Cui Guobin

Profile

Cui Guobin is the Associate Dean for International Affairs and Academics as well as Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at Tsinghua University Law School. Professor Cui earned his PhD in law, LLM, and BSc in Chemistry from Peking University, and his second LLM from Yale Law School.

Before he joined Tsinghua in 2002, he had practiced intellectual property litigation and licensing law in Beijing and Shanghai. In 2008, he worked as an intern for Judge Rader at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University Law School in 2008, the University of Chicago Law School in July 2012, the University of Washington Law School in May 2013, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in February 2018.

He also serves as adjunct researcher, the Center for Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property, the Supreme People’s Court of China; Legal advisor, Beijing High People’s Court; Specialist Juror, Beijing Intellectual Property Court; and Legal advisor, the People’s Court of Haidian District of Beijing.

Research

Research Interests:

Cui Guobin's scholarly interests include intellectual property, antitrust, property, and law and economics theory. He teaches Intellectual Property Law, Patent Law, IP Licensing, and Chinese Civil Law. He has published more than 20 law review articles and two popular casebooks, “Patent Law: Cases and Materials” (1st edition in 2012, 2nd edition in 2015) and “Copyright Law: Cases and Materials” (2014, Peking University Press).

Publications

Professor Cui’s published works include:

• Guobin CUI, Treat Copyright of Computer Games Seriously, Intellectual Property, Vol.2, 2016;
• Guobin CUI, Patent Law: Cases and Materials (2^nd), Peking University Press, 2016;
• Guobin CUI, Trademark Holdup and the Restriction of Registered Trademark, Intellectual Property, Vol.2, 2015;
• Guobin CUI, Copyright Law: Cases and Materials, Peking University Press, 2014;
• Guobin CUI, Regulating Framed Links under the Copyright Law, Political Science and Law, vol.5, 2014;
• Guobin CUI, A Theory of Entitlement Delineation for Intellectual Property, Peking University Law Journal，2, 2014;
• Guobin CUI, Remodeling ISPs’ Indirect Infringement Rule， Chinese Journal of Law, Vol.4, 2013;
• Guobin CUI, The Allocation of Goodwill after Termination of Trademark License, Intellectual Property, Vol.6, 2012;
• Guobin CUI, Patent Law: Cases and Materials, Peking University Press, 2011;
• Guobin CUI, The Copyright Protection of Typeface and Fonts, Legal Science, Vol.7 2011;
• Guobin CUI, A Study on Jointly-Owned Patents in China (II), Electronic Intellectual Property, Vol.7, 2010;
• Guobin CUI, A Study on Jointly-Owned Patents in China (I), Electronic Intellectual Property, Vol.6, 2010;
• Guobin CUI, Copyright Liability in the P2P Context: A Comment on the Kuro Taiwan Case Cross-Strait Law Review, vol.1, 2006;
• Guobin CUI, A Critique on Judge-made Law of Intellectual Property, China Legal Science, vol.1, 2006;
• Guobin CUI, Abandoning the Notion of Collective Authorship: The End of the Problem of Folklore Copyright, Law and Social Development, vol.5, 2005;
• Guobin CUI, The Boundary between Tangible Technology and Abstract Idea: An Analysis of the Patentability of Algorithm, Journal of Tsinghua University, No.3, 2005;
• Guobin CUI, Antitrust Regulation of the Copyright Collecting Societies, Tsinghua Law Journal,6, 2005;
• Guobin CUI, Adopting the Principle of Prior Informed Consent in Patent Law: The Disclosure Obligation of the Users of Genetic Materials, Global Law Review, vol.5, 2005;
• Guobin CUI, Protecting “Literal Work” under Patent Law: The Patentability of the Text of Computer Programs, National Judges College Law Journal, Issue 9, 2005
• Guobin CUI, The Patentability of “ Computer + Program”, Law Science Magazine, vol.6, 2005;
• Guobin CUI, The Legal Dilemma of Intellectual Protection for Traditional Knowledge, Patent Law Research (Annual Journal of State Intellectual Property Office of China), 2002;
• Guobin CUI, Current Legislations and Doctrines on the Intellectual Property Protection of Database, Peking University Intellectual Property Review, vol.1, 2002 (co-author;
• Guobin CUI, The Determination of Equivalency in Patent Law, Peking University Intellectual Property Review, vol.1, 2002;
• Guobin CUI, The Patent Protection and Benefit-sharing of Gene Technology, Intellectual Property Collections, vol.3, 2000;
• Guobin CUI, The Patentability of Gene Sequences, Patent Law Research (Annual Journal of State Intellectual Property Office of China), 1999;
• Guobin CUI, The Antitrust Enforcement in Corporation Mergers, Comparative Studies of Sino-Japan Company Law (Edited by Li Liming, Law Press China) 1998;
• Guobin CUI, The Arbitration of Patentability in United States, Intellectual Property, vol.3, 1998; and
• Guobin CUI, Perfecting the Rule of Punitive Damages in China, Civil and Commercial Law, vol.10, 1997.