New Partnership between HongFangLaw and the Shanghai Association of International Trade

At HongFangLaw we always had at heart the development of the service industry in China, by supporting Chinese businesses in their services and protecting their brands in China.

For this and many other reasons, we have officially established a partnership and became members with the AIST, the Shanghai Association of International Trade, to better connect to Chinese companies and support them in the protection of their Intellectual property portfolio.

AIST was established in October 1996, from the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government Business Council (Trade in Services), under the initiative of the Ministry of Commerce (at the time Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation), in Shanghai to promote the development of trade in services. AIST is one of the main associations in this area and the first association in the country to set up a cooperation between the trades in services organizations. At present, the association has more than 500 members in the group, respectively, in the international trade, exhibition, finance, insurance, transportation, advertising, information, consulting, design, accounting, lawyers, tourism, hotels, business and other enterprises and institutions.

Here the official website address: www.servtrad.org.cn

Thanks to this cooperation, we could better support our clients in understanding the structure of government and enterprise communication platform for the service industry, and create a direct connection to government departments, such as the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, Foreign Economic and Trade Commission and the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision Center.

We believe that this new cooperation can bring an interesting new view of the legal protection for the service industry and educate our fellow colleagues in the Intellectual property landscape of China.

If you would like to know more about our cooperation plans or about the AIST, please feel free to contact us at public.relation@hongfanglaw.com