Sharon Qiao

Sharon, with over 24 years’ professional experience, is a senior intellectual property law practitioner. Sharon was awarded the prestigious Max-Planck Scholarship early in her career and later earned her doctoral degree in intellectual property law from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.

Sharon has extensive experience in patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and unfair competition, serving clients across various industries, including technology, electronics, telecommunications, chemistry, daily cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, fashion, and sports. Sharon has represented parties in numerous complex cutting-edge cases, including several recognized annual model cases by the Supreme People's Court.

Sharon has received recommendations from many international legal directories and prominent media, including Managing IP, World Trademark Review, IAM (Intellectual Asset Management), and Who’s Who Legal. She has been listed in "IP House: Top 50 Outstanding IP Lawyers in China" and "IAM Patent Global Leaders." Sharon is also actively involved in researching and reforming China's intellectual property laws and serves as a director of the Intellectual Property Law Association of China Law Society (CLS)

Work Highlights

Led the team handling the following cases:

• Advising Cisco against 4 individuals for trademark infringement -- Outstanding IP Litigation Cases in Lingnan Region 2022; Top 10 Trademark Cases in Shenzhen 2022
• Advising Cisco on criminal litigation against trademark infringement -- Model Cases of IP Protection by People’s Procuratorate of Beijing Municipality 2021
• Advising Hansgrohe in a lawsuit for trademark infringement and unfair competition -- Top 10 Foreign-Related IP Cases in Guangdong 2021
• Advising Fumex against Guangzhou Brlon Laboratory Profession Fittings for invention patent infringement -- Outstanding IP Litigation Cases in Lingnan Region 2020; Top 10 Foreign-Related IP Cases in Guangdong 2020
• Advising Hansgrohe against Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New Zone Fangfang Sanitary Ware Factory for design patent infringement -- Top 10 IP Cases of Zhejiang Courts 2019
• Advising Andis for the administrative dispute over trademark “Andis” -- Example IP Cases in China's Courts 2018; Model Cases Selected by the Supreme People's Court 2018
• Advising Hess for administrative litigation regarding trademark "HESS" -- Example IP Cases in China's Courts 2017
• Advising Worldwide Brands for administrative litigation regarding trademark "CAMEL ACTIVE" -- Example IP Cases in China's Courts 2017
• Advising ThyssenKrupp defending against patent infringement dispute -- Top 50 IP Cases Selected by the Supreme People's Court 2016
• Advising a well-known international food brand against a pet food company for unfair competition -- Example IP Cases in China's Courts 2012
• Advising Universal Music and 10 others against Yahoo! China for copyright infringement -- Managing IP 's Asian Copyright Cases of the Year Award for 2008; Top 10 IP Cases of Beijing High People's Court 2007
• Advising Frederick Warne in the Peter Rabbit case -- The Most influential Cases 2004 Selected by the State Intellectual Property Office