The winner of our 2026 China IP Awards IP Firm of the Year firm comes as no surprise: Beijing-based CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office takes the award home for the seventh consecutive year. The firm is the oldest and one of the largest full-service IP law firms in China, and it continues to provide strong results in both litigation and prosecution work. The firm’s history dates to January 1957, when a trademark agency was established within the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, a non-governmental trade promotion organization, to represent foreign companies before Chinese authorities. The agency was the sole trademark agency in China until the mid-1980s. The firm organized a patent agency in the early 1980s, when China began to establish its patent system. The patent agency was authorized as the first Chinese intellectual property law firm to have cross-border representation. In 1993, the two agencies merged to form the CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office. The firm, which boasts senior lawyers including president Chuanhong Long and vice presidents Shaohui Yuan and Jianzhong Kang among its leadership, and some 320 patent and trademark attorneys, more than 100 of whom are also qualified attorneys at law, is the recipient of many honours and awards, and was a clear winner in this category. 

CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office is the oldest and one of the largest full-service IP law firms in China, and it continues to provide strong results in litigation and prosecution. Among its many examples of top trademark prosecution work is an administrative appeal before the Beijing Intellectual Property Court on behalf of UEFA, the Union des Associations Européennes de Football, after a trademark invalidation, at its Champions League, which bolstered protection of the UEFA Champions League’s iconic Starball device. 

Kangxin Partners has offices across China, offering a range of IP services. The firm secured invalidation through evidence of systemic bad faith and brand distinctiveness in a trademark invalidation action for MAN Marken. The firm highlighted the opponent’s history of copycat registrations and used that to frame the case as a broader issue, and not just bilateral conflict. 

NTD IP Attorneys was established in 1987 and has main offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and liaison offices in Munich, Silicon Valley and Tokyo. The firm has more than 60 trademark attorneys and 20 plus supporting staff in its trademark group, including 14 senior trademark attorneys (each with experience more than 10 years in the field of trademark) as leaders of different teams. Its trademark attorneys are experienced in strategic counselling and are adept at solving trademark problems by providing practical and efficient solutions in the most cost-effective way. It has filed more than 100,000 applications for registration in past years, including 5,850 in 2025 from domestic clients and 6,780 from international clients. The firm recently handled an opposition on behalf of Japanese broadcaster Nippon Hoso Kyokai – NHK – against a company in Shanghai using the same name.

Unitalen Attorneys at Law handled more than 27,000 new trademark applications in 2025, of which about 17,000 were domestic trademark applications and 10,000 were international applications. The firm dealt with more than 16,000 cases of trademark renewals and modifications, including more than 10,000 domestic trademark cases and more than 6,000 international trademark cases, and has taken the initiative to extend service scope to several of its most important service users. The firm houses a large number of attorneys, paralegals and clerks to serve clients from its Beijing headquarters and other offices. Unitalen prides itself in representing a diverse range of clients from startups to Fortune 500 companies such as Tencent. 

In the past 12 months, Zhongyi Intellectual Property has handled approximately 7,500 trademark applications and prosecution cases. These cases span multiple industries, including consumer goods, technology, pharmaceuticals, automotive and more, with clients ranging from well-known domestic brands to multinational corporations. The firm focusses on providing efficient and strategically driven trademark application and prosecution services. A firm representative says that through innovative workflows and meticulous case management, the firm has significantly improved the efficiency and success rate of case processing. “Additionally, our team has made notable progress in cross-border trademark applications and protection, helping clients establish a strong global brand protection system.” 

CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office has advised Exxon Mobil before the Beijing Intellectual Property Court on a matter against Zhengzhou Dejuzhongchuang, which believes its 美弗威霸 (Mei Fu Wei Ba) mark has been infringed. The disputed mark is not the same as the Mobil mark in Chinese, but the first two characters (美弗) share the identical sound as the Chinese mark of Mobil (美孚). Taking the high reputation and the distinctive characters of the cited marks, and the bad faith of the disputed party into consideration, the CNIPA as well as the Court consider the disputed mark a copy/imitation/translation of the cited marks. 

