With a view to further broadening the domestic market, responding to domestic clients' rapidly growing patent filings, meeting their demands for better patent quality, and providing domestic clients with a full-range services covering patent application exploration, strategic arrangement, drafting, filing, patent grants and subsequent enforcement, Panawell has decided to set up the Domestic Business Department headed by partner Mr. Bo LI within the original corporate structural framework to provide better customer-tailored execution services to our domestic clients.

Mr. Li, graduated from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in microbial pharmacy, from the same University with a master's degree in medicinal chemistry in 2002, from the China University of Political Sciences and Law with a master's degree in law in 2010, worked as an examiner for the State Intellectual Property Office from August 2002 to July 2007. From September 2005 to October 2006, he concurrently served as a juror of the Intellectual Property Tribunal of Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court. He has been working for Panawell since August 2007, and is now a partner of the Firm.

Mr. Li is mainly engaged in drafting patent applications, writing OA replies, analyzing infringement in reexamination and invalidation cases, administrative litigation, infringement lawsuits, making patent strategy, and providing consultation services in the fields of medicine, biology, chemistry, chemical engineering and materials. From his long and diverse practices, he has acuminated extensive experience in substantive examination of a large number of invention patent applications, and in prosecution in many reexamination and invalidation cases. On top of this, he has participated as a juror in the trial of cases of intellectual property disputes in administrative and civil lawsuits involving patent, trademark, copyright, and unfair competition. Working as a patent attorney, he has executed a large number of domestic and foreign patent applications, and represented clients in many patent invalidation cases, administrative and infringement lawsuits. More importantly, he is richly experienced both in theory and practice in patent strategy formulation and consultation.