Personal description

Ms. Guo Wanying is a senior associate at Wanhuida Intellectual Property. Specializing in IPR litigation, she is a litigating lawyer based in the firm's Beijing office, where she has started practice since 2016. She is admitted to China bar in 2008.

Ms. Guo’s practice had previously focused on patent infringement litigation when she worked for a famous domestic IP agency back in 2010. She extended since 2014, her practice to trademark administrative litigation and civil cases of unfair competition. Up to now, she has handled more than 300 litigation cases and has accumulated rich experience in litigating IPR cases.

A select of Ms. Guo’s work includes:

· Representing Inner Mongolia Yunlu Water Industry Co., Ltd. in successfully invalidating others’ registration of "Aershan" trademark, a case selected as one of the top ten exemplary cases in trademark granting and affirmation proceeding in 2019;

· Representing Migu Culture Technology Co., Ltd. in obtaining a favorable court decision in trademark infringement proceeding, a case selected as one of the top ten exemplary IPR cases by Xi'an Intermediate Court in 2019;

· Winning for Migu Cultural Technology Co., Ltd. a trademark administrative litigation in 2018, in which the Beijing High Court recognized that the "Migu" trademark has reached well-known;

· Representing Meitu Network Technology Co., Ltd. in a trademark administrative retrial in 2018, in which the Supreme People's Court deemed that "Meitu Xiuxiu" trademark has reached well-known;

· Representing Luoyang Du Kang in lodging a trademark infringement suit against a rival distillery whose low-price dumping of the infringing products significantly erodes the client’s market share, obtained court injunction, trademark infringement verdict and damages of RMB 15 million. The Court of Appeal upheld the judgment made by the Trial Court. The case was selected to be listed in the Top 10 IPR Cases of Henan Province in 2018;

· Obtaining a favorable court judgment in defending Chongqing Sokon Industrial Group Co., Ltd. in a trademark infringement suit in which the plaintiff claimed damages in the amount of RMB 15 million. The case was listed in the Exemplary Cases of IPR Judicial Protection of Chongqing Courts in 2018.

· Obtaining a favorable court judgment for Wisdom Capital (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., Xu, Sony, Wistron and other companies in patent infringement disputes. The case was selected as one of the top ten intellectual property cases in Guangdong Province in 2012.