Philip Qin
COO Partner

Philip Qin, a lawyer, is the Chief Operating Officer of Chang Tsi & Partner. With over a decade of experience, he has served numerous large-scale internet enterprises, bringing an international perspective and rich management experience in corporate legal affairs, intellectual property rights, risk control, compliance and other areas. Prior to joining Chang Tsi, Mr. Qin served as a director, vice president, and general counsel at Alibaba Cloud, where he established a comprehensive risk control system and achieved significant results in litigation and dispute resolution, legal research, intellectual property, contract management, corporate governance, and etc. He received high recognition from the industry.

Previously, he held the positions as the General Manager of Patent Affairs Department, General Manager of Online Management Department and General Manager of Legal Department at Baidu Group. During his tenure, Mr. Qin helped the companies to win many awards such as "National Intellectual Property Demonstration Enterprise", "China Top 100 Innovation Enterprises" (the first echelon), and Asia IP Elite. He also contributed to the companies’first-ever highest award in the patent field, the“China Invention Patent Gold Award,”as well as the“China Invention Patent Silver Award”and etc.        

As the Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Qin is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the law firm. He coordinates, supervises, and manages the firm’s operations to ensure efficient functioning and the delivery of high-quality services to the clients. As the Vice Director of the firm’s management committee, he is in charge of managing patent application and commercial legal business, directly overseeing the work of the patent application department, patent process department, and commercial legal department.

+86 10 88369999
Patent Prosecution / Corporate Law
Beijing

Practice Focus

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property (full coverage of professional field and legal services)
Antitrust and Anti Unfair Competition
Corporate Law 

Years with IP Matters

2009 until now  

Professional  Experiences

  • Chief Operating Officer, Chang Tsi & Partners
  • Director, vice president and General Counsel, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group
  • General Manager of Legal Department, General Manager of Online Management Department, General Manager of Patent Affairs Department, Baidu Group

Representative  Cases

  • Representing several cases of unfair competition for internet companies, representative case was honored as one of the top ten innovative intellectual property cases by the Supreme People's Court of China, and was written in the White Paper on Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property of the Supreme People's Court of China
  • Representing internet storage, cloud services infringement of copyright dispute cases, with one of the representative cases being honored as one of the“Fifty Typical Intellectual Property Cases in Chinese Courts”by Supreme People’s Court. 
  • Acting in disputes over copyright infringement caused by new technologies like peer-to-peer, among which a copyright case that a large copyright party against a large internet company was awarded the“Best Case of EU media Infringement Law”. 
  • First Case: Internet open platform copyright infringement dispute (Platform liability). 
  • A major copyright holder in Shanghai suing a large internet company for WAP copyright infringement. 
  • Representing and wining several groundbreaking cases in cloud industry like first criminal case of traffic hijacking.
  • Several cases of infringement of trademark rights disputes, unfair competition disputes related to search engine bidding ranking.

Publications and Practical Works   

  • Theory and Practice: On the Originality of Sports Event Programs, published in China Copyright
  • Risks and Countermeasures in the Operation of Artificial Intelligence Patent Technology Market, published in the "Electronic Intellectual Property" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
  • Commentary articles on typical internet cases, referenced and selected for inclusion in the "White Paper on Intellectual Property Protection by the Supreme People's Court". 
  • Articles on unfair competition on the internet were serialized in "China Business Daily", and published in several publications including the "Capital Intellectual Property Report" and "Internet Policy Reference".      

Legislative Participation and Communication

As a representative of the industry, Mr. Qin has been deeply involved in the formulation of important industry legislation and regulations by the institutions, including the National People's Congress, the Supreme People's Court, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and provincial High People's Courts.

Social Title

  • Master's supervisor at Peking University Law School
  • Researcher at the Intellectual Property Center of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
  • Technology ethics expert at the Ministry of Science and Technology
  • Member of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Education Base of the Ministry of Education
  • Council member of the China Copyright Association
  • Vice chairman of the China Intellectual Property Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce

Education

Master's degree in intellectual Property Law, Peking University Law School (2009)
Bachelor degree in Electronic Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2005)

Bar Admission    

China Bar

Language

  • Mandarin Chinese
  • English