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Meng Aihua

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mengaihua@deheng.com

 Education

Bachelor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law; 
Master of Intellectual Property Law, Seoul University, Korean; PhD candidate
 
Practising Experience:

Meng Aihua graduated from China University of Political Science and Law with a Bachelor degree and graduated with a Master degree from Seoul University in South Korea. She specializes in intellectual property law. She is mainly responsible for handling administrative and civil infringement cases and various types of intellectual property fields such as trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition and trade secrets, franchise and other intellectual property rights as well as various types of legal advice, able to provide clients with comprehensive formulation of intellectual property strategies and risk aversion.

Ms. Meng worked at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in China, was able to serve the client in Chinese and Korean, and once worked for Beijing Jijia Law Firm and Beijing Hengdu Law Firm in intellectual property advisory and dispute resolution matters. Since practicing, Ms Meng has handled thousands of non-litigation legal cases and litigation cases on intellectual property rights, among which, several litigation cases such as "Six Sisters" Meng Liangli and "Super Extreme" were selected as typical cases or reported by the media.

In her spare time from work, Ms. Meng studied hard and focused on the combination of theory with practice, From 2009, she began to publish in the Legal Daily, Fangyuan Legal Affairs, Information Network Security, China Intellectual Property Review and the Commercial Law, China Intellectual Property Daily, Procuratorial Daily, Journal of Tongji University, Legal Scientist Tea House, etc. Dozens of papers (or commentaries) have been published in many famous professional newspapers or academic journals and such papers have created unique opinions on trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition and other intellectual property rights with exerted certain social influence.
 
Typical Cases

Represented Netease in the trademark rejection and opposition cases; 

Represented Shenzhen Fuanna Furniture Articles Co., Ltd. in handling trademark opposition and dispute cases; 

Represented Shanghai Jinnuo Industry & Trade Co., Ltd. in the litigation of the second instance over the announcement of trademarks invalid of a foreign company;

Acted as an agent to take charge of the first and second litigation cases concerning the rejection of trademark review of Beijing Information Technology Co., Ltd. 

Represented Tianjin Zhendi Trading Co., Ltd. and Tianjin XX Liquor Group Co., Ltd. in the second instance of trademark objection review litigation;

Represented Beijing Zhongsou Network Technology Co., Ltd. in the trial of the first case of technology contract dispute between a certain natural person; 

Represented Fujian Jinjiang Wantaisheng Shoes & Clothing Co., Ltd. and a foreign outdoor equipment company in the first instance of trademark invalidation litigation;

Represented Xiamen Jile Children Products Co., Ltd. and a certain natural person in the litigation of the first instance of trademark invalidation; 

Represented a Korean listed game company in the copyright infringement lawsuit of online games in China; 

Represented financing negotiation and contract review in China as an agent for a Korean culture company;

Represented a Korean children's products company in the domestic trademark, copyright protection; 

Represented a well-known South Korean game company to send legal letters to domestic game infringers;
 
The cases to be retried (Supreme People's Court) are as follows:

1.Retrial of the Administrative Dispute over Trademark between Sichuan Jianyang Qiankun Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of Nie Fuqiang and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce; Case No.: (2015) Zhi Xing Zi No.182;

2.Retrial of the administrative dispute over trademark disputes between Anxi Guanjinde Sanitary Ware Plant and the trademark review and adjudication member of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and Anxi County Guanjinde Sanitary Ware Plant and the trademark review and adjudication member of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce; Case No.: (2015) Zhi Xing Zi No.113;

3.Retrial of the Administrative Dispute over Review of Trademark Objection between Shanghai SIKA Chemical Co., Ltd. and SIKA Co., Ltd. and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce; Case No.: (2015) Zhi Xing Zi No.176;

4.Retrial of the Administrative Dispute over Review of Trademark Objection between Guangzhou Jinyuan Trade Co., Ltd. and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and Shanghai Silk Group Co., Ltd.; Case No.: (2015) Zhi Xing Zi No.114;

