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DANAE WU
Counsel·Beijing
PROFILE REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS AND CASES OTHER INFORMATION Further Reading
MS. WU’S PRIMARY PRACTICE AREAS COVER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY-RELATED LITIGATION, LICENSING AND TRANSACTIONS.
Education
Peking University, J.D. and J.M.
University of Lausanne (Switzerland), LL.M.
Southwest University of Political Science and Law, B.E. and LL.B.
Professional Qualification
Admitted to practice in the PRC
Admitted to practice before the CNIPA
Work Language
Chinese
English
Professional Background
Ms. Wu joined Fangda’s Beijing office in 2017.
PROFILE
Ms. Wu has extensive experience in handling complex litigation and legal matters. Ms. Wu cooperates with leading companies in a wide range of industries, including semiconductors, new energy, telecommunications, chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals, medical instruments, manufacturing, fashion, sports and consumer products.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS AND CASES
- Obtained favorable results for a world-leading machinery company in multiple chemical engineering trade secret misappropriation and patent invalidation cases before the Supreme Court, the Jiangsu High Court, the Nanjing Intermediate Court and CNIPA
- Acted for Semiconductor Energy Laboratory in reaching settlements in multiple patent infringement cases against a world-leading semiconductor manufacturer
- Acting for a leading global petrochemical company against its former collaborator and other infringement companies in China for trade secret misappropriation
- Acted for Pfizer in a software infringement case before the Supreme Court and the Beijing IP Court
- Represented Kennametal, Sandvik, Ralph Lauren, Dealer Tire, VMware, Crane, Haitian, Ruby, and other well-known US, European and Chinese companies in complex matters involving unfair-competition, trademark infringement, copyright infringement and trademark administration, variously subject to procuratorial supervision, court litigation, and CNIPA proceedings in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Zhejiang
- Acting for several world-leading companies in multiple patent infringement and patent invalidation cases against their competitors, including companies specialized in display panel, refrigeration components, single-cell sequencing, and ophthalmic medical equipment and instruments
- Advising a smart phone company in negotiation with patentees for licensing telecommunications and audio & video coding standards
- Represented a Swiss company in an investigation by the State General Administration of Sports into potential safety issues in certain sport air guns
- Advised Starbucks, Philips, TSMC, Takeda, Maersk, Japan Tobacco, VMware, Metso, Biogen, Honeywell, Shein, CICC, WuXi AppTec, Xtalpi, NIO, Xpeedic, Yangtze Memory, HTA, Edigene, CVTE, DRA, CDH Investments, and multiple foreign and domestic companies in the drug, petrochemical, semiconductor, manufacturing and consumer products industries on intellectual property-related matters
- Advised L Catterton on its equity investment in Lotus and provided intellectual property due diligence report
- Advised various investors and companies including CITIC Capital, Ant Group, China Mobile, CSRF, Sanofi, AstraZeneca on potential transactions in the healthcare, biotechnology, electronics and manufacturing industries and provided IP due diligence report on target companies
OTHER INFORMATION
- “Jurisdiction Rule Changes for Supreme People’s Court IP Tribunal”, Fang Qi and Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, November 2023
- “The Supreme People’s Court’s Landmark Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Cases”, Fang Qi and Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, November 2023
- “Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Content”, Fang Qi and Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, April 2023
- “The Supreme People’s Court’s First Patent Linkage Decision”, Fang Qi and Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, September 2022
- “China’s First Judicial Decision on Patent Linkage”, Fang Qi and Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, June 2022
- “The Supreme People’s Court’s 2021 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Protection and Cases”, Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, June 2022
- “Protection of Information as Trade Secrets in China”, Fang Qi and Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, September 2021
- “The Role of the Procuratorate in Intellectual Property Cases”, Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, April 2021
- “The Fourth Amendment to the Patent Law”, Fang Qi and Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, November 2020
- Co-Author, “Defending Chinese Companies in Intellectual Property Litigations in the U.S.”, Wolters Kluwer, June 2020
- “Online Trials Propel the Use of the Smart Court in China”, Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, May 2020
- “Battle of Herbal Teas”, Danlei Wu, China Law & Practice, September 2019
