Hu Hongliang, Attorney at Law, Trademark Attorney, Patent Attorney

License No.: 11101200510747884

 

Main Fields: patent drafting, patent invalidation, patent reexamination, patent operation; patent analysis, layout, early warning, through the standard and other special legal adviser; patent civil litigation (such as: patent infringement, patent ownership, patent contract litigation); patent administrative litigation (such as: patent invalidation, patent reexamination, patent penalties and other lawsuits); infringement of trade secrets and science and technology related to major lawsuits; science and technology enterprises related to major economic litigation; scientific research institutions, science and technology enterprises and other perennial legal adviser. Major economic litigation; permanent legal counsel for scientific research institutions and scientific and technological enterprises.

 

Social position: former prosecutor of Beijing Haidian District Procuratorate; member of All-China Lawyers Association and All-China Patent Agents Association; lawyer of Beijing Declaration Law Firm; senior trademark and patent agent.

 

Profile: Mr. Hu has worked in a prosecutor's office in Beijing for many years, responsible for economic crime cases and public prosecution, with rich experience in criminal investigation, prosecution and defense, especially good at dealing with financial crimes, as well as criminal cases involving intellectual property rights and high-tech fields. Mr. Hu is fluent in English and has provided foreign criminal legal services to many multinational corporations, including Wrigley, Schneebauer, Swatch Group, etc., in the areas of food, pharmaceuticals, electrical tools, pesticides, etc., and has successfully assisted foreign corporations to take criminal actions against serious infringement of intellectual property rights in China. In terms of criminal defense, Mr. Hu specializes in solving civil and criminal cross-crime cases, providing realistic and reasonable solutions for his clients.

 

Classic Cases:

 

1, on behalf of the U.S. Schneebauer as a victim unit v. Nantong City, an electronic technology limited company and other five defendants computer software copyright infringement crime case, the defendants were convicted and fined. This case is one of the top 10 cases of intellectual property protection selected by Jiangsu Provincial High Court in 2015. 

 

2、On behalf of Kepman Sweden, we initiated criminal investigation and recourse proceedings against a saw company in Guangzhou, a hardware company in Nanjing, etc., and the defendants were sentenced and punished with fines.

 

3、Represented Anheuser-Busch v. Trademark Opposition Administrative Litigation of the TRAB, selected as one of the difficult cases in Beijing in 2007. 

 

4. Represented Wrigley against a Tianjin company for trademark infringement and unfair competition, selected as a typical case of intellectual property protection by Tianjin High Court in 2011.

 

5、 Representing German Rimowa Company v. a luggage factory in Zhongshan City for unfair competition, selected as one of the top 10 cases of trademark protection by China Trademark Association in 2017.