Emma Qian

+86 21 6086 0128
emma.qian@shanghaipacificlegal.com

Emma Qian leverages her academic background in international economic law and intellectual property law to help international investors, especially those in the luxury goods and food industries, protect and commercialize their important intangible assets. She has an extensive practice in the field of intellectual property rights, providing full-cycle consultations on trademark prosecution, portfolio maintenance, licensing, due diligence, pre-litigation investigation, and enforcement for a wide range of clients from SMEs to well-known brand owners. She also has experience in copyright and design patents.

Practice

• Intellectual property
• International investment arbitration

Representative experience

• Represented the well-known Italian brands, Prada and Miu Miu, in their enforcement actions against unauthorized stores in several major cities in China;
• Advised Prada Group in China in trademark prosecution, opposition/invalidation against malicious trademark filings, and other administrative actions;
• Represented the well-known French brand Hennessy in its rights protection actions against similar infringing products in Shandong and Guangdong provinces;
• Advised Hennessy in China in trademark prosecution, opposition/invalidation against malicious trademark filings, and other administrative actions;
• Represented the Canadian brand Dsquared2 in China in trademark prosecution, opposition/invalidation against malicious trademark filings, and other administrative actions, as well as customs Intellectual property protection;
• Advised the French brand Moncler in China in trademark prosecution, opposition/invalidation against malicious trademark filings, and other administrative actions, as well as enforcement actions against counterfeit products;
• Represented the French brand Lanvin in actions against counterfeit goods on Chinese e-commerce platforms;
• Advised a US cosmetics company in the investigation of counterfeit products distributed on Amazon in China and China customs protection;
• Advised a Swiss cosmetics company in the investigation and enforcement actions of counterfeit goods on Chinese e-commerce platforms;
• Represented a Spanish restaurant investor in matters such as corporation establishment and trademark applications in China;
• Advised a Belgian food certification organization in trademark consultation and application in Greater China Region;
• Represented a French tourist city in the appeal against refusal of the territorial extension protection of an International Registration in China.

Education

• East China University of Political Science and Law, LL.B.
• Uppsala University, LL.M.

Admissions

• PRC

Languages

• Chinese
• English
• Swedish