CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office
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| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
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| No. of lawyers | Approx. 220 |
| Major practice areas | Intellectual property |
| Date founded | 5 February 2000 |
| Website | ccpit-patent.com.cn |
CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office (CCPIT Law Office) is an intellectual property law firm headquartered in Beijing, China. It has over 480 staff including 216 patent and trademark attorneys, among whom 56 are qualified lawyers, and also has around 35 patent engineers. CCPIT Law Office provides prosecution, litigation, administrative enforcement, transaction and consultation services relating to patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, trade dress, domain names, anti-unfair competition, licensing and other intellectual property-related matters.
History[edit]
A trademark agency was established in January 1957 when the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), which is a membership based nongovernmental trade promotion organization, was authorized by the government to organize a trademark agency to handle exclusively foreign-related trademark matters. Until the mid-1980s, the agency was the sole foreign-related trademark agency in China.
A patent agency was organized within CCPIT in 1984 when the Chinese Patent Law was issued. Authorized by the government, the agency was the first Chinese intellectual property law firm to handle foreign-related patent matters. After receiving training from other countries, professionals of the agency were actively involved in the establishment and development of the patent system in China. They organized training courses for Chinese professionals, translated essential intellectual property readings, established connections with foreign counterparts, and participated in the drafting of the Chinese Patent Law and related laws and regulations.
By merging the two agencies in 1993, CCPIT acquired a team of the most experienced professionals in China.
Main practice areas[edit]
Patent[edit]
- Framing patent strategy
- Providing services of advise, searches and analysis of the patentability of inventions before filing of patent applications
- Filing and prosecuting patent applications (inventions, utility model and industrial design) and requesting for reexaminations
- Searching for and making analysis of patents
- Invalidating patent
- Making search and analysis in respect of patent infringement
- Enforcing patent rights through administrative and judicial channels and by Customs protective measures
- Licensing and transferring patents
- Reminding and paying annuities of patents
- Searching and watching patent and non-patent documents
Trademark[edit]
- Advising on the availability for use of proposed trademarks and their registrability
- Filing and prosecuting Chinese, Hong Kong and Madrid Agreement or Madrid Protocol trademark applications
- Filing and prosecuting trademark applications worldwide
- Enforcing trademark rights through administrative and judicial channels
- Advising on anti-counterfeiting measures
- Negotiating for solutions of trademark related disputes
- Filing oppositions to or applying for the cancellations of registrations held by other parties
- Helping with licenses and assignments of trademarks and their formal recordal
- Advising and assisting on the trade mark implications of business mergers, acquisitions and disposals
- Providing trademark searching, watching and advertising services
- Designing trademarks in the Roman alphabets or in Chinese characters
Others[edit]
- Obtaining copyrights and computer software registrations
- Filing domain name registrations
- Resolving domain name disputes
- Filing layout-design of integrated circuits applications
- Recording IP rights with customs
- Advising on trade secret, trade dress and anti-unfair competition issues
Offices[edit]
CCPIT Law Office is headquartered in Beijing and also has offices in New York, Munich, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Awards[edit]
Since 1999, CCPIT Law Office has been continuously ranked the top Chinese intellectual property law firm in the annual global intellectual property firm survey conducted by the international publication Managing Intellectual Property and has won many prizes in "Asia-Pacific Intellectual Property Law Firm Awards" organized by the international publication Asia Law & Practice and in "China Law Awards" organized by the international publication Asia Legal Business.
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