Typical Trademark opposition/invalidation &
Litigation Cases
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned British company famous in designing and producing household electric appliances in hundreds of oppositions and invalidation actions, and successfully opposed/invalidated third parties’ trademarks designating dissimilar goods/services based on well-known status of client’s house mark. The said case series won the third place in the top ten outstanding cases of non-litigation trademark disputes selected by the Intellectual Property Professional Committee of the All China Lawyers Association in 2023.
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned French company famous in designing and producing outdoor sports/works gears in hundreds of oppositions, invalidation actions, non-use cancellation actions and domain name dispute cases, and successfully removed those marks and domain names maliciously filed by a group of affiliated trademark squatters.
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned German company famous in manufacturing protective films for industrial use in a number of opposition and invalidation actions in which the adverse party and their affiliated repeatedly filed various forms of marks imitating their stylized mark out of bad faith on similar and dissimilar goods/services.
- Ms. Tian represented a British company famous in designing and producing socks and stockings in series opposition/invalidation and litigation cases based on prior copyright over their stylized logo mark and the close relationship between the goods although classified in dissimilar classes.
- Ms. Tian represented famous Australian company manufacturing building materials in series opposition cases based on the close relationship between the goods and services and the business relationship between the two parties.
- Ms. Tian represented famous fashion design company in litigation against the opposed mark based on close relationship between the goods falling in dissimilar sub-classes.
- Ms. Tian represented an Australian beverage company in defending against the opposition and litigation cases in which the adverse party claimed well-known status of their cited mark in luxury products.
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned German company famous in designing and manufacturing cooking utensils in invalidation action and the successive litigation case against their Chinese dealer based on their business relationship.
- Ms. Tian represented a renowned Chinese company famous in food industry especially in Beijing area against their competitor from Suzhou in an invalidation case and successfully defended the client’s trademark right during the invalidation action, successive first and second instances before Beijing IP Court and Beijing High Court.
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.
Awards：
The 3rd place in the top ten outstanding cases of non-litigation trademark disputes selected by the Intellectual Property Professional Committee of the All China Lawyers Association in 2023.