Experience

• 

  Suntech

  • Senior Patent engineer

    • 2010 - Present

    ◆Be in charge of major duties in R&D Dep., including providing patent support, patent training, patent layout and infringement risk management. I am also responsible for mining patentable technical solution and developing powerful patent portfolio by self-drafting or the patent agent. Finish about 150 domestic cases and 10 worldwide cases. ◆Analyze patent infringement risk for important projects including Pluto, MWT and Magic etc., provide infringement analysis report thereof, help R&D design around. Cooperated with the attorney in filing third party’s opinions to JP, EP and US patent office and conquered the infringement risk of MWT project; support R&D and attorney handling the patent infringement warning letter from Kyocera for their three bus-bar solar cell patent, study the patent and its prosecution documents, collect evidences for invalidation and make non-infringement reply, and help Japanese attorney prepare for possible litigation. ◆Monitor the competitors’ technology development trend and patent application, publish photovoltaic related patent analysis report quarterly, and make corresponding reports to R&D and executives for reference. ◆Review Non-disclosure agreement, technical cooperation agreement or commissioned development agreement, and manage patents transfer and license among WUXI SUNTECH and other Subsidiary companies.

• 

  Shanghai SONTEC Co., Ltd

  • Shanghai City, China

  • Patent Engineer

    • Mar 2009 - Jun 2010
    • Shanghai City, China

    ◆Conducted patent clearance search and draft clearance report before RFID tag project proposal, during project proceeding and before product coming into the market, and made the patent infringement risk under control by helping R&D design around or constructing stable and powerful patent portfolio. ◆Helped sales Dept. to identify the suspected infringer of SONTEC owned patent and make infringement evidence collection, and aided the attorney to send infringement warning letters to the suspected manufacturer and vendor infringer, and evaluated the necessity to launch a lawsuit and the corresponding strategy with the attorney and executives. ◆Monitored the competitors’ technology development trend and patent application, and established an effective patent early warning mechanism for R&D and executives. ◆reviewed sales contracts.

• 

  Universal Scientific Industrial ( Shanghai ) Co., Ltd

  • Shanghai City, China

  • patent engineer

    • Feb 2008 - Mar 2009
    • Shanghai City, China

    ◆Cooperated deeply with R&D engineers in forming patentable technical solutions, helped them design around and constructed stable and powerful patent portfolio with the help of patent agent or attorney.◆Dealt with the infringement warning letter from Wi-Lan company(a Non-Practicing Entity) and made close analysis by listing claim chart, and concluded with high risk of infringement opinion by all elements rule. ◆Made novelty and non-obviousness search in China, US and EP for the technical solutions before they entered into application procedure, and finished about thirty deep patent, the quality of patent application being enhanced rapidly.

• 

  Shanghai Savvy patent office

  • Shanghai City, China

  • patent engineer

    • Aug 2005 - Feb 2008
    • Shanghai City, China

    ◆Drafted patent specification, answered OA, carryed on novelty patent search before application, and translated patent specification, the customers including SMIC,GRACE SEMICONDUCTOR and SVA. ◆Finished about 200 patent specification drafting, 60 patent search, 50 OA answering and 10 patent translation, majority related to electricity, semiconductor, communication, mechanical and computer.