Our Attorneys：
The
Litigation Department includes 3 full-time lawyers all based
in Beijing Headquarter, cooperating with 7 lawyers in other
departments of Wan Hui Da, 5 in Bejing, 1 in Guangzhou and
1 in Ningbo. Dr. Huang Hui, partner in charge of this Department,
is the first Ph.D. in civil law specializing in trademark
law in China, who has been invited to be the arbitrator of
China International Economy & Trade Arbitration Committee
(CIETAC). He has rich experiences in theoretical researches
and practice. The rest of the staff is also selected into
the Department carefully through strenuous professional trainings.
The responsibility of the lawyers includes: provide pre-proceeding
consultancy; collect evidence as requested by clients; prepare
and submit petition to the court; attend the hearing before
the court; follow up monitoring work after the hearing; coordination
with the courts at all levels;
Our
Services：
The main roles of the Litigation Department are: safeguard,
to the max, our clients’ rights through judicial channel;
provide our clients with constructive and practical advice
based on comprehension of their demands.
The Litigation Department offers clients comprehensive legal
services in the following aspects.
 Patent：
| ·Advice and consulting on judicial protection strategy; |
| ·Appeal before the Intermediate People’s Court for objections
to the decisions on reexamination and invalidation announcements
made by Patent Reexamination Board; |
| ·Litigation on patent infringement; |
Trademark：
| ·Advice and consulting on judicial protection strategy
on trademark; |
| ·Litigation before the Intermediate People’s Court for
objections to the decisions on reexamination and trademark
dispute made by Trademark Review and Adjudication Board;
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| ·Litigation on trademark infringements; |
| ·Negotiation for settlement of trademark and trade name
disputes; |
Copyright：
| ·Advice and consulting on copyright registration and
protection; |
| ·Copyright registration (including computer software
registration); |
| ·Litigation with respect to copyrights; |
Domain
Names：
| ·Advice and consulting on domain registration and protection; |
| ·Domain name registration and assignment; |
| ·Arbitration on Domain disputes; |
| ·Litigation with respect to domain name disputes; |
Miscellaneous
IPR related legal issues：
| ·Draft IPR-related contracts; |
| ·Advice and consulting on aspects of commercial secrets,
package protection, and anti-unfair competition; |
Typical
Cases：
| ·Representing La Chemise Lacoste (France), sue Hong
Kong Crocodile Garment Ltd., for trademark infringement.
The case was settled with an agreement through negotiations; |
·Representing Societe Bic (France) sue Ningbo Better
International Trade Ltd., for trademark infringement;
The case was settled with an agreement through negotiations; |
| ·Representing W. J. Rendell Ltd. (U.K.), sue Hong Kong
Wan Nin Trading Co., for illegal trademark assignment; |
·Representing W. J. Rendell Ltd. (U.K.), sue Hong Kong
Wan Nin Trading Co./Heilongjiang Success Pharmacy Ltd.,
for trademark license contract dispute;
These two cases involve coordination between judicial
system and administrative system. With cooperation of
China Trademark Office, the client’s rights were completely
protected.
|
·Representing Cheng Jia Xing Ye Stock Ltd. sue China
Patent Re-examination Committee (CPRC) against its decision
on patent invalidation;
The Court judged that the decision made by the CPRC were
wrong and requested it to re-examine the disputed patent.
|
| ·Representing Michelin Group (France) recover its domain
names ‘Michelin.cn’ and ‘米其林.中国’ through arbitration procedure
under China International Economy & Trade Arbitration
Committee; |
| ·Representing SEB Group (France) recover its domain
names ‘tefal.cn’, ‘calor.cn’, ‘rowenta.cn’, ‘moulinex.cn’,
and ‘krups.cn’ through arbitration procedure under China
International Economy & Trade Arbitration Committee; |
| ·Representing Wm. Steinen Mfg. Co. (USA) recover its
domain names ‘steinen.com.cn’ and ‘cn-steinen.com’ through
arbitration procedure under China International Economy
& Trade Arbitration Committee. |
| ·Representing La Chemise Lacoste (France), sue Singapore
Crocodile International Pte. Ltd., for trademark infringement; |
| ·Representing La Chemise Lacoste (France), reply to
Singapore Crocodile International Pte. Ltd’s claim of
copyright infringement; |
| ·Representing Adidas International B.V. (Netherlands)
sue Aile Garments & Shoes (Fujian) Ltd., for trademark
infringement; |
| ·Representing Adidas-Salomon Ltd. (Germany) sue China
National Aero-technology Import & Export Hangzhou
Company, for trademark infringement; |
| ·Representing SEB Group (France) sue China Patent Re-examination
Committee against its decision on patent invalidation. |
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Legislation
Trademark
