Elliot Papageorgiou
Head of IP Strategy, Enforcement & Trademarks - China
- Year of call, Victoria (Australia) (1996)
- Year of Call, England & Wales (1997)
- Year of Call, New York (2002)
- Year of Call, Hong Kong (Registered Foreign Lawyer) (2019)
Bio
Elliot Papageorgiou is Gowling WLG's Head of IP Strategy, Enforcement & Trademarks in China. With over 30 years of experience, Elliot has practised, and taught intellectual property (IP) law across several continents, including Oceania, Europe, North America, and Asia.
Working out of Gowling WLG's Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou offices, Elliot counsels international clients on contentious and non-contentious IP matters, with a special focus on IP value-growth and value-extraction, strategic portfolio development, and cross-border IP enforcement and infringement litigation in China and across the APAC region. Elliot supports a number of diplomatic missions (embassies & consulates) in China with current IP developments and issues, and is regularly consulted in China by the European Delegation, European Intellectual Property Office, the IP Key Project, as well as China SME IP Helpdesk. Elliot is the former National Chair of the European Chamber in China (EUCCC)'s Intellectual Property Rights Working Group (IPR WG) and has held various positions within that IPR WG since 2006.
Elliot has represented a number of Fortune 500 companies and other multinationals in patent litigation. His recent client briefs include developing IP strategies for a number of Europe's leading venture capitalist funds; strategically advising a global leader in cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication, a global leader in quantum computing technology, global engineering and manufacturing conglomerates, as well as some of Europe's leading engineering groups.
As part of his disputes and litigation practice, Elliot has guided a range of complex patent litigation, as well as trademark and copyright litigation cases, by way of petition for re-hearing (certiorari) before China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) on a number of occasions. One such case was ranked No. 1 in the SPC's "Top 50 IP Cases of the Year."
Throughout his legal career, Elliot has consistently been recognized as a leading practitioner in his field by IAM Patent 1000, IAM Strategy 300, World Trademark Review 1000, Managing Intellectual Property, Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Who's Who Legal, Lexology Index, and WIPR, just to name a few.
In addition to his practice, Elliot regularly teaches IP courses at various universities and has given seminars for various industry and professional organisations in China and internationally.