King & Wood Mallesons
Firm overview:
King & Wood Mallesons, with “Red Circle Chinese” firm King & Wood and “Big Six” Australian firm Mallesons Stephens Jaques among its legacy firms, is a full service international firm with 26 offices and more than 3,000 legal professionals across Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the United States. KWM has an international team of attorneys to help protect clients’ trademarks and brands in China and across its office network.
Team overview:
Ding Xianjie advises clients on the acquisition, maintenance, usage, and dispute resolution of trademark rights. He also has expertise in trademark agency, domain name dispute resolution, IP due diligence, IP audit, and IP licensing and acquisition.
Lin Jiuchu represents clients in trademark oppositions, invalidations, cancellations, reviews on refusal of trademark applications, applications for recognition of trademarks as well-known, trademark-related administrative proceedings, domain name registrations, domain name dispute resolution and other trademark-related matters.
He Fang co-leads the IP litigation group in the Shanghai office. He worked on the first declaration for non-infringement of trademarks in China ('The Peter Rabbit' case). He successfully advocated a series of the Top IP Cases in China as judged by the Supreme People's Court.
Yusheng Shi, with over 30 years of experience in litigation, has been an advocate before Chinese courts over disputes concerning trademark, patent, copyright, trade secret, anti-unfair competition and antitrust. His cases have included civil actions for infringement of intellectual property rights, and administrative lawsuits over the grant, invalidation, or cancellation of trademark rights.
Jing Xu has about 20 years of experience in representing companies in IP infringement litigation, IP-related antitrust lawsuits, and administrative court appeals in China.
Litigator Qu Miao (Mia), is experienced in the software, internet, e-commerce, healthcare, chemical engineering, semiconductor, telecommunication, and electronic devices industries.
