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: 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: 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: 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.

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