China Patent Agent (H.K.) has a strong legal service team, comprising 160-plus litigators from its legal affairs department as well as various business departments across its headquarters and branch offices; 70-plus are attorneys-at-law. CPA helped a client successfully win a trademark litigation regarding non-use cancellation. Having reviewed the evidence provided by the registrant in the administrative proceeding, the firm realized that the evidence may not support sales of goods in mainland China. It noted that the registrant attended an exhibition in China within the specified time limit, so asked the registrant to provide further reinforcing evidence to prove its actual attendance at the exhibition. In addition, it learned from the registrant that it has been sourcing goods from Chinese manufacturers. The court accepted this new evidence and successfully maintained the disputed mark.

HFG Law & Intellectual Property practices out of offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, offering contentious and non-contentious IP work with commercial and corporate law services. The firm advised Bitdefender IPR Management in a lawsuit concerning invalidation, making arguments that the client’s goods covered by its trademarks share an “inseparable and close connection” with those services provided by the opponent, a position that CNIPA adopted. This landmark case provides invaluable practical reference for handling similar cross-class trademark protection cases, highlighting the judicial orientation in intellectual property protection to safeguard brand reputation and curb malicious confusion. 

Full-service law firm King & Wood has a top-notch IP practice in China. Gordon Gao is a key litigator at the firm; he specializes in intellectual property litigation involving patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, patent right abuse, end-of-patent-life litigation for pharmaceutical products, and appeals to China’s Supreme Court for the above types of cases. He advises multinational technology companies on intellectual property protection and enforcement strategies, and has handled many famous cases, including more than 10 groups of cases (a total of over 80 cases) on appeal to the Supreme Court. 

CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office has one of the strongest patent prosecution practices in China. It has large mechanical, electrical and chemical patent departments, each with more than 50 attorneys. Its domestic patent department has nearly 40 patent attorneys with expertise in diversified technologies dedicated to providing professional services for domestic clients to file patent applications in mainland China and overseas countries or regions. The department has extensive experience in patent mining, layout and drafting as well as in managing domestic and foreign patent applications.

China Patent Agent (H.K.) filed more than 1,900 patent clients for domestic clients in 2025, but where the firm really shines in its work for international clients, for whom it filed more than 10,000 patent applications in 2025. The firm helped a Sweden client maintain the validity of all claims of its patent after a petitioner requested the panel declare the patent invalid in its entirety on the grounds that the claims are unclear and involve no inventive step. The inventive concept of this patent mainly lies in its specific function of setting a labyrinth seal in the crankcase gas purification device. The firm emphasized that the invention concept of this patent is to use the labyrinth seal to achieve special technical effects of balancing the pressure between the driving chamber and the separation chamber and avoiding oil outlet blockage in addition to sealing. The panel accepted our explanations regarding the cited patent literature evidences and common knowledge evidences, maintaining the validity of all claims. 

Lung Tin Intellectual Property Agent has made remarkable achievements in the past year in terms of patent prosecution work. The firm’s patent team has expanded to over 380, more than 40 of whom are dual-qualified patent attorneys and lawyers. The firm has also gained more than 400 new clients to log a total client number of more than 2,500, including about 1,300 international clients. The firm has filed more than 13,000 Chinese national patent applications, over 900 PCT patent applications and over 140 patent invalidation cases. It has also worked with European and U.S. firms to file over 400 European patent applications and over 400 U.S. patent applications on behalf of its domestic clients. The firm handled a patent for Telecom Corporation, Technology Innovation Center and China Telecom Corporation in the technical field of blockchain. After confirming the core inventive point, the firm provided the inventor with two ways to draft the independent claim: dividing multimedia data into sensitive data and non-sensitive data, and sharing the sensitive data and/or non-sensitive data based on smart contracts configured on the blockchain platform, or directly sharing the sensitive data and/or non-sensitive data based on smart contracts configured on the blockchain platform, with static limitations on the storage methods of sensitive data and non-sensitive data, as well as the requirement for verifying the identity information of users and/or devices on both sides of data sharing when sharing sensitive data. 

Sunshine Intellectual Property opened a new branch in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and assisted the Haishu District Intellectual Property Office of Ningbo in organizing an intellectual property seminar. The firm also recruited a number of new foreign-related IP attorneys, and now have a multilingual team proficient in Chinese, Japanese, German, Korean, English and French. Its overseas business revenue increased by 30 percent in 2025. Client Geely Auto awarded the firm the title of “Excellent Partner” for work the firm did for the automaker. 

