Yuexin Duan

Senior Patent Attorney

IP Consultation

Primary office

Beijing

Telephone

Practice focus

Intellectual Property Consultation

Experience

Ms. Duan earned her Master’s Degree in 2015 and subsequently joined a leading Beijin IP firm where she specialized in patent services. In 2017, she transitioned to Beijing East IP Ltd., continuing her work on patent filing and prosecution, and began focusing on strategics patent consulting in 2021.

Throughout her decade-long career in the field of intellectual property, Ms. Duan has gained extensive experience in patent applications, patent searches, patent infringement analysis, patent invalidity analysis, FTO (Freedom to Operate) patent search and analysis, and EoU (Evidence of Use) patent due diligence.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University of Technology
Master’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology

Admissions

Patent Attorney
PRC Attorney-at-Law

Languages

Mandarin Chinese (native)
English (fluent)

Recent Insights

Overview of Civil Litigation in the PRC

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Brief Introduction of Utility Models

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PRC – Extraterritorial Use of Unfair Competition Law against Trademark Registry Pirate

A recent judgment issued by the Shanghai IP Court (“SIPC”) clarifies how the PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law (“AUCL”) can be applied to parties that...