Bill Gao

Practice areas

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

Introduction

Bill Gao graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law with a Juris Master degree, and focuses his practice on intellectual property, unfair competition, cybersecurity and data protection, and dispute resolution. Gao is now the youngest managing partner of Landing Law Offices, and the head of the intellectual property department at the law firm.

Gao started his career practising law at Dentons in 2010. He has more than 10 years of experience practising law, and has 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 the telecoms, media, entertainment and technology (TMET) field. He has handled more than 200 litigation and arbitration cases related to intellectual property rights and unfair competition, for domestic and overseas clients, involving trademark, patent, copyright, business secret protection, domain name, franchise, technology transfer and development disputes, as well as other contract and infringement disputes.

His specialty is in handling important and complex intellectual property right dispute cases related to the internet and high-tech fields. He has handled civil and administrative litigation cases related to intellectual property rights in courts at all levels, and has handled a large number of litigation and arbitration cases in 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, World Intellectual Property Organisation Arbitration and Mediation Centre, National Arbitration Forum, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, etc.

Gao also has extensive practical experience in non-litigation fields such as corporate intellectual property strategy, brand operation and management, and provides relevant 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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