Associate Professor
Director of the CUPL Geographical Indication Research Center
Educational Background
1999. 9 - 2002. 7 Ph.D. in IPR Law,Institute of Law ofChinese Academy of Social Sciences
1994. 9 - 1997. 7 LL.M. in Economic Law, Yunnan University Law School
1990. 9 - 1992. 7 B.A., Anhui Education College
Work Experience
2002 - Present Associate Professor of China University of Political Science and Law
2004 - 2015 Deputy Director, Institute of Intellectual Property Law at China University of Political Science and Law
1997 - 1999 Official, Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China
1992 - 1994 Teacher, Chenbu High School, Huoqiu County, Anhui Province
1986 - 1990 Teacher, Hufu Middle School, Huoqiu County, Anhui Province
Research Interests
Copyright Law
Trademark Law
Patent Law
Geographical Indication Law
Commercial Secrets Law
Competition Law
Intellectual Property Strategy
Management of Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Law and State Policy
Trade and Intellectual Property
Courses Taught
Intellectual Property Law
Geographical Indication Law
Commercial Secrets Law
Intellectual Property Strategy
Management of Intellectual Property
External Exchange
2009. 1 - 2010. 1 Visiting Scholar of University of California BerkeleyLaw School
2005. 6 - 2005. 7 Researcher at WTO/WIPO
Appointments
Member of the Council of the Intellectual Property Law Research Society
Attorney at Law of China
Honors and Awards
1. 2005 - 2006, "Excellent Researcher", awarded by the School of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law at China University of Political Science and Law
2. 2003 - 2004, "Advanced Researcher", awarded by the School of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law at China University of Political Science and Law
3. 2003, Opportunity and Challenge Broughtby WTO/TBT, awarded by the Autumn Seminar of the Civil, Commercial and Economic Law School at China University of Political Science and Law
Languages
Chinese, English, German
Contact Information
Email: zmli88@hotmail.com
Office Address:
Institute of Intellectual Property Law, Commercial and Economic Law School, China University of Political Science and Law
27 Fuxue Road, Changping District Beijing 102249, China
Representative Publications
Books
1. The Protection and Limitation of Copyright on the Internet, Economics Daily Publishing House, 2003
2. Geographical Indication Protection and Management, Intellectual Property Publishing House, 2009
3. Electronic Commerce Law Course, University of International Business and Economics Press, Editor in chief, 2009
Book Chapters
1. Textbook for the Cases of Intellectual Property Law, Intellectual Property Publishing House, Co-author, 2004
2. Textbook for the World Trade Organization, Social Sciences Document Publishing House, Co-author 2007
3. The Intellectual Property Theory and Practice of Enterprises in International Trade, Law Press China, Co-author, 2007
4. China Trademark Law Review, Chinese Intellectual Property and Technology Laws, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited UK, 2011(in English)
Articles
1. Legal Protection for Expression Forms of folk literature and art, Ideological Frontier, Issue 3, 1999
2. Economics Analysis of Legislation in Yunnan Part, Yunnan Academic Exploration, Issue 5, 1999
3. Legal Reflections on Law Firms’ Civil Liability to Pay Compensation, Justice Research (the predecessor of Justice of China), Issue 5, 1999
4. History and Future of Copyright: the Relationship between Culture and Copyright, (translation), Collected Works of Intellectual Property (core periodicals), China Fangzheng Press, Volume 6, 2001
5. Real Name Systems on the Internet of Two Kinds of Different Nature, the Computer World，Issue 24, 2002
6. the Real Name on the Internet and the Key Word Searching, the World of Computers, Issue 9, 2002
7. Vying for Registering Trademark and the Related Questions, China Computer Journal，August 2002
8. Real Names on the Internet and Domain Names，the Internet World，Issue 20, 2002
9. the Real Name on the Internet and Related Legal Questions, Intellectual Property Research, China Fangzheng Press, Volume 12, 2002
10. the Protection for Geographical Indications and China’s Resources of Breeds of Domestic Animals and Fowls, (3,000 words, writing alone), China Periodicals of Domestic Fowls Business, Issue 20, 2002
11. Legal Protection for the News of Current Events，(5,000 words, writing alone), Intellectual Property (core periodicals), Issue 5, 2003
12. Legal Protection for the Geographical Indication (4,700 words, writing alone), Selected Theses of the Symposium on the Right Conflict of Commercial Signs and the Resolution Countermeasures (Sponsored by China Intellectual Property Law Society, core periodicals), July 2003
13. Technical Trade Barriers and Our State’s Meeting Strategy, (8,000 words, the first author), Technology and Law, Issue 2, 2003
14. The Protection and Limitation of Spiritual Rights on the Internet， (11,500 words, writing alone), Intellectual Property (Sponsored by Intellectual Property Bureau of Taiwan Economic Department, equal to core periodicals), Issue 9, 2003
