IP Contentious

We have a specialised intellectual property (IP) legal service team in the field, formed by a number of outstanding domestic lawyers with leading competitive advantages. We can provide our clients with comprehensive and cross-jurisdictional domestic and international IP comprehensive legal services, and effectively protect their transnational IP interests to the maximum. Our clients throughout the world rely on us to effectively and efficiently establish, enforce and challenge IP rights in China. We represented them as plaintiffs and defendants in lawsuits involving patent, trademark and copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, domain name disputes, plant variety protection and IP-related antitrust violations. Our IP litigation and arbitration lawyers litigate various kinds of IP claims in different levels of courts and arbitration centers throughout the country. Our well recognized IP lawyers with international backgrounds have tried some of the most complicated IP cases, and a couple of our representative cases, and a couple of our representative cases were recognized by Chinese courts as top 10 exemplary cases. In lawsuits involving the top three highest sought award of damages in all IP litigation cases in China, our team is currently representing two of them.

 

We also provide U.S. IP legal related services to Chinese companies. Our professional lawyers are qualified to practice law in China and the United States at the same time. With rich practical experience, we deal with complex cross-border legal disputes of Chinese enterprises and responding to US intellectual property lawsuits and 337 investigations.
 

In the IP litigation and arbitration business filed, our services cover:

• copyright infringement
• patent infringement
• trademark infringement
• trade secret misappropriation
• cybersquatting
• unfair competition
• anti-counterfeiting and administrative rights protection
• IP-related anti-trust
• invalid patent (and relevant administrative lawsuits)
• trademark objection, invalidation cancellation (and related administrative lawsuits)
• IP license and assignment disputes
• IP-related international and domestic arbitration

IP Non-contentious

In addition to our contentious IP experience, we also have significant experience in non-contentious IP matters, in which our clients turn to us for guidance through complex commercial transactions. We quickly and thoroughly understand why and how IP strategies can help our client serve their business objectives, and work closely with each of our client to shape an IP strategy that supports our clients' research, development, exploitation and marketing objectives. Thanks to our in-depth understanding of our clients' IP needs as well as our extensive IP experience in commercial deals, we have successfully represented both buyers and sellers on IP aspects of merger and acquisitions, and provided our clients with helpful assistance in other IP transactions. Our transactional IP Service includes planning, advising, negotiating and executing IP acquisition transactions for purchasers and sellers. In addition to the Transactional IP service, we also provide effective Strategic IP Planning Service that will prompt our clients' development, acquisition, maintenance and exploitation of their IP assets. Our clients are satisfied with our IP lawyers’ regular advice for clients on the commercialization of their IP assets through commercial deals, and believe that we are able to leverage our clients’ intellectual assets effectively.

 

In non-contentious IP, our IP team regularly provides our clients with legal service in the following areas in China:

• general IP-related consultation
• freedom to operate
• IP due diligence and infringement assessment
• anti-infringement and anti-counterfeiting strategies
• strategic IP planning and mapping
• IP portfolio management
• IP licensing and assignment
• IP service in M&A deals
• trademark and patent customs recordable prosecution
• trademark and patent customs protection;
• copyright and computer software registration.

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Awards & Rankings

Awards

• 2024, China IP Awards: Licensing & Franchising Firm of the Year; Technology, Media & Telecoms Firms of the Year; IP Transactions Firms of the Year, Asia IP
• 2022-2023, China IP Awards: Licensing & Franchising Firm of the Year; Technology, Media & Telecoms Firms of the Year, Asia IP
• 2014-2016, 2018-2024, Nominated in Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year for several times, Asian Legal Business
• 2022-2023, Nominated in Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year: East China- Non-local, Asian Legal Business
• 2022-2023, Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year: South China & Central China – Non-Local, Asian Legal Business
• 2021, Nominated in Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year: The Coastal Areas - Non-local, Asian Legal Business
• 2023, Shortlisted to MIP Asia-Pacific Awards 2023 - IP Transactions & Advisory, Managing Intellectual Property
• 2021, Shortlisted to MIP Asia-Pacific Awards 2021 - Copyright & Design, Managing Intellectual Property
• 2022, Deal of the Year for AstraZeneca, Aosaikang patent infringement dispute and Uqee, Perfect World trademark dispute, China Business Law Journal
• 2020, Deal of the Year for T.C. Pharmaceutical Industries and Rouy Chai International Group trademark disputes, China Business Law Journal
• 2017, Nominated in the MIP Awards 2017 for the China IP Transactional & Advisory Award, Managing Intellectual Property
• 2016, Nominated for 2016 China IP Transactional Work Award, Managing Intellectual Property

Rankings

• 2022-2024, Recommended firm in Intellectual Property: Litigation, Chambers and Partners Greater China Region
• 2018-2021, Recommended firm in Intellectual Property: Litigation, Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific
• 2017-2024, Recommended firm in Intellectual Property, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
• 2011-2014, Recommended firm in Intellectual Property, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
• 2004-2010, Nominated in Recommended firm in IP, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
• 2016-2024, Recommended firm in Intellectual property, asialaw
• 2022-2023, China IP Law Firms: Trademarks and Copyrights (Tier 1), Asian Legal Business
• 2016-2021, China IP Law Firms: Trademarks and Copyrights (Tier 2), Asian Legal Business
• 2020-2023, China IP Law Firms: Patent (Tier 2), Asian Legal Business
• 2017-2019, China IP Law Firms: Patent (Tier 3), Asian Legal Business
• 2023, Patent disputes - domestic firms, IP STARS
• 2020-2023, Copyright - domestic firms, IP STARS
• 2021-2023, IP transactions - domestic firms, IP STARS
• 2017, 2019-2020, China Law Firm in Copyright, Managing Intellectual Property
• 2016-2024, Recommended firm in Intellectual Property: Litigation, LEGALBAND
• 2016-2024, Recommended firm in Intellectual Property: Non-litigation, LEGALBAND
• 2020-2024, Recommended firm: Intellectual property (Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution List), Benchmark Litigation
• 2021-2023, Recommended firm: Beijing - Intellectual property (China Region Dispute Resolution List), Benchmark Litigation
• 2022-2023, Top 10 China IP & Antitrust Domestic Law Firm, China Intellectual Property Forum
• 2021, Top 25 China IP Domestic Law Firm - Top 10 China IP Domestic Law Firm, China Intellectual Property Forum
• 2019, Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year TOP10, China Intellectual Property Forum
• 2022, Top10 IP Agency – Overall Ranking, Top10 IP Agency - Civil Trademark, IPHouse & IPLEAD
• 2019-2020, Top10 Litigation Agency – Trademark Administration – Administrative dispute over the trademark invalidation between Reckitt Benckiser Health Care International Ltd., and CNIPA, Revocation of first instance administrative disputes between Beijing Junce Jiuzhou Technology Co., Ltd., and CNIPA, IPHOUSE, IPLEAD & IPRdaily
• 2018-2019, Top10 IP Litigation Team, IPHOUSE, IPLEAD & IPRdaily
• 2018-2019, Top10 IP Litigation Team – Patent, IPHOUSE, IPLEAD & IPRdaily2018-2019, Top10 IP Litigation Team – Copyright, IPHOUSE, IPLEAD & IPRdaily