Dante is a Senior Associate, based in Beijing.
Dante has 7 years of judicial experience in intellectual property (IP) tribunals at both levels in Shanghai and 5 years of practice experience at a Red Circle law firm. He has dual backgrounds in law and technology, with his areas of expertise covering IP dispute resolution, non-litigation transactions and daily management. These include litigation and non-litigation matters involving all types of trademarks, copyrights, patents, new plant varieties, trade secrets and unfair competition. Dante is particularly experienced in serving clients in major sectors such as internet, fashion and fast-moving consumer goods, film and entertainment, electronic information, life sciences, pharmaceutical and chemical engineering, and fintech.
Qualifications
- PRC licensed lawyer
- PRC licensed Patent Attorney
- Master of Laws, Aix-Marseille University, France
- Master of Laws, East China University of Political Science and Law, China
- Bachelor of Laws, East China University of Political Science and Law, China
- Bachelor of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Work Highlights
Some Representative Cases:
- Represented a U.S. company in responding to malicious trademark lawsuits filed after others pre-emptively registered its trademark, as well as in counterclaiming against the pre-emptive registrant for unfair competition. Typical trademark case by the China Trademark Association in 2021-2022.
- Advocated for a company in suing a derivative service provider for trademark infringement. Top 10 Typical Cases of Shanghai Courts Strengthening Intellectual Property Protection in 2022.
- Represented a fintech company in suing an enterprise information platform for commercial defamation over erroneous information push. The first case of pre-litigation behavior preservation in the Hangzhou Internet Court. Successfully represented a mobile phone company in responding to an unfair competition lawsuit filed by a download platform over platform traffic diversion, forcing the plaintiff to withdraw the lawsuit.
- Represented an electric vehicle company in addressing patent sniper attacks prior to its listing and forced the opponent to withdraw the lawsuit in the shortest possible time.
- Facilitated a ‘historic settlement’ between a short-video platform responding to a series of copyright infringement lawsuits initiated by a long-video platform, and the latter