15. the Anti-unfair Competition Law Protection for Commodity Name，(4,500 words, the second author ), China Trademark, Issue 5, 2003
16. the Electronic Administrative Affairs in the Intellectual Property System，(3,000 words, writing alone), the Theory Edition of Legal Daily (core periodicals), October 23, 2003
17. Opportunity and Challenge Broughtby WT0/TBT, Being Given the Award by the Autumn Seminar of the School of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law at China University of Political Science and Law in 2003
18. Standard and Intellectual Property, Jurisprudence Magazine, Issue 6, 2003
19. the Conflict Forms between Trademark and Trade Name and Related Legal Questions, China Industry and Commerce Paper, B3 Edition, December 22, 2004
20. Intellectual Economy, Intellectual Assets and Intellectual Property, Spreading the Use of Information and Law,Compiled by Beijing Office of Spreading the Use of Information
21. the Use and Management of Collective Trademarks, Electronic Intellectual Property,2005
22. Commodity Brands Determining Victory in the Future,Zhongguancun,Issue 2, 2005
23. Internet World Requiring Respect for Intellectual Property, China Consumers Paper, January 12, 2005
24. Strategic Use of Intellectual Property for Development，Collected Theses of WIPO and WTO, July 2005
25. Geographical Indications and Related Supervision and Management, Theses of the International Conference on Globalization and Intellectual Property Protection in December 2006, 1st Edition, the Press of China University of Political Science and Law, January 2008
26. Researches on the Defendant Qualification of the Trademark Appraisal Committee in the Judicial Examination System,China Researches on Industrial and Commercial Management, 2006
27. Appraising the Contract of the Compiling and Publishing of Characters Teaching Materials，China Book Business Paper, September 30, 2005
28. Legal Protection for Business Secrets，the Collected Theses of the Symposium on Competition Law Sponsored by the State Industry and Commerce Administration, November 17, 2005
29. Evaluation and Analysis on the Interpretation on the Law Application in Hearing Cases of Civil Disputes Involving Right Conflicts of Intellectual Property Made by the Supreme People’s Court (Draft for Discussion)，China Industry and Commerce Paper, November 2005
30. the Innovation, Protection and Use of Intellectual Property,the People’s Daily, April 25, 2006
31. Analysis on the advantages and disadvantages of Protecting Geographical Indication according to Administrative Divisions，Sino-Europe Symposium on the Protection for Geographical Indication，China Quality Paper, November 14, 2006
32. the Determination and Protection of Famous Commodity by theAnti-unfair competition Law - Also Discussing the Related Regulations in the Discussion Draft of the Jurisdictional Interpretation, the Review on Civil, Commercial and Economic Laws of China University of Political Science and Law, Volume 3, the People’s Court Press, November 2007
33. Law Enforcement Personnel with High Quality Being the Crucial Factor to Commercial Secrets Protection，Industrial and Commercial Administration, June 2007
34. Reflections on the Legal Service by Our State’s Intellectual Property Lawyers，(co-writing), being selected into the Legal Service in Intellectual Property and Lawyers Practice, China Law Press, June 2007
35. Discussions on the Protection of Un-registered Trademarks by the Modification Draft of the Trademark Law, Page 225-236, Collected Works of the 2007 Annual Conference of Intellectual Property Law Research Institute under China Law Society and the Seminar on the Questions Concerning the Modifications of the Patent Law and Trademark Law, November 2007
36. The Protection for Geographical Indications by the Trademark Law, Intellectual Property, Issue 6, 2007
37. The Relationship between Intellectual Property Law and Anti-unfair Competition Law, the 2007 Almanac of China Intellectual Property, December 2007
38. Discussions the Protection for Geographical Indications by the Modification Draft of Trademark Law, published in the Autumn Seminar of the School of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law at China University of Political Science and Law in 2007
39. Analysis on the Concept of Geographical Indications, (co-writing), published in the Autumn Seminar of the School of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law at China University of Political Science and Law in 2007
40. Researches on the Right Attribute of Geographical Indications, (co-writing), published in the Autumn Seminar of the School of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law at China University of Political Science and Law in 2007
41. Comment on the Definition of Tort in Trademark Law, published in the Autumn Seminar of the Schoolof Civil, Commercial and Economic Law at China University of Political Science and Law in 2008
42. Discussion on Patent Strategy in Geographical Indication Industry, Chinese inventions and patents, Issue 7, 2008