Patent prosecution and patent litigation have always been Unitalen’s most important business areas. The firm has the ability to work in a wide range of specialized fields, such as electronics, electrics, telecommunications, software, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, bio-engineering, chemistry, photovoltaics, engineering machinery, rail transportation equipment, power transmission and transformation equipment, environmental protection equipment, foodstuffs, metallurgy, and oceans and seas, amongst others. Today, with its multidisciplinary development, the firm’s patent department consists of divisions specializing in mechanics, electricity and chemistry. Over the past year, the firm has seen a steady increase in efficiency and a continuous improvement in the quality of its cases. Its patent caseload has increased substantially compared to previous years. 

China Patent Agent (H.K.) was established in Hong Kong in 1984 and is considered one of three pioneering Chinese intellectual property agencies, providing comprehensive IP services to clients in China and abroad. CPA, on behalf of Ericsson, received a favourable 2nd instance judgment from the IP Court of the Supreme Court, which reverses both the 1st instance judgment of Beijing IP Court and the reexamination decision of CNIPA. The subject application relates to a small-formfactor pluggable (SFP) module. The focus of the 2nd instance is whether the subject application possesses inventiveness. In order to facilitate the court’s understanding of the subject application, CPA provided a detailed explanation of the differences between the subject application and the prior art. The court supported the firm’s position. In the 2nd instance judgment, the court affirmed the determination of the distinguishing technical features and held that there was an error in the determination of the technical problem actually solved by Claim 1 in both the reexamination decision and the 1st instance judgment, and the prior art did not provide corresponding inspiration to solve the technical problem. Therefore, the subject application possesses inventiveness. “This outcome holds significant weight, especially considering that the average reversal rate before the Supreme Court for patent administrative cases stands below 6.5 percent,” the firm said. 

IntellecPro has handled a number of important patent litigation cases. Yonghong Qi is a seasoned patent attorney with over 40 years of experience in intellectual property. She began her career in 1985 and has has handled more than 8,000 patent applications, over 200 invalidation proceedings,and more than 60 patent litigation cases. Qi specializes in a wide range of patent-related services, including patent drafting, office action responses, reexamination, invalidation, administrative litigation, infringement litigation, licensing, and patent transactions. Her technical expertise spans chemistry, pharmaceuticals and mechanical engineering. 

Full-service law firm King & Wood has a top-notch IP practice in China. Gordon Gao is a key litigator at the firm; he specializes in intellectual property litigation involving patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, patent right abuse, end-of-patent-life litigation for pharmaceutical products, and appeals to China’s Supreme Court for the above types of cases. He advises multinational technology companies on intellectual property protection and enforcement strategies, and has handled many famous cases, including more than 10 groups of cases (a total of over 80 cases) on appeal to the Supreme Court. 

Patent prosecution and patent litigation have always been Unitalen’s most important business areas. The firm has the ability to work in a wide range of specialized fields, such as electronics, electrics, telecommunications, software, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, bio-engineering, chemistry, photovoltaics, engineering machinery, rail transportation equipment, power transmission and transformation equipment, environmental protection equipment, foodstuffs, metallurgy, and oceans and seas, amongst others. Today, with its multidisciplinary development, the firm’s patent department consists of divisions specializing in mechanics, electricity and chemistry. Over the past year, the firm has seen a steady increase in efficiency and a continuous improvement in the quality of its cases. Its patent caseload has increased substantially compared to previous years. 

Headquartered in Shenzhen, Zhiheng Law Firm has branches in Guangzhou and Shenzhen Longgan, and has plans to open nearly 10 more offices throughout China. In recent years, by bringing in a large number of skilled lawyers from across China, the firm has enjoyed rapid expansion and thus built a stronger and more diversified network of multi-disciplinary professionals. Once a boutique law firm, it has successfully transformed itself into a full-service law firm. The firm has won seven national and 36 provincial, municipal and district-level awards, including National Excellent Lawyer, National Outstanding Lawyer Party Member, and “Outstanding Contribution Award” of the Information Network and High-tech Law Committee of the National Lawyers Association. The firm’s trademark infringement case of “If You Are the One” was selected as a typical intellectual property case in China by the Supreme Court, and was listed as the number one case of the Top 10 Most Research-worthy Intellectual Property Cases in China. 

