Yuming WANG is a Partner based in the firm’s Beijing Office, where he has been practicing since 2014. He has been admitted to China Bar since 2011.
Yuming’s practice primarily focuses on intellectual property law. He has abundant experience in litigating trademark, unfair competition, patent and IP-related contractual matters. Yuming has been defending his clients IP interests all the way up to China’s Supreme People's Court. Honing his expertise in over 300 lawsuits, Yuming has served as lead counsel in half a dozen landmark cases, which are selected as exemplary cases by the Supreme People's Court and the Beijing High Court. He has advised many Chinese business magnates and multinational corporations in the pharmaceutical, FMCG, telecommunications, fashion, optical, spirits, as well as industrial and manufacturing industry.
Some of Yuming’s recent work includes:
- Representing Bayer in a patent administrative enforcement action against two Chinese infringers offering for sale the client’s patented drug rivaroxaban, obtaining favorable decisions from the Nanjing IP Office. The infringers appealed all the way to the SPC but to no avail. The SPC used this case to clarify several key issues, including whether offering for sale hinges on the availability of the patented drug, whether a disclaimer from the accused infringer creates exemption from infringement liability, and whether the Bolar exemption applies to the act of offering for sale. The case has been selected as SPC’s 50 Exemplary IP Cases of 2022.
- Representing Bayer in coordinating the Beijing Intellectual Property Office in enforcing its pharmaceutical patent over the anticoagulant compound rivaroxaban by initiating an administrative action against a local infringer selling and offering to sell the patented products. Under the auspices of the Beijing IP Office, the two parties reached an amicable settlement. The case is listed as one of the Ten Exemplary Intellectual Property Administrative Enforcement Cases of 2019 by the Beijing IP Office.
Year Joined Firm: 2014
Education/Alumni:
LLM, Beijing Normal University
LLB, China Agricultural University
Network Memberships: China Bar
