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Dr Juris Hui Huang

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Position

Partner & Member of the firm’s Management Committee

Career

Dr. Huang is a multi-faceted intellectual property counsel with stellar academic credentials on China’s trademark legislation and practice and a veteran lawyer who represents clients in all levels of Chinese courts up to the Supreme People’s Court in a wide variety of intellectual property litigations, some of which have become landmark cases.

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. HUANG served 12 years at the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, where he gained a profound understanding of the lifecycle of trademark proceedings both in theory and in practice. Fascinated by the intellectual property law, he studied international industrial property law and graduated from the Center of International Study of Industrial Property (CEIPI), Robert Schuman University (later known as the University of Strasbourg) in France. He then conducted academic research on the protection of well-known trademarks at the China Academy of Social Sciences (“Legal Protection of Well-Known and Famous Marks”) (Law Press, 2001), where he studied under Professor ZHENG Chengsi, the nation’s pioneer intellectual property expert and was finally awarded the first J.D. on trademark Law in China. In 2018, Dr. HUANG was awarded his second doctorate by the University of Strasbourg.

Ever since joining the private practice in 2002, Dr. HUANG has been prosecuting and litigating IP rights, fighting for the clients in their most intricate matters before the nation’s IP administrative agencies and judiciary, protecting and defending client’s interests and helping advancing China’s legal fronts.

Dr Huang is a prolific writer. He authors or co-authors a dozen publications, including “Trademark & Unfair Competition Cases in China”, Trademark Section of “Intellectual Property in European Union” (2^nd Edition), Trademark Chapter of the “Study on Global Intellectual Property Developments” (2019 & 2020 Edition), “L’IMPACT DE L’USAGE SUR L’ÉTENDUE DE LA PROTECTION DES MARQUES: ÉTUDE DE DROIT COMPARÉ CHINE – UNION EUROPÉENNE” (2010-2018), “Zheng Chengsi IP Anthology – Trademark & Unfair Competition”, “Trademark Law” (1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd edition) and the “Trademark Laws of Twelve Nations”. He also translates the Legislative Part of the “Intellectual Property Code of France” (1^st & 2^nd edition). He has also authored or co-authored scores of treatise published in Chinese, English and French, including “About Use, Bad faith and Well-known trademarks in the Context of the Fifth Amendment to the Trademark Law”, “Supreme People’s Court clarifies conditions for prior trademark use defence” (WTR Daily, 2019), “Fourth revision of China’s Trademark Law” (IAM & WTR, China: Managing the IP Lifecycle 2019/2020), “Tackling OEM infringement in China” (INTA Daily News, 2016) and “Is OEM use trade mark infringement?” (Managing Intellectual Property, China IP Focus, 2015).

On account of his expertise in the Trademark Law, Dr. HUANG has been vigorously involved in the initial drafting and subsequent amendments to China’s major trademark-related laws, regulations, judicial interpretations, as well as regulatory documents. He was also invited to contribute to the formulation of China’s “National Trademark Strategy”. Dr. HUANG was named by the Ministry of Commerce of P.R.C. as the Member of the Expert Panel of the ministry’s “Helping Center for Protecting Enterprise Intellectual Property Rights Overseas”.

In 2012, Dr. HUANG entered the first list of “National Intellectual Property Leading Individuals” released by the then State Intellectual Property Office. He is one of the twenty leading individuals of the intellectual property service industry in this 81-nominee list.

In 2013, Dr. HUANG was elected Chair of the China Trademark Office Subcommittee of the Trademark Office Practices Committee (TOPC) of the International Trademark Association (INTA) for the 2014/15 term.

In 2015, Dr. HUANG was elected Chair of the Special Committee on Piracy and Counterfeiting of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) Chinese National Group for the 2015-2016 term.

Dr Huang has been rated as an Outstanding Individual by WTR fourteen years in a row and has been included in Managing IP’s List of IP STARS in China since 2015. He has been identified as one of the WTR Global Leaders (Private Practice) in mainland China since 2020. He has been selected as a Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 since 2015, a Distinguished Practitioner by asialaw since 2016 and a Leading Individual by Chambers & Partners since 2017.

Languages

French, English, Chinese

Memberships

INTA, AIPPI, ACLA, CTA, Marques, Unifab

Education

• J.D., University of Strasburg (2010-2018)
• J.D., China Academy of Social Sciences (1997-2000)
• Diploma on International Study of Industrial Property, Center of International Study of Industrial Property (CEIPI), Robert Schuman University (later known as the University of Strasbourg) (1991-1992)
• BA., China Foreign Affairs University (1986-1990)