Beijing TA Law Firm has a dozen lawyers specializing in copyright matters. The boutique firm focusses on film, television and media work, and is especially adept at managing film and television projects, including anime, original web TV series, films and variety shows). This includes drafting and auditing documents related to project introduction, copyright purchase, script production, investment and financing, China-foreign joint filming/productions, group building and shooting, post-production, publicity and distribution, spin-off development, labor employment and music authorization. TA Law Firm also boasts outstanding advantages in China-foreign cooperation on variety shows, TV dramas, movies and other projects. Clients include internationally renowned producers, directors and film and TV companies. 

Lawyers at Co-effort Law Firm have a long history of providing clients with service concerning copyright protection, including 49 copyright registrations during 2023. Its lawyers have provided relevant legal counsel services for many well-known enterprises and institutions such as the Publicity Department of Shanghai Municipal Committee, Shanghai Press and Publication Bureau, Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai National Opera Center, Shengqu Games, Tencent, Hewlett-Packard Company, etc. In 2025, lawyers completed 180 copyright registrations, including handling a dispute over the software copyright license of Legend of Mir2, a case which has lasted for more than five years, from a highly unfavourable judgment to a final reversal. During the trial, the relationship and obligations among the parties to the contract were explained and sorted out based on the causes and consequences of the contract terms and cooperation models, which played a positive role in standardizing and understanding the contractual obligations. 

East & Concord obtained the special power of attorney for copyright protection of all music works for the closing ceremony of 2008 Beijing Olympics, showing the level of expertise the firm has in the field of copyright. In addition to handling straightforward infringement disputes, the firm also designs implementation schemes for centralized copyright trading operations for large cultural enterprise groups. Areas of expertise include planning schemes of copyright protection and risk control, drafting and negotiation of copyright trading and license contract, investigation of and claim against copyright infringement and civil and administrative litigation of copyright dispute. 

Copyright civil litigation remains a stable practice for Lung Tin Intellectual Property Agent. In the past year, the firm advised Natural Balance Pet Foods in copyright litigation against a Chinese company that registered and started using Natural Balance Pet Foods’ brand devices in 2005. The client could not challenge these two registered trademarks or take legal actions because the registration period exceeds five years, and China’s trademark law does not allow anyone to challenge a registration that exceeds five years unless the applicant is a famous mark owner or the mark is registered in bad faith. The client could not prove, at the time of 2005, that its brand in China had acquired a high reputation, nor could it provide any evidence of the defendants’ bad faith. The firm suggested that the client initiate the case by claiming a prior right of copyright. The court ruled that the client’s artworks are copyrightable and thus can be protected under copyright law. The infringement logo used by the defendants constituted substantial similarity to the client’s artworks, and this infringed the client’s prior copyright. Considering the fame of the client’s artwork, the nature of the infringement, the degree of subjective fault and the scope of the infringing impact, the sales volume, selling price, profit margin of the goods bearing the infringing artwork as well as the contribution degree of the infringing design to the sales profit, the court ordered the defendants to pay the Natural Balance Pet Foods compensation of Rmb 1 million (US$146,500) for economic losses and reasonable expenses incurred to stop the infringement. 

The lawyers in the copyright practice at Wuhan WEIPR IP are specialists in software copyright registration. The firm handled a dedicated portfolio of copyright matters, managing over 560 new cases in 2025, the vast majority of our which centres on copyright registration and related formalities, with a particularly strong emphasis on the technology sector. The firm processed more than 500 applications for registration of computer software copyrights, highlighting its deep expertise and established workflow in serving tech companies, developers and innovative enterprises. It also assisted clients with the registration of other types of creative works, and managed a range of administrative matters following registration, including changes and updates to copyright records. 

Among the enforcement cases handled by An, Tian, Zhang & Partners was one which broke the “criminal threshold” deadlock via an administrative enforcement crackdown on counterfeit pesticide production by a company found to be producing and selling technical pesticide products without obtaining the mandatory pesticide registration certificate. Under the Pesticide Administration Regulations, this constituted the production of counterfeit pesticides. The core difficulty lay in the strict criteria for criminal conviction. To pursue criminal liability for producing and selling fake pesticides, the law typically requires proof of “actual losses” or “production damage” suffered by farmers. In this case, quantifying specific downstream agricultural losses was factually impossible, creating a risk that the perpetrators would evade criminal prosecution entirely due to insufficient evidence of damage. The firm shifted the enforcement focus from “proving damage results” (criminal) to “proving illegal acts” (administrative) and filed a comprehensive complaint with the local Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, which imposed a severe penalty structure: a total fine and confiscation of more than Rmb1,308,890 (US$191,400) and, distinctly, a 10-year industry ban, prohibiting them from engaging in pesticide operations. 

