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Sophie Li

Senior Consultant

Beijing

+86 10 8632 4000

Biography

Sophie Li is a Senior Consultant, based in Beijing and Shanghai.

Sophie has been deeply engaged in the field of intellectual property for nearly two decades. As a senior consultant, with a cross-border perspective, she provides multinational companies with one-stop IP strategy and enforcement services. Her clients include leading brands across a wide range of industries, such as food and beverage, luxury and fashion, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and financial investment.

Sophie is particularly skilled in brand protection and has extensive expertise in combating trademark infringement, anti-counterfeiting enforcement, and unfair competition. She offers end-to-end, customized solutions that integrate evidence gathering, litigation, and enforcement actions, enabling clients to achieve closed-loop risk management.

She has handled several landmark cases that were selected as part of ‘The Top 50 IP Cases” by the Supreme People's Court and ‘The Top 10 IP Protection Cases” by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. She has also received multiple prestigious honors, including being listed in the Mondaq Spring Thought Leadership Awards.

Representative Cases

As a core team member, Sophie has handled cases involving:

  • Represented several well-known international confectionery, food and beverage brands against a criminal gang for counterfeiting registered trademark -- Top 50 IP Cases Selected by the Supreme People's Court 2022, Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Jiangsu Courts 2022, Top 10 IP Judicial Protection Cases of Wuxi Courts 2022, Model Cases of Xinwu District Procuratorate 2022;
  • Represented a well-known international food brand in a criminal litigation case against counterfeiting its registered chocolate trademark -- Top 10 IP Protection Cases Selected by The Supreme People's Procuratorate 2017, Top 10 IP Cases of Xinwu District, Wuxi (2012-2022), QBPC 2016-2017 Best 10 Cases in IP Protection (Criminal).

Qualifications

  • M., Franklin Pierce Intellectual Property Law School, USA
  • Qualified PRC Lawyer

Memberships

  • All China Lawyers Association

Awards

  • Listed Author in Intellectual Property (China) - Mondaq Spring Thought Leadership Awards 2025