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Meng Rui/Partner

T: +86 18915947812; F: 025-85803680

mengrui@grandwaylaw.com

Nanjing

  • Education background

    Ph.D. in Law, Nanjing University

  • Areas of expertise

    Intellectual Property Litigation and Non-contentious Matters

    Competition Law

    Technology Transfer and Commercialization

  • Working Language

    Chinese, English

Mr. Meng, specializes in handling legal matters related to intellectual property litigation and non-contentious matters, anti-unfair competition, computer software copyrights, open-source compliance, and other technology-related IP issues. In recent years, has provided legal services for enterprises in various technological fields, including IP protection, due diligence, risk assessment and management, technology and IP transfer structuring and execution, compliance and system development, and dispute resolution. Has published numerous professional articles on artificial intelligence and intellectual property in various media outlets.


Served Clients/Service Performance

  • Represented an optical technology company in a patent infringement dispute during its IPO application on the STAR Market, involving billions in dispute amount. The case was recognized as a "Deal of the Year" by China Business Law Journal in 2023 and selected as a typical case for evidence preservation in intellectual property disputes by Nanjing Intermediate Court in 2024.

  • Represented a new materials company during its mainboard IPO in a patent infringement lawsuit involving its wholly-owned subsidiary, with a dispute amount exceeding RMB 50 million, achieving favorable judgments in both first and second instances.

  • Successfully invalidated a German company’s patent with 361 claims on behalf of a Hong Kong-listed company based in Nanjing.

  • Provided specialized services for multiple enterprises, including patent searches and analysis during R&D, design-around strategies, patent mining and portfolio development, infringement risk analysis for products exported to Europe and the U.S., and comprehensive patent technology roadmap analysis.

 

Publications

  • Uncertainty of Patent Rights and Legal Regulation of Patent Trolls, Intellectual Property Publishing House, 2019 (second author), awarded as an outstanding project by the National Social Science Fund.

  • Contributed as a chapter author to China Artificial Intelligence Industry Intellectual Property White Paper in 2020 and 2021.

  • "AI Patent Applications: Characteristics, Drafting Challenges, and Solutions," Frontiers of Network and High-Tech Law (Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2019).

  • "Using Intellectual Property to Successfully Bring Innovations to Market," IPRdaily WeChat public account, August 2021.

  • "AI Technology and Its Protection Strategies from a Patent Law Perspective," IPRdaily WeChat public account, March 2020.

  • "Comparison of U.S. and China Patent Requirements and Practices—With Applications in Patent Portfolio, Invalidation, and Infringement Litigation, and International Protection Coordination," Zhichanli WeChat public account, October 2023.

  • "Practices and Explorations in Protecting AI-Assisted Inventions—Establishing Corporate Systems for Recording Assisted Inventions and Protecting Them Based on Human Contributions," Zhichanli WeChat public account, June 2024.

  • "Preliminary Exploration of Claim Construction and Interpretation for AI-Assisted Inventions," Zhichanli WeChat public account, September 2024.

  • "Using Intellectual Property to Promote Innovation and Investment in AI Agents," Guofeng WeChat public account, February 2025.

  • "Identifying and Managing Legal Risks in Employee Inventions During Innovation and Investment (Part 1)," Guofeng WeChat public account, June 2025.

  • "The Impact of Claim Scope on Patentable Subject Matter—A Study of U.S. Judicial Precedents Based on the Alice/Mayo Test," Intellectual Property Frontier WeChat public account, July 2025.