Kilpatrick Townsend
Firm overview:
Kilpatrick has established a strong Greater China trademark practice, combining US and international brand enforcement experience with local filing, prosecution and enforcement capability. Its offices in Beijing and Shanghai serve as cornerstones for its China Brands/Greater China Trademarks group. The Beijing office, which operates under the Kilpatrick IP Agency (Beijing), holds the relevant licence to act directly in Chinese trademark matters. It offers services including filing and prosecution, oppositions and cancellation actions, administrative and judicial appeals, domain name and internet-related disputes, trade secret protection, licensing and related transactional work.
The practice’s offerings combine the strategic and the operational: helping clients audit and design filing programmes; detecting and defending against infringing uses; working with Chinese authorities and courts on enforcement; and conducting transactional, licensing and commercial agreements involving trademarks and related IP.
A client says the firm does “fantastic work”, and that their criteria for choosing Kilpatrick as a China partner included “expertise in the country, price, responsiveness and overall easy to work with”.
Team overview:
Kilpatrick’s China trademarks team is led by Christopher Woods, who manages Beijing, and works across the region with a multilingual, multi-qualified team. Woods brings significant experience advising international brand owners on protection, enforcement, and portfolio strategy in China and Asia. He handles both clients new to China and those with established China operations.
