Contact
- - Offices：Shanghai
- - Tel：15380845318
- - E-mail：
rluo@hanshenglaw.cn
Working Language
- - Chinese
- - English
- - German
Summary
- Roberto Luo is a senior partner of Hansheng, Shanghai office. He is a licensed patent attorney and also a licensed attorney at law in China. He has been worked in patent areas for more than 18 years, focusing on helping clients to build their patent portfolio globally as well as enforce their patents in China. Roberto also provides his clients with various patent-related due diligence opinions and disputes resolution opinions, especially for those high-tech companies having business in US, Europe or China. Roberto has handled with over 1500 patents, and two thirds of them are international patents. In addition to Chinese patent matters, he is also familiar with European and US patent matters due to the long-time practice. Roberto has represented many Futures 500 companies for their patent matters in China, including ABB, Bosch, Celgene, Continental, Ericsson, Epson, GE, Gillette, GM, Honeywell, Illumina, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Klauke, Kraft, Mann Diesel, Nokia, P&G, Phillips, and Volkswagen, etc. He has also provided directory opinions for dozens of start-up technical companies along with their growth, half of them already have a $100 million valuation.
Roberto specializes in providing patent opinions for companies in fields of semi-conductor, telecommunication, artificial intelligence, big data and medical devices.
He has handled many intellectual property and trade secret disputes for clients, including many cross-border disputes, and has also assisted clients in establishing internal intellectual property and trade secret protection systems.
Roberto was once an engineer in Bosch. He started his patent attorney career in China Patent Agent (CPA) and also worked in Jones Day for about four years.
He is a member of NYSBA (New York State Bar Association), a member of VPP (der Deutsche Verband der Patentingenieure und Patentassessoren), and an arbitrator in Wenzhou arbitration committee. He is also appointed as one of overseas IP dispute resolution experts of National Overseas IP Dispute Resolution Guidance Center, Shanghai Branch, as well as one of the IP protection experts for exhibitions of Shanghai IP Protection Center. One patent infringement case he won for the client has been selected as one of 2019 annual IP Model Cases by Supreme Court. Another patent infringement case he won has been selected as one of China Top 100 Foreign-Related Legal Cases in 2025.
He is the author and editor in chief of the book “Patent Practice in China: A Compass for Outlanders” (in English language), which is published in Amazon. Its German version “Praxis des chinesischen Patentrechts: Ein Leitfaden für Ausländer” is also published in Amazon.
Practice performance：
- Involved in global patent disputes of a Sweden world-famous telecommunication company (maybe Top 1) with a Shenzhen-based world-famous telecommunication company (maybe Top 4), represented the Sweden company in a series of Chinese patent invalidations against the Shenzhen company and obtained favorable verdicts (disputed amount up to several billion USD).
Involved in global patent disputes of a world-famous US razor manufacturing company against another US top 10 razor company (disputed amount up to tens of millions USD), helped the client to sue the competitor in China and obtained favorable verdict.
Represented a renowned German tool company to negotiate with a competitor in Taizhou infringing their patent rights and pirating their technology to apply patents, and successfully made the competitor to sign a cease and desist agreement.
Represented a German fine mechanic company to invalidate a series of patents of its competitor in Shanghai, wherein the techniques involved in these patents were possibly imitated from the products of the German company, and helped the client to build up a protecting scheme from technique imitating.
Represented a Swiss company and provided secondary counselling opinions regarding its world leading semiconductor wafer cutting technology in a dispute against a Chinese competitor.
Represented a famous toy company in Shanghai from their start-up, including providing them with free to operate opinions, building up their patent portfolio in US, and defending them against a patent infringement accuse from a Google-invested VR company, and successfully made the accuse withdrawn because of a successful search of a key reference document in Japanese.
Represented a smart home company in Shenzhen, including refusing the request from a Netherland company of royalty (up to several million CNY) by comprehensively stating non-infringement analysis, defending them in a patent infringement suit in US initiated by an NPE by finding an loophole in the priority chain of NPE’s basic patent and thus invalidating it with a key reference document.
Represented a Suzhou intelligence manufacturing company to build up their global patent portfolio, obtaining a dozen of patents granted in China and as well as in US, Canada and Australia; helped them to claim damages from several former employees who may infringe the company’s trade secret and intellectual property, obtaining a very favorable settlement result by using a combination of IP infringement suit, IP ownership suit, unfair competition suit, and labor arbitration.
Represented a Changzhou semiconductor company which is set up by a Stanford group, providing directory patent opinions for them, wherein the valuation of the company is close to unicorn level.
Represented a Beijing automotive electronics company which has awarded CES innovation rewards for four times, including providing them with directory patent opinions, helping them to build up global patent portfolio, and helping them to set up cooperation relationship with a famous international automotive company.
Represented a leading bio-tech company in Shanghai, helping them to build up their global patent portfolio on their medical device techniques, and providing due-diligence opinions for their IPO.
Represented a famous university (Top 5) in China, helping them to transform their technical achievements and build up their patent portfolio in US, regarding their technology of big data and deep learning.
Represented a client in Nantong for a series of patent disputes in Tmall platform, obtaining favorable verdicts for their patent infringement cases and invalidation cases, wherein one patent infringement case became the first successful case of “inverse behavior preservation” in China and was selected as one of 2019 annual model cases by China Supreme Court.
Represented a chemical company in Zhenjiang in a patent lawsuit against a German industry giant, persuading the court to dismiss all claims by demonstrating that the opposing party's evidence did not meet the burden of proof, and successfully invalidated the opponent's patent. This case was recognized as one of China Top 100 Foreign-Related Legal Cases (Second Prize).
Represented a world-leading consumer electronics company (maybe Top 1) for their trademark disputes in China, providing helpful counselling opinions for one of their famous trademark.
Represented a famous university (Top 20) in China, helping them to build up a trademark portfolio for protection of an international expo activity hold by them.
Represented a German famous automated machine tool company for their IP matters in China, including filing a trademark administrative review for them and successfully making the involved official decision withdrawn.
Represented a China mobile game company (Top 5) in their start-up period, providing helpful counselling opinions on their copyright disputes against a famous US game company.
Represented China cross-border e-platform sellers in a plurality of IP disputes (including trademark, copyright and designs) in US, defended for the sellers and gain results in favor to them, turned the previous situation that the sellers has to pay the plaintiff no matter there was an infringement; including a case making the plaintiff’s TRO not extended and finally their preliminary injunction not approved, and a case requesting court orders for the sellers and making Amazon modify its seller account unfrozen policy.
Represented a telecommunication company in Nanjing to build their trade secret protection system, helping them to find suitable network security solutions, building their trade secret and IP protection system in whole, fixing a plurality of their technical and systematic defects, and materially reducing risk of their trade secret leakage after several employees’ resignation.
Education:
- 2000.9-2004.6: Nanjing University, Electronic College, Electronic Engineering, Bachelor degree
2004.9-2007.6: Tongji University, Chinese German High College, Telecommunication, master degree
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