Qiang Gao

Practice Areas

● Intellectual Property

● Unfair Competition

● Cybersecurity and Data Protection

● Dispute Resolution

Career

Qiang GAO is the senior partner at Landing Law Offices, also the head of the Intellectual Property department of Landing Law Offices. He has been practicing IP law for more than 12 years, with 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 telecommunications, media, entertainment, and technologies.

GAO began his legal career at Dentons Shanghai Office when graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law in 2010. Up to now, He has handled more than 200 litigation and arbitration cases related to intellectual property rights and unfair competition for domestic and overseas clients, involving trademarks, patents, copyright, trade-secrets protection, domain names, franchises, and technology transfer and development disputes, as well as other contract and infringement cases.

Professional Memberships

1.the member of the Beijing Film and Entertainment Law Society’s Legal Committee for Brand and Commercialization Rights Protection；

2.the member of the Legal Committee for Brand Protection and IP Licensing;

3.the member of the Intellectual Property Committee of Shanghai Bar Association.

Publications

1.Legal Protection of Music Arrangement Copyrights from the "Coyote Disco" Infringement Dispute

2.How to Exploit Adaptation Rights in the Cultural and Creative Film and Television Industry?

3.Legal Risks for Domain Name Registrars in the Durex Case

4.Determining Infringement of the Right to protect the Integrity of works in the Nine-Layer Demon Tower Case

5.How to Protect Your IP in the Film and Television Industry - A Review of the Rush Hour Adaptation Dispute Case

6.Blood on Hacksaw Ridge! How did Kirin Pictures lose its name?

7.On the Qualification of Plaintiffs in Multi-Subject Unfair Competition Disputes

8.Legal Protection of Registered and Unregistered Trademarks

9.A Study on the Legal Issues of Commissioning Literary Works - An Evaluation of the Judgment in the Case of "Starting Point Chinese Website v. Dreaming into God's Machine"

10.Study on the Subjective Fault of "Information Positioning Service Providers" in Helping Torts

11.Determination of E-commerce Platform Operator's Liability for Aids and Abuses Infringement

12.Legal Analysis of the Litigation Process and its Direction in the WeChat Domain Name Case

13.How to Defend the Rights of the Right Holder in the Case of Seizure of the Domain Name of a Business Project?

14.Criteria for Determining Identical or Confusingly Similar Domain Names and Trademarks in UDRP Domain Name Dispute Proceedings