Overview:

Mr. Tao Pang, as the IP legal counsel for a number of domestic and international companies, has rich experience in providing advice on brand protection strategy and enforcement, specializes in drafting of legal agreements and contracts related to trademarks, and is also good at making legal analysis and giving solutions to the various trademark disputes the companies may encounter.

During his legal practice of over a decade long, Mr. Pang has handled thousands of cases on trademark registration, refusal, opposition and trademark dispute. He also accumulated rich experience in the area of the recognition of well-known trademarks, trademark administrative litigation and trademark civil litigation with a higher rate of success.

Work Experience:

• NTD Patent and Trademark Agency Limited (1998-2000)
• NOVA Intellectual Property Agency Co., Ltd. (2000-2011)
• NTD Patent & Trademark Agency Limited (2011-2013)
• NTD Law Office (2013- )

Education and Training:

• Renmin University (LLB Intellectual Property Law 1996-1998)
  
• Hunan University (Department of Auto Design and Manufacture 1990-1994)

Working Language:

English, Mandarin

Representative cases:

• 2019-2020 Top 10 Representative Cases on the Trademark Administrative List of China's Intellectual Property Litigation Firms; 2018-2019 Outstanding Trademark Cases of China Trademark Association - Deter Trademark Squatting of Logo of Renmin University of China

• 1994-2024 TOP 30 Typical Cases; Selected as Guiding Cases by the Supreme Court in 2019 (Guiding Case No. 114); 2018 Top 10 IP Cases of China; 2018 Top 10 Civil and Administrative Cases; 2018 Top 10 Cases Advancing the Rule of Law; "China's Top 10 Influential Lawsuits" of 2018 - PARFUMS CHRISTIAN DIOR Trademark Refusal Review Administrative Litigation