Xing Liu has been working at Purplevine IP since February 2023 where he serves as one of the firm’s IP Counsel. Previously, Mr. Liu worked as an Associate at Cozen O’Connor and Middleton Reutlinger. He attended law school at The George Washington School of Law.
A large portion of the technology that we rely on daily—cell phones, computers, and the sensors and infrastructure that connect them, as well as an increasing percentage of drugs—is manufactured outside the United States, and in particular China. Indeed, over the past 25+ years the value of goods imported from China has increased ten-fold. Most companies are aware of the potential patent infringement liability for sales made in the United States but may not know that liability for infringing a U.S. patent can also extend to the processes used to make their product—even when manufacturing is done entirely outside the United States by a contract manufacturer.