Jerry Chou

Counsel Attorney at Law

Jerry Chou has worked as an attorney at law for nearly 19 years. He also has the same years of practice experience in the IP field. Such plentiful practice experience comes from his professional services in various cases involving trademark and copyright, such as administrative litigation for dispute over trademark, cases of civil infringement and criminal litigation regarding trademark, and litigation for copyright.

Since Mr. Chou became a legal practitioner, he has offered services to clients from many industries, such as healthcare, communication, electronics, network designing, papermaking, real estate, computer hardware and software designing. He helped many Chinese and foreign clients to have their trademarks determined as a famous trademark in Taiwan, e.g., ELLE, BOYLONDON, Vanguard and Gibsong.

During his nearly 19-year-career, Mr. Chou never confines his vision to Taiwan cases, and he used to give his clients the advice on overall planning for the comprehensive trademark layout in Asia using his integral and coherent perspective on legal protection. His rich experience in various trademark cases makes him a professional who can offer excellent services in IP protection to global transnational companies.

taiwanteam@changtsi.com

+8610 88369999

Trademark Prosecution / Copyright & Domain Name / Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Taiwan

Practice Focus

Years with IP Matters

2003 until now

Professional Experience

Apprentice Lawyer, Huang & Partners
Lawyer, Juye International Law Firm
Lawyer, Chen Jianxun Law Firm
Lawyer, Ming Hong Lian He Law Firm

Representative Cases

Mr. Chou, on behalf of Hearst, helped to have the trademark “ELLE” determined as a famous trademark on cross-class goods and obtain the cross-class protection for the same, and fast settled the dispute over trademark.
Mr. Chou dealt with the infringement upon clients` trademarks, such as BOYLONDON, by means of a combined strategy including negotiation and legal procedures.
In a case of opposition against the trademark “Vanguard”, Mr. Chou, as the attorney of Vanguard Investments, helped to have the trademark determined as a famous trademark on cross-class services in addition to financial service and obtain the cross-class protection for the same, and in an administrative appeal, he found out a breakthrough to object the evidence submitted by the other party, and then enabled the trademark squatted by a third party to be withdrawn.
When serving Gibsong, Mr. Chou gathered for the client the evidence for prior use and for intentional plagiarism so as to prove the intentional plagiarism committed by the other party, enable the trademark squatted by a third party to be withdrawn, and convince the Trademark Office to determine the trademark “Gibsong” as a famous trademark.

Education

LLB, Soochow University (1987)
Master of Management Program at National Taiwan Sport University (2018)

Bar Admission

China Bar

Chinese Patent Bar

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