China

Firm overview

“Wanhuida Intellectual Property” is a service mark shared by Wanhuida IP Agency and Wanhuida Law Firm. It emblemizes the home of some 500 dedicated professionals, including trademark attorneys, patent attorneys, attorneys-at-law and their proficient staff and the high quality of services they provide for thousands of our clients worldwide.

Wanhuida is now home for some 500 employees working exclusively in the field of intellectual property. It has some 120 IP lawyers specialized in IP litigation and enforcement work, 160 trademark attorneys, 80 patent attorneys and 80 other professionals, including investigators and supporting staff. Many of them are recognized leaders in their respective fields. They have a wide range of experiences from private practice, in-house counselling, to government services in courts, police departments and administrative agencies.

The firm’s professionals have broad and in-depth experience. Over the years, they have accumulatively litigated over thousands of IP cases in courts all over China, prosecuted tens of thousands of patent applications, and filed hundreds of thousands of trademark registrations. Many of the cases are first of its kind. They are recognized by industries, courts and administrative agencies as exemplary cases for their legal significance.

Wanhuida understands the law and its context through years of study and practice. It also actively participates in the policy process for the development of laws. Since its creation, the firm has been closely associated with the legislative progress of Chinese IP laws and regulations. It continues to play an active role in the improvement of the Chinese legal and regulatory environment. Its practitioners are involved in the processes for revising the trademark law, patent law, copyright law, anti-unfair competition law, and relevant judicial interpretations through submission of comments to draft laws and organizing platforms for discussion and communicating with authorities responsible for policy development.

The firm’s active involvement in policy and law developments gives it good sense on the direction of the laws and equips its professionals with insights that can be critical for protecting the interests of its clients. It also has the pulse on the application of the law in context through thousands of cases before courts and administrative agencies.

This mix of legal expertise and result-oriented practical approach has been critical to the firm’s past success and is the constant among the dynamic changes it will keep as it launches into the future.

Firm overview

IP March, headquartered in Beijing, is an intellectual property law firm that offers prosecution, litigation and consulting services to domestic and overseas clients, which range from start-up companies to prestigious multinationals, many of them leaders in their respective industries. IP March's top-notch quality and service are recognized by the awards bestowed by its clients as well as various sources in the profession.

Why Choose IP March

*   Smooth communication
In addition to in-depth understanding of Chinese laws, IP March attorneys have superior languages skills and knowledge of foreign cultures and practices, which enable them to bridge the cultural gap, precisely understand their clients' intention and advise them in a way the clients can clearly understand. Smooth communication clearly makes IP March stand out from Chinese IP firms.

*   Focus on professional advice
IP March focuses on value-added services instead of acting as a mailstop. Providing high-quality professional advice is IP March's core competitive advantage. IP March takes a proactive approach to advising clients to avoid pitfalls and achieve maximum cost efficiency.

*   Responsiveness, Care and Personal Attention
IP March's clients enjoy extremely responsive service. IP March applies the utmost care and personal attention to their work. Having many attorneys who once worked in-house in the industry, IP March thinks from clients' standpoint and understands their needs.

*   Most stringent quality control
Quality work is IP March’s paramount consideration. IP March applies the most stringent quality control measures known in the profession to ensure clients always receive the highest quality service.

Firm overview

AFD China is a privately-owned IP firm based in Beijing, China with a client-supporting team in Washington State, USA.

AFD provides a broad spectrum of intellectual property services in IP prosecution, strategy planning, transactions, asset management, IP litigation and other IP-related concerns for strengthening and protecting our clients' intellectual property rights in China. We listen, we care, we analyze their concerns, and we work with clients to achieve their goals. We are committed to helping our clients establish, maintain and protect their intellectual property rights by providing expertise to reach practical and cost-effective solutions. To accomplish our mission - provided quality services with efficiency - our attorneys combine their legal and technical expertise to better understand your business objectives, to offer personalized, professional and responsive services to provide solutions and create opportunities for you.

