Partner Gang Guan specializes in Intellectual Property disputes resolution, especially patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition and trade secret disputes. He started IP practice in 2003. He served as a patent examiner at the Patent Re-examination Board and State Intellectual Property Office for over 10 years. During his tenure at PRB, he examined hundreds of patent invalidation and reexamination cases, as well as got the award of “the Star of Patent Examiners” of SIPO. Then he joined a famous national law firm to practice IP litigation in 2013. During the time with the law firm, he participated in many important IP cases, such as representing Apple against Chinese patent holders in patent infringement and patent invalidation proceedings.