Liu Yanhuai’s profile

Worked in the State Intellectual Property Office for 23 years, and has been engaged in patent document research, computer retrieval services for patent information, online retrieval technology research, and deep processing patent database R&D organization leadership. In the early 1990s, as a visiting scholar, he spent one and a half years in the United States studying national online retrieval technology and information processing technology with the funding of the Han Suyin China-Western Science Exchange Foundation.

Liu Yanhuai participated in and organized the National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, key research projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, government high-tech achievement application projects of the National Development and Reform Commission, major patent information technology projects of the State Intellectual Property Office during the Tenth Five-year Plan, and 863 projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has been engaged in the research and development of major special projects of the Ministry of Planning and Science and Technology, and has been hired as an expert on the national intellectual property strategy formulation expert group and an expert on the 863 project expert database of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Since August 2004, he has been the president of Beijing Oriental Lingdun Technology Co., Ltd. In August 2004, under the leadership of Liu Yanhuai, Beijing Oriental Lingdun Technology Co., Ltd. undertook and completed the research and development tasks of two sub-projects of the National Ministry of Science and Technology's 863 Program - China's innovative drug patent database with complex search functions - Ethnic Family Studies Structural mapping and indexing system; unique coding system for traditional Chinese medicine. From 2004 to 2005, it undertook and completed the research and development work of the "Patent Document Retrieval Service Application Demonstration Platform" project, a major project of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The project includes: a multi-database online search platform with powerful professional search functions, two deeply processed Chinese and English bilingual world traditional medicine patent databases, and a deeply processed and indexed world silicon material patent database. The above two achievements are independent intellectual property rights and have reached the international advanced level. In 2006, he also undertook a special goal-oriented project under the 863 Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. These works have made useful explorations for the establishment of a national patent information basic platform in the future.