Recently, World Trademark Review, a world-renowned professional media for trademark law, has published the list of “WTR1000 - The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals in 2023”. The WTR 1000 focuses exclusively on trademark practitioners and has firmly established itself as the definitive 'go-to' resource for those seeking world-class legal trademark expertise.

With his abundant experience in legal practice and wide recognition among clients, Charles Feng, a senior partner of Tahota Law Firm and the Director of International Affairs of Tahota (Beijing) Office, receives individually SILVER recommendation in “Trademark Enforcement and Litigation” and COPPER recommendation in “Trademark Prosecution and Strategy” simultaneously for four consecutive years.

WTR commented that Charles Feng is “an influential IP expert in China”. He has extensive experience in both litigation and non-litigation cases related to intellectual property, antitrust, cybersecurity and personal information protection. Over the past ten years, he has represented a large number of intellectual property cases in Chinese courts for many enterprises, including cases in the aspects of well-known trademark cognizance, copyright infringement, the verification and infringement of patent and trademark rights, trade secrets infringement, anti-unfair competition, and anti-trust. Among these cases, many of them were regarded as groundbreaking milestones. In addition, in terms of intellectual property transactions, he also provides legal services in the field of non-litigation of intellectual property rights, including drafting, negotiating and executing intellectual property transfers and licensing agreements. Furthermore, he regularly advises companies on cybersecurity and personal information protection and provide relevant legal services if necessary. Most of his clients are well-known domestic and multinational enterprises. He is certainly one of distinct lawyers being selected simultaneously in two recommendation lists of “Trademark Enforcement and Litigation” and “Trademark Prosecution and Strategy” consecutively.

Mr. Feng’s team consists of over ten lawyers and patent agents, who can provide clients with legal services in the fields of intellectual property, data protection, foreign investment, civil and commercial dispute resolution in Chinese, English, Japanese, French and Malay/Indonesian languages.