Our Services

• Identify patentable innovations and plan combined utility model, invention, and design patent protection
• Develop overarching patent protection strategies tailored to clients' R&D and business models
• Handle the full application process: technical disclosure, patentability assessment, claims drafting, and prosecution
• Comprehensive novelty searches, FTO analyses, and patent validity assessments
• Competitor patent monitoring and industry trend interpretation
• Handle reexamination proceedings and invalidation proceedings
• Infringement market investigations, evidence collection, and notarised evidence preservation
• Administrative enforcement, customs recordation, trade fair and e-commerce platform takedowns
• Civil litigation (preliminary injunctions, asset preservation, damages claims) and administrative litigation
• Commercialisation structure design for licensing, assignment, equity contribution, and pledge
• Patent valuation and royalty distribution mechanism design
• Annuity monitoring, payment, and rights maintenance management

At the rights acquisition stage, we provide integrated legal services covering technology mining and portfolio planning, application drafting and prosecution, as well as search and analysis for utility model patents. We help clients identify patentable technical solutions from R&D outputs, plan combined protection strategies across utility models, invention patents, and design patents, deliver high-quality drafting and prosecution to secure expedited grants, and provide comprehensive search and analysis to support filing decisions, infringement risk assessment, and technology development.

Our Services

• Identify patentable innovations from technical outputs and plan combined utility model, invention, and design patent protection
• Develop overarching patent protection strategies tailored to clients' R&D and business models
• Provide competitor patent monitoring, patent landscape analysis, and industry trend interpretation
• Assist in high-value portfolio optimisation and redundancy assessment
• Handle the full application process: technical disclosure, patentability assessment, claims drafting, and prosecution
• Analyse office actions and formulate response strategies to secure expedited grants
• Annuity monitoring, payment, and rights maintenance management
• Conduct novelty searches and FTO analyses to identify infringement risks
• Provide patent validity analysis and competitor monitoring
• Support filing, R&D, licensing, and transfer decisions with targeted search services

We provide utility model patent reexamination and invalidation services to help clients challenge the validity of granted utility models or reassess rejected applications. Through in-depth legal and technical analysis, we help clients achieve favorable outcomes in reexamination and invalidation proceedings.

Our Services

• Handle reexamination proceedings following utility model patent refusals and respond to office actions
• Represent clients in invalidation proceedings, both filing and defending
• Provide invalidation searches, technical comparisons, evidence preparation, and legal argumentation
• Handle administrative litigation arising from reexamination or invalidation decisions
• Assist in defending against bad-faith invalidation attacks to safeguard core patent stability

We bring extensive practical experience in utility model patent enforcement and litigation. Our in-house investigation company provides strong support to the legal team in identifying infringement leads and collecting evidence, and most attorneys on our patent dispute resolution team are dual-qualified as both lawyers and patent attorneys. Each year, we handle a substantial volume of matters including evidence collection, cease-and-desist letters, administrative complaints concerning patent infringement, administrative litigation on patent authorization and validity, civil patent infringement litigation, and patent ownership disputes. We are particularly skilled at developing tailored enforcement strategies and securing optimal outcomes through coordinated, multi-pronged approaches.

Our Services

• Conduct market investigations, evidence collection, and notarised evidence preservation for utility model patent infringement
• Prepare preliminary infringement analysis reports and enforcement recommendations
• Issue cease-and-desist letters, file administrative complaints, and assist with trade fair and e-commerce platform takedowns
• Handle civil litigation including preliminary injunctions, asset preservation, evidence preservation, and damages claims
• Handle administrative litigation challenging refusal or invalidation decisions
• Assist with customs IP recordation and cross-border enforcement
• Participate in enforcement negotiations and settlement, or defend against counterclaims and invalidation proceedings

We assist clients in commercialising their utility model patents through strategic licensing negotiations, customised agreement drafting, pricing model development, and cross-border deployment strategies—enabling effective monetisation and maximising the value of technology assets.

Our Services

• Design commercialisation structures for utility model patents including licensing, assignment, equity contribution, and pledge
• Draft, review, and negotiate licence, assignment, and joint development agreements
• Assist in patent valuation and royalty distribution mechanism design
• Handle patent assignment registration, licence recordation, and pledge registration
• Resolve ownership disputes and service invention conflicts
• Facilitate technology cooperation, technology transfer, and investment facilitation

Representative Cases

• Represented a footwear company against a Quanzhou company in a utility model patent infringement case, securing a favorable judgment
• Represented a pharmaceutical group against a Hebei pharmaceutical company in a utility model patent infringement case; the defendant withdrew its appeal after filing
• Advised a leading German beverage packaging equipment group on over forty utility model patent filings in China, with recent cases consistently granted within eight to twelve months, providing ongoing IP protection for the client's core equipment technologies in the Chinese market
• Retained by a major U.S. consumer goods group to handle utility model patent filings across multiple brands and product lines, including kitchen appliances and outdoor products, with tailored filing strategies enabling the client to establish patent protection in China efficiently
• Handled over one hundred utility model patent filings for a leading domestic dairy conglomerate, covering core technical areas including production equipment and packaging structures, with the fastest grant achieved in as little as two months — enabling effective alignment with the client’s product launch timelines
• Represented a publicly listed semiconductor company in a series of utility model patent filings covering computing architectures and data processing devices, employing a dual-filing strategy to secure both near-term patent rights through utility model registration and long-term protection through co-pending invention patent applications