You Minjian

Practice areas

Corporate & commercial; Intellectual property; Litigation; Technology, media and telecommunications

Introduction

You Minjian is founding partner of Shanghai Co-effort Law Firm LLP and the leader of Co-effort’s IP department. His practice focuses on the fields of copyright, trademarks, patents, IT law, internet legal issues, corporate finance, and intellectual property financing transactions. He is particularly skilled at handling legal issues in the cultural industry and internet innovation areas. He has participated in the drafting and revisions of many laws, such as the Copyright Law, Computer Software Protection Regulations, and the Patent Law.

You’s career contains many legal milestones, such as the first anti-trust dispute case in China – Shusheng v Snda Network; the sole winning case of the China Anti Rogue-software Alliance – infringement involving Henbang Secretary software; the first online game case in China – a copyright infringement litigation between Shenzhou Aomei and CGA; the first software end-user case in China – Discreet Logic Inc v Shanghai Duidian Cultural Communication; the first software criminal and infringement case regarding the Windows system – the Tomato Garden case; the first criminal case of trade secrets infringement in China; the first IP case in China’s shipbuilding industry; the first Shanghai Intellectual Property Court case; and the first IP case regarding big data.

Many cases represented by him were widely cited. In 2013, he represented a trademark administrative dispute case regarding the generic name “Jin Jun Mei” and a trade secret case of SI Group, both of which were listed as the Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases of the Supreme Court for that year. In 2016, he successfully represented ACTOZ to win an injunction against Wemade Entertainment, which was one of 2016’s Most Valuable Intellectual Property Judgments. In 2017, You won an unfair competition case against Baidu, which was selected as one of China’s 10 most influential internet IP cases for 2014-2016. The second-instance of this case was selected as one of the Chinese Bar Association’s top-10 IP cases. In 2019, he successfully defended the copyright infringement case of the “Flying Tigers” flight jacket, which attracted great public attention.

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