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REN YanfeiShenzhenSenior AssociateTel:（86-755）8279-1635Email:renyanfei@wanhuida.comService:LitigationLanguage:Chinese / English
Ms. Ren Yanfei is a senior associate based in the firm's Shenzhen Office, where she has been practicing since 2015.
Ms. Ren advises on a frequent basis, the clients on their overall brand protection strategy from both administrative and judicial perspective. She is capable of providing tailored legal solutions from investigation and evidence gathering to the administrative enforcement and civil action against trademark infringement, unfair competition, copyright infringement, trade secrets and patent infringement, Customs border protection as well as criminal enforcement action.
She is a diligent and self-motivated lawyer who has aggressively advocated her clients’ IP interests in courtrooms, through which she manages to secure millions of dollar damages for brand owners.
Her clients include a dozen Fortune 500 and industrial leader corporations in FMCG, fashion, jewelry and luxury industry.
LLM, Renmin University of China
LLB, Nanjing University
China Bar
- Representing YETI in suing the ringleader counterfeiters from a major criminal prosecution proceeding in a trademark infringement litigation, obtained court injunction and damages of RMB 20 million (including 10 million punitive damages). The case was selected as one of the winning deals of the 2024 Deals of the Year Award by China Business Law Journal.
- Representing New Balance in winning a trademark infringement litigation against the manufacturer and seller of infringing products, as well as an e-commerce platform in Putian, Fujian, obtained injunction and damages of 2 million. The platform was also held jointly and severally liable for trademark infringement. The case was selected as one of the Top Ten Civil cases in 2024 by QBPC (Quality Brands Protection Committee of China Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment).
- Representing New Balance in obtaining a permanent court injunction and landmark damages of RMB 30.04 million (inclusive of reasonable costs) in the second instance of a trademark infringement and unfair competition litigation against a copycat before the China Supreme Court. The case was selected as one of the Top Ten Civil cases in 2023 by QBPC.
- Representing Hong Kong jeweler Luk Fook in winning a trademark infringement and unfair competition litigation against a copycat, obtaining damages of over 6 million. The case was selected as one of the Exemplary Trademark cases of 2019 in Shenzhen and as one of the winning deals of the 2020 Deals of the Year Award by China Business Law Journal.
- Representing a famous technology company in winning a trademark infringement litigation against a local infringer, which leads to the first judicial well-known trademark recognition for the client’s house mark in Class 7 and damages of 2 million.
- Representing a famous golf brand in winning a trademark infringement litigation against an exhibitor offering to sell infringing products at Cantor fair, successfully obtaining damages of 1 million as promised by the same infringer in writing should it be found of repeated infringement.
- Representing a famous apparel brand in winning a trademark infringement litigation against a copycat that was engaged in the "transformative use" of its registered trademarks insofar that these altered trademarks mimick that of the client, obtained injunction and statutory damages of RMB 5 million.