Xie Guanbin

Introduction

Xie Guanbin’s major practice areas include intellectual property disputes, antitrust and competition law, and consultancy for hi-tech companies.

He has represented clients in many important IP cases:

For trademark disputes, he helped Gome to obtain a declaration that “Gome” was a well-known trademark; he helped China’s biggest property insurance company to claim the domain name “PICC”; and he handled “The Voice of China” disputes. For patent disputes, Xie has acted in Samsung v. Huawei, Midea v. Gree, Sogou v. Baidu, and Xiaomi v. Coolpad. In copyright actions, he has defended a famous Taiwanese finance software company against accusations of infringement before the Supreme People’s Court; represented Yahoo in managing MP3 infringement disputes with international record companies; and represented a number of international software companies to claim damages in various litigations. In anti-unfair competition actions, he represented a listed company in a trade secret infringement case to claim RMB100 million (USD14 million) in damages; represented a US and EU based wind power company to claim almost RMB3 billion in damages for the misappropriation of trade secrets; and handled a competition case arising from the movie Lost in Thailand.

For antitrust matters, he participated in a number of influential merger control filings; participated in the NDRC’s antitrust investigations into LCD panels, IDC, the automobile industry, and Qualcomm chips. He represented Qihoo 360 in the second instance of the antitrust case against Tencent (which was the first antitrust case heard by the Supreme People’s Court), and defended Tetra Pakin an abuse of dominant market position case (China’s first antitrust case filed after an administrative penalty decision).

Xie has extensive experience in the intersection of intellectual property and competition, particularly in the area of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), where he has been fully involved in many leading cases, including the earlier Qualcomm cases, HDMI, Dolby and IDG cases, the later SEP injunction and rate-setting disputes in the mobile phone area, such as Samsung v. Huawei series cases, Xiaomi v. IDG series cases, Samsung v. Ericsson series cases, VIVO v. Nokia series cases, and Xiaomi v. Huawei, and, currently, automobile SEP disputes.