Practice Area
Brilliant in overseas trademark protection
Education Background
Beijing International Studies University Law Bachelor
Renmin University of China Economic Law Master
Introduction
Tao served in GE Global Patent Operation in the United States for years and served as the head of the overseas business department of a famous intellectual property service entity in China for 10 years, in charge of overseas trademark consultancy and management, from which Tao has accumulated rich experiences in case handling and management. During the practicing, he carried out lots of consultancy and agency works related to foreign intellectual property, successfully handling more than 5,000 overseas trademark registrations and hundreds of overseas patent management cases for clients in various industries.
With a good understanding about the effective trademark protection systems and procedures in the United States, Europe, and other major regions in the overseas, Tao is excellent in communication with officials and the parties concerned, in handling complicated cases, in providing practical solutions, and in avoiding potential risks. The direct communication between Tao and the parties concerned can help saving a lot of time and cost and avoiding the attenuation of information transmission. Tao is rare and reliable resource for overseas trademark protection.
Tao is proficient in both Mandarin and English. During his years of client services and case handling, he organized and guided a number of outstanding teams in providing customized intellectual property consultancy, registration applications, monitoring, law enforcement, daily management and other services for well-known companies in China and abroad.
Tao has a solid theoretical foundation and rich practicing experience in protection of overseas intellectual property for Chinese companies. He has handled trademark search, application for registration, review of refusal, response to opposition, monitoring, law enforcement, and settlement negotiations in the overseas for many well-known enterprises in China, and handled a large number of disputes; the clients include: KINGSOFT, KINGSOFT CLOUD, LIANJIA, BEIKE, REALSEE, DEYOU, IFLYREC, CATL, XINHUA EDUCATION, LONGTECH, FANCYGUO, FAST GAME, CRUSH GAME, CLOUDMINDS, THUNDERSOFT, ZUZUCHE, GANCUBE, ARCAIR, CIARRA, WEIHUA GROUP, JAC AUTOMOBILE, AUX GROUP, NEW BELLE GROUP, WANXI PHARMACEUTICAL, SOUTH BEAUTY, CHINA GUODIAN, PING AN, PICC, etc.
In addition to providing overseas intellectual property consultancy services for enterprises in China, Tao is also good at providing professional training on intellectual property protection consultancy for large enterprises and local governments, especially professional training on overseas trademark protection. He has provided overseas trademark protection training services for local trade departments and local enterprises in Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places for several times.
Cases handled by WANG
1. Representing
Kingsoft and Kingsoft Cloud in successfully registering more than 300
trademarks in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom,
Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau,
Russia and other regions; during the period, WANG successfully overcame the
obstacles of US trademark "
"
and "KINGSOFT CLOUD",
removing legal obstacles of overseas trademarks before IPO, helping Kingsoft
Cloud to successfully land on the Nasdaq in the United States in May 2020 and
be listed;
2. Representing
Lianjia Group in negotiation and settlement with GENTEX in the global
disputes concerning trademark and trade name of "homelink" in the
United States, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong and other
places, and successfully handling for more than 100 trademarks in
the United States, removing legal obstacles of overseas trademarks before
IPO, avoiding global trademark conflicts, and helping BEIKE ZHAOFANG under
Lianjia to successfully land on the New York Stock Exchange in August 2020
and be listed;
3. Representing JAC
Automobile Group in opposition and settlement with Mercedes-Benz Group
(Mercedes-Benz) regarding the trademarks "
" and "
"
in more than 20 countries, such as the Benelux, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine,
Egypt, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Nigeria, etc., enabling JAC Automobile
Group’s trademark "" to be
unconditionally registered
and protected in all interested countries;
4. Representing AUX
Group in trademark infringement cases, suing the distributors' malicious
registration and use of the trademarks "
" and "
"
in Thailand, Chile, Mexico and other countries, and finally cancelling all
malicious pirated trademarks, overcoming obstacles hindering the client's
trademark registration, and winning overseas lawsuits in quite a few foreign
countries;
5. Representing New
Belle Group in answering to litigation initiated by Bata on trademark
infringement of the mark "
" and
cancellation of registered
trademark in Italy, successfully defending the exclusive right of New Belle
Group to use the registered trademark "" in Italy;
6. Representing
Xinhua Education Group in answering to lawsuit initiated by US Monsters, in
negotiation and settlement regarding the coexistence of the US trademarks
"
" " and "
" in the
United States, and finally reaching a settlement agreement, enabling the
client's core items to be successfully registered and protected in the United
States;
7.
