Helen Xia (Shanghai IP Agency)
Partner Intellectual Property
Languages
English, Chinese, Mandarin
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2023“Clients love working with partner Helen Xia and counsel Grace Guo. Both of them are very responsive, and give practical and easily-understandable advice.”
As Head of our IPMT Group in Asia, Helen Xia focuses her practice on contentious and non-contentious IP works involving trademarks, copyright, patents, unfair competition, and IP licensing.
She brings extensive experience in IP litigation, portfolio management, obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights, and commercial licensing in a wide range of industries. Helen has strong experience in IP litigation and has advised clients on administrative, civil, and criminal litigation involving IP infringement in China.
In addition, she has also regularly advised clients on their domestic and global IP portfolio management, developing brand protection strategies and enforcing their intellectual property rights in sophisticated hijacking and infrinement cases. The clients she represents are from a wide range of industries, including construction & mining, fashion, food, multimedia, telecommunications, computers, and entertainment.
Helen serves as a director of Hogan Lovells (Shanghai) Intellectual Property Agency Service Co., Ltd., an IP service affiliate established under Hogan Lovells International LLP.
Helen is qualified to practice both in the PRC and the state of New York (United States). She has an LLB from Shandong University and an LLM from Peking University. She also has an LLM from the University of Michigan (United States). Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Helen worked at a boutique IP law firm in New York. Helen speaks native Mandarin and fluent English.
The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2022“Helen Xia has become my go-to counsel for IP in China.”
Representative experience
Acting for one of the largest U.S. film and entertainment companies to successfully defend a copyright infringement claim raised by a Chinese writer.
Acting for a Sweden-based power tool manufacturer on various IP-related matters, including trademark infringements, misuse of company name, etc.
Credentials
- LL.M., University of Michigan, 2005
- LL.M., Peking University, 2002
- LL.B., Shandong University, 1998
- New York
- People's Republic of China
- International Trademark Association (INTA)