Intellectual Property Law Practice
IBrighteous lawyers have dealt with a number of major IP cases which are of great social influences. In order to provide with our clients comprehensive legal services and to protect their IP rights, we are not only able to draft and review IP contracts, but also to deal with disputes in relation to copyright, patent, trademark, commercial secrecy and unfair competition. Our services include:

• To devise IP protection schemes
• To draft or review varieties of contracts and legal documents in respect of transfer or licensing of patent or trademark or protection of trade secret
• To devise trademark application schemes, to file domestic or oversea trademark applications, trademark disapproval, review, dispute, and revocation; to represent trademark administrative litigations
• To file application for well-known trademarks at the level of city and province
• To process the administrative and judicial confirmation procedures for well-known trademarks
• To process the customs IPR protection record
• To process the copyright registration
• To report to the authorities for potential infringement cases on our clients’ behalf, and to cooperate with such authorities to protect the clients’ rights
• To negotiate with the infringing party for the settlement of the disputes on our clients’ behalf
• To represent pre-litigation evidence investigation and preservation in IPR infringement cases
• To represent in cases involving infringements of copyright, patent, trademark, commercial secrecy or unfair competition
• To advise on protection of computer software, know-how and other high technology
• To deal with domain name-related disputes
• To advise on protection of internet-related IPRs
• To provide oversea IPR protection in cooperation with oversea law firms, including but not limited to oversea trademark, patent application, protection, etc.
• To represent domestic companies to deal with U.S. Section 337 proceedings

Working Experience

• Drafting documents on IPRs protection systems, transfer or licensing agreements on IPRs and documents on investment by contributing IPRs for more than ten overseas and domestic clients
• Drafting the patent licensing agreement between a Zhejiang foreign-invested bio-technology company and a US company
• Providing legal opinions for the dispute on software copyright between a Hangzhou designing institute and a US software company, and the copyright dispute between a Hangzhou high-tech company and China Pacific Insurance Group
• Processing the administrative confirmation procedures of the well-known trademark of “Red Eagle”
• Acting on behalf of US Zippo company for its IPR protection in Zhejiang
• Representing a Hangzhou company in the mediation on the infringement dispute of the trademark ‘Babu Bean’
• Representing the case involving enterprise name and trademark infringement between Hangzhou ‘Zhang Xiaoquan’ and Nanjing ‘Zhang Xiaoquan’
• Representing a Sichuan brewery in the trademark infringement case involving the trademark “Lao Zuo Fang”
• Representing in the “Zhong Rong” trademark infringement case (second trial in the Zhejiang High Court)
• Representing former employees of Huawei company and several employees of a Taiwanese company in Hangzhou in commercial secrecy infringement cases
• Representing in China’s first case of unfair competition arising from low-price dumping and high-price acquisition of air conditioners
• Representing a big import & export group company in a case of trade mark infringement and unfair competition dispute against a Shanghai company with great compensation fees awarded
• Representing in a trade secret infringement case involving a Ningbo public company
• Representing a Zhejiang mold factory in an infringement case of commercial secrecy against the Shuangling Group
• Representing a Taiwanese funded company in Hangzhou in an infringement case of commercial secrecy caused by job hopping of several staffs
• Representing a Cantonese enterprise in several disputes involving infringement of the design patent of aluminium materials
• Representing Hangzhou Boya furnishing company in a patent infringement case against another furnishing company
• Representing a Cantonese electronic appliance company in a infringement case of a utility model against a Zhejiang Pujing electronic appliance company, and having accumulated extensive pre-litigation evidence collection experience in the Yiwu market
• Representing in The poem of Palace Daming ’s TV series music copyright infringement case
• Representing a Zhejiang University industry company in a copyright infringement case against a Hangzhou company
• Representing the defendant an advertising company in a written work copyright infringement case
• Representing the defendant a Jinhua Internet information company in a Internet information spread infringement case involving the movie House of Flying Daggers