Mr Degang Ma > Global Law Office > Beijing, China > Lawyer Profile

Global Law Office
15 & 20F, TOWER 1, CHINA CENTRAL PLACE
NO 81 JIANGUO ROAD, CHAOYANG DISTRICT
BEIJING 100025
China

Work Department

Mr. Degang Ma is a partner based in our Beijing Office. He has over 20 years of legal experience. His practice areas focus on intellectual property protection, transnational intellectual property trade (technology import), technology transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and intellectual property dispute resolution.

Position

Mr. Ma is one of the few Chinese lawyers who has represented Chinese companies in dealing with 337 investigation cases in the United States. He was qualified to inspect the counterpart’s confidential information in his previous 337 investigation case. In the Acesulfame 337 investigation case (TA-1030), he won the lawsuit representing Anhui Jinye Industrial Co., Ltd. and Suzhou Haobo Science and Technology Co., Ltd.; in the aerogel 337 investigation case (TA-1003), he served as the legal advisor of Guangdong Alison Hi-tech Co., Ltd. to respond to the 337 investigation.

Mr. Ma has represented many major and difficult litigation cases and commercial arbitration cases conducted by the Supreme People’s Court and the High People’s Court. He also provided legal services for multiple clients applying for Chinese well-known trademarks and Beijing famous trademarks.

Career

Prior to joining GLO in 2018, Mr. Ma worked in Beijing Jincheng Law Firm and Beijing Jingtian & Gongcheng Law Firm. He was once the founding partner of Beijing Limin Law Firm.

Languages

Chinese,English

Memberships

Expert of Supreme People’s Court Intellectual Property Case Guidance Research Base (Beijing) 

Member of the New York State Bar Association International Law Branch

Member of Patent Committee of Beijing Bar Association

Education

Bachelor of Laws, Peking University, 1998

Master of Laws, Peking University, 2010

LLM, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2014

Lawyer Rankings

China > Intellectual property: PRC firms

Well equipped with strong professional knowledge‘, Global Law Office‘s IP team focuses on the manufacturing, TMT and energy sectors, as well as the pharmaceuticals, sport, and food and beverage industries. Its IP expertise ranges from patents, trade marks and copyright, to trade secrets, domain names, plant variety protection, and unfair competition. Recent highlights include representing Perfect World Coin (before the Supreme People’s Court) in a headline trade mark case, which has major consequences for the entertainment sector’s industry rules. The group, headed by managing partner Jinrong Liu, includes Meph Jia Gui, a specialist in the creation, exploitation and protection of IP rights; Degang Ma, who ‘provides very high-quality advice’; IP litigation expert Jack Li; and Ying Mu, whose practice encompasses trade mark and patent authorisations.