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For nearly 40 years, we have been solving our clients’ intellectual property disputes in China

In that period the intellectual property regime in China has changed beyond recognition and China is now one of the most important jurisdictions in the world for IP enforcement.

Our dedicated China Disputes team comprises attorneys and lawyers, each with years of experience of Chinese IP litigation. Our experience covers technologically complex patent disputes, brand protection matters, and design and copyright infringements.

We serve as a litigation bridge between western clients and Chinese lawyers

Our attorneys in China regularly appear in Chinese courts alongside Chinese lawyers to advocate for our clients. Furthermore, they are also directly involved in administrative proceedings as is frequently demonstrated by our busy Beijing office, which has a very strong track record in contentious trade mark administrative cases, with a high success rate.

Many of our China-based attorneys are dual qualified in China and western jurisdictions and all are bilingual. Our wider, global China disputes team, based in the UK and Mainland Europe, offer litigation expertise that covers the coordination of Chinese proceedings, often as part of multi-jurisdictional IP disputes, as well as advising clients on the very different approach that is required to the initiation and conduct of litigation in China, compared with other leading jurisdictions.

We are therefore ideally placed to represent and guide you through the complexities of IP litigation in China.

Specialists

for the result you need

Zephyr Su

Partner Chinese and Chartered (UK) Patent Attorney
Zephyr is a qualified patent attorney before the PRC patent office and UK Intellectual Property Office.
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Xuefang Huang

Partner PRC Lawyer, New York Attorney
Xuefang advises on intellectual property law with a focus on all aspects of trade mark law, copyright law and related laws of PRC, including transactional work, disputes, IP due diligence, enforcement of rights, customs recordation, cybersquatting, unfair competition and litigation.
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Katherine Lai

Partner Solicitor (Hong Kong)
Katherine has in-depth dispute resolution experience representing blue-chip multinational companies and globally renowned brand owners in their China anti-counterfeiting campaigns, Customs Office actions, domain-name disputes, copyright and/or trade mark infringement and anti-unfair competition claims before the China courts.

Michael Lin

Partner Ohio Attorney, US Patent Attorney
Michael graduated from the University of California at Berkeley (biochemistry), worked in a biotech laboratory in Silicon Valley, and graduated from Boston University Law School.

Frank Yang

Senior Associate PRC Lawyer, PRC Patent Attorney qualification
Frank is experienced in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters involving all categories of IP rights, including IPR registration, anti-counterfeiting investigation, customs protection, AIC action, anti-unfair competition, domain name disputes, and infringement litigation.
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Graham Burnett-Hall

Partner Solicitor (UK)
Graham is a Partner and a patent litigator at Marks & Clerk Law. He advises across a spectrum of fields encompassing life sciences, telecommunications, electrical engineering and medicinal devices.

Latest insights

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- 03 January 2022

China TM Practice Note - CNIPA Expedited Examination and Re-filing Strategies

China practice has recently become more acute because it appears that the CNIPA has accelerated its examination of trade mark applications, whereas there seems to be no corresponding acceleration in the processing of non-use cancellation actions.
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Article
- 07 December 2021

China IP Agency Fined for Filing Copycat Bentley TMs

In June 2021, the Beijing Xicheng District Administration of Market Regulation issued a warning and imposed a fine of RMB 70,000 on Beijing Sihailong Intellectual Property Agency Limited for filing applications for a Hong Kong copycat company that “shared” the same Chinese name as Bentley Motors Limited.
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Article
- 28 September 2021

Beijing court awards Schneider discretional damages

The case is indicative of efforts by Chinese courts to lend support to protection of IP rights and crack down on blatant and continual infringing activity.
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