GoldenGate Lawyers
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GoldenGate Lawyers is a dynamic boutique law firm specialising in promoting foreign interests in China. Established in 2007 with six lawyers, the firm currently has 30 professionals, all able to handle the most complex disputes and IP-related matters. The firm provides a full range of legal services for large multinational companies, as well as individuals. GoldenGate Lawyers endeavours to provide high-quality services and practical solutions to its clients through the close cooperation among its lawyers and professionals.
The firm’s rich and diverse expertise enables it to provide clients with commercial legal services that include IP matters. GoldenGate Lawyers’ dedication to the legal profession sees it strive to provide the highest quality services to both its domestic and international clientele. Its services in foreign direct investment, international trade, intellectual property, labour laws, international family law, real estate, international commercial disputes, and especially international arbitration and intellectual property, have won international praise by clients and industry peers.
In China’s growing economy, GoldenGate Lawyers emerges as a top legal services firm. With a team of English-speaking lawyers familiar with local laws and practices, GoldenGate Lawyers understands each client’s specific needs, tailoring unique solutions and continuously improving its practices to guarantee success.
Areas of expertise
Intellectual property
GoldenGate Lawyers is very active in the IP area and assists with strategy, supervision and monitoring of all categories of clients’ IP rights in China. The firm is particularly active in trademark prosecution and enforcement and advises on all aspects of trademark portfolio management. Our trademark attorneys have successfully represented clients in landmarks cases that are highly recognised by the Supreme Court of China.
We are committed to Patent Cooperation Treaty applications and patent infringement. Our patent clients cover a broad range of industries such as high-tech, healthcare, manufacture and telecoms.
We have a strong copyright team providing full-service copyright-related legal work from copyright recordal to infringement.
Our IP lawyers also have extensive experience in licensing-related legal work including drafting and reviewing licence agreements, due diligence, licence recordal and licensing disputes, among other things. We work for owners with thousands of IP rights in China, as well as licensees which are mostly large companies with comprehensive product lines.
Entertainment law
Entertainment law is a new area for our firm, but we are growing rapidly. We represent clients on both the talent and industry sides in the publishing, music, motion picture, television, sports, Internet, digital media, video game, virtual reality, art collection, theatre, derivatives licensing and branded entertainment industries.
International arbitration and litigation
The firm has vast experience in defending companies in all phases of dispute resolution before the arbitration tribunals and courts, both domestically and abroad. The cases that the firm has handled cover a wide range of areas, such as joint venture, financing, construction and share transfer.
Corporate
We are equipped with specialised commercial lawyers. With years of experience managing corporate issues, GoldenGate Lawyers accurately advise on the structure and implementation of a transaction. We draft contracts to ensure that they are enforceable in China and suitable for the particular transaction. Our experience in foreign direct investment in China enables us to anticipate many issues that may occur in a transaction, and to avoid them before they arise or quickly resolve them. We provide daily consulting services for Ogilvy & Mather in China.
Employment
GoldenGate Lawyers’ labour and employment practice covers the full range of services, including providing all employment-related advice, drafting documentation such as labour contracts, employee manuals, company rules and regulations, and representing international and domestic clients in labour court cases. Among its cases, clients that GoldenGate Lawyers have represented include Frasers Apartment Management, and Mr Donewald, the former basketball coach.
Key Contacts
Managing Partner
Tim Meng
Email: tmeng @goldengatelawyers.com
+8610 8589 0501
Firm Rankings
IP
Band 2
8.0
IP: Trademarks
Band 2
8.0
IP: trademarks: Contentious
Band 2
8.0
IP: Trademarks: Prosecution
Band 2
8.0
Leading Lawyers
Articles
By GoldenGate Lawyers. 1〠E-commerce  Hangzhou Internet Court Releases the Guidelines for the Conduct of Cross border E-commerce Platforms  On July 24, 2024, the Hangzhou Internet Court issued the Guidelines for the Conduct of Multi Subjects in Cross-border E-commerce. The “Guidelines” focus on three aspects: platforms, enterprises, and consumers, with a total of 30 specific […]
Schneider Electric China vs Zhenjiang Shinaide Electric Appliance and Chen Yuehong By: GoldenGate Recently, the Supreme People’s Court of China affirmed the CNY 106 million in damages that were awarded against Zhenjiang Shinaide Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. (“Zhenjiang Shinaide,â€Â 镇江施è€å¾·ç”µå™¨æœ‰é™å…¬å¸) and Chen Yuehong by the court of first instance in the case of Schneider Electric (China) […]
Policies & Regulations. By GoldenGate. Patent   The China National Intellectual Property Administration issued the Measures for Mediation of Disputes over the Implementation of Patent Opening License (for Trial Implementation) The Measures consist of five chapters and thirty articles that clarify the content of case acceptance, case mediation, and settlement of disputes over patent open […]
That has infringed your prior copyright. By GoldenGate Lawyers. Based on our experiences, many clients with highly distinctive logos/combination brands have not filed trademark registration applications in China or have refused registration by the China IP Office for a variety of reasons. However, the same or similar trademarks filed by a third party were later […]
