Charles Feng

Introduction

Charles Feng is a senior IP litigator and data protection lawyer. He is a senior partner at Tahota Law Firm’s Beijing office, Director of the International Practice Group, and head of the Digital Economy Centre. Feng graduated from the China Foreign Affairs University and Duke University School of Law with Master of Laws (LLM) degrees. He works in Chinese, English and Japanese.

Feng previously practised at leading international and Chinese law firms, and has accumulated extensive experience. In the past two decades, he has represented numerous well-known domestic and international companies in intellectual property infringement litigation, administrative litigation, and antitrust litigation before courts at all levels in China. He has achieved particularly outstanding results in trademark infringement and validity disputes, counterfeiting and unfair competition cases, copyright infringement cases, data-related unfair competition cases, and patent infringement cases. Feng excels at integrating IP enforcement and IP acquisition strategies, combining remedies under trademark, patent, copyright and unfair competition laws to deliver the most effective solutions, and resolving key commercial challenges through litigation and negotiation.

Feng has provided legal advice to and acted as litigator for well-known companies from China, the US, Japan, EU, Southeast Asia and Taiwan. He has extensive industry experience across the manufacturing, food, fast-moving consumer goods, energy, software, automotive, internet, telecoms, electronics, luxury goods, chemicals, stationery, and entertainment sectors. He has represented corporate clients including Sinotruk, Microsoft, Apple, ENEOS, L’Oréal, Colgate, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Toyota, Zippo, Accenture, Hermès, and other well-known domestic and international enterprises.

Cases handled by Feng have been selected multiple times as representative or model IP cases by the Supreme People’s Court and various provincial high courts. In 2019, he represented the first case before a Beijing court in which an interim injunction was granted in a trademark infringement and unfair competition matter.

Feng has been recognised by Asian Legal Business (ALB) as one of China’s Top 15 IP Lawyers (2015); ranked by Chambers as Top Intellectual Property Litigation Lawyer (2023–2025); named by World Trademark Review as a leading litigation and non-litigation lawyer (Silver Band, 2020-2025); highly recommended by World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR) for litigation work; and recognized by China Business Law Journal in its Visionaries and Growth Drivers accolades.