Huayi Qin
Qin Huayi Partner
IP and Technology Innovation
Corporate and M&A
Dispute Resolution
Real Estate, Construction and Energy
Detailed introduction
Mr. Qin graduated from the School of Information Technology of East China University of Science and Technology, majoring in Automation, the School of Law and the School of Law of Chinese Min University, and has been engaged in legal services related to companies and intellectual property. Since his practice, Mr. Qin Huayi has participated in and handled more than 100 litigation and non-litigation legal affairs, and has handled many trademark infringement lawsuits, patent infringement lawsuits, patent non-infringement disputes, patent ownership disputes, trade secret disputes, unfair competition disputes and other litigation cases. Mr. Qin Huayi also has rich practical experience in the field of intellectual property non-litigation, such as intellectual property transactions, intellectual property strategy formulation, enterprise intellectual property management system construction, trade secret system construction, technical secret point sorting, trademark registration and maintenance, brand construction and protection, FTO reporting, patent layout and application, etc., and has also won praise from clients.
Since his practice, Mr. Qin has successfully represented a number of intellectual property litigation cases that have successfully achieved good results for clients to win the case, be exempted from liability or settle with the other party, such as (partial):
(1) Represented a customer in a patent application right ownership dispute with an automotive system company;
(2) Represented a customer in a technical service contract dispute with Nike;
(3) Represented China Merchants Bank Head Office and Shanghai Branch in a patent infringement dispute with a holding company;
(4) Represented China Shipbuilding Heavy Industry in a patent non-infringement dispute between China Shipbuilding Industry and a research institute;
(5) Represented Israel Kramer Electronic LTD in trademark infringement and unfair competition cases with a company;
(6) Represented Kweichow Moutai and a company in trademark infringement and unfair competition case;
(7) Represented a company in a patent dispute between Huaneng and Siemens;
(8) Provide comprehensive intellectual property rights protection services for Maxim's Foods in China;
(9) Represented a Taiwanese chip company in a trade secret dispute;
(10) Participated in the work of the trade secret criminal and civil dispute lawyer group of Sheng Ao Chemical Company, which is currently one of the trade secret cases with the highest judgment amount in China.
Since his practice, Mr. Qin has successfully represented a number of intellectual property non-contentious cases that have achieved good results for clients, such as (partial):
(1) Acting as an agent for hundreds of patent applications, reexaminations and invalidations;
(2) Acting as an agent for hundreds of trademark applications, reviews, invalidations and withdrawals;
(3) Provide intellectual property services such as patent layout, patent navigation and FTO for a research institute of China Shipbuilding Industry;
(4) Providing intellectual property training, planning, retrieval and consulting services for a subsidiary of Sinopec;
(5) Provide intellectual property services for the construction and improvement of the trade secret protection system of a subsidiary of Sinochem International;
(6) Provide intellectual property services such as intellectual property layout and strategic planning for Huaneng Shanghai Gas Turbine Power Plant;
(7) Provide intellectual property services such as brand planning and protection for the Miss Universe China Organizing Committee;
(8) Provide international intellectual property acquisition services for Hubei EHang, including Europe, the United States, Canada, etc.;
(9) Provide intellectual property services such as brand planning and protection for BLS Catering Group.
Bachelor of Automation, School of Information Technology, East China University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Intellectual Property Majoring in Law School, East China University of Science and Technology
Master of Civil and Commercial Law, School of Law, Chinese Min University
Shanghai Zhongda Law Firm July 2010 - July 2015
Shanghai Shenhao Law Firm July 2015 - December 2023
Beijing Dacheng (Shanghai) Law Firm December 2023 - present
Qualified as a lawyer
Patent agent qualification
(1) "The Law of Business War: How to Fire Unqualified Shareholders", published by Tianjin University Press, co-authored, August 2023, 1st edition;
(2) The paper "The Institutional Dilemma and Reconstruction of the Withdrawal of the Company's Legal Representative", published in "Industry Micro Insight", published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, sole author;
(3) The article "The Practical Impact of the VAM Agreement in the Minutes of the Nine People", published in the September 2020 issue of Shanghai Lawyer (No. 795), sole author;
(4) Dissertation "Research on the Problem of "Substantially the Same" of Technical Secrets, 2025, sole author.
Intellectual property judicial appraiser
Member of the China Law Society
Arbitrator of several arbitration commissions
Member of the Corporate Legal Counsel Research Association of Shanghai Lawyers Association
Member of Shanghai WTO Law Research Association
Guest lawyer of Shanghai Finance and Economics Pujiang Voice
External tutor of the School of Law, East China University of Science and Technology
External tutor of the Business School of Southern University of Science and Technology