ADVANCE CHINA IP LAW OFFICE
www.acip.cn
beijing@acip.cn
Established in 1999, ACIP (ADVANCE CHINA IP LAW OFFICE) was founded by a group of the earliest intellectual property law practitioners in China. Nowadays, ACIP has become a large comprehensive IP law firm. It has 4 main offices in the first-tier cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and a representative office in San Francisco. ACIP is member of INTA, AIPPI, AIPLA, FICPI, MARQUES and ACPAA.
The firm has now a team of more than 600 staff members in the field of Patent, Trademark, Copyright, and Domain Name, both in prosecution and litigation. They have mastered rich experience and diversified skills to provide clients with well-thought and cost competitive services in all areas.
With more than 17 years’ practice experience and a strong IP team, ACIP is continuously ranked by World Trademark Review as one of the world's leading trademark professionals, as well as by Managing Intellectual Property as Tier 1 Firm in Patent Prosecution and Contentious in South China.
Until now, ACIP has represented a large amount of world renowned companies in Intellectual Property protection and management, including P&G, CHELSEA FC, TOSHIBA, DANONE, MaxMara, Tencent, ZTE, TOYOTA, etc.
Co-effort Law Firm LLP
www.co-effort.com
liyuan@co-effort.com
Founded in 1998, Co-effort Law Firm LLP is the first law firm in Shanghai adopting limited liability partnership with the registered capital of 10 million RMB. In the following years, the service has been expanded promptly by the establishment of 10 branches in main cities of China and 4 international offices in the world.
As one of the core departments in Co-effort, Intellectual Property Rights Affairs Center provides professional service of high quality with its idea of “Enrich IP”, and thus enjoys an excellent reputation in the market of intellectual property. Until now, CIPAC has been focusing on intellectual property services for 19 years and has handled more than 10000 cases. Many of the representative cases have been selected as classical cases by courts, including the Chinese Supreme Court, or professional associations of IP.
CIPAC had set up an agent company called Jinshen Coeffort IP Agency Co. Ltd. providing trademark application, patent prosecution, copyright registration services, etc. and a research center named Shanghai Intellectual Property Academy, which has successfully held various seminars and forums focus on IP.
Jiaquan IP Law
www.jiaquanip.com
mail@jiaquanip.com
Jiaquan IP Law is one of the earliest established IP law firms in China, founded in 1987. With 7 offices in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhongshan, Shunde, Jiangmen, the firm has more than 180 patent and trademark attorneys, as well as technical specialists, including the former judge of China Guangdong Higher People’s Court and the former examiner of SIPO. Praised by clients as professionalism and responsiveness, Jiaquan assists clients in patent and trademark prosecution, litigation, science and technology project application and IP transaction etc.
Located in those major industrial cities in China, Jiaquan has a huge diversified client base. The trademark application number of Jiaquan reached 4291 for both domestic and foreign clients in 2016 and it keeps an upward developing trend over the past few years. Not only trademark registration, the firm also specializes in opposition, invalidation, litigation proceedings, assignment, full aspects of trademark protection and worldwide brand portfolio strategy.
At present, Jiaquan has built long-term and stable cooperative relations with hundreds of well-known enterprises, IP agencies and law firms, extending the business to more than one hundred countries and regions.
Kangxin
www.kangxin.com
event@kangxin.com
Since established in 1994, Kangxin has grown into a leader amongst IP law firms in China, with five offices globally including Beijing, Xi’an, Germany, the United States, and Japan. Kangxin's client base includes domestic Chinese enterprises and international companies from around the world. Kangxin represent many different businesses, including start-ups, wellknown domestic entities, and Fortune 500 multinationals. Each year, Kangxin grows exponentially while continuing its focus on providing exceptional intellectual property services. Kangxin achieves these service goals through continuous internal training.
At Kangxin, people focus on our clients' best interests; a business practice which sets us apart from other IP firms in China. At Kangxin, people have a service-centric culture, allowing the company to place the utmost value on our clients.
With dedicated teams specializing in IP litigation, enforcement, patent and trademark prosecution, Kangxin remains a driving force for intellectual property protection in China and throughout the world.
