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..

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.

Reinout is Senior Counsel at HFG Law & IP in China and is based in Shanghai. He advises companies on trademarks, copyright, patents, trade secrets, technology transfer, contracts and corporate law in China. He has worked on IP for the European Commission in Greater China. Before that he was the head of the China practice at a Dutch law firm and a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. He is the former National Vice-Chair of the IP Working Group of the European Chamber of Commerce in China. He regularly publishes articles on IP and speaks conferences on IP. He holds a Bachelor and Master of Laws degree and EU IP law and a Master of Laws degree in Chinese IP law from Peking University. He is fluent in Chinese, Dutch and English and a good command of German.

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.

Shelagh is a partner in the Toronto office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP and a member of the Intellectual Property Group. Her intellectual property practice focuses on all levels of trade-mark prosecution, including clearing, obtaining and protecting trade-mark rights; trade-mark oppositions and licensing. Her practice includes the management and enforcement of national and international portfolios, intellectual property enforcement including trade-mark and copyright disputes and advertising and marketing law.

Iris is a qualified lawyer with a Ph.D. degree in Law. She joined Johnson & Johnson in 2011 serving as legal director - trademark for Greater China. She provides legal support across consumer, medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Iris has over 25 years experience in IP area and was a committee member of the China Global Advisory Council of INTA in 2016. She also won the Managing IP In-House Award in 2016 and be named as one of the “Corporate IP STARS” of 2017, 2018 & 2019 and WTR300

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.

Franco is partner with MERX IP in Spain. He counsels and advises clients on trademarks and industrial design issues from both an International, European and Spanish perspective. He develops strategies for acquiring, enforcing and assigning IP rights, and litigates national and international conflicts. He also focuses on strategic counselling in the course of trademark development, name finding processes and prosecution before IP Offices. Franco practises in both English, French and Spanish.

Niklas Fridman is a 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 Thomsen Trampedach’s online brand protection services, hiring, and on-boarding. He also manages 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

Tingxi Huo, graduated from Henan University with a bachelor degree of arts in 1989 and studied law at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). He passed the Trademark Attorney Bar in 1998, 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, used by trademark professionals in and outside China. He published many articles and made presentations on the Chinese trademark law and practice. He was elected as WTR 1000, WIPR Leaders, and Asia IP Experts for many years.

Hens graduated in French literature and law, started her career in private practice, and joined HEINEKEN as a legal counsel where she specialised in IP and marketing. Hens works in the Global HEINEKEN IP team responsible for the protection of the Global and International brands, and innovations (ex. patents) of the HEINEKEN company). Further, Hens works together with the HEINEKEN international marketing department on advertising, sponsoring and Consumer Marketing Intelligence projects.

William graduated from the Law Faculty of Exeter (UK), the McGill University in Montreal (Canada) and the Panthéon Sorbonne Law Faculty (Paris) and is now a partner at GERMAIN & MAUREAU and a Trademark and Design Attorney in the OHIM, the French INPI and the Swiss IPI. He is also an expert with the WIPO Arbitration Center and the Czech Arbitration Court for domain name disputes. William practices Trademark and Design prosecution and out of court litigation, as well as cases related to trademark protection on the Internet, Copyright, Computer Law, Unfair Competition,

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

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

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.{br}

Simonne is an admitted Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. She obtained a BCom (Hons) (1998) and a LLB (2001), achieving honours in marketing management, which in turn motivated her interest in marketing, brands and trade mark law. Simonne is currently a Partner at Von Seidels Intellectual Property Attorneys in Cape Town, South Africa. She specialises in the filing and prosecution of local and foreign trade mark applications, trade mark infringement and litigation matters, as well as trade mark licensing. She also deals with general copyright queries, domain name and contractual IP issues.

Chris graduated from Leeds University in 1988 with a degree in Modern Chinese Studies. After studying law and becoming admitted to practice in the UK, he relocated to Hong Kong in 1994 and started working in the field of PRC IP. Chris helped establish the Beijing IP practice of a major international law firm and worked at that firm for 25 years, dividing his time between Hong Kong and Beijing. In 2020, Chris relocated to the UK and joined Simone IP Services. He has been recognized as a leading practitioner in the field of trademark prosecution work and continues to specialize in this, as well as in related fields such as trademark licensing, domain name disputes, unfair competition, parallel imports and OEM manufacturing

Bernard worked from 1994 to 2000 at the Swiss Trademark Office as head of the trademark opposition proceeding. From 2000 to 2021 he was partner in an IP law firm. Since 2022 he is partner at the law firm Troller Hitz Troller. Bernard holds several IP lectures in Switzerland as well as at Tongji University in Shanghai. He acts as an expert speaker for the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) and he regularly speaks at IP seminars and publishes in the field of IP.

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.

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.

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

Ling ZHAO is an experienced trademark attorney and qualified as attorney-at-law. Her practice focuses on trademark prosecution, litigation and strategy. She obtained well-known trademark protection for some esteemed foreign entities. One of the cases was selected as Excellent Trademark Case of 2018~2019 by the China Trademark Association. She was awarded as “Trademark Attorney of the Year” by the China Trademark Association in 2019, and ranked TOP50 China IP Lawyers in 2020. 

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.

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.