Intellectual property is a practice Guantao focused on and carried out at an earlier stage. After years of development, our practice covers the full spectrum of intellectual property disciplines including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, proprietary technology, integrated circuit layout, computer software, database protection, new plant variety and the design and implementation of protection schemes for the unique copyright, trademark and franchise in the field of telecommunications and media.
Intellectual property is a long-standing pillar practice of the firm. Our IP team boasts an extensive bench of prominent practitioners (over 20 partners and nearly 100 practitioners and patent agents) with both technical background and industrial experience, including former judges of courts at various levels and former officers of CNIPA (i.e., China National Intellectual Property Administration). Several of our partners and lawyers in the team also serve as patent agents, trademark agents, and arbitrators. . The team has a wealth of experience and expertise in intellectual property, covering the full range of intellectual property subjects.
Our IP team has represented clients in a wide range of high-profile and landmark IP cases in China and abroad. The practice also offers well-recognised expertise in intellectual property transactional work. We are committed to offering clients with comprehensive, full-process, three-in-one legal services in the fields of patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition, trade secret and related anti-trust.