Values
AFD always adheres to the fundamental objective of good practice and delivering premium services to clients. We strive to support our clients' needs the best way that we want to ensure the satisfaction of our services. Following such a service tenet, we treat our clients with respect and integrity, hearing what they require, caring what they want, and providing what they desire, in order to maximize the achievement of our clients.

Meanwhile, AFD persists in adopting forward thinking throughout our work, so as to seize at our most ability any possible opportunities and avoid any possible risks for our clients in a responsible manner. Since the establishment of our firm, we have believed in that sincerity and professionalism are the keys to success, which we still believe in and will go on practice such beliefs in our daily work.

Services
AFD offers to clients of all sizes and types, whether in China or abroad, a comprehensive range of intellectual property services in China, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, trade secrets, domain names, licensing, and other legal areas dealing with technology and intellectual property. We also provide a broad spectrum of consulting services in IP strategy, transactions, asset management, IP litigation and other IP-related concerns for strengthening and protecting our clients' intellectual property rights in China.

In addition to dealing with IP matters within China, we also work with a well-established network of leading intellectual property firms in other countries or regions to assist Chinese inventors and entities to file and prosecute patent and trademark applications and protect their IP rights abroad.

Featured Operations

• Advanced Recommendation - We provide forward-thinking advice with a comprehensive overview at each step of the whole process, using every opportunity to benefit the client's case. We will inform our clients what the next procedures are and what our recommendation towards the prosecution is, pointing out the directions with available choices.
• Quality Inspection - Ever since the establishment of our firm, we have committed to our clients that we will deep-root in quality and professionalism. Accordingly, quality inspection is applied to all of our works regardless of size, frequency and value. It includes a cycle control procedures of problem finding, training, monitoring, auditing, re-training, re-inspecting and auditing in order to prevent repeated occurrence of any problem and to make our professional training more sustainable and focus on hit and current subjects.
• Approach in Complex/Difficult Situation - We have a reputation in tackling difficult cases and defending our clients in complex situations. It is borne in our practitioners' mind to always stick with legislation foundation of general and specific laws and rules even in worst-case scenarios. Guiding by this principle and striving to pursue good results, we have reversed unfavourable situations and saved a few cases.

Professionals
We have sufficient critical mass (about 130 patent attorneys and engineers, 8 trademark attorneys and 11 attorneys-at-law) to maximize efficiency of representation and ensure a good work outcome.

Our attorneys are well-versed in the laws of China related to patents, trademarks, copyrights, software, and more as well as well-trained in various disciplines. This combination of legal and technical expertise means our professionals are well equipped to understand our clients' needs.

Many have studied abroad and have science and technology backgrounds and/or advanced degrees in such diverse fields as electrical engineering, electronic technology, telecommunications, semiconductor fabrications, computer technology, digital and analog circuits, optical and fiberoptic systems, chemical and petrochemical products and processes, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, Chinese medicines, organic synthesis, metallurgy, materials science, agricultural chemicals, mechanical engineering, instrumentation, machines and engines and other scientific disciplines. In addition, some have had years of experience working at the State IP Office as patent examiners.


Last Updated 13 July 2021

Firm overview

Han Kun is a leading full-service law firm in China. Over the years, Han Kun has been widely recognized as a leader in complex cross-border and domestic transactions and compliance matters.

Our main practice areas include private equity, mergers and acquisitions, international and domestic capital markets, investment funds, asset management, compliance, banking and finance, aviation finance, foreign direct investment, antitrust/competition, data protection, private client/wealth management, intellectual property, bankruptcy and restructuring and dispute resolution.

We have over 800 professionals located in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Haikou, Wuhan, Singapore and New York City.

All our lawyers are graduates of top universities and have extensive experience in complex cross-border transactions and dispute resolution as counsel to both Chinese and foreign clients.