Case 1: Siemens Industry Software Co., Ltd. V. Guangzhou Wofu Mould Co., Ltd. in a dispute over computer software copyright infringement INTRODUCTION Siemens Industry Software Co., Ltd., the copyright owner of the NX series software, filed a lawsuit with the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court on the grounds that Guangzhou Wofu Mould Co., Ltd. used the software involved for product design and manufacturing without its authorization, which constituted infringement. According to application of Siemens Industry Software Co., Ltd., the court of first instance sent a preservation ruling to Guangzhou Wofu Mould Co., Ltd., and explained in detail to the managerial staff of the company on site the preservation measures to be taken and the legal consequences of refusing to cooperate with the cour...

Mr. Dongfang LIU, the Senior Partner of Longan Law firm, was invited to attend the “the Sharing Conference on HongKong’s Pharmaceutical and Health Food Enterprises entering the ASEAN Market & Intellectual Property Management (Pharmaceutical Enterprises) Seminar”Sponsored by Medicine Council of Hong Kong, and Contributed by SME Development Fund, and Executed by the Hong Kong Productivity Council, held in Hong Kong on August 17, 2021, and Mr. Liu made a presentation titled “Chinese Intellectual property protection and the latest progress in pharmaceutical field ”.

Recently, Long An Law Firm, Beijing Offices, based on its outstanding performance and rich experience in the banking and finance field, stood out from many excellent candidate law firms and successfully won the bid for the legal consultant project of China CITIC Bank once again from 2021 to 2023. The winning bid is the renewal of Beijing Offices’ service period for China CITIC Bank’s legal consultant project from 2018 to 2020. China CITIC Bank is one of the earliest emerging commercial banks established in China’s reform and opening up, and the earliest commercial bank in China to participate in financing in domestic and foreign financial markets. China CITIC Bank has now become a financial group with a total asset scale of over 6 trillion yuan and nearly 60,000 employees, which has strong...

In May 2021, a team of Long An lawyers led by the senior partner Xiuping PAN, the senior partner Xiaoming LIU, the Partner Yang XU, and Shanghai Offices’ senior partner Huiping CHEN, the partner Shuhui ZHANG, participated in the project bidding for the legal consultation service provider (headquarters lawyer bank) of China Life Insurance Company Ltd. ( hereinafter referred to as China Life). This tender attracted hundreds of law firms from domestic and abroad to bid, and the competition was fierce. Long An Law Firm demonstrated first-class professional level in the fields of finance, insurance, labor and personnel, and has rich performance experience and an excellent lawyer team. Finally, it stood out and successfully won the bid to become the domestic legal service provider for China Life...

Dear Long An families and friends from all walks of life: Happy New Year! With the arrival of 2021, the gloom of 2020 seems to finally dissipate. 2020 is an extraordinary year, at the beginning of the year, the COVID-19 raging around the world. Long An responded quickly. In addition to actively deploy prevention and control measures, Long An quickly established a special aid fund to help Wuhan offices and all the colleagues stranded in Hubei to tide over the difficulties. We also sent warmth of Long An family to all the administrative service personnel who stick to their post. Long An’s unique family culture is deeply cultivated in the hearts of every Long An people at this time. In such a difficult situation of 2020, Long An people have still achieved outstanding results. The total number...

On December 1, 2020, the “2020 First Phase Debt Financing Plan of Shanxi Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd. ” undertaken by Long An Law Firm was filed at Beijing Financial Assets Exchange and successfully issued on December 4. This project is led by the Senior Partner of Long An and the Director of the Financial Committee, Xiuping PAN, and a project team consist of Tun FU, Shengnan CUI, Jieru DANG and Zhongyi TAN. The filing and issuance work was completed within a short time, and received very good results. The Debt Financing Plan is a debt financing tool for non-financial enterprise launched by Beijing Financial Assets Exchange Co., Ltd. It refers to the debt-based fixed-income products in which the financier raises funds in a non-public manner from qualified investors who have the ...

Recently, with the continuous efforts of our Founding Partner, Mr. Jiali XU, Long An Law Firm has become a Strategic Partner of Intellectual Property Alliance of China’s Listed Companies. The Intellectual Property Alliance of China’s Listed Companies (hereinafter “the Alliance”) is jointly initiated and established by experts and scholars in the field of intellectual property strategy research and intellectual property practice of listed companies at home and abroad, together with universities, scientific research institutes, enterprises, industry associations, dispute mediation agencies and arbitration organizations. The purpose of the Alliance is to help listed companies and companies to be listed to further standardize the intellectual property system, actively help enterprises to make ...

On December 31, 2020, the Shanghai Financial Court issued the “Announcement on the Conclusion of Projects in 2020”, the “Research on Legal Issues Involving Private Equity Disputes” presided by Limin REN, the Senior Partner of Long An Law Firm, Shanghai Offices was rated as an excellent project. On May 8, 2020, the Shanghai Financial Court issued the “Announcement on the Results of Winning Projects in 2020”, and the “Research on Legal Issues Involving Private Equity Disputes” declared by Mr. Limin REN as the project host successfully won the bid. According to the announcement, the public bidding for the projects has received positive responses from experts from the national court system, scientific research institutes, financial and legal circles. There are 48 research groups submitted appl...

On December 25, 2020, Minmetals Securities served as the lead underwriter and bookrunner, the lawyer team of Yun WEI, the Senior Partner of Beijing Offices and the Founding Partner of Zhengzhou Offices, served as the legal service agency for the “Sichuan Renshou Shigao Tianfu Investment Co. Ltd. Small and Micro Enterprises Credit Enhancement Collective Bond 2020 1 ” was successfully issued! This bond is the first small and micro enterprises credit enhancement collective bond in Meishan City. As the lead underwriter, Minmetals Securities is diligent and responsible in this project. The lawyer team of Yun WEI assigned two lead lawyers, Meiling WEI and Danxin HUO also gave full play to their expertise in financing legal services in this project, combined with the professional and rigorous cor...

Recently, after discussion and decision at the 14th meeting of the adjudicative committee of Shanghai High People’s Court in 2020, seven cases were published as the third batch reference cases of Shanghai High People’s Court in 2020 for the reference of courts throughout the city to judge similar cases. The trademark infringement dispute case represented by the partners of Shanghai Offices, Ye, Guohua and Tao, Peihua, SAIC Volkswagen Co., Ltd. v. Shen and Xu was selected as the No. 100 reference case in the 2020 third batch reference cases of Shanghai High People’s Court. The Adjudicative Committee of Shanghai High People’s Court held the main points of the case are as follows: On the issue of whether there is civil liability, the part of the criminal failure to confirm or the attempt to c...