Menglong Li

Menglong Li is a senior partner and one of the founding partners of DeHeng Law Offices (Shenzhen). He has extensive experience in combating trademark infringement, patent infringement, piracy, copyright infringement and unfair competition of counterfeit well-known products.He has served as the legal adviser of many enterprises, and has represented clients in many intellectual property cases and civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, as well as advising on patent, copyright, trademark, anti-unfair competition (trade secret), Internet and e-commerce. His long-term clients include Louis Vuitton Malletier, Alibaba group (1688.com, Taobao.com, Tmall.com), Tencent and others, assisting them with trademark and unfair competition litigation. He acts for many high-tech enterprises and Internet enterprises on their patent, software copyright, trade secret disputes and other intellectual property disputes. The cases he represents are frequently cited as seminal cases of national or regional intellectual property significance. In addition, Lawyer Li Menglong has earned awards, including "ALB CHINA TOP 15 IP lawyers" "The Legal 500 China Rankings IP Lawyer " "China Business Law Journal 2022 Deals of the year" "China Outstanding IP Lawyer TOP 50" and many other honors.

• Represented Tencent in "Cross Fire" vs. "Crisis Action" Game Maps Copyright Infringement and Unfair Competition Lawsuit, which was the first effective judgment in China for the infringement dispute of "skin replacement" of game maps, and was awarded " China Business Law Journal 2022 Deals of the year " and "2021 Top 10 Cases of Intellectual Property Judicial Protection in Guangdong Courts".
• Represented Tencent in a copyright infringement case involving works written by Tencent artificial intelligence writing software, which was the first case on copyright protection of artificial intelligence generated objects in China, and was awarded "50 Typical Intellectual Property Cases of China Courts in 2020", "Top 10 Cases of People's Courts in 2020", "Top 10 Copyright Hotspot Cases of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) China Branch", " Top 10 Most Researchable IP Adjudication Cases in China in 2019".
• Represented Shenzhen Yinger Fashion Group vs. Lv Yan and Shanghai Is You Trading Co., Ltd. in a commercial defamation unfair competition dispute, which was awarded as one of the "Top 10 Influential Cases of China's New Culture and Entertainment in 2021".
• Represented Louis Vuitton Malletier in trademark infringement lawsuit against Longyanyuan Xu Trading Co., Ltd., Quanzhou Libangshun Medical Supplies Co., Ltd., and Chen Shuangyan, was awarded the "Top 10 Typical Intellectual Property Cases of Xiamen Court in 2022".

• Intellectual property
• Litigation

• Financial services
• Consumer goods and services
• Tech and telecoms

• Practicing lawyer in the People's Republic of China

• Director of China Intellectual Property Law Research Association
• The Supreme People's Procuratorate hired experts from the "Civil Administrative Procuratorial Expert Consultation Network"
• Expert member of the Intellectual Property Expert Committee of Shenzhen Market Supervision Administration

• Bachelor of Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology (1985)
• Second Bachelor of Intellectual Property Law, Chinese University (1989)