TRADEMARK LEADERS
CHINA
Spring Chang
Position: Founding Partner / Trademark Agent / Attorney-at-law
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 types of evidence to consider in IP decisions.
Chang has earned an international reputation for creativity and efficiency during more than two decades of practice.
Haoyu Feng
Position: Partner / trademark attorney / attorney-at-law
Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Phone: +86 10 6213 9699
Email: mail@chofn.cn
Website: en.chofn.com
Haoyu Feng passed the Chinese bar in 2009 and has been working at Chofn IP since 2010. As a trademark attorney, attorney-at-law and partner, she has extensive experience in trademark prosecution, IP enforcement, and corporate IP strategy consulting.
Feng has served many famous companies in the Chinese IP area. She is frequently invited to speak at industrial and legal events on various topics. She has contributed many articles to professional IP media and received high comments.
Feng is a member of INTA's Famous and Well-Known Marks committee and a member of the China Trademark Association (CTA).
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 has been widely recognised as one of the most valuable intellectual property practitioners in China.
Giacopello 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 the ILO, “IP star” by Managing Intellectual Property, “notable practitioner” by Chamber and Partners, “leading practitioner” by WIPR, and “expert in the trademark category” by Asia IP.
Wenpei He
Position: Trademark Attorney
Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Phone: +86 10 6213 9699
Email: mail@chofn.cn
Website: en.chofn.com
After obtaining her LL.M degree and finishing her practical training in the United States, Wenpei joined Chofn in 2013. Although she left Chofn for two years due to relocation, she came back to Chofn in 2018. With in-depth knowledge and extensive experience in trademark and copyright prosecution and enforcement (search, opposition, appeal against rejection, invalidation, customs, etc.), Wenpei is able to provide exceptional professional service to clients.
She has served many clients such as BBC, Thann, Okamoto, etc.
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: Spring Chang Position: Founding Partner / Trademark Agent / Attorney-at-law 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: Haoyu Feng Position: Partner / trademark attorney / attorney-at-law Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
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: Hao-Chin (Frank) Jeng Position: Vice president Law firm: Purplevine IP Group
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: Jing He Position: Partner Law firm: Genlaw
Name: Lanny Lee Position: Partner Law firm: HFG Law & Intellectual Property
Name: Haiyu Li Position: Partner, Trademark Attorney, Attorney-at-law Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
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: Chiang Ling Li Position: Partner Law firm: Jones Day
Name: Jan Liu Position: Director / Senior Partner - Managing Committee Law firm: Lexfield Law Offices
Name: Xiaoming Liu Position: Partner Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Name: Wenpei He Position: Partner, Trademark Attorney, Attorney-at-law Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
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: Wang Maohua Position: Partner Law firm: King & Wood Mallesons
Name: Matthew Murphy Position: Managing Partner / Founder Law firm: MMLC Group
Hao-Chin (Frank) Jeng
Position: Vice president
Law firm: Purplevine IP Group
Phone: +86 198 0212 1202 / +852 9667 1058
Email: frank.jeng@purplevineip.com
Website: www.purplevineip.com
Hao-Chin (Frank) Jeng is vice president of Purplevine IP Group, a global IP service provider based in China. Jeng oversees Purplevine’s licensing and litigation practice as well as international development and marketing. Jeng represents clients from across the world including China, the US, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Italy and Korea. He is well regarded in the electronics and telecommunications sectors.
Prior to joining Purplevine in 2019, Jeng was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. In this role, he advised international and Chinese clients in high-stake litigation cases involving patents, trade secrets, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, antitrust laws, and securities fraud.
Lanny Lee
Position: Partner
Law firm: HFG Law & Intellectual Property
Phone: +86 21 5213 5500
Email: lli@hfgip.com
Website: www.hfgip.com
Lanny LEE is one of the founding Partners of HFG and been practicing law for more than 20 years in China. She has extensive experience in Intellectual Property rights including trademark, patent, copyright, business secrets and unfair competition.
Lanny’s legal opinions and professional expertise on legislation & practices regarding Intellectual Property rights are often invited by media. Her articles were published in magazines such as Intellectual Property, Modern Law Science, Chinese Trademark, as well as China Daily and Managing Intellectual Property.
Lanny mainly provides professional Intellectual Property legal services to world 500 companies or which 80% are foreign-invested companies and 20% Japanese enterprises.
Haiyu Li
Position: Partner / trademark attorney / attorney-at-law
Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Phone: +86 10 6213 9699
Email: mail@chofn.cn
Website: en.chofn.com
Haiyu Li passed the Chinese bar in 2009 and obtained her lawyer’s license in 2013. Before joining Chofn in 2013, Li worked in two other Chinese firms. Now, she is a partner, trademark attorney and attorney-at-law at Chofn IP.
Li advises on brand protection and strategy and is experienced in copyright, domain names and unfair competition. She represents a wide variety of local, multi-national and foreign-owned businesses across many industries.
Li serves on INTA’s Bulletins Committee. She has contributed many articles to IP media and presents complex topics in a way that is easily understood.
Jia Li
Position: Partner / Trademark Attorney
Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Phone: +86 10 6213 9699
Email: mail@chofn.cn
Website: en.chofn.com
Jia Li is a trademark attorney and partner at Chofn IP. She graduated in 2010 with a major in Japanese and then received a master's degree in intellectual property law from Renmin University, China.
Li has considerable experience in trademark prosecution matters. Her practice covers trademark application, opposition, invalidation, corporate IP strategy and portfolio management, customs border interception and copyright registration. Many clients have described her as a real pleasure to deal with, and as someone who really understands their business. Li was selected as “excellent individual of gold medal services” by the China Trademark Association (CTA) in 2019.
Name: Scott Palmer Position: Partner Law firm: Perkins Coie
Name: Elliot Papageorgiou Position: Head of IP Strategy in China Law firm: Gowling WLG
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: Yanlei Tan Position: Trademark Attorney, Partner Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Name: Zhanqing Tang Position: Partner, Trademark Attorney, Attorney-at-law Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Name: Allen Tao Position: Managing Partner Law firm: Liu Shen & Associates
Name: Xinliang Tao Position: Partner Law firm: DeHeng Law Offices
Name: Coral Toh Position: Managing Director / Director - Greater China & Trademark Asia Law firm: Spruson & Ferguson
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
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.
Yanlei Tan
Position: Partner / Trademark Attorney
Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Phone: +86 10 6213 9699
Email: mail@chofn.cn
Website: en.chofn.com
Yanlei Tan is a trademark attorney at Chofn IP. As an IP practitioner, she focuses on understanding the needs of her clients’ businesses and aims to help clients foresee and solve IP issues. She always provides timely, strategic and cost-effective advice and gives the client a clear road map that is easily understood.
With extensive IP experience, she has helped establish and secure intellectual property rights for numerous companies, from start-ups to world-leading enterprises in various industries.
Zhanqing Tang
Position: Partner / Trademark Attorney / Attorney-at-Law
Law firm: Chofn Intellectual Property
Phone: +86 10 6213 9699
Email: mail@chofn.cn
Website: en.chofn.com
After graduation, Zhanqing Tang joined Chofn IP as a trademark attorney in 2013. Now, Tang is an attorney-at-law and partner at Chofn. Her practice covers trademark prosecution and enforcement, copyright and domain names, customs protection, unfair competition, trade names and trademark disputes, etc.
She was included as an IP rising star by Managing Intellectual Property from 2018 to 2020. She has also served as a committee member of INTA for several years.
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.