Interpretation of the ‘Regulation from the Perspective of Corporate Compliance By GoldenGate With the rapid development of internet technology, issues such as internet addiction, personal privacy infringement, and the proliferation of toxic information have become a hanging sword threatening the mental health of minors. Currently, China has enacted multiple laws and regulations to protect the […]
To Distributor’s Preempted Trademark Registrations on Dissimilar Services By GoldenGate Lawyers  Recently, GoldenGate obtained a series of favourable decisions from the Beijing IP Court on invalidation actions for a client against its distributor’s pre-empted trademark registrations. The client is a famous European writing instrument supplier. One of its Chinese distributors registered the client’s trademarks for […]
Guidance on attacking a trademark preemptively registered by an affiliated party in China. Written by: GoldenGate With the integration of the global economy and the development of more and more advanced Internet technology, people can conveniently access any public information and use such information to gain illegitimate benefits. This also frequently happens in the trademark […]
Damages in the sum of CNY 14.8 million were recently awarded against Antarctic E-commerce in a trademark infringement lawsuit (Lacoste v Antarctic E-commerce) in China. Lacoste holds the trademark registration for the device Ҡ(the “Lacoste Crocodileâ€),covering clothes in Class 25. Cartelo initially registered the device mark Ҡ(the “Cartelo Crocodileâ€) in Classes 18 and […]
By GoldenGate Lawyers  With the integration of the global economy and the development of more and more advanced Internet technology, people can conveniently access any public information and use such information to gain illegitimate benefits. This also frequently happens in the trademark field. For example, you may at first register your trademark and use it […]
Recently, changes in Casio watches were found by a Chinese court to constitute trademark infringement. The infringers’ conduct included: 1) selling counterfeit watch parts (watchcases and watchbands) bearing the Casio mark, and genuine Casio watches with counterfeit watchcases and watchbands, without advising consumers of the change; 2) changing lower-end Casio watches to higher-end styles and […]
Enhanced damages are a type of punitive damages that can be awarded in the case of “egregious misconduct†during the course of the patent infringement. Legal Basis Authorization for enhanced damages for patent infringement comes from Article 71 of the Chinese Patent Law and the Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court on the Application of […]
It is well known that the China IP Office adopts the “first-to-file†principle for the registration of a trademark. However, under the global economy, the market competition is becoming increasingly fierce, and many companies already start to use their trademarks before they achieve the registration. But some problems about the use of the unregistered trademarks […]
Q: “Is it legal that using Ultraman toys to shoot video stories and upload them to the internet? ” Q: “I wrote, directed and filmed all the toy videos by myself, and Ultraman is only one of the characters. Is there any copyright issue involved? ” Q: “The Ultraman toys I am using to take […]
In China, in addition to mediation and litigation, patent infringement disputes can still be settled by way of administrative adjudication if the relevant criteria are satisfied. Since 2019, administrative adjudication has played an increasingly important role in the settlement of patent infringement disputes. It is estimated that the ratio of patent infringement disputes settled through […]
To strengthen copyright protection, and to implement relevant provisions of the Economic and Trade Agreement between the US and China, on August 5 2020, the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China (the SPC) issued a draft Opinions on Strengthening the Protection of Copyright and Copyright related Rights (å…³äºŽåŠ å¼ºè‘—ä½œæƒå’Œä¸Žè‘—作æƒæœ‰å…³çš„æƒåˆ©ä¿æŠ¤çš„æ„è§) for public consultation. In […]
In the past year, there were many changes in Chinese law and practice relating to IP protection, especially for patent section. Such changes involved not only prosecution of patent applications but also enforcement of patent right. It is recommended that a company should take into account these changes when making IP strategies. ★ Changes in […]
A brief analysis of the “Cambridge” trademark rejection review application case Basic case facts: The “Cambridge” trademark No. 40362504 (hereinafter referred to as the applied trademark) was submitted for registration by the Honorary President and Scholars Committee of the University of Cambridge (known to the public as the University of Cambridge, hereinafter referred to as […]
In the Internet environment, similar to commercial identifiers such as trademarks and trade names, domain names also play an identifying role in distinguishing the source of goods or services. Due to the characteristics of exclusivity, uniqueness and scarcity, the registration and use of domain names can bring certain economic benefits to the registrants and users, […]
Press Releases
CNY 107 Million in Damages Awarded! By GoldenGate Lawyers Recently, CNY 107 million in damages were awarded against mobile game Pocket Monsters: Remake by a Chinese court of first instance in the case of Pokémon vs Guangzhou Maichi, which involved copyright infringement and unfair competition. The court held that the essential elements of the disputed […]
Schneider Electric China vs Suzhou Shinaide Elevator Recently, CNY40 million damages were awarded against Suzhou Shinaide Elevator by a Chinese court in a case of trademark infringement and unfair competition involving Schneider Electric (China) Co., Ltd. vs. Suzhou Shinaide Elevator Co., Ltd. Schneider Electric Se holds the trademark registrations for Ҡand its Chinese equivalent […]