Cheng & Peng Intellectual Property Law Office, a boutique IP law firm located in Beijing, has been providing high-level intellectual property services since its founding in 2013, and is noted for its excellent business skills, strong research capabilities, and expertise in handling international business and complicated cases, particularly those of a cross-border nature. Its clients include not only world-leading universities and research institutes, scientists, entrepreneurs and investors, but also startups worldwide. The highly-trained team of lawyers specializes in the field of life sciences, including biotechnology and medical health.

Hiways Law Firm represented Mattel which, in 2021, discovered that its Barbie doll series of toys were being extensively counterfeited in regions such as Russia and South America, with the export source traced back to China. Mattel entrusted the legal team led by Attorney Tang Lanxiang to investigate and pursue rights protection. The firm identified the source of the infringing products as Company A in Shantou City, China, and its legal representative, Zhu. In April 2021, Mattel filed a report with the Shanghai Jing’an Economic Crime Investigation Department. In the same month, the public security authorities successfully apprehended five principal suspects, including Zhu, and seized over 40,000 pieces of infringing toys. On May 27, 2022, the case was transferred to the Shanghai Jing’an District People's Procuratorate for prosecution on the charge of copyright infringement against Zhu. On May 24, 2023, Company A was additionally transferred for prosecution on the same charge. On August 16, 2023, the Shanghai Jing’an District People’s Court found both Company A and Zhu guilty of copyright infringement. Zhu was sentenced to two years of imprisonment (suspended) and fined Rmb50,000 (US$7,300). 

Over the past year, IntellecPro has assisted its clients in enforcing their IP rights through a wide range of actions, including trademark oppositions and invalidations, patent invalidations, customs recordals and seizures, MRA and police raids, litigation and settlement negotiations. The firm reports that over the past year, enforcement has become the most rapidly expanding segment of its practice, driven primarily by the launch of two targeted service offerings, an Online Brand Protection Program and a Cybercrime Investigation & Enforcement Program. A firm representative says that both programmes were designed “specifically to address the most prevalent and fast-evolving forms of infringement in today’s digital and cross-border environment.” The firm handled a criminal enforcement action successfully brought on behalf of a beverage company combating online counterfeit sales, as well as a coordinated criminal strike against a website distributing pirated animation content, which generated an illicit turnover of approximately Rmb80 million (US$11.7 million). 

NTD IP Attorneys advised ARaymond in a patent infringement case handled through administrative enforcement in the Suzhou Administration for Market Regulation (AMR). Connectors sold and offered by Suzhou Dsnfu infringed a patent owned by ARaymond. The Suzhou AMR held oral hearings on April 25, 2024, and decided on May 23, 2024. The Suzhou AMR decided that the connectors manufactured, sold and offered by Dsnfu fell into the protection scope of ARaymond’s patent, awarded an injunction against Dsnfu and ordered Dsnfu to destroy the moulds for manufacturing the accused products. Dsnfu destructed all the related moulds under the supervision of NTD’s attorney.  

The history of Global Law Office in Beijing dates back to the establishment of the legal consultant office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade in 1979. The firm was renamed in 1984 to take an international perspective on its business. The firm advised Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology Co., Ltd., which signed an agreement with Huawei Investment & Holding Co. to acquire all business assets related to the Honor brand. Established in 2013, Honor is a leading global provider of smart devices. The firm provided a comprehensive IP service in the entire transaction, especially in the IP due diligence and negotiation of the transaction documents regarding the important IP asset stripping (patents, trademarks, etc.) from Huawei. 

Haiwen & Partners’ intellectual property practice covers the full spectrum of intellectual property disciplines including patent, trademarks and trade names, domain names, copyrights (including software), trade secrets and integrated circuit layout design. It also handles intellectual property related antitrust and competition issues, etc. The firm’s core members have extensive experience in managing civil and administrative litigations, administrative proceedings and criminal investigations, as well as application analysis of IP rights and complex transactions involving international intellectual property right licenses and transfers. In recent years, its IP lawyers have successfully handled a number of influential intellectual property cases. 

