FTO & Infringement Risk
For product launch and market entry, from search and comparison to risk levels and design-around options.
- Claim feature mapping
- Product comparison
- Risk levels and alternatives
Patent Judgment / Litigation Strategy / Cross-Border Risk
Li Qi
Complex technical facts must become actionable patent judgment.
Attorney at Law, CN
Patent Attorney, China
Attorney at Law, California
Positioning
Patent judgment across technology, claims, and business decisions.
Read the Machine
Read product structures, technical effects, and claim language before defining risk.
Shape the Claim
Turn searches, FTO, invalidity, and litigation evidence into one path.
Decide the Move
Support financing, listing, market entry, and disputes with next-step advice.
Profile
A technology-focused patent lawyer for complex patent disputes.
Li Qi is an Attorney at Law, CN, Patent Attorney, China, and Attorney at Law, California. Trained at Tsinghua, he advises on machinery, medical-device, robotics, automotive, and cross-border patent matters.
- Education
- Tsinghua University, mechanical / biomedical engineering
- Admissions
- Attorney at Law, CN / Patent Attorney, China / Attorney at Law, California
- Focus
- FTO / invalidation / litigation / IPDD / cross-border risk
Practice
Practice is not a menu. It is a decision chain.
Every matter starts with the same question: what should the company, investor, or litigation team do next?
Patent Invalidity & Litigation
Evidence strategy, hearing preparation, infringement analysis, and procedure coordination in one track.
- Prior-art evidence strategy
- Infringement and non-infringement analysis
- Administrative and court coordination
IP Due Diligence & IPO IP
For investors and technology companies, covering ownership, core assets, FTO, and remediation paths.
- Core asset and ownership review
- Patent coverage and stability
- Transaction and disclosure recommendations
Global Prosecution & Cross-Border Risk
Work with overseas counsel on filings, third-party opinions, and disputes in the U.S., Europe, and Germany.
- Foreign filing strategy
- Market-entry risk map
- Coordination with overseas counsel
Selected Work
Selected work, organized by problem type
IP due diligence for investment decisions
Reviewed ownership, core technologies, patent coverage, infringement exposure, and remediation items for investment teams.
Smart hardware enforcement program
Built an enforcement path across infringement comparison, evidence, sales data, invalidity response, and enforcement.
Robot and cleaning-device patent invalidity
Handled prior art, specification support, inventiveness, and hearing presentation for complex machinery.
German FTO and preliminary injunction response
Coordinated clients, engineers, and German counsel for non-infringement and validity negotiation.
Global patent prosecution and portfolio building
Supported patent filing and examination for medical devices, automotive engineering, robotics, MEMS, and related technologies.
Patent strategy for carbon-neutral and mobility technologies
Built practical portfolio plans from patent navigation, technology transfer, and technical-roadmap analysis.
Method
Working Method
01
Start with the business question
Market-entry clearance, financing diligence, infringement action, invalidity response, or overseas expansion.
02
Translate technology into claim features
Map product structure, claim language, technical effects, and evidence sources feature by feature.
03
Deliver an executable path
Clarify risk level, legal basis, timing, alternatives, and the next materials needed for action.
Public Voice
Translating what a good patent means for investors, founders, and engineering teams.
What matters is not the number of patents. It is whether they cover the key technology, withstand challenge, and support real business moves.
Thinking
Insights & Research
Ongoing attention to Supreme People's Court decisions, patent evaluation reports, doctrine of equivalents, and IP due diligence for technology companies.
Patent evaluation reports in infringement litigation
Discussion of the boundary between patent evaluation reports and patent validity in recent retrial decisions.
Prosecution history estoppel in Chinese patent cases
Extracting practical standards from Supreme People's Court cases involving limitations on equivalents.
Disclosure-dedication doctrine and claim-scope strategy
Building defense arguments from claim notice, specification disclosure, and the patentee's drafting choices.
Judgment
Facts are not the finish. Judgment is the work.
From claims, product structures, evidence, and commercial timing, complex questions become the next move.