TRADEMARK LEADERS
CHINA
Spring Chang
Position: Founding Partner / Trademark Agent / Attorney
Law firm: Chang Tsi & Partners
Phone: +86 10 8836 9999
Email: springchang@changtsi.com
Website: www.changtsi.com
Named the World’s Leading Intellectual Property Lawyer by Chambers & Partners, founding partner Spring Chang is a razor-sharp IP attorney who has advised and represented hundreds of major electronics, consumer, pharmaceutical, apparel and jewelry companies in the Chinese market, as well as Chinese companies overseas.
Chang is well known for representing Best Buy in a precedent-setting trademark case that prompted China’s Supreme Court to re-evaluate the kinds of evidence to consider in IP decisions.
Chang has earned an international reputation for creativity and efficiency during more than two decades of practice.
Fabio Giacopello
Position: Partner
Law firm: HFG Law & Intellectual Property
Phone: +86 21 5213 5500
Email: giacopello@hfgip.com
Website: www.hfgip.com
Fabio Giacopello is senior partner at HFG Law & Intellectual Property. He’s been widely recognised as one of the most valuable IP practitioners in China.
He has substantive experience in trademark portfolio management, trademark disputes and litigations and enforcement, anti-counterfeiting, technology transfer, patent and trade secret litigations, arbitrations, commercial and corporate transactions.
Among others recognitions, Giacopello has been nominated Recommended Lawyer by Legal500, Winner of Client Choice Award–Trademarks (China) by ILO, IP Star by Managing Intellectual Property, Notable practitioner by Chambers and Partners, Leading practitioner by WIPR, and Expert in the trademark category by Asia IP.
Name: Spring Chang Position: Founding Partner / Trademark Agent / Attorney Law firm: Chang Tsi & Partners
Name: Linda Chang Position: Principal / General Manager Law firm: Rouse & Co International LLP
Name: Jihong Chen Position: Partner Law firm: Zhong Lun Law Firm
Name: Xuemin Chen Position: Partner Law firm: Zhongzi Law Office
Name: Tony Chen Position: Partner Law firm: Jones Day
Name: Alan Chiu Position: Managing Partner Law firm: Ellalan
Name: Wing Keung Clement Ngai Position: Partner Law firm: Baker McKenzie
Name: Wen Dapeng Position: Patent Attorney / Attorney at law Law firm: China Patent Agent HK Ltd
Name: Li Decheng Position: Senior Partner Law firm: Jincheng Tongda & Neal
Name: Huifang Dong Position: Partner / Attorney at Law & Patent Attorney Law firm: NTD Intellectual Patent & Trademark Agency
Name: Michele Ferrante Position: Partner / Managing Partner Law firm: Ferrante Intellectual Property
Name: William Fisher Position: Partner Law firm: DLA Piper
Name: George Q Fu Position: Senior Partner Law firm: Watson & Band
Name: Bai Gang Position: Founding Partner Law firm: Wanhuida Intellectual Property
Name: Gordon Gao Position: Partner Law firm: Fangda Partners
Name: Richard Gao Position: Group leader of Trademark Department Law firm: Linda Liu & Partners
Name: Xie Guanbin Position: Partner Law firm: Lifang Partners
Name: Gesheng Huang Position: Partner Law firm: Zhongzi Law Office
Name: Huang Hui Position: Partner Law firm: Wanhuida Intellectual Property
Name: Tingxi Huo Position: Managing Partner / Trademark Attorney Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Name: Hongyi Jiang Position: Managing Partner Law firm: Lexfield Law Offices
Name: Horace Lam Position: Partner / Co-Head of Asia IP Law firm: DLA Piper
Name: Jingbing Li Position: Partner / Attorney at Law Law firm: ZY Partners
Name: Deshan Li Position: Chief Vice President / Partner / Patent Attorney Law firm: Unitalen Attorneys At Law
Name: Johnson Li Position: Partner Law firm: Wanhuida Intellectual Property
Name: Bonan Lin Position: Partner Law firm: Zhongzi Law Office
Name: Jan Liu Position: Director / Senior Partner - Managing Committee Law firm: Lexfield Law Offices
Name: Chuanhong Long Position: Patent Attorney Law firm: CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office
Name: James Luo Position: Managing Partner Law firm: Lawjay Partners
Name: Qiang Ma Position: Counsel Law firm: JunHe Law Firm
Name: Hao Ma Position: Patent Prosecution Law firm: CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office
Name: Wang Maohua Position: Partner Law firm: King & Wood Mallesons
Name: Matthew Murphy Position: Managing Partner / Founder Law firm: MMLC Group
Tingxi Huo
Position: Managing Partner / Trademark Attorney
Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Phone: +86 10 6213 9699
Email: trademark@chofn.cn
Website: en.chofn.com
Tingxi Huo is a trademark attorney and the managing partner of Chofn IP. He passed the Trademark Attorney Bar in 1998 and joined Chofn IP as managing partner in 2010.
