Chang Tsi's Intellectual Property practice and 3 lawyers have earned high rankings from Chambers & Partners in the 2025 edition of Chambers Greater China Region. The firm has been ranked in IP litigation (PRC Firms) and non-litigation (PRC Firms) in the new edition, managing partner Spring Chang was again named eminent practitioners, partners Michael Fu and Michael Wu were also in the guide's top tier.
On the eve of the European International Trademark Conference MARQUES, Simon Tsi, the managing partner of Chang Tsi & Partners, and founding partner Spring Chang, arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 5, 2019. A two-day visit and study was conducted with law firms in Argentina.
On August 30, 2019, Chang Tsi & Partners and its software partner, China Great Wall Technology Group, celebrated the launch of a new office management system at the firm’s Beijing office.
China currently does not have specific requirements to determine whether a trademark can be recognized as well-known. Obtaining well-known trademark recognition is reasonably difficult. This article will use one of our clients, Skechers, as an example to discuss the challenges and benefits of obtaining well-known trademark recognition in China.
We are pleased to announce that Chang Tsi & Partners recently added five new partners and senior consultants to the firm.
Recently, the Jianfa v. Michael Kors case, named “Deal of the year” and “The Top Ten Intellectual Property Case with Research Value”, was finally concluded. Managing Partner Simon Tsi, and Partner Michael Fu from Chang Tsi & Partners represented Michael Kors (hereafter referred as “Defendant”) to win the second instance trademark infringement case, wherein all the claims by Shantou Chenghai Jianfa Handbag Craft Factory (hereafter referred as “Plaintiff”) were rejected.
In order to further reduce the burden of IP right owner and stimulate economic development, recently, Ministry of Finance of China and National Development and Reform Commission published the Announcement of Patent and Trademark Application Fee Reduction for 2019.
National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce issued the 2019 edition of Negative List for Market Entry of Foreign Investment ("Negative List") and Catalogue of Guidance on Encouraged Foreign-investment Industry ("Catalogue") on June 30th, 2019.
There is a continuously rising number of IP litigation cases in China in the past five years. For example, the number of civil, administrative and criminal IP cases newly filed before the courts in 2018 reached 334,951, according to the Annual Report on the Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Chinese Courts (2018), which is an increase of 97,709 (41.19%) over 2017.
The Supreme People’s Court sets up a specialised IP tribunal on 1 January 2019 which will take the patent and other intellectual property (IP) civil litigations and administrative appeals involving sophisticated professional skills coming from the three IP courts and 19 IP tribunals with cross-region jurisdiction around the country.
This is a complicated trademark infringement case, involving a multinational corporation and a domestic industry leader, who later united together with other local corporations.
In March 2014, Unwired Planet brought an action against Huawei, Samsung and Google for the infringement of its UK patents, including 5 standard essential patents (“SEP”) covered by 2G, 3G and 4G telecommunication standards.
On February 26, 2019, Chang Tsi & Partners, along with administrative leaders with the China National Intellectual Property Administration (hereinafter referred to as "Administration"), industrial experts and representatives from other Chinese IP firms was invited to attend the symposium on opinion solicitation of "Regulations on managing trademark application and registration behaviors" (hereinafter referred to as "Regulations").
