On November 28, 2025, LegalOne, a renowned legal rating agency, released the 2025 LegalOne Top 45 Practitioners: Intellectual Property list. Partners Fan Xiangyu and Xiao Yuexin from Tahota Law Firm stood out due to their outstanding market performance and excellent client reputation, earning a spot on this prestigious ranking.

Attorney Fan Xiangyu, a partner at Tahota Law Firm, focuses his practice on intellectual property (both litigation and alternative dispute resolution/ADR), criminal law, and litigation representation in civil and commercial cases. His expertise covers dispute resolution in patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights and other IP areas; patent prosecution, invalidation and reexamination; trademark-related matters; as well as criminal defense, criminal risk prevention and control, and resolution of major civil and commercial disputes.

Attorney Fan has extensive experience in commercial secret legal services, having handled numerous cases involving technical secrets and business information secrets with excellent outcomes. Leveraging his professional background in the chemical industry, he has successfully resolved multiple chemical-related commercial secret cases. Notably, in the case of Sichuan Xi'ai Fluoride v. Sichuan Shangfu Company for infringement of technical secrets, Attorney Fan represented the right holder and secured over RMB 65 million in compensation along with the dismantling of infringing equipment.

Attorney Fan also boasts remarkable achievements in patent litigation. He represented DJI Innovations Technology Co., Ltd. in a patent invalidation case (Case No.: 5W109789), which was selected as one of the "Top 10 Patent Reexamination and Invalidation Cases of 2016". His representation in the patent ownership dispute between LG Display and a Japanese corporation (Case No.: (2016) Jing 73 Min Chu No. 1155) earned it the title of "Classic Case for the 5th Anniversary of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court". Additionally, his work on behalf of Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) in the patent infringement lawsuit against VEECO of the United States was recognized as one of the "Top 10 Typical Intellectual Property Cases of Shanghai in 2017". He also participated in representing the plaintiff in the first and second instances of the "vanillin" commercial secret infringement lawsuit heard by the Supreme People's Court, resulting in a final compensation award of RMB 150 million.

Furthermore, Attorney Fan has handled many other high-stakes patent disputes. These include the patent litigation and invalidation case between Sogou and Baidu involving a claim of RMB 260 million, as well as his participation in the standard-essential patent (SEP) infringement and invalidation proceedings between Meizu and Qualcomm, all achieving favorable results for his clients.

Attorney Xiao Yuexin, a partner at Tahota Law Firm, has 17 years of legal practice experience. She holds several key positions, including Deputy Director of the Trademark Law Professional Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association, Deputy Secretary-General of the Intellectual Property Practice Research Association of the Beijing Chaoyang District Lawyers Association, Supervisor of the Beijing Intellectual Property Research Association, Expert for Overseas Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Assistance of Beijing, and Off-Campus Part-time Supervisor at China University of Political Science and Law and Beijing University of Technology.

With her profound professional expertise, the cases she represented—including those involving the Palace Museum, Bamboo Salt, John Deere, Meiyue Licheng, Wangjing Xiaoyao, Wai Bozhi, and Martell—have been recognized as model cases by the Supreme People's Court, the Beijing High People's Court, people's courts at all levels across the country, the All-China Lawyers Association, the Beijing Trademark Association, and other authoritative institutions.

Attorney Xiao has also garnered numerous individual accolades, including being named among the 2024 LEGALBAND Client’s Choice: Top 15 Intellectual Property Lawyers, listed in the 2024 The Legal 500 Asia Pacific – Greater China Intellectual Property Rankings and Chambers Greater China Guide 2025 Intellectual Property Rankings, recognized in the 2025 LEGALBAND China Top Lawyers Ranking: Intellectual Property Litigation List, honored as one of the 2025 DAWKINS Top 10 Female Litigation Lawyers, included in LegalOne Client Trusted Lawyers: Top 15 Outstanding Female Lawyers (Northern Region), ranked among the Top 20 Intellectual Property (Trademark) Lawyers by the Annual Influential Lawyers List of Lvxinshe, designated as a “Highly Recommended Individual” for litigation cases in the WIRP World Intellectual Property Review 2025 China Trademark Practice Rankings, and featured in Minglütang China Legal Pioneers Ranking: Leading Dispute Resolution Lawyers under the Administrative Reconsideration and Litigation List.

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All along, Tahota Law Firm has adhered to an open and inclusive approach, pursuing the harmonious integration of scale and specialization. After more than 20 years of sustained and rapid development, it has grown into a large comprehensive law firm with extensive coverage across China and strong connectivity to the world. Looking ahead to a longer-term future, we will continue to uphold our relentless pursuit of high-quality legal services and repay clients and the market with premium, efficient and comprehensive legal solutions.