Practice areas

Intellectual property; Unfair competition; Cybersecurity and data protection; Dispute resolution

Introduction

Bill Gao is the head of the intellectual property department of Landing Law Offices, and the firm’s youngest managing partner. In addition to IP, his practice focuses on unfair competition, cybersecurity and data protection, as well as dispute resolution.

After graduating from East China University of Political Science and Law, Gao began his legal career at Dentons in Shanghai in 2010. He has been practising law for more than 11 years, with extensive theoretical and practical experience in intellectual property rights, unfair competition, international civil and commercial disputes, and non-litigation fields. His clients are mainly in telecommunications, media, entertainment, and technology.

He has handled more than 200 litigation and arbitration cases related to intellectual property rights and unfair competition for domestic and overseas clients, involving trademarks, patents, copyright, trade-secrets protection, domain names, franchises, and technology transfer and development disputes, as well as other contract and infringement cases.

Gao’s speciality is in handling important and complex intellectual property rights dispute cases related to the internet and high-tech fields.

He has handled civil and administrative litigation related to intellectual property rights in courts at all levels, and a large number of litigation and arbitration cases in, among others, Beijing Intellectual Property Court; Beijing Internet Court; Guangzhou Internet Court; Shanghai High People’s Court; Shanghai Intellectual Property Court; China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission; WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center; National Arbitration Forum (NAF); Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC).

Gao also has extensive practical experience in non-litigation fields such as corporate intellectual property strategy, brand operation and management, and provides non-litigation services to many famous internet technology companies as a retained long-term legal counsel on intellectual property strategy, network safety, data compliance, etc.

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