Gang Bai
Wanhuida Intellectual PropertyWanhuida Intellectual Property is a specialist IP firm that excels in both litigation and prosecution matters. The firm mainly centres its contentious practice around trade mark litigation including infringements, invalidation and anti-competition issues. Patent infringement litigation is also handled by the group. The team also excels in non-contentious matters, assisting clients with protecting their trade mark and patent portfolios. Practice head and founding partner Gang Bai is well-respected for his IP expertise. Hui Huang is a trade mark specialist who has been involved with drafting and amending China’s trade mark laws and regulations. Haiyan Ren has a long history of working on trade mark rights protection, while S. Sam Li is the go-to for patent cases. All aforementioned lawyers are based in Beijing. Splitting his time between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, Jason Yao is noted for his expertise in handling trade mark counterfeiting and unfair competition cases.
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Testimonials
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‘Wanhuida is a relatively new full-service IP law firm. For multi-national corporations like us, it is essential for our IP professional partners to provide timely, effective, and commercially astute solutions to issues and challenges in the ever-evolving business and legal landscape in Mainland China, and we believe Wanhuida's partners and attorneys fulfill that 100% to our satisfaction. ’
‘The partners and attorney have profound understanding, knowledge and passion for our industry, business and products. They are very direct and transparent in advising, and consistently deliver results which has exceeded our expectations for more than 12 years.’
‘Wanhuida is a law firm specialising in the field of IP, with a professional team division and English proficiency, which can provide professional intellectual property legal support to clients. In addition, Wanhuida is also willing to provide value-added services to customers, such as some intellectual property knowledge training.’
‘Binbin Du and Mingming Yang always give me timely and professional legal advice, they always understand my needs and give timely feedback.’
‘The key advantages of the team are full-process intellectual property services, outstanding expert partners and diligent lawyers. Compared with other law firms, the firm has more in-depth insights and the cooperation between teams, which can provide clients with better IP services.'
‘I would like to highly praise Jason Yao and Yanfei Ren for their service quality. In particular Yao due to his deep understanding of business, can accurately understand the business needs of clients, and is able to propose highly practical solutions for clients and handle difficult and complex dispute cases.'
Key clients
- Alibaba
- Danaher Corporation
- Eastman Chemical
- Kweichow Moutai
- L’Oreal
- Michelin
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Decathlon
- Lacoste
- New Balance
Work highlights
- Represented Xiaomi in a successful unfair competition lawsuit against the infringers that pre-emptively registered its voice activation command prompt.
- Represented Michelin in a successful civil suit against Shanghai Mi Zhi Lian Catering Management which used the Chinese transliteration of the Cantonese pronunciation of Michelin.
- Represented Tommy Hilfiger in obtaining the registration of its new 'TH interlocking pattern' mark in classes 18 & 25 by overcoming rejection based on lack of distinctiveness.
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Gang Bai