IP Services

- Commercial IP transactions
A wide range of legal and practical experience in China has been formed by our commercial IP lawyers capable of negotiation, drafting and IP management to provide regulatory, compliance & legislative advice to clients, and conduct due diligence on potential manufacturers, distributors, licensees and sub-contractors.

Expertise
• Drafting, negotiating and reviewing contracts;
• Establishing ownership of IP;
• Foreseeing possible areas of contention/dispute, and providing associated protections;
• Creating licensing and assignment agreements compliant with Chinese Anti-Trust Law;
• Ensuring that agreements comply with Chinese law and Chinese Customs Regulations

- Enforcement & anti-counterfeiting
We have mainly been engaged in devising and implementing anti-counterfeiting strategies for clients, including relevant government authorities to enforce rights and take action in the Courts. IP owners must stop counterfeiting in factories, distribution channels and wholesale and retail outlets. A clear-defined strategy is so essential that we can handle all types of enforcement from administrative enforcement and customs interception to criminal and civil litigation.
Greatly enhanced by our IP investigation capability, we have grown into rep offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Ningbo and Chengdu to form a monitoring network across key cities in China.

Expertise
• Devising and implementing anti-counterfeiting strategies
• Investigation of trademark infringement/counterfeiting & copyright infringement, and evidences collection
• Patent infringement investigation and evidences collection
• On-spot or on-line infringement monitoring and tracking from manufacturing source
• Trademark use investigation
• Patent use investigation
• Domain name recovery investigation
• Representing administrative raid actions
• Representing Customs recordation, coordinating Customs detention
• Internet infringing auction monitoring

- Trademarks
A round-the-clock service ranging from trademark registration, protection, commercialization, enforcement to protection enables us to conduct a full trademark clearance, advisory and filing, and a complete portfolio management.

Expertise
• Prosecuting trademark application & registration;
• Undertaking trademark opposition, reviews on refusal and cancellation;
• Managing trademark and copyright portfolio;
• Advising on strategies for trademark & copyright protection;
• Providing trademark search and watch services;
• Conducting market and company investigations & due diligence;
• Enforcing trademark rights through administrative & judicial channels;
• Enforcing trademark rights via Customs
• Advising on trademark & copyright-related issues in commercial transactions
• Handling domain name registrations & dispute resolution
• Other trademark & copyright-related matters

- Patents
Our firm offers a full range of patent and registered design services including searching, drafting, filing and maintenance.

Expertise
• Drafting patent specifications and claims, providing patent filing strategies and advice;
• Filing and prosecution of patent applications;
• Filing PCT patent applications, both national and international;
• Providing patent reexamination & invalidation services;
• Providing patent search & watch services, patent annuity management, patent portfolio management;
• Pursuing judicial review of administrative decisions at court;
• Advising on strategies for patent protection;
• Infringement actions, trade fair administrative actions, strategic counseling;
• Infringement action at court, customs enforcement and goods seizures;

- Litigation
We have experienced in IP litigation to concentrate on the enforcement and defense of IP rights at the civil or criminal courts, and to offer our services ranging from the judicial review of administrative decisions for conferring of patents and trademarks to civil litigation concerning disputes over patents, trademarks, copyrights, domain names and know-how. We aim to help clients to resolve their IP disputes cost-effectively, efficiently.

Expertise
• Pursuing Review of Administrative Decisions;
• Civil Litigation for IP Disputes