Mr. Song Guofeng holds an LLM degree from Renmin University of China. With more than 20 years of full-time legal practice, he focuses on civil and commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation and corporate non-litigation legal services. He has profound professional expertise and extensive practical experience in specialized fields such as new plant variety rights, trade secrets, trademarks and anti-unfair competition, and specializes in handling major, difficult and complex legal disputes.

Professional Experience

Mr. Song has long served well-known enterprises at home and abroad. He has successfully represented a host of internationally renowned brands in legal affairs in Chinese mainland, including Cartier (France), Montblanc (Germany), Dunhill (UK), ZARA (Spain) and New Balance (USA). Many of his cases have been selected as typical cases by the Supreme People's Court and local people's courts.

In the field of seed industry intellectual property, he has handled many landmark and difficult cases. Representative cases include:

Trade secret and variety right ownership dispute over sweet corn breeding materials between Syngenta and Huatai Wugu;

Infringement dispute over corn variety "WG646" between Gansu Wugu Seed Industry and Gansu Hefengyuan;

Trade secret dispute over corn breeding materials between Beijing Huaao and Hebei Hasui Seed Industry;

Criminal case involving trade secrets of "Honglong 23" industrial dry pepper.