Yi Jia: Female. Judge Yi is a Senior Judge (Third Grade). She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer and communication engineering and a Master of Laws degree. She currently serves as a Presiding Judge of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court and has been engaged in intellectual property adjudication for more than ten years.
She has presided over a number of cases, including the first case recognizing malicious abandonment of patent rights, the first graphical user interface (GUI) infringement case, the first unfair competition dispute involving malicious incompatibility, and an invention patent infringement case concerning the original drug “Levo-ornidazole.” These cases have been selected, respectively, for inclusion in the Supreme People’s Court Case Database, the Gazette of the Supreme People’s Court, the national courts’ “Top 100 Outstanding Judgments,” the “50 Major Typical Cases on Intellectual Property Judicial Protection of Chinese Courts,” the Typical Cases on the Judicial Protection of Scientific and Technological Innovation by the People’s Courts, the “100 Typical Cases Commemorating the Fifth Anniversary of the Establishment of the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court,” and the annual “Top 10 Intellectual Property Judicial Protection Cases of Shanghai Courts.”
She has been appointed as an expert member of the Talent Think Tank of the “Shanghai Courts Digital Economy Judicial Research and Practice (Jiading) Base.”