Four Rayto Lawyers Attend the Fifth Session of the Series Training on Capacity Building for Foreign-related Intellectual Property Lawyers (Standard Essential Patents)

From July 20 to 24, 2026, the Fifth Session of the Series Training on Capacity Building for Foreign-related Intellectual Property Lawyers — Special Training Program on Standard Essential Patents, jointly held by the Ministry of Justice and the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), was successfully held in Suzhou. Four lawyers from the Rayto team—Attorneys Jieming Yang, Long Jin, Suyun Zhang, and Yuancheng Du—participated in the full program and engaged in in-depth exchanges with peers from across the country on frontier legal practice issues concerning standard essential patents (SEPs).

The training program featured a strong faculty lineup. Lecturers included Professor Wenyi Huang of the School of Law, Renmin University of China; Professor Yide Ma, Dean of the School of Intellectual Property, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiaoyong Xie, Secretary-General of the China Intellectual Property Society; Wenyan Ding, Director of the Civil and Commercial Adjudication Research Department of the China Institute of Applied Jurisprudence of the Supreme People’s Court; Jingjing Shou, Director of the Beijing Guowei Intellectual Property Appraisal and Evaluation Center; Guobin Cui, Dean of the School of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Law Research Center at Tsinghua University; Chuanxin Hao, Vice President of the All-China Patent Agents Association; Peng Zhang, Partner at Zhong Lun Law Firm (Beijing); Liangliang Xu, Director of the Law Enforcement Guidance Division of the Intellectual Property Protection Department of CNIPA; Mingyuan Chen, Second-Level Inspector of the Standardization Business Division of the Patent Documentation Department of the Patent Office of CNIPA; Guoxin Yang, Second-Level Inspector of the Examination Business Management Department of the Patent Office of CNIPA; and Chunli Bi, Deputy Director of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Development Center of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. They delivered in-depth lectures from diverse perspectives, including academic theory, technical facts, industrial application, litigation strategies, and international rule-making competition.

The curriculum was systematic and in-depth, covering global SEP policy trends; new developments in SEP litigation and corporate response practices; video codec SEP licensing and case studies; SEPs: confirmation of FRAND obligations; SEP application and portfolio planning; Change and Continuity: Analysis of International Parallel Litigation over SEPs; case analysis of SEPs in the communications field; SEPs and patent pools: four types of typical disputes; and SEP licensing negotiation practices. The courses combined high-level policy insight with practical depth, precisely meeting the new changes and needs of the current foreign-related intellectual property legal service market.

In addition, participants conducted group discussions on “Practical Difficulties and Solutions for Foreign-related Intellectual Property Lawyers in Playing Their Role.” Drawing on their rich experience in handling related cases, they engaged in multiple rounds of interactive exchanges with lecturing experts and industry peers on practical pain points and focal issues such as intellectual property compliance risks faced by Chinese enterprises going global.

During the five-day intensive study, the four participating lawyers—Jieming Yang, Long Jin, Suyun Zhang, and Yuancheng Du—systematically mastered core knowledge of SEPs and fully exchanged views with lecturing experts and peers on practical difficulties in foreign-related practice. All four lawyers completed all courses with excellent results and successfully graduated. This training not only significantly enhanced the team’s practical skills in the SEP field, but also injected greater professional confidence into Rayto’s efforts to further serve Chinese enterprises going global and respond to cross-border intellectual property disputes. In the future, Rayto will continue to promote practice through learning and provide higher-level legal services to safeguard innovation and support opening-up.