Tracy Ning Senior Trademark Attorney


Speaks:  English, Mandarin


Primary office:  Beijing


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Tracy Ning

Based in Gowling WLG's Beijing office, Tracy Ning is a trademark attorney with over a decade of intellectual property experience. Her practice focuses on assisting international clients in building strong trademark portfolios in China, and advising on trademark, copyright, customs, domain names and unfair competition matters.

Tracy has experience working at both top-tier international and local IP law firms in Beijing. She has represented a large number of international leading companies across a variety of sectors, including chemicals, information technology, hotel management, electronics, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, internet, online games, tobacco, foods, fashions, and more.

Tracy is proficient in handling various types of trademark prosecution work and post-registration matters with regard to counterfeiting and infringement, the acquisition of trademarks, domain name dispute resolution and customs seizure matters at the border.

She is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Practice areas

Career & Recognition

Filter timeline:
  • 2018

    • Career
       2018
      King & Wood Mallesons, Senior Trademark Attorney (2018 - 2022)
  • 2017

    • Career
       2017
      Bird & Bird, Trademark Attorney (2017 - 2018)
  • 2011

    • Career
       2011
      Lehman, Lee & Xu Law Firm, Trademark Attorney (2011 - 2017)
  • 2009

    • Career
       2009
      Chang Tsi & Partners
      - Trademark Attorney (2010 - 2011)
      - Trademark Assistant (2009 - 2010)
  • 2008

    • Education
       2008
      Minzu University of China, Bachelor of English

Insights & Resources

Representative Work

  • Represented a world-renowned US energy beverage company in winning the opposition/invalidation actions against various companies, and with reaching a global settlement with a domestic company on trademark matters
  • Represented a world-renowned US chemical company in building a strong trademark portfolio in China
  • Assisted a world-renowned Japanese integrated chemical industry group in an AIC raid action, and obtained a favourable decision made by the local Administration for Market Regulation (AMR); also assisted the same company to overcome the geographical issue in trademark application examination and obtain the registration successfully
  • Assisted a US Sanitary Standards company in improving its board protection before the General Administration of Customs (GAC) in China; also assisted the same company with their network cleaning project (request the removal of the fake information posted by third parties on mainstream e-commerce platforms)
  • Represented an Italian company in winning the domain name arbitration, and having the disputed domain name be assigned to the client
  • Represented various companies in handing oppositions, invalidations or negotiation for acquisition etc. against bad faith filings, and had the bad faith filings rejected or assigned to the client