PATENT

The “invention-creation” in China means inventions, utility models and designs. Examination and approval of patent application in China:

A. for patent application of invention, examination and approval procedure consists of five phases: accept the application, preliminary examination, publish the application, substantive examination and grant the patent right.

B. for patent application of utility model or designs, there is no preliminary examination, substantive examination in the examination and approval process. Therefore, it only includes the remaining three phases. 

According to the related laws and procedures, our office provides the following patent rights services:

1. Providing legal advice on patent issues

Our office provides legal advice on patent rights for client. For every query from clients on patent rights, there will always be highly qualified patent attorneys providing exhaustive legal advice. For the important decision of clients on patent rights, we will analyze the concrete situation and provide the legal advice according to the relevant laws and regulations.

2. Lodging patent right infringement dispute and other disputes

Our office provides full-service on patent right infringement cases, including advising on patent right infringement, scheming patent right protect strategy, instituting patent right infringing act and etc. Meanwhile, we handle the dispute on usurping the right to apply for a patent, patent right ownership disputes, the disputes of patent passed off by other body, disputes of patent transfer agreement, disputes related to service-invention.