China
Unfair Competition Law
Intellectual Property; Accounting
Mr. Zhang Xu has been practicing in China for twenty years since the mid-1990s and decided to devote himself mainly to the intellectual property practice. After a few years of working at one of the leading Chinese IP firms, he joined Rouse to extend his experience and acquire more international sights. Later in 2003, Zhang Xu founded his own law firm, along with other partners, to continue his legal practice mainly in the field of intellectual property rights. Xu Zhang Managing Partner HongFang Law Tel: +86 (0)21-62581929 xu.zhang@hongfanglaw.com www.hongfanglaw.com
In the past twenty years, Zhang Xu has handled thousands of cases, covering but not limited to the area of IP rights acquisitions (trademark, copyright, patents, and domain names, etc.), nonlitigation dispute resolution through administrative approaches and negotiations and administrative litigation. In addition, he covers civil litigation for trademark infringement, unfair competition, copyright infringement, criminal prosecution on anti-counterfeiting matters, and negotiations on IP rights transaction. With his profound knowledge and experience, Zhang Xu has helped brand owners to successfully secure the “Well-known Trademark Status Recognition” both through judicial procedure and administrative procedures. Many cases handled by Zhang Xu have been awarded “Best Practice” by various authorities and associations. Zhang Xu is active in participating in seminars and forums with representatives from various government organizations and authorities, to exchange his opinions and insights on how to practice law to maximize the protection on IP rights owners, efficiently and effectively. With fluent communication capability in both Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and English, Zhang Xu cooperates mostly with the reputable MNCs and listed companies in various industries. Nominated as “Best Service Provider” by Akzonobel in 2012, and 2016. Granted an “Award of Excellence” by WD40 Company in 2014. He has supported the firm in acquiring the “2017-2018 Excellent Trademark Agency case” by the China International Trademark Brand Festival. He is an official Legal representative for the QBPC and their clients. He was inserted in Asia IP law list of Top 100 IP experts in China, He is a ranked lawyer by WTR1000, IP stars, AsiaLaw, Benchmark Litigation and more. He has helped the firm achieve the IP Litigation in 2019, Enforcement in 2020 and Copyright in 2021 “firm of the year award” in China with Asia IP law and Global Law Experts. Thanks to his work on cases during last year Zhang Xu and the other partners were also proud of being awarded the “Best Practice” by the Quality Brand Protection Committee (QBPC) of CAEFI on: - 2019-2020 QBPC “Annual Top 10 Cases in IP protection – Criminal Case”. - 2019-2020 QBPC “Annual Top 10 Cases in IP protection – Non-Criminal Case”. - 2019-2020 QBPC “Model Cases bridging Administrative & Judicial IP enforcement”. Some of Zhang Xu most influential clients include the following: WD-40, AkzoNobel, Exxon Mobil, Walmart, BP plc, Castrol, Amazon, Bosch, Shell, Wringley, 3M, Caltex, Total.
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