.
• July 2012 to June 2014, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Physics, Peking University (Semiconductor Chip Development); October 2011 to March 2012, Research Assistant, Department of Computer and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Semiconductor Chip Development)

Professional Qualifications

• Bar Admission in P.R.China
• Chinese patent attorney

Education Background

• 2011, University of Grenoble, France, Ph.D. in Physics
• 2007, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, MS in Physics
• 2004, University of Science and Technology of China, B.A. in Physics