Shenzhen-based PurpleVine IP is a global-facing IP service provider, dedicated to building a bridge for international innovation collaboration and IP value realization. The firm provides one-stop, full-service patent solutions to our clients, covering global patent prosecution, IP analysis and consulting, IP investment, IP transactions, licensing, enforcement and dispute resolution. The firm has more than 400 team members, located in 10 offices worldwide. As an internationally integrated IP service provider with a solid footing in both law and technology, PurpleVine offers a wide selection of professional, innovative and practical solutions to meet its clients’ needs. 

An invention patent handled by AFD China Intellectual Property Office was awarded the Gold Prize in the 24th China Patent Awards jointly conducted by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2023. This award is based on comprehensive evaluation of patentability, the quality of the patent documents, technological advancement, application and protection measures and effectiveness, social benefits and development prospects. During the process of drafting the application for this invention patent, the firm had had extensive communication with the inventors to thoroughly understand the implementation details of the technical disclosure, which allowed it to determine the roles and technical effects of different technical features. Based on this understanding, it conducted a pre-filing search and identified the technical problem that this application aimed to solve by combining the relevant prior art with the inventors’ technical solution. It then constructed independent claims incorporating the selected technical features that address the identified technical problem. “Furthermore, we strategically structured the dependent claims based on the functions and effects of other technical features at different levels,” a representative said. “During the drafting of the detailed embodiments, we analyzed the effects of technical solutions corresponding to independent and dependent claims at the technical level and further illustrated such technical solutions by providing three implementation examples in different scenarios. This comprehensive approach ensured the thorough protection of our client's technical solutions from various angles and at various dimensions.” More than half of the firm’s patent attorneys specialize in electrical, communications and computer science.  

In the field of biology and pharmaceuticals, Fairsky Law Office has consistently built deep expertise in handling related cases and providing intellectual property services. The firm has served numerous biopharmaceutical companies, with service offerings covering patent infringement litigation, drug patent linkage-related litigation, patent invalidation requests or responses, technology transfers, freedom-to-operate analyses and more. It serves as regular intellectual property legal counsel for several pharmaceutical companies. The firm has handled cases in technical areas including chemical drugs, biologics, diagnostic technologies and medical devices. It represented Simcere Pharmaceutical in defending against the invalidation challenge for Xianbixin. In this case, despite facing extensive questioning of experimental data and difficulties in providing original data, the firm successfully reconstructed the original experimental data consistent with the statistical results by analyzing the statistical outcomes recorded in the patent specification and combining them with established data patterns in the field. On this basis, it quantified synergy indicators through calculation and successfully demonstrated the synergistic effect between the two components, resulting in the complete maintenance of the patent’s validity. 

Ge Cheng & Co is a Beijing-based intellectual property specialist. Its clients include small enterprises, multinational corporations, universities and research institutions and Chinese companies in fields including electronics, biochemistry, engineering, publications, entertainment and education. Managing partner David Cheng has an LL.M. from the Peking University law school and an M.D. from China Medical University and has a past career as a medical researcher. 

Way Insight has supported a range of complex, high-level IP matters over the past year, working with multinational corporations and leading research institutions on transactions involving valuable intellectual property assets. A firm representative noted that this sort of work typically requires close coordination between corporate, institutional, and cross-border stakeholders, with careful attention to legal, technical, and commercial alignment. The firm’s transactional practice is recognized for its ability to support sophisticated counterparties and manage sensitive IP matters involving established and globally relevant IP portfolios. 

Founded in late 2024 by a group of experienced lawyers including managing partner Fabio Giacopello, Allasya Law & IP has made a splash with its clientele, including creators, innovators and businesses. The firm handles IP strategy and management, filing and prosecution, franchising and enforcement, as well as related work such as food law compliance, contract drafting, company set-up, retail consulting and outbound investments, among others. The firm acted for a global automotive leader in patent litigation before the Supreme People's Court, successfully overturning previous judgments and represented a world-renowned steel manufacturer in complex invalidation and enforcement proceedings, securing nearly Rmb1 million (US$146,000) in damages. The firm advises clients on holistic IP strategy, supporting patent mining, freedom-to-operate analyses, and global filing planning. Where required, the firm represents clients in post-grant proceedings, including patent re-examination and invalidation actions before CNIPA. It also manages routine post-grant administrative matters such as annuity payments, recordals of assignments, and changes in applicant or inventor details. The firm maintains