Ms. Tian joined Liu, Shen & Associates in 2004 as trademark attorney and became a qualified attorney at law in 2006.  Before joining Liu, Shen & Associates, Ms. Tian worked in Tax and Legal Service section of PriceWaterhouseCoopers Beijing Office and has been qualified as China CPA since 2001. 

Her expertise includes providing full-range service on trademark prosecution, including availability search and analysis, filing, licensing, assignment, opposition, and invalidation; representing clients before courts in administration litigation on authorization and determination of trademark rights; counseling services in respect of trademark strategy and comprehensive trademark issues. 

Education

LLM, University of Sydney, Australia

B.A. of English Linguistics and Literature, Peking University

B.A. of Economics, Peking University

Typical Trademark opposition/invalidation & Litigation Cases

-      Magellan Textile Holdings Limited v. LUO Jiangwei and his associated parties, representing Magellan Textile Holdings in the above mentioned series opposition/invalidation and litigation cases based on prior copyright over the “PP PRETTY POLLY” logo and the close relationship between the goods falling in dissimilar classes.

-      BlueScope Steel Limited v. Guangzhou Lian He Gang Jie Gou You Xian Gong Si, representing BlueScope Steel in series opposition cases based on the close relationship between the goods and services and the business relationship between the two parties

-     R… And Everything Else, Inc. v. YE Jianfeng, representing R… and Everything Else in litigation against the opposed mark based on close relationship between the goods falling in dissimilar sub-classes.

-      BLANCPAIN SA v. Golden Circle Limited, representing Golden Circle defending in the opposition and litigation cases against BLANCPAIN’s challenge based on claim of “well-known” trademarks of BLANCPAIN and its Chinese version. 

-     Joseph Schulte-Ufer KG v. Miji Electronics and Appliances(Shanghai)Ltd., representing Joseph Schulte-Ufer KG in invalidation and the successive litigation cases against Miji based on their business relationship between the parties.

Typical Counseling Cases

-      Comprehensive IP counseling including trademark, copyright and domain name protection for a multi-national corporation and its WOFE in China for over ten years

-      Trademark counseling services for five European based companies for ten years. 

All-China Lawyers Association (ACLA)

China CPA