“Wanhuida Intellectual Property” is a service mark shared by Wanhuida IP Agency and Wanhuida Law Firm. It emblemizes the home of some 500 dedicated professionals, including trademark attorneys, patent attorneys, attorneys-at-law and their proficient staff and the high quality of services they provide for thousands of our clients worldwide.
Wanhuida is now home for some 500 employees working exclusively in the field of intellectual property. We have some 120 IP lawyers specialized in IP litigation and enforcement work, 160 trademark attorneys, 80 patent attorneys and 80 other professionals, including investigators and supporting staff. Many of them are recognized leaders in their respective fields. They have a wide range of experiences from private practice, in-house counselling, to government services in courts, police departments and administrative agencies.
Our professionals have broad as well as in-depth experience. Over the years, they have accumulatively litigated over thousands of IP cases in courts all over China, prosecuted tens of thousands of patent applications, and filed hundreds of thousands of trademark registrations. Many of the cases are first of its kind. They are recognized by industries, courts and administrative agencies as exemplary cases for their legal significance.
We serve multinational and domestic companies for their IP needs in Chinese and international markets. Our services encompass registration, prosecution, litigation, licensing, and management of various intellectual property rights, including trademark, patent, copyright, domain name, trade name, trade dress and trade secret. We are experienced in deploying administrative as well as judicial means for IP dispute resolution, implementing compliance programs, devising legal strategy for corporations to navigate markets of different economies, and tackling novel and intricate issues brought forth by economic and technology advances.
We serve clients worldwide. Our clients spread across a broad spectrum of industries, consumer goods, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotech, mechanical, electronics and telecommunications. Our clientele grows steadily over the years. Client trust is a hallmark of Wanhuida services. Their loyal business and generous referrals are the single most important factor contributing to our continued growth.
Wanhuida Intellectual Property integrates resources for serving client needs in China's vibrant market, featuring:
Prosecution services with high rate of success
Multilingual and interdisciplinary skills
Enforcement services maximizing clients' interests
Cumulative experiences in ground-breaking cases
Proactive defense strategy and remedial approach.
We understand the law and its context through years of study and practice. We also actively participate in the policy process for the development of laws. Since its creation, the firm has been closely associated with the legislative progress of Chinese IP laws and regulations. It continues to play an active role in the improvement of the Chinese legal and regulatory environment. We are involved in the processes for revising the trademark law, patent law, copyright law, anti-unfair competition law, and relevant judicial interpretations through submission of our comments to draft laws and organizing platforms for discussion and communicating with authorities responsible for policy development.
We are not scholars of law but its practitioners with practical legal issues in mind. Our active involvement in policy and law developments gives us good sense on the direction of the laws and equips our professionals with insights that can be critical for protecting the interests of our clients. We also have the pulse on the application of the law in context through thousands of cases before courts and administrative agencies.
We embrace and keep up with innovation and advancement of technology. For years, we have invested heavily into technology. We have our own IT system that can be tailored to our needs and adoptive to third party systems. We invest in an engineer team solely working for us to build automation and machine learning functionalities into lawyers' workflow. All the case files are now managed online by the firm's system. Our goal is to further develop machine learning to assist lawyers with their daily work as well as clients in their need to access information on their matters. We are also experimenting the application of artificial intelligence. We are exercising great care as information security of our clients is of paramount importance to us.
We believe this mix of legal and technical expertise and result-oriented practical approach has been critical to our past success and is the constant among the dynamic changes we will keep as we launch into the future.
Over the years, our prosecution team helped clients in prosecuting numerous patent and trademark applications and in obtaining enforceable patent and trademark rights with a high rate of success. We have also litigated thousands of cases concerning patent infringement and validity, trademark registration, ownership and infringement, unfair competition, trade secrets, patent ownership and other technology or IP related disputes, protecting our client's interests and contributing to the advancement of China's legal fronts. Our focus is always the same: adding value to our clients.
So far, we have:
- 40+ cases reported in the Supreme People's Court ("SPC") Gazette or selected by SPC for its annual 10/50 exemplary cases
- 70+ transactions or cases selected by industry associations or professional legal medias as "Deals of the Year" or "Exemplary Cases of the Year"
- 80+ cases honored as representing "Best Practices" by local administrations for market regulation, IPOs or courts.
Wanhuida Intellectual Property has closely followed the development of Chinese IP laws and regulations and has been an active participant in the improvement of the Chinese legal and regulatory environment. Its contributions to the initial drafting and subsequent amendments to China’s major IP laws and their interpretations in courts have received distinguished recognitions. Wanhuida is well positioned to foresee trends in legal developments as well as enforcement practices for the benefit of its clients.
Wanhuida also has many publications, including “China Patent Report”, “China Trademark Report” (Vol. I – XII), “Trademark Law” (1st, 2nd & 3rd Edition), “Trademark Law of China” (Japanese version), “China Intellectual Property Standards” (Japanese version), “Legal Protection of Well-Known and Famous Marks”, “Trademark Laws of Twelve Nations”, “Copyright Law”, “Copyright Laws of Twelve Nations”, “Zheng Chengsi IP Anthology – Trademark & Unfair Competition”, “Trademark & Unfair Competition Cases in China”, EU & France Trademark Chapter of “Study on Global Intellectual Property Developments” (2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022-2023 Edition), Trademark Section of “Intellectual Property in European Union” (1st & 2nd Edition), “Impact of Use on the Protection Scope of Trademark: A Comparative Law Study of China and European Union” and so forth. It also translates foreign laws and practices, such as the Legislative Part of the Intellectual Property Code of France (1st & 2nd Edition).
Wanhuida professionals are active contributors to the “INTA Bulletin”, the “Global IP News” Column of “China Trademark Magazine”, the “China IP Focus” and “Future of IP” supplement to the “Managing Intellectual Property”. Wanhuida writings are widely published and reprinted in media including Chambers and Partners, Intellectual Asset Management (IAM), LexisNexis, LEXOLOGY, Thomson Reuters and World Trademark Review (WTR).
Wanhuida has been constantly ranked in the first tier by various rating organisations and legal media both at home and abroad.