43. Study on the Dynamic Management of Intellectual Property, Proceedings of the Intellectual Property Law Annual Conference of the Chinese Law Society and theNational Intellectual Property Strategy Seminar, 2008
44. Intellectual Property Evaluation: Science or Art?,Proceedings of the Intellectual Property Law Annual Conference of the Chinese Law Society and the National Intellectual Property Strategy Seminar, 2008
45. Research on Geographical Indication Protection from the Perspective of Traditional Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Right, Issue 1, 2009
46.Viewing my country's legislation on the right of communication to the Public from live broadcast, Chinese lawyers and jurists, issue 2, 2009
47. Discrimination of the Principle of Exhaustion of Trademark Rights - Also on the Qualitative of Reverse Passing, People's Justice, issue 19, 2009
48. Research on the Impact of Geographical Indication Protection System on my country's Agricultural Economy, Chinese inventions and patents, issue 6, 2009
49. National Intellectual Property Strategy and Enterprises’ Social Responsibility,Journal for Law and Policy. in China, issue 11, 2009 (in English)
50. Legal protection for the development of geographical indication industry is the foundation, and. scientific management is the key, Contemporary China, issue 5, 2010
51. The second revision of China's Copyright Law and its impact, Papers of the Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Law Society of China Law Society, 2010
52. Research on the Elements of Geographical Indications in Mainland China, Intellectual Property Review (Taiwan), Issue 9(1), 2011
53. Discuss my country's basic positioning and goal orientation in international negotiations on geographical indications, Papers of the Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law of the Chinese Law Society, 2011
54. Research on the application and problems of the principle of automatic application in the protection of geographical indications, Papers of the Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law of the Chinese Law Society, 2012
Research Projects
1. Safeguarding and Promoting the Sound Development of Information Network by Use of Legal Measures of Ministry of Justice of China in 200
2. Researches on WTO Legal Systems of China Academy of Social Sciences in 2002
3. Intellectual Property Protection for Traditional Chinese Medicine of Ministry of Science and Technology in 2003
4. Researches on China’s Orientation and Running Mechanism of the Geographical Indication Protection System for Agricultural Products of the State Fund for Natural Sciences (approval number of the project: T0373062)
5. China’s Legal Protection for the Copyright of the Map Works of China Copyright Association in 2004
6. Researches on the Intellectual Property in International Trade of the State Administration of Intellectual Property in 2005
7. Researches on Commercial Secrets, the eleventh subproject of the Research Project of the State Intellectual Property Strategy established in 2005 (as the core expert of the subproject)
8. Researches on the Intellectual Property in Standards, the seventeenth subproject of the Research Project of the State Intellectual Property Strategy established in 2005 (as the supervisor of the subproject)
9. The Guide to Enterprises’ Intellectual Property Strategy and Management the eighteenth subproject of the Research Project of the State Intellectual Property Strategy established in 2005 (as the supervisor of the subproject)
10. Researches on the Construction Strategy for Qualified Personnel in Intellectual Property Laws of Ministry of Justice in 2006
11. Fundamental Survey and Research on China’s Geographical Indication Protection of Ministry of Commercial Affairs in 2006
12. Researches on Compulsory License system of the Patent, the State Administration of Intellectual Property in 2007
13. Researches on the Questions about the State’s Projects for Science and Technology Plans to Be Undertaken by Legal Persons Such as the Enterprises Invested by Foreign Tradesmen of Ministry of Science and Technology in 2007
14. Legal Questions on the Evaluation of Intellectual Property Assets of the State Administration of Intellectual Property in 2007
15. Researches and Legislative Proposals on China’s Legal Protection for Geographical Indications of 2007 Research Projects for the Humanities and Social Sciences of the China University of Political Science and Law in 2008
16. Research on the Problems and Countermeasures of Bilateral Agreement on Geographical IndicationProtection, General Administration of Quality and Technical Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, 2010
17. Research on National Intellectual Property Protection Strategy under National Intellectual Property Strategy, State Intellectual Property Office, 2010
18. Geographical indication market demand and investment analysis，Enterprise commissioned project, 2013
19. Research on the relationship between trademarks and geographical indications, State Administration for Industry and Commerce, 2015
