Shanghai Pacific Legal‘s IP team is led out of Shanghai by Frank Liu, who assists a number of Fortune 500 companies, both overseas and domestic clients, with complex trade mark and copyright litigation. Jerry Huang works closely alongside Liu in a range of trade mark, copyright, unfair competition and trade secret matters. The team advises clients from a wide range of sectors, including automobile, electronics, financial institutions, biotechnology, industrials and more.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The firm provides a comprehensive IP protection strategy. This is very important for clients, allowing them to have a more macro and long-term plan, and fully anticipate risks, costs and various possibilities. SPL has the ability to use different tools in a comprehensive manner, and various teams support and cooperate with each other to ultimately achieve better results.'

  • ‘As the leader of SPL's IP team, Frank Liu is very familiar with the legal issues and judicial practice trends of various IP protection actions, and the comprehensive strategies he provides can bring additional value to clients. Frank has a good business mindset and can look at cases from a more macro perspective, properly assess benefits and risks/costs, and impose penalties based on the client's business purpose. As a leader, he can coordinate team members well and provide excellent services to clients.’

  • ‘Partners and senior lawyers lead young lawyers to conduct legal business together, which can rely on the experience of senior lawyers and explore new perspectives of young lawyers. This combination gives clients a combination of experience and new ideas, which can better look at the problem comprehensively.'

  • ‘Frank Liu has solid legal experience and is familiar with legal content. He provides clients with opinions and experience in a timely manner and gives corresponding guidance. Jerry Huang is a young lawyer and gives clients quick feedback. Good at using various electronic tools, actively and efficiently solves legal problems for clients.'

  • ‘The team applies a commercial lens to all of the work it does which is critical for clients.’

  • ‘Shanghai Pacific Legal has a great reputation serving international businesses on their IP needs.’

  • ‘Frank Liu is an experienced professional also with PRC judicial experience behind him, which is very useful for contentious work’

Key clients

  • Cognex China
  • Essilor International
  • Euroimmun Asia Pacific
  • GuangdongXiaopengMotorsTechnology Co., Ltd.
  • Koh Australia Pty Ltd.
  • Jollibee (China) Food and Beverage Management Co., Ltd.
  • Kilpatric Townsend & Stockton LLP (USA)
  • Lantech.com, LLC.
  • Nine United Shanghai Limited
  • Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
  • Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc
  • Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
  • Shanghai Dorel Juvenile Co., Ltd.
  • Shenzhen Kingsun Science and Technology Inc.
  • Shimadzu (Shanghai) Global Laboratory Consumables Co., Ltd.
  • Steinway Piano Asia Pacific Co., Ltd.
  • Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.

Work highlights

  • Represented Shenzhen Kingsun Science Technology in a copyright infringement case with successfully results.
  • Advised Koh Australia Pty Ltd on the prosecution of its PRC trade marks.
  • Advised Lantech.com on devising a comprehensive strategy to obtain trade mark registration and took various actions against the barrier marks.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Frank Liu

Other key lawyers

Jerry Huang