Carol Wang

Carol is a distinguished expert in the field of intellectual property (IP) protection, with over 20 years of practical experience spanning trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, trade names and unfair competition.

Carol has served numerous world-renowned enterprises from various industries, including media and entertainment, sports, fashion and luxury goods, automotive, technology, chemicals, and catering chains. Attorney Wang has successfully represented many high-profile disputes and high-compensation cases worth tens of millions, with several being recognized as the "Top 10 IP Cases Selected by the Supreme People's Court”, as well as annual model cases by various levels of courts. Her cases have also been selected for the "QBPC: Top Ten Intellectual Property Protection Cases of the Year" and "China Business Law Journal: Deals of the Year."

Carol is highly regarded by many international legal directories and prominent media, including Managing IP, Benchmark Litigation, World Trademark Review, and IAM (Intellectual Asset Management). She has been listed among "Managing IP: Top 250 Women in IP" and other prestigious rankings.

Work Highlights

• Represented CHARLES & KEITH against CHERLSS & KEICH for trademark infringement (Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Wuxi Courts 2023)
• Represented Universal City Studios in criminal litigations against conterfeiting derivative products of Universal Beijing Resort (UBR) (Top 10 Model Cases of IP Criminal Protection Strengthening Innovation by the Ministry of Public Security, QBPC 2023-2024 Top 10 Cases in IP Protection (Criminal), Top Cooperation Cases of the 4th IP Eagle Award of Alibaba Anti-Counterfeiting Alliance)
• Represented New Balance against Shanghai Warrior for unfair competition of New Balance 327 series (Top 10 IP Protection Cases of Jiangxi Courts 2023)
• Represented New Balance against New Barlun and others for trademark infringement and unfair competition (Model Cases of Strengthening IP Protection of Shanghai Courts 2022, Model IP Judicial Protection Cases of Shanghai Pudong Court （2013~2023）, Top 10 IP Judicial Guarantee Cases by Shanghai Pudong Court, The Second Prize of 2022 Excellent Case Review by National Court System (Judge's article) by the Supreme People's Court)
• Represented Universal Pictures against a company for copyright infringement (Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Wuxi Courts 2023)
• Represented DAZZLE against an online seller for trademark infringement and unfair competition (Top 10 Business Environment Optimization Cases of Jiangxing Courts, Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Jiaxing Courts 2023)
• Represented New Balance against New Barlun and others for trademark infringement and unfair competition (QBPC 2022-2023 Best 10 Cases in IP Protection - Civil)
• Represented a number of well-known international confectionery, food and beverage brands against a criminal gang for counterfeiting registered trademark (Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Wuxi Courts 2022, Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Jiangsu Courts 2022, Model Cases of Xinwu District Procuratorate 2022, Top 50 IP Cases Selected by the Supreme People's Court 2022)
• Represented Spin Master against a company and an individual for trademark infringement (Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Jinhua Courts 2023)
• Represented Universal City Studios in litigation against copyright infringement and unfair competition (QBPC 2022-2023 Best 10 Cases of IP Protection -Civil)
• Represented Spin Master against four individuals for counterfeiting registered trademark (Top Cooperation Cases of the 3rd IP Eagle Award of Alibaba Anti-Counterfeiting Alliance)
• Represented Spin Master against 4 companies for invention patent infringement (Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Suzhou Courts 2022, CBLJ Deals of the year 2022 (Dispute & Investigations))
• Represented a world’s leading toy and entertainment company against an education technology company and an individual for counterfeiting registered trademark (CBLJ Deals of the year 2022 (Dispute & Investigations), Model Cases on Innovation-Driven IP Protection by The Supreme People's Procuratorate, Top 10 Criminal Cases of IP Protection by Shanghai No.3 Intermediate Court and No.3 Branch of Shanghai Procuratorate, Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Shanghai Courts 2021)
• Represented a well-known multinational brand in criminal action against conterfeiting registered trademark (Top 10 IP Protection Cases in Yiwu 2022)
• Represented New Balance against New Boom and other individual defendants for trademark infringement and unfair competition (Model Cases of IP Judicial Protection of Suzhou IP Tribunal (2017-2021), Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Jiangsu Courts 2020, QBPC 2020-2021 Best 10 Cases in IP Protection (Non-criminal), Top 10 IP Cases Selected by the Supreme People's Court 2018, The Second Prize of 2021 Excellent Case Review by National Court System (Judge's article) by the Supreme People's Court, Grand Prize of 2021 Outstanding Judgment Document of Jiangsu Court System)
• Represented Burberry against BENEBERRY’s producer and distributor for trademark infringement and unfair competition - Preliminary injunction issued (Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Suzhou Courts 2021, QBPC 2020-2021 Best 10 Cases in IP Protection (Non-criminal))
• Represented New Balance for administrative litigation regarding trademark No. 3954764 registered by New Barlun (QBPC 2019-2020 Best 10 Cases in IP Protection - Non-criminal)
• Represented Universal Pictures against two companies for the dispute over copyright infringement (Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Shanghai Courts 2019)
• Represented Bayer for the dispute over "malicious trademark registration" constituting unfair competition (Top 10 IP Cases of Zhejiang Courts 2018)
• Represented Universal Pictures against two companies for the dispute over copyright infringement and unfair competition (QBPC 2018-2019 Best 10 Cases in IP Protection - Non-crimina))
• Represented New Balance against 2 individuals for selling counterfeit New Balance shoes through online store (QBPC 2016-2017 Best 10 Cases in IP Protection -Criminal)