Ms Catherine Law > Harvesting Law Firm > Guangdong Province, China > Lawyer Profile

Catherine Law is the managing partner of Harvesting Law Firm, chief legal counsel of Harvesting Intellectual Property Consultant Co., Ltd, and an Intellectual Property Lawyer specializes in foreign-related matters. 

Catherine completed her double bachelor’s degrees in Economic Law and Finance at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, and continued her pursuit in the field of Law at Sun Yat-sen University, where she obtained a Master’s degree in Civil and Commercial Law. In 2019, she also took part in the 7th Training Program for Leading Foreign-related lawyers run by the

General Office of The Ministry of Justice.

After her admission to practice law in 2003, Catherine once worked in a foreign company as the general legal counsel for more than 7 years, then she worked in the Department of Intellectual Property Rights in DeHeng (Guangzhou) Law Office. Now she is the managing partner and founder of Harvesting law firm. She has been given multiple recognition for her dedication in the field of Intellectual Property and foreign-related affairs:

 

• “Up and Coming” Lawyer by Chambers and Partner 2022
• Member of National List of One-thousand Leading Foreign-related Lawyers selected by the General Offices of the Ministry of Justice
• Talent Pool of Leading Foreign-related Lawyers in Guangdong
• Member of Legal Advisory Panel of Intellection Property Rights in Guangdong
• Member of Expert Panel of Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Association
• Member of Committee of Foreign-related Lawyers in Guangzhou Lawyer Association
• One-Belt-one-Road Lawyers Association

Catherine’s specialized areas are intellectual property rights and information security, anti-unfair competition, foreign investment, franchising, commercial litigation and arbitration.

Catherine has a rich experience in IPR protection practice serving the industry of apparel and footwear, luxury,detergents and cosmetics, industrial products, trades, culture communication, and toys. Particularly, she has a unique advantage in launching investigations and providing comprehensive solutions to protect the client company’s IPR through administrative, criminal, and judicial means.

Aside from the matters above, her strength also reflects in difficult IPR matters involving infringement on trade secrets, infringements on foreign and domestic E-commerce platforms and other emerging media, information security, anti-unfair competition, etc.

Catherine familiarizes herself with providing legal services across borders to clients from the US, Europe and Japan, and has had a close cooperative relationship with multiple investigating agencies and lawyers overseas. She also possesses knowledge of laws and regulations in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

 

Catherine provides services to a series of international brands, including Adidas, PUMA, Apple, Eaton, CASIO, SEIKO, LVMH, Kering, Budweiser, Bosch, etc. She has also worked for domestic companies such as Huawei, Mornsun, and BYD Auto.

Several cases handled by her have been chosen by QBPC, Alibaba, administrative departments of all-level of Bureau of Industry and Commerce, customs, and many courts as classica cases for references.