Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
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
Chambers Greater China Region 2025“Helen Xia is very efficient and very professional. She is able to consider her client's best interest, is good at communicating and is very well versed in the law.”
As Head of our IP 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.
Chambers Greater China Region 2025“Helen Xia is very efficient and very professional. She is able to consider her client's best interest, is good at communicating and is very well versed in the law.”
Representative experience
Managing Caterpillar's Chinese IP portfolio, and handling its IP prosecution and litigation matters in China.
Advising a famous US-based movie studio in complex trademark litigation against a series of infringing entertainment complexes.
Advising a US health-centric real estate development service provider on portfolio management (including strategic advice regarding certification marks) and cross-border commercial IP.
Acting for one of the largest U.S. film and entertainment companies to successfully defend a copyright infringement claim raised by a Chinese writer.
Acted for a major U.S. hardware manufacturer and software developer on a copyright infringement litigation in China.
Acting for a Sweden-based power tool manufacturer on various IP-related matters, including trademark infringements, misuse of company name, etc.
Advising several world leading institutions on branding protection and commercial IP advice.
Acting for different clients on trademark filings, oppositions, cancellations, customs-related IP protections and enforcing trademark rights at trade fairs and exhibitions in China.
Advising a few multinational fashion brands in the management of their China trademark portfolio, including trademark prosecution management, anti-counterfeiting and litigation work.
Advising one of the largest manufacturers of professional hand and power tools in the world on its China trademark portfolio and its IP enforcement and litigation strategy in China.
Advising a U.S. animation entertainment company on an IP licensing dispute in China involving unauthorized merchandising, trademark and copyright enforcement, and e-commerce takedown actions.
Credentials
Education
- LL.M., University of Michigan, 2005
- LL.M., Peking University, 2002
- LL.B., Shandong University, 1998
Bar admissions and qualifications
- New York
- People's Republic of China
Memberships
- International Trademark Association (INTA)
Recognition
News
Awards & rankings
01 February 2024
Awards & rankings
14 January 2022
Events
Hogan Lovells Events
17 May 2023 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM (SGT)
Webinar
Day 1: 19 October 2022 | 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. (BST) | Day 2: 20 October 2022 | 8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. (BST)
Webinar
Tuesday, 01 March 2022