Song yan Rui

Rui Songyan is a former Senior Judge and Member of the Judicial Committee of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court, and currently practises as Senior Counsel within the China Associated Team of Bird & Bird LLP. She holds a doctoral degree in law and has devoted 24 years to the judicial field of intellectual property rights. As a senior and authoritative expert in intellectual property judicial protection in China, she has been honored as "One of the Top 10 Young Jurists in the Capital" and "Beijing Judicial Trial Expert". She has presided over more than 3,000 intellectual property cases of various types and participated in the trial of over 5,000 cases, including more than 500 foreign-related cases covering patents, SEPs, pharmaceutical patent linkage, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, anti-monopoly and other full fields. She was the judge in China with relatively comprehensive experience in hearing various types of SEP cases. she has presided over SEP cases involving 2G, 4G and 5G communication standards, covering cutting-edge global controversial issues such as licensing rate calculation for terminals, chips and base stations, FRAND obligation determination and injunctive relief. As the first presiding judge of pharmaceutical patent linkage cases in China, She has presided over more than 200 foreign-related pharmaceutical patent cases and established core judicial rules for this field in China. The first case she heard in this area was selected as one of the Top 10 Cases by the Supreme People's Court, granting her irreplaceable professional advantages in pharmaceutical patent dispute resolution. She is proficient in the cross-cutting rules of intellectual property law and anti-monopoly law. and has presided over many foreign-related anti-monopoly cases that have filled judicial gaps in China, and her judgments have been hailed by the industry as benchmarks in civil anti-monopoly litigation. she is capable of handling complex cross-disputes involving patents and anti-monopoly under the UPC framework. She has accumulated at least hundreds of hours of hands-on mediation practice. She excels at facilitating dispute resolution through structured court proceedings and professional communication. she has presided over many globally significant SEP cases including Samsung v. Huawei, OPPO v. Nokia, and Huawei v. MediaTek, all of which have finally reached global settlements. Among the more than 200 foreign-related pharmaceutical patent linkage cases she has presided over, more than half were concluded by withdrawal of claims based on mediation agreements reached by both parties. she has the mature ability to efficiently preside over mediation, advance arbitration proceedings and facilitate comprehensive resolution of cross-border disputes.