Guantao ranked in "2025 ALB China IP Rankings"
On May 20, 2025, the professional legal media Asian Legal Business (ALB) under Thomson Reuters officially announced the "2025 ALB China IP Rankings", Guantao, leveraging its outstanding professional capabilities and strong market reputation in the intellectual property field, has been ranked on the patents section of the list for six consecutive years.
Guantao IP Practice
Intellectual property has long been a key focus and early-established practice area at Guantao. Through years of development, the firm's IP services now cover a comprehensive spectrum, encompassing patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, proprietary technologies, IC layout designs, computer software, database protection, new plant varieties, as well as providing specialized solutions for IP protection distinctive to the telecommunications and media sectors—including copyright, trademark, and franchise rights.
Guantao prioritizes the development of its intellectual property legal practice and maintains an experienced, specialized team. Most partners and lawyers within Guantao IP group possess multi-disciplinary backgrounds and hold professional qualifications as patent agents, trademark attorneys, and arbitrators. Furthermore, several team members have previously held positions at institutions such as the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and people's courts at various levels. Leveraging deep expertise and extensive experience in the intellectual property field, Guantao IP team provides clients with comprehensive, professional IP legal services.
Based on its evaluation of multiple factors—including the volume, complexity, and size of intellectual property work undertaken by law firms over the past year, client portfolio composition, year-on-year momentum of firms' IP practices, and the growth of IP teams—ALB presents its 2025 ALB China IP Rankings.