At Kangxin, there is currently more than 400 staff across the offices, 220 of whom are specialized IP professionals. Kangxin is a full-service IP firm and organized into several specific divisions. Each division has the expertise to meet a client's particular needs in this ever-changing intellectual property enforcement market.
Lung Tin IP Attorneys
www.lungtin.com
Lung Tin IP Attorneys Founded in 1994, Lung Tin, one of the first Chinese intellectual property firms approved by the government to represent international clients in China, is headquartered in Beijing with branch offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xi’an and Shenyang. The firm has about 160 attorneys out of 280 staffs. Lung Tin's trademark team has 30 professionals with a majority having over 10 years’ experiences.
■ Trademark Prosecution Firm, Bronze (2017), WTR1000
■ Outstanding IP Service Team in China (2016), China Intellectual Property Magazine and China Daily
■ Recommended Firm for Trademark Prosecution (2017), MIP
■ Preferred Trademark Agency (2012-2015), CTA
The firm's successful cases “STELLA Trademark Administrative Litigation Case” and “HALE BOB Opposition Case” were selected by CTA as “2014-2015 Outstanding Trademark Cases”; “Macy’s Domain Name Infringement Civil Litigation” case was listed as one of “Typical Cases in 2016 of Beijing IP Court” and “Kyocera Trademark Administrative Litigation Case” was the first case in which the court recognized well-known trademark through judicial procedure after the amendment of Trademark Law.
Questel
www.questel.com
help.cn@questel.com
Questel is the global leading IP software & services provider (French company, headquarter in Paris), started since 1978 and has evolved with our customers’ needs, now covering their entire innovation cycle from an idea to a product. Questel focuses on productivity and collaboration to enhance customers’ search, analysis and idea-to-asset management capabilities, their comprehensive and unique collection of IP databases are recognized worldwide and amongst governments’ agencies.
Questel's hero products are the Orbit database & Questel consulting, which are both well known all over the IP world, Orbit Trademark solution is one of the key part in Orbit database, which is the 1st Real Online Similar Search, designed for IP Professionals.
With Questel Orbit Trademark solution, the clients will use the Most Powerful & Complete Similarity Search Algorithms available online. Also easily analyze large sets of search results using advanced filter & highlight functionalities. Rank search results by importance and add personal comments, create professional search reports within seconds. Benefit from an all inclusive flat fee and avoid paying for expensive Offline Searches.
Shanghai Beshining Law Office
www.beshininglaw.com
law@beshininglaw.com
Shanghai Beshining Law Office was founded in 2013 by main partner Xue Qi and his team from Shanghai Zhixin Patent Agent Ltd., and its headquarters is located in Shanghai.
As one of the few leading law offices authorized to engage in patent and trademark, they currently house more than one hundred personnel including lawyers, patent attorneys, and other legal and technical professionals with diverse background and expertise.
Shanghai Beshing Law Office's partners and their team have been providing nearly thousands of domestic and foreign enterprises with full intellectual property legal service and comprehensive domestic and foreign legal service of patent, trademark, copyright, integrated circuit layout design, antiunfair competition and trade secret. The quantities of patent applications, trademark applications and lawsuits are all top rated nationwide. For two consecutive years (2015-2016), the team was awarded the title of Outstanding IP Service Team in China by China IP Magazine.
WAN HUI DA
www.wanhuida.com; www.peksung.com
whd@wanhuida.com
WAN HUI DA is the aggregate formed by the merger of WAN HUI DA Law Firm & IP Agency and PEKSUNG IP Ltd in 2016. Combining the strength of both firms, the new entity is a leading supplier of a full range of IP law services in China, from registration of patents and trademarks to litigations of patents, technology disputes, trademark, unfair competition and other IP related matters. The combined firm houses over 400 IPc professionals and a total of some 500 employees with presence in all major IP hubs in China. Inheriting the legacy of both firms, WAN HUI DA will continue its glory of being “a formidable force at the forefront of trademark law in China”, “a prominent service provider catering to the clients’ needs in patent, trade secret and technologyrelated matters”, as well as “a frontrunner at the leading edge of intellectual property litigation”, protecting and defending client’s interests and helping advancing China’s legal fronts.