Mr Mingtao Chen > Commerce & Finance Law Offices > Beijing, China > Lawyer Profile

Mr Mingtao Chen

+86 10 6563 7181 chenmingtao@tongshang.com

Position

Attorney CHEN focuses his practices on intellectual property issues, and has represented clients in resolving a great deal of intellectual property disputes in terms of copyright, trademark, patent and unfair competition. He has advised several cases that are recognized as classic cases by the Supreme Court, Beijing High Court, and Shanghai High Court for their great social influence and substantial theoretical research value. Furthermore, he has abundant experience in corporate reputation protection, data compliance, and trade secrets protection, and has served clients including China CITIC Bank, Beijing Unicom, Head Office of Agricultural Bank of China, Baidu, Tencent, Ali Health, etc.

Career

2021-to date, Beijing Tongshang Law Firm, Associate

2010-2020, Lantai Partners, Associate

2011-2018, Beijing Jiaotong University, School of Law, Associate Professor

2018-to date, Beijing Foreign Studies University, School of Law, Associate Professor

Education

Renmin University of China, J.D. in intellectual property law

Personal

Attorney CHEN focuses his practices on intellectual property issues, and has represented clients in resolving a great deal of intellectual property disputes in terms of copyright, trademark, patent and unfair competition. He has advised several cases that are recognized as classic cases by the Supreme Court, Beijing High Court, and Shanghai High Court for their great social influence and substantial theoretical research value. Furthermore, he has abundant experience in corporate reputation protection, data compliance, and trade secrets protection, and has served clients including China CITIC Bank, Beijing Unicom, Head Office of Agricultural Bank of China, Baidu, Tencent, Ali Health, etc.

Recent cases:

• Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution, Copyright
• Represented China Written Works Copyright Association in resolving its dispute over copyright infringement against CNKI
• Represented Mr. XU Jingqing, composer of scores for the first 25 episodes of TV series “Journey to the West” (1986 edition), in handling a series of disputes over copyright infringement on his musical works
• Represented Ximen Lanhuoyan Film Animation Co., Ltd. in handling copyright dispute against Disney with respect to The Autobots
• Represented Beijing Unicom in handling dispute against Suning Sports over infringement of information network dissemination right
• Represented Weibang Global Architectural Design (Beijing) Office in handling dispute over copyright ownership and rights infringement with respect to construction drawings against China Railway Construction Corporation and Guizhou Fantou Co., Ltd.
• Represented Buluanmai E-Commerce Co., Ltd. in handling dispute over copyright infringement with respect to computer software against Blinghour
• Represented Tencent in handling dispute over copyright infringement against iFlytek
• Represented Zving Software in handling a series of disputes over software copyright infringement
• Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution, Trademark 
• Represented Shanghai Saiding in the second instance of trademark invalidation administrative case against State Intellectual Property Office
• Represented Mafengwo in handling a series of trademark administrative disputes against Suxingtianxia
• Represented Nanjing Golden Hope Wine Co., Ltd. in handling a series of disputes against Chateau Lafite Rothschild and the Trademark Appraisal Committee of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce
• Represented SKECHERS in handling trademark disputes against Guangdong Camel Garments Co., Ltd. and Guangzhou Meilv Garment Co., Ltd.
• Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution, Patent 
• Represented Beiqi Foton in handling a series of disputes over patent infringement and administrative disputes
• Represented Samsung in handling a series of disputes over patent infringement and invalidation against Shenzhen Dunjun (Huawei)
• Represented Sinopec Beijing Research Institute in handling a series of disputes over patent infringement and invalidation
• Represented Sinopec in handling a series of disputes over patent infringement against INEOS USA LLC
• Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution，Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets
• Represented Beijing Baidu Netcom Science & Technology Co., Ltd. and Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. in handling multiple disputes over unfair competition against Beijing Sogou Information Service Co., Ltd.
• Represented Dami Future in handling the dispute over trade secrets infringement against Baijiahulian Represented Huading Boshi in handling dispute over trade secrets infringement against Boao Tengda
• Dispute Resolution in Other Fields
• Represented Beijing Mijing Hefeng Technology Co., Ltd. in handling dispute over Internet rights infringement against Xiaofei HE, a livestreaming host
• Represented Beijing Baidu Netcom Science & Technology Co., Ltd. in handling dispute over personality right infringement against Ting CHEN
• Intellectual Property Compliance (including FTO, SEP, etc.)
• Represented China Unicom in due diligence of patents and copyrights in merger and acquisition
• Provided legal services to Baidu on FTO matters
• Represented Shenzhen Qianhai in patent FTO matters in merger and acquisition
• Represented CNBG in the negotiation and drafting of a technical cooperation and development contract with a UK company
• Assisted Ping An Life Insurance with data compliance in its development of an App