Ms. QIU joined Jiaquan in 2012 and has been in the IP industry for over 10 years. She is very familiar with Chinese patent and trademark application and prosecution proceedings and has been committed to assisting overseas clients in handling various intellectual property applications and protection matters in China for many years. At the same time, she also provides overseas IP protection consulting for domestic clients, especially application and protection strategies in the regions/countries including Europe, Africa, Canada and Australia.

Ms. Qiu also has extensive experience in patent invalidation and enforcement at trade fairs. One of her representative works includes assisting her client and attorney in filing an invalidation request against a Chinese invention patent in the biomedical field in 2016. The case took nearly six years and all the involved claims were finally invalidated after going through 4 proceedings of invalidation, first trial and second trial of administrative litigation, and an invalidation retrial. The case was selected as a 2021 typical case of IP rights by Guangdong IP Protection Association.

Peaceful Coexistence of German Patent and Utility Model 2019 (Chinese only) 2019-01-30
Main amendments to the Guidelines for Patent Examination in 2019   2020-05-22
Tips of accelerated prosecution before the EPO(Chinese only) 2020-09-17
Major amendments to the Chinese Patent Law 2020-11-20

Expediting Patent Examination in Australia (Chinese only 2022-04-22)

Brief introduction on patent filings in South Africa (Chinese only) 2023-01-13