With rapid development of economy and technology, business competition has become increasingly fierce and intellectual property rights have become the focus of our clients' attention as the invisible assets. Most of our clients come from technology industries such as semiconductors, telecommunications, health care, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and artificial intelligence, and they have high requirements and expectations for IP protection. Our clients expect us to protect their patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets through our extensive and in-depth expertise, fight for their benefits, and achieve satisfactory results in litigation, transactions and operational activities.
Our team has represented clients in a number of landmark IP cases with international and domestic reach. We have helped clients properly resolve disputes over standard essential patents, handled China's first case of illegally providing trade secret to overseas entities and several provincial first cases on new types of trade secret protection, and maximized the protection of core trade secrets and legitimate rights and interests of leading clients in key industries.
Our team has rich practical experience in obtaining, acquiring, transferring, licensing and using intellectual property rights such as technologies, trademarks, patents and copyrights in domestic and cross-border transactions to ensure that our clients' intellectual property rights are safely transferred, assigned and protected in M&A, joint venture, investment, franchising, licensing, distribution, business outsourcing, contract manufacturing, strategic alliances and technology development.
Our partners are experts of several Shanghai IP protection service bases and have authored numerous articles and books in IP-related fields, which have been widely acclaimed and awarded.
Handle IP prosecution matters, including trademark registration, patent application, and copyright registration, etc.; develop IP layout and protection strategies; analyze patent validity, freedom to operate (FTO) and design around recommendations.
Conduct IP due diligence to identify and prevent risks to IP assets; design transaction structures and prepare transaction documents; assist in IP operation and transfer.
Represent in civil litigation and arbitration in relation to patents, trademarks, computer software and other copyrights, unfair competition, anti-monopoly, and technology contracts; represent in reviewing of administrative adjudication on patents and trademarks and represent in relevant administrative proceeding; assist in criminal litigation concerning trade secrets.
Investigate and analyze infringement of trade secrets, verify the confidentiality level, and assist in issuing verification reports; report to public security authorities, assist People's Procuratorates in case filing and court trial, and communicate and coordinate with relevant law enforcement authorities; set up trade secret protection systems and draft confidentiality agreements; provide consultancy and trainings on trade secret protection.