Trademark Doctrine of Foreign Equivalents: Prosecution, Clearances, Infringing Marks in Different Languages

Mr. Heavner's practice covers all aspects of trademark and unfair competition law, with a particular focus on trademark infringement, counterfeiting, and false advertising litigation. He assists clients in developing strategies for establishing and enforcing their trademark rights. Mr. Heavner counsels on issues regarding trademark clearance searching, trademark and copyright licensing, and certification mark programs.

Ms. Wu has significant experience in both United States and China trademark and copyright law. She advises clients and works closely with counsel around the world on trademark usage, clearance, prosecution, domestic and worldwide portfolio management, litigation, and enforcement matters. She also handles cancellation and opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She focuses on enforcing client rights against counterfeiters and manages anti-counterfeiting actions in China, crafting efficient solutions for each client. She also conducts searches on the Chinese trademark databases and manages Chinese trademark prosecution and enforcement matters for many publicly traded companies.

Ms. Zhang’s key practices focus on trademark prosecution, enforcement and litigation, copyright, anti-unfair competition, customs recordation and domain name disputes. Ms. Zhang has handled thousands of trademark prosecution matters before the Chinese Trademark Office (CTMO) and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (TRAB), hundreds of trademark court appeals and infringement lawsuits before Beijing Courts and other various Courts, and administrative complaints before Administration for Industry and Commerce (AIC) for Fortune 500 companies and leading multinationals. Ms. Zhang has also handled various other IP related matters such as domain name disputes before CIETAC and ADNDRC, unfair competition lawsuits and copyright infringement lawsuits. With many years of practices in this field of law, Ms. Zhang has successfully obtained well-known mark recognitions for Yahoo!, Ritz-Carlton, Adobe (Photoshop), McDonald’s (McDelivery; McFlurry), Cisco, among others, before the CTMO, the TRAB, the Beijing First Intermediate Court, the Beijing IP Court and the Beijing High Court.