Lawyer team

Position: General Secretary of Gaming and E-sports Law Center of Shanghai Ronly & Tenwen Partners
 

Fields of expertise:
Intellectual property rights, Internet business unfair competition, antitrust, gaming and e-sports, etc.
 

Work Experience
Lawyer QIU Zhengtan is mainly engaged in copyright litigation in the Internet and new media industries, unfair competition litigation on the Internet, and legal services related to gaming and e-sports. As a professional lawyer deeply involved in the gaming and e-sports industry and a loyal game and e-sports player, he has rich business and legal service experience in the fields of Internet culture and media, games and animation and e-sports. He has acted in a number of national benchmark cases in the Internet industry, with more than a dozen cases having been selected into Top Ten Typical Cases at all levels of courts.
 

Typical cases:

1. The first unfair competition dispute case of video member VIP account rental platform in China (selected into "Ten Typical Cases of New Types of Internet Unfair Competition Disputes" in Beijing Haidian Court in 2022);

2.Shanghai Himalaya Technology Co., Ltd. v. Shenzhen Yiting Education Technology Co., Ltd. over illegal provision of Himalaya audio resources unfair competition case ("Typical Cases in Intellectual Property Rights issued by Hefei Courts in 2020”, “Fifty Typical Cases in Intellectual Property Rights issued by Chinese Courts in 2021”, “Typical Cases in Intellectual Property Right Judicial Protection and Unfair Competition Disputes issued by Anhui Supreme People’s Court in 2021”, “Typical Cases in Intellectual Property Right Judicial Protection issued by Hefei Courts in 2021”, “Ten Typical Cases in Intellectual Property Right Judicial Protection issued by Anhui Courts in 2021”;)

3.Astley Baker Davies Limited v. Shenzhen Mengzhiduo Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Siyanhui Technology Co., Ltd. over joint infringement of the information network transmission right ("2021 Guangdong Top Ten Foreign-related Intellectual Property Cases")
4.Shanghai Feicui Eastern Communications v. Baidu Online Disk over infringement of the information network transmission right of works ("Typical Cases of Copyright of Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court ");
5.Iflytek Co., Ltd. v. Shanghai Xuanting Entertainment Information Technology Co., Ltd. over confirmation of non-infringement of copyright dispute -- (selected into “Typical Cases in Intellectual Property Right Judicial Protection issued by Hefei Courts in 2021” and “Ten Typical Cases in Intellectual Property Right Judicial Protection issued by Anhui Courts in 2021”)

6. Suning Sports Culture Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd. v. Anhui Branch of China United Network Communication Co., Ltd. series of disputes over infringement of the information network transmission right of works ("Typical Cases of Copyright of Hefei Intellectual Property Court");

7. Youku Company v. Anhui Telecom and Beijing UNION Voole Technology Co., Ltd. over the infringement of the TV drama "Ten great III of peach blossom"  ("Ten Typical Cases in Intellectual Property Right Judicial Protection issued by Hefei Intermediate People’s Court in 2019");

8. Beijing Winter Olympic Games program copyright and unfair competition Act preservation case ("Ten Typical Cases in Intellectual Property Rights issued by Shanghai Pudong Court in 2022”);

9.Zhongguang Movie & Television Satellite Co., Ltd. (CCTV is the main operator of CCTV3568 channel) v. Anhui Telecom, Jiangxi Telecom and Inner Mongolia Unicom over copyright and unfair competition series litigation concerning "CCTV-3568 channel";

10. The country's first case of unfair competition involving cloud game platform plug-ins;

11. The country’s first case of unfair competition of induced sharing by "WeChat mini programs";

12. The country's first unfair competition dispute case concerning DLNA agreement;

13. The country’s first case over game anchors’ "tactical comments" infringing online reputation rights;

14. Acted for CCTV International Network Co., Ltd. in dozens of rights protection cases concerning "World Cup", "Olympic Games", "European Cup", "Spring Festival Gala" and other programs;

15.legal counseling for OMG E-sports Club intellectual property system construction non-litigation project, and Little Elephant Big Goose e-sports variety show project;
16.Acted for more than ten well-known game anchors (involving popular e-sports games like Game for Peace, Glory of Kings) v. live streaming platforms over breach of contract disputes and reputation rights disputes;

17. Special rights protection litigation projects for Tencent Games, Xipu Games and other game enterprises;

18.Full legal services for a number of e-sports events.
 

Social position
Consultant of Legal Work Committee of Shanghai E-Sports Association