Huo edited and translated “The Classification of Similar Goods and Services for Registration of Trademarks in the People’s Republic of China”, which has become a must-have reference manual for trademark professionals in the IP industry.
He has published articles and made many presentations on the Chinese trademark law and practice on different international occasions. He has been listed in WIPR Leaders, WTR 1000, and Asian IP Experts for consecutive years.
Name: Scott Palmer Position: Partner Law firm: Perkins Coie
Name: Christopher Shen Position: Senior Partner Law firm: NTD Intellectual Patent & Trademark Agency
Name: Yusheng Shi Position: Partner Law firm: King & Wood Mallesons
Name: Joe Simone Position: Partner Law firm: Simone Intellectual Property Services Asia Limited
Name: Tina Tai Position: Partner Law firm: King & Wood Mallesons
Name: Rachel Tan Position: Principal / Global Head Trademarks Law firm: Rouse & Co International LLP
Name: Allen Tao Position: Managing Partner Law firm: Liu Shen & Associates
Name: Xinliang Tao Position: Partner Law firm: DeHeng Law Offices
Name: Johnson Wang Position: Partner Law firm: JunHe Law Firm
Name: Zhaohui (Zoe) Wang Position: Partner / Patent attorney Law firm: JunHe Law Firm
Name: Guizeng Wayne Liu Position: Senior Partner Law firm: Yuanhe United Intellectual Property Partners
Name: Yuguang Wei Position: Trademark Attorney Law firm: Liu Shen & Associates
Name: Chen Wenping Position: Partner Law firm: King & Wood Mallesons
Name: Sun Xi Position: Partner Law firm: Lifang Partners
Name: Zeng Xiangling Position: Patent Attorney Law firm: China Patent Agent HK Ltd
Name: Xiong Yanfeng Position: Chinese Patent Attorney Law firm: China Patent Agent HK Ltd
Name: William Yang Position: Partner Law firm: Panawell & Partners
Name: Christine Yiu Position: Intellectual Property Partner Law firm: Bird & Bird
Name: Minjian You Position: Managing Partner / Leader & Founder Law firm: Co-Effort Law Firm
Name: Samso Yu Position: Managing Partner Law firm: Kangxin Partners
Name: Jianyang Yu Position: Partner Law firm: Liu Shen & Associates
Name: Wu Yuhe Position: Patent Attorney / Trademark Attorney / Attorney at Law Law firm: China Patent Agent HK Ltd
Name: Lian Yunze Position: Senior Partner Law firm: Hylands Law Firm
Name: Gary Zhang Position: Senior Partner Law firm: China Sinda Intellectual Property
Name: Hui Zhang Position: Partner Law firm: ZY Partners
Name: Xia Zheng Position: Founder / Patent & Trademark Attorney Law firm: AFD China Intellectual Property
Name: Zhongqi Zhou Position: Patent Attorney Law firm: CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office
Name: Nongfan Zhu Position: International Partner Law firm: King & Wood Mallesons
Name: Chiang Ling Li Position: Partner Law firm: Jones Day
Name: Coral Toh Position: Managing Director / Director - Greater China & Trademark ASIA Law firm: Spruson & Ferguson
Deshan Li
Position: Chief Vice President / Partner / Patent Attorney
Law firm: Unitalen Attorneys At Law
Phone: +86 10 5920 8476
Email: deshan.li@unitalen.com
Website: www.unitalen.com
Deshan Li joined a large patent and trademark law firm in 1996. As a patent attorney, attorney at law and director of the electrical pepartment of that firm, Li has been very active in patent procurement and patent enforcement and accumulated extensive practical experience. He has successfully dealt with a number of difficult patent prosecution and litigation cases.
Li’s practice focuses on the technical fields of image processing, telecommunication, computer science and automation etc.
He also counsels clients on patent validity, patentability and infringement issues. In 2007, he joined Unitalen and is responsible for the management of foreign patent business.
Lei Zhao
Position: Patent Attorney
Law firm: Unitalen Attorneys at Law
Phone: +86 10 5920 8921
Email: lei.zhao@unitalen.com
Website: www.unitalen.com
As a partner and director of the international trademark department of Unitalen Attorneys at Law, Lei (Ray) Zhao has accumulated extensive practical experience in trademark prosecution and IP enforcement.
Zhao works as a legal consultant providing IP services for many listed companies, famous domestic companies, public figures and multinational clients in litigation and non-litigation cases regarding patents, trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, domain names and network infringements.
He also counsels clients on IP strategy and IP infringement issues.
