Lena (Lanying) SHEN

Partner/Attorney-at-Law

Trademark Attorney

Ms. Lena Shen is a partner of Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Ltd., the first private patent firm and a top 10 IP law firm in China. She received education in both China and UK, graduating from Queen Mary, University of London with an LLM degree in intellectual property laws. She is a lawyer in China and her main practice is trademark prosecution and IP enforcement. Lena is of rich experience in trademark registration, review, opposition, invalidation, etc. and meanwhile has involved a number of IP litigation and other enforcement actions.

Lena is actively involved in the international IP forum. She is the first Chair of CET 8 (Asian Issues Group) of FICPI and has been serving the duty since 2015. Meanwhile she is a bureau member of AIPPI since 2018, as an Assistant Reporter General. Lena was also chair of the Trademark Committee of AIPPI China until the end of 2018.

Practice Specialties
IP litigation, trademark registration, review, dispute, trademark anti-fake, copyright registration, infringement case, domain name and other legal affairs

Language
Chinese, English

Experiences
2011, graduated from Queen Mary, University Of London with a Master’s degree in Intellectual Property Laws
2000, graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University with a B.A. degree in Information Management  (English)

Joined Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Ltd. in 2001
2011, intern at Mintz Levin London Office and UK IP firm, Jenkins
2000-2001, worked at China Sinda Intellectual Property Limited.

Qualified as an attorney-at-law in 2008
Starting to work in the IP industry since 2000

Memberships

The bureaumember of AIPPI since 2018, as an Assistant Reporter General

ChairofCET 8 (Asian Issues Group) of FICPI

Member of All China Lawyers Association

Memberof China Trademark Association
Member of INTA  

Memberof LES   

Publications

-Author of the China Chapter of AIPPI Law Series-Genuine Use of Trademarks published by Kluwer IP Law in 2018

-Co-author of the China Chapter of the book Global Patent Litigation-How and Where to Win and its Supplements published by Bloomberg BNA in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019 respectively (the 2019 version is to be published)

-Author of an article How to Reward and Remunerate Your Inventors published by Managing Intellectual Property in March 2014

Speeches

-2018.9: spoke at AIPPI 2018 Congress Cancun in two sessions, "IV, Alternatives for enforcement" and "VII It&39;s all about me ".

-2018.5: spoke at AIPLA 2018 Spring Meeting Seattle entitled Techniques for Enforcing Trademark Infringement Remedies in China

-2018.5: spoke at CTA-INTA Seminar at INTA 2018 in Seattle about New Measures in Fighting Against Bad Faith TM Filing in China

-2017.11: spoke at FICPI Forum in Venice in the session of "International IP Rights – Tips and Tricks International Trade-mark Applications"

-2017.10: spoke at CTA Trademark Festival in Guilin, Guangxi Province "Strategic Consideration for Trademark Protection Abroad"

2017.6: Spoke at MIP seminars in New York City and Palo Alto, US about “Successful TM Applications in China”

-2017.4: Spoke at AIPPI-Asean Seminar in Manila, Philippine

-2016.10: Spoke at FICPI St. Petersburg Open Forum about “TRADEMARK PRACTICE BEYOND THE ROMAN ALPHABET”

-2016.4: Spoke at AIPPI-Asean Seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

-2015.11: Spoke about How to Create a Chinese Language Trademark in FICPI seminars in India and FICPI seminar in Korea

-2015.4: Spoke at FICPI Cape Town Congress regarding Patent Infringement Strategy and Forum Shopping in China

-2015.1.26-28: spoke about Chinese Patent Litigation at seminars on Global Patent Litigation: How and Where to Win in Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou respectively

-2015.1.22-23: spoke about Chinese Patent Litigation at the AIPPI Japan seminar in Tokyo: Global Patent Litigation: How and Where to Win and at the KEA (Korean Electronics Association) Seminar in Seoul, Korea on the same topic

-2014.11: Spoke on Ambush Market at 15th FICPI Open Forum in Barcelona, Spain

-2013.10: mock-trial panelist on Geographic Extent of Use and Use of a Translation of a Mark at 14th FICPI Open Forum at Sorrento, Italy

-2009.5: Invited by the Law School of Osaka University to give a lecture about patent litigation in China