Representing World Jaguar Logistics in answering to infringement
lawsuit initiated by the British Jaguar Land Rover regarding the trademark
"
" in Hong Kong, and through
settlement negotiation, enabling the client's core items to be successfully
registered and protected in Hong Kong;
8. Representing
ARCAIR in negotiation and settlement with Hypertechnologie Ciara (one of the
largest computer hardware solution providers in Canada), reaching a
settlement agreement for the trademark "
" in India, the
United States and Canada, successfully maintaining the client's core items in
the above countries;
9. Representing ThunderSoft in reaching a coexistence agreement
with Plaisio Computers (the largest electronic product distributor in Greece)
regarding the trademark "
" in
28 EU countries, and through
multiple rounds of settlement negotiation, enabling the client's marks to avoid
conflict in respect of core items;
Some Published Articles
Difference between Madrid International Trademark Application and Single Country/Region/Regional
Organization Trademark Application, published on Intellectual Property Right Daily on November 16, 2018;
Potential Dangers That Might Brought by Identical or Similar Trademarks Held by Applicants of Different
Names, published on Intellectual
Property Right Daily on December 20, 2018;
How to Apply a US trademark, published on FAREN Magazine on July 15, 2019;
Reducing Fees for Overseas Intellectual Property Protection, published on FAREN Magazine on September 15,
2020.
Layout and protection of overseas trademarks, October 30, 2020, published in intellectual property daily.
Brilliant in overseas trademark protection
Education Background
Beijing International Studies University Law Bachelor
Renmin University of China Economic Law Master
Introduction
Tao served in GE Global Patent Operation in the United States for years and served as the head of the overseas business department of a famous intellectual property service entity in China for 10 years, in charge of overseas trademark consultancy and management, from which Tao has accumulated rich experiences in case handling and management. During the practicing, he carried out lots of consultancy and agency works related to foreign intellectual property, successfully handling more than 5,000 overseas trademark registrations and hundreds of overseas patent management cases for clients in various industries.
With a good understanding about the effective trademark protection systems and procedures in the United States, Europe, and other major regions in the overseas, Tao is excellent in communication with officials and the parties concerned, in handling complicated cases, in providing practical solutions, and in avoiding potential risks. The direct communication between Tao and the parties concerned can help saving a lot of time and cost and avoiding the attenuation of information transmission. Tao is rare and reliable resource for overseas trademark protection.
Tao is proficient in both Mandarin and English. During his years of client services and case handling, he organized and guided a number of outstanding teams in providing customized intellectual property consultancy, registration applications, monitoring, law enforcement, daily management and other services for well-known companies in China and abroad.
Tao has a solid theoretical foundation and rich practicing experience in protection of overseas intellectual property for Chinese companies. He has handled trademark search, application for registration, review of refusal, response to opposition, monitoring, law enforcement, and settlement negotiations in the overseas for many well-known enterprises in China, and handled a large number of disputes; the clients include: KINGSOFT, KINGSOFT CLOUD, LIANJIA, BEIKE, REALSEE, DEYOU, IFLYREC, CATL, XINHUA EDUCATION, LONGTECH, FANCYGUO, FAST GAME, CRUSH GAME, CLOUDMINDS, THUNDERSOFT, ZUZUCHE, GANCUBE, ARCAIR, CIARRA, WEIHUA GROUP, JAC AUTOMOBILE, AUX GROUP, NEW BELLE GROUP, WANXI PHARMACEUTICAL, SOUTH BEAUTY, CHINA GUODIAN, PING AN, PICC, etc.
In addition to providing overseas intellectual property consultancy services for enterprises in China, Tao is also good at providing professional training on intellectual property protection consultancy for large enterprises and local governments, especially professional training on overseas trademark protection. He has provided overseas trademark protection training services for local trade departments and local enterprises in Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places for several times.
Cases handled by WANG
"
and "KINGSOFT CLOUD",
removing legal obstacles of overseas trademarks before IPO, helping Kingsoft
Cloud to successfully land on the Nasdaq in the United States in May 2020 and
be listed;" and ""
in more than 20 countries, such as the Benelux, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine,
Egypt, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Nigeria, etc., enabling JAC Automobile
Group’s trademark "" to be
unconditionally registered
and protected in all interested countries;" and ""
in Thailand, Chile, Mexico and other countries, and finally cancelling all
malicious pirated trademarks, overcoming obstacles hindering the client's
trademark registration, and winning overseas lawsuits in quite a few foreign
countries;" and
cancellation of registered
trademark in Italy, successfully defending the exclusive right of New Belle
Group to use the registered trademark "" in Italy;" " and "" in the
United States, and finally reaching a settlement agreement, enabling the
client's core items to be successfully registered and protected in the United
States;" in Hong Kong, and through
settlement negotiation, enabling the client's core items to be successfully
registered and protected in Hong Kong;" in India, the
United States and Canada, successfully maintaining the client's core items in
the above countries;" in
28 EU countries, and through
multiple rounds of settlement negotiation, enabling the client's marks to avoid
conflict in respect of core items;Some Published Articles