Liuhe’s Intellectual Property (IP) practice is a leading legal team, bringing together seasoned lawyers who are also qualified engineers and patent agents. Our expertise covers a full spectrum of intellectual property services, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and unfair competition. Additionally, we offer strategic legal planning, IP compliance management, and the development of comprehensive IP management systems. Our team has successfully handled cases that have been recognised by the Supreme People’s Court and other key judicial bodies.
Patents form the cornerstone of Liuhe’s intellectual property practice. Our Patent Group assists clients with everything from patent strategy and application processes to protecting and enforcing patent rights. Our lawyers provide industry-specific patent solutions, balancing patent and trade secret protection while ensuring compliance with international standards.
What We Do:
1. Patent Strategy and Application: Offering consultation on domestic and international patent strategy, including patent quality enhancement.
2. Risk Management: Conducting patent infringement risk assessments and avoidance consultations (FTO analysis).
3. Competitor Monitoring: Analysing and tracking competitor patents, ensuring clients stay ahead.
4. Opposition Filing: Representing clients in filing public opposition against competitors’ patents.
5. Re-examination and Litigation: Handling patent re-examination and administrative lawsuits.
6. Invalidation Proceedings: Assisting with patent invalidation processes and related litigation.
7. Patent Management: Advising on corporate patent management systems and developing innovation incentive mechanisms.
8. Patent Enforcement: Representing clients in patent infringement lawsuits and administrative complaints.
9. Customs Registration: Filing patents for customs protection and coordinating with customs authorities.
10. Exhibition Protection: Protecting IP at domestic and international trade shows.
11. Licensing and Transfers: Advising on patent licensing and transfers, ensuring legal compliance.
12. Training and Consultation: Offering patent-related legal training and recommending overseas service providers.
13. Patent Financing and Grants: Assisting with patent asset financing and applying for government support programs.
Liuhe’s Trademark Legal Services provide clients with comprehensive trademark protection, from registration to enforcement. We have deep experience in handling complex trademark disputes and offer strategic advice on trademark management.
What We Do:
1. Trademark Registration: Assisting with complex trademark registration applications.
2. Oppositions and Appeals: Filing trademark opposition, re-examination, invalidation, and cancellation actions.
3. Infringement and Unfair Competition: Representing clients in trademark infringement and unfair competition lawsuits, along with administrative and criminal complaints.
4. Compliance and Brand Strategy: Advising on trademark usage compliance, managing evidence of use, and creating corporate trademark management systems.
5. Overseas Trademark Protection: Assisting with the registration and monitoring of overseas trademarks.
6. Training and Consultation: Offering expert consultation and training on trademark-related legal issues.
Our Software Copyright Group provides full-service legal solutions for software copyright protection, from registration to enforcement. Liuhe’s lawyers have extensive experience in resolving complex software copyright disputes, ensuring our clients’ intellectual property is well protected.
What We Do:
1. Copyright Registration: Handling software copyright registration and filing processes.
2. Legal Strategy: Designing comprehensive legal strategies for software copyright protection.
3. Maintenance and Dispute Resolution: Managing software copyright and resolving disputes through administrative or judicial channels.
4. Infringement Investigation: Conducting investigations and securing evidence in infringement, licensing, or ownership disputes.
5. Licensing and Transfers: Advising on copyright licensing agreements and transfers.
6. Training and Legal Advice: Providing training and legal consultations on software copyright matters.
Liuhe offers a wide range of services related to general copyright protection. From consultation to the enforcement of copyright claims, we provide clients with solutions that are both strategic and legally sound.
What We Do:
1. Legal Strategy for Copyright Protection: Designing tailored legal strategies for copyright protection.
2. Management Systems: Establishing copyright management systems and infringement response mechanisms.
3. Transactions and Contracts: Drafting and reviewing copyright-related contracts and providing legal opinions.
4. Infringement Investigation: Conducting investigations into copyright infringements and designing legal protection strategies.
5. Litigation: Representing clients in civil copyright infringement lawsuits, administrative complaints, and criminal cases.
Our Trade Secrets Group specialises in providing robust legal solutions for protecting and enforcing trade secrets. We offer clients dynamic strategies that address both legal and technical issues, minimising risks and safeguarding proprietary information.
What We Do:
1. Due Diligence: Conducting comprehensive due diligence on trade secrets.
2. Infringement Risk Analysis: Analysing risks associated with trade secret infringement.
3. Technical IP Protection: Advising on the acquisition, management, and protection of technical IP, including patents and trade secrets.
4. System Development: Establishing trade secret protection systems.
5. Litigation: Representing clients in civil trade secret litigation.
6. Administrative Complaints: Filing and defending against administrative complaints related to trade secrets.
7. Criminal Complaints: Initiating and defending criminal complaints in trade secret matters.
8. Training and Advisory: Providing training and consultancy on trade secret issues.