5.Retrial of the Administrative Dispute between Fujian Jieyu Computer Technology Co., Ltd. and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and Fuzhou Xinhan Computer Co., Ltd. over Trademark Dispute; Case No.: (2015) Zhi Xing Zi No.226;
 
Published Works

Publication of books:


1. Participated in the project organized by the Supreme People's Court, the content of which was concluded in April 2017 and published and distributed as a book titled Translation of the Laws Concerning the Administration of Courts and Judges Abroad;

2. Book of "Analysis on Lawyer's Representation in Difficult Intellectual Property Cases and Judgments" Organized by the Intellectual Property Team of DHH , to be published in October 2018.
 
Some published articles or comments:

Comments from Experts: How to Judge the Distinctiveness of Service Trademarks? published in the China Intellectual Property News on July 20, 2018

Expert Opinion: Does the Live Online Game Scene Infringe upon the Patent Right? publish in the Procuratorate Daily on March 31, 2018;

Expert Comments: How to Adapt to the Preemptive Registration Clause?  published in China Intellectual Property News on March 23, 2018;

Expert opinion: "use of" automatic writing software "creation will not infringe it" published in the "procuratorial daily" December 2, 2017;

Expert opinions: Did the "Food Drama" infringe the copyright? published in the Procuratorate Daily on June 24, 2017;

Expert opinions: How to Deal with Conflicts between Trademark Rights and Specific Name Rights of Well-known Commodities published in China Intellectual Property News on June 14, 2017;

How to Protect the Trademark Rights and Interests in Online Game Names published on the China Intellectual Property News on August 12, 2016 

Expert Comments: "Weiduomei" "Golden Brick Trademark Case: How to Solve the Conflict between Trademark Right and Copyright" published in China Intellectual Property News May 6, 2016

Comments from experts: How to Deal with the Conflict of Rights between Trade Names and Trademarks published in China Intellectual Property News October 2015

Expert opinions: Unauthorized rebroadcasting of sports events constitutes infringement, published in the Procuratorate Daily on July 25, 2015

Legal Standard? Or moral standards? Rediscussion on the Constitutive Requirements of Malicious Preemptive Registration of Trademarks published in the June 2015 issue of Commercial Law Magazine

“Revocation of a Trademark Bearing a Common Name Requiring Confusion”published in China Intellectual Property News, on March 13, 2015

Judgment for Victory: End or Start? — Interpretations of the Judgment of Second Instance on the Review of Objections to the Trademark "Sofang Soufang" published in the Commercial Law Magazine on February 2015

On the Revision of the Legislative Purpose of the Copyright Law of our Country - from the Perspective of Promoting the Development of the Culture Industry, co-authored with Professor Ma Zhongfa of Fudan University and published in Volume 24, No.3, Journal of Tongji University;

Main Contents and Revelations of the New Revision of Korean Copyright Law, co-authored with Professor Ma Zhongfa of Fudan University, was published in China-ROK International Economic and Trade Cooperation Symposium, 2013.

The Comparison and Revelation between China and Korea on Provisions on Tort Liability of Internet Service Providers, co-authored with Professor Ma Zhongfa of Fudan University and published in 05 Issue 2012 of WTO Economic Guidance;

Korea Law Education Reform "Hot" published in Legal Daily. Weekend, Korea Law Education Reform "Hot", September 11-19, 2009

Korea: Lawyers' Social Responsibility in Evolution published in Fang Yuan Lv Zheng [2009] No.11

The Amphibious Acts of South Korean Lawyers published in July 2009 by Fang Yuanlv Zheng.

Social Functions:

Member of AIPPI International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property 

Beijing Returnee Innovation and Entrepreneurship Mentor

HONOR

Rewarded as "International High-end Business Talent of Chaoyang District, Beijing" in 2017 

Selected by the United Front Work Department of Chaoyang District of Beijing as a "New Person in Social Class" in 2018