CHINA TEAM
The Team will be in charge of providing information and business tools to protect and enforce IPR in China and to guide Chinese brand owners on any European IP issues they may have.
Responsibilities/Mission:
China is the factory of the world, and brand owners face unique challenges there, including IP infringement, domain name piracy and unprecedented growth in trade mark filings. Meanwhile, Chinese brand owners are rapidly expanding internationally. The China Team works with officials in both regions, and other international partners, to develop best practices, share information and support brand owners whether they are based in China or Europe.
Members
Minutes
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Team Chair
Julia Hongbo Zhong
Lee and Li - Leaven IPR Agency Ltd
China
Julia Hongbo Zhong
Lee and Li - Leaven IPR Agency Ltd
China
Julia worked at China Patent Agent (HK) Ltd. between 1995 and 2004 as trademark attorney and attorney at law. From 2004, as one of the founders of Lee and Li – Leaven IPR Agency Ltd., she is Vice President and Head of Trademark and Copyright Department. Julia has excellent experience in handling legal matters relating to trademark prosecution, litigation and enforcement, trademark strategy, copyright protection, software registration, domain name registration and dispute resolution. She has represented multinational companies for their IP protection in China.
Unit 2202, Tower A, Beijing Marriott Center No. 7, Jian Guo men South Avenue Beijing 100005 China |
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Team Vice-Chair
Mirjam de Werd
Abcor BV
Netherlands
Mirjam de Werd
Abcor BV
Netherlands
Mirjam is a global Intellectual Property professional with 14 years of expertise. She started at a trademark agency (NLO) and after that worked a as trademark manager for 7 years at Danone, where she was responsible for the Asia Pacific portfolio. She then worked for 2 years as an in-house IP Legal Counsel at a new TV channel in Hilversum. As a result, she has expanded her knowledge in the field of IP in the media. By 2015 she completed the BBMM program and officially became a Benelux trademark attorney. Since 2017, she started as a trade attorney at Abcor B.V..
Postbus 2134 Leiden 2301 CC Netherlands |
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Team Secretary
Reinout van Malenstein
HFG Law Firm & IP Agency
China
Reinout van Malenstein
HFG Law Firm & IP Agency
China
14/F, Hua Qi Building No.969, Wuding Road Shanghai 200040 China |
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Karin Becks
Arnold & Siedsma
Netherlands
Karin has a Master's degree in Law from the University in Rotterdam. She attended several subjects in the field of Intellectual Property at the University of Amsterdam as well. After graduating, she attended the post-graduate program Law & Economics at the Universities of Rotterdam (the Netherlands), Gent (Belgium) and Oxford (UK). Since 1992 Karin has worked as a trademark attorney and assisted many national and international clients in obtaining and managing trademark portfolios.
A.J. Ernststraat 595F P O Box 71720 Amsterdam 1008 DE Netherlands |
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Claus Christiansen
Bech-Bruun
Denmark
Claus specialises in intellectual property, marketing and technology embracing legal issues concerning trademarks, designs, marketing and global IP strategy, international injunctions and seizure of evidence, IP oppositions, revocations, cancellations and filing strategies. He is co-founder of Bech-Bruun’s Chinese Desk and has advised Danish corporations on Chinese IP and enforcement for more than 10 years and he has been teaching IP in China. Furthermore, he advises and represents Chinese corporations in IP matters in the Nordic region. Claus is a seasoned litigator before the Danish and European courts He has lecturing experience within his fields of expertise, giving classes in International Trademarks Law, International Copyright Law, Marketing Law and Business Law at Aarhus University and Aarhus School of Business.
Vaerkmestergade 2 Aarhus 8000 Denmark |
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Peter Dernbach
Winkler Partners
Taiwan
Peter is Coordinating Partner at Winkler Partners, the first law firm in Taiwan to be a partnership between Taiwanese and foreign attorneys, where he heads the IP practice. Peter’s client list includes roughly a third of the world’s top global brands, including several European luxury goods companies. Having spent 20 years living in Taiwan, Peter speaks fluent Mandarin and has previously been a member of the Marques Design and China Teams.
12F, No. 86 Chongcing South Road Section 1 Taipei 10045 Taiwan |
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Niklas Fridman
Thomsen Trampedach GmbH
Switzerland
Niklas Fridman is a Copenhagen-based business development and operations coordinator at Thomsen Trampedach. Before moving to Denmark in 2014, Niklas spent close to four years in Asia, two of them in China studying Mandarin Chinese. Niklas is responsible for the coordination of TTs brand protection efforts, hiring and on-boarding, business, product and service development. He also manage the China brand protection team, and together with his team they have over the years developed a complete online brand protection solution for brands facing abuse in China.
Grundstrasse 22a 6343 Rotkreuz 6343 Switzerland |
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Luca Grandi
Soremartec SA
Luxembourg
Luca holds a Law Degree from the University of Turin and a Master in International Management from the SDA Bocconi. He is IP Legal Counsel at Ferrero since 2015 where he is in charge -among other things- of the worldwide anticounterfeiting activities for the whole Ferrero Group’s brands. Prior to join Ferrero, he worked for 3 years at Ermenegildo Zegna with focus . He also spent almost one year in China working at IPR Desk of the Italian Embassy in Beijing.
Findel Business Center, Complexe B Rue de Trèves Findel 2632 Luxembourg |
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Tingxi Huo
Chofn IP
China
Tingxi Huo, trademark attorney, graduated from Henan University with a bachelor degree of arts in 1989 and studied law at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) from 2004 through 2006. He joined China Patent Agent (Hong Kong) Ltd. in 1998 and passed the Trademark Attorney Bar the same year, joined Peksung IP as a partner in 2004, and joined Chofn IP as managing partner in 2010. He edited and translated the Classification of Similar Goods and Services for Registration of Marks in the People’s Republic of China, widely used by trademark professionals in and outside China from 2002 through 2012. He represented many international companies in trademark prosecution and enforcement cases in China
B316 Guangyi Plaza,5 Guangyi Street, Xicheng, Beijing 100053 100053 China |
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Aaron Hurvitz
Kangxin Partners, P. C.
China
Aaron obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from The University of Arizona in 2003, and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2007. He received his LL.M. in International Business and Trade Law from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago in 2008. At Kangxin, Aaron currently advises the firm’s North American, European, Indian, and Australian clients on different aspects of Chinese Intellectual Property Law.
16/F Tower A Indo Building A48 Zhichun Road Haidian District, Beijing 100098 China |
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Hens J. Koning-Ghijsen
Heineken International B.V.
Netherlands
MARQUES Council Member
Jean-Pierre Maeder
IP-PORTUNITY
USA
Jean-Pierre Maeder
IP-PORTUNITY
USA
Co-Founder at IP-Portunity, a brain trust of IP experience from former IP Dep. Heads of world's leading companies. Our unique array of services is provided to in-house IP dep., law firms and consulting companies. He helps corporations achieve cost-effective and business aligned management of IP assets, law firms with training and support consulting companies with the IP aspects of their projects. He was group Head of Brand IP at Nestlé with worldwide responsibilities for trademarks, designs, copyright, internet/domain names/social media and counterfeits. Before that he was Director IP at Kraft Foods. He holds a Law Degree from the University of Berne, Switzerland and is a qualified attorney admitted to the bar.JP was also VP of the Supervisory Board of the Swiss IPO and is Of-Counsel at the Swiss IP/Law firm Troller Hitz Troller
150 Second Avenue Pelham 10803 New York USA |
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Alicia Martin Santos
PVH Europe B.V.
Netherlands
IP in-house counsel for Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein (PVH Corp) based in Amsterdam. Before that, I spent five years as IP counsel in Shanghai, China.
Qualified for practice in France (Paris Bar) and Spain (Madrid Bar) and official Trademark and Patent Agent (Spain). WTR 300 World Leading Trademark Professional
Danzigerkade 165 1013 AP Amsterdam Netherlands |
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Felice Meli
Ferrante Intellectual Property
China
Felice holds two Law Degrees from the University of Bologna in Italy and from the University of Glasgow's School of Law in Scotland. With his legal background and experience in both civil and common law jurisdictions, Felice has built through the years extensive experience assisting enterprises from a wide range of industries in assessing and enhancing their intellectual property rights portfolios, providing strategies on registration and prosecution actions in China and south-east Asia. His experience extends also to enforcement of IP rights in China, from fighting the sale of counterfeits both online and in the marketplace to enforcement at trade fairs as well as customs border brand protection. Besides his native language Italian, Felice also speaks English, as well as advanced Spanish and basic Mandarin.
A608, Tian Yuan Gang Center Dongsanhuan North Road, Chaoyang District Beijing 100027 China |
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Gwenaelle Vache
FMTM Distribution Ltd
Jersey
Gwen created the IP department of the Franck Muller group in January 2009 which is a Swiss manufacture dedicated to a very niche market of Luxury high complicated watches. Graduated in Business and European Law in UPMF (Grenoble, France) and specialized in Intellectual Law Magister Lvcentinus (Alicante, Spain). After various experiences in legal firms, INPI and OHIM, her practice includes management and enforcement of all international portfolios and negotiation of multi-jurisdictional IP transactions. She advises on all IP aspects globally. She has a practical knowledge of IP with a specific expertise on luxury brand protection.
First Floor, Beauport House, L'Avenue de la Commune Saint Peter JE37BP Jersey |
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Betty Wang
Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd
China
Worked for Tencent since 2009. The main areas of work include worldwide legal work such as rights prosecution as well as protection of trademarks, domain names and copyrights;covering legal advice; contract review and negotiations,IP strategy planning, IP dispute cases, IP authorization, managing internal team as well as kinds of external supportive or cooperative teams, and the other legal related work. A committee for INTA and Marques, active on IP areas.
Tencent Binhai Tower No.33 Haitian 2nd Road Nanshan District Shenzhen 518000 China |
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Lian Yunze
Jadong IP Law Firm
China
Lian specializes in trademark, copyright, unfair-competition, domain name and litigation in IP Group of Beijing Office. he practiced for 11 years in CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office. He is strong in anti-counterfeiting and a frequent speaker on this subject in International conferences. He participated in revising the China Trademark Law and its implementing regulations. He is a Arbitrator of China Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center.
Unit 2705, Full Tower No. 9 Dongsanhuan Zhong Road Chaoyang District, Beijing 100020 China |
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Ling Zhao
CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Offices
China
Kate Ling ZHAO is an experienced trademark attorney and a qualified attorney-at-law, with about 20-year experience in trademark prosecution and litigation. She has ever represented clients in quite a few landmark cases before Beijing IP Court, Beijing High Court and the Supreme People’s Court. Among the clients she represents, there are 500 fortune corporations, as well as medium and small size companies. She has successfully obtained well-known trademark recognition in trademark administrative and civil litigations for some famous international brands.
10F, Ocean Plaza 158 Fuxingmennei Street Beijing 100031 China |
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Lei Zhao
Unitalen Attorneys at Law
China
Lei joined UNITALEN in 2002 as a trademark attorney, attorney at law and director of the Law Department of UNITALEN, he have been active in trademark prosecution and IP enforcement and accumulated extensive practical experience. I He successfully dealt with large number of prosecution and litigation cases. He also counsel clients on IP strategy and IP infringement issues. I have been actively engaged in trademark theory and practice research and published many articles in influential IP magazines and newspapers, such as "World Trademark Review", “China Intellectual Property”, "China Industry & Commerce News" and China Invention & Patent. I am the co-author of many academic books published by UNITALEN
7/8Th Floor, Scietech Plaza, 22 Jian Guo Men Wai Ave. Beijing 100004 China |
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Melanie Zhu
Rouse & Co. International
United Kingdom
Melanie is a qualified Chinese trademark attorney and P.R.C. Lawyer with 16 years’ experience in the field of trademark portfolio management. Joining Rouse in 2009 and becoming a Principal in 2017, she leads the trademark team in Shanghai. She has rich experience in handling trademark prosecution, dispute resolution and enforcement, in particular, devising a comprehensive strategy for building, defending and exploiting trademark rights in China, for US and EU companies and Chinese companies.
11th Floor Exchange Tower 1 Harbour Exchange Square London E14 9GE United Kingdom |
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Zhigang Zhu
Wandhuida Intellectual Property
China
Zhigang is a Senior Partner at Wanhuida Peksung where he has started practice since 2005. He is also attorney-at-law admitted to practice in China since 2007. His practice covers the judicial and administrative protection of IPRs in China, counseling on trademark, copyright, design and domain name registration and protection. Zhigang has taken a keen interest in researching and analysing the frontier IP matters like parallel import, fair use of trademark, trademark co-existence, infringement liability of online trading platform, super well-known trademark status as well as conflicts of rights and has managed to put his theoretical research into practice.
Yiyuan Office Building, Friendship Hotel, No.1 Zhongguancun St. South Haidian District, Beijing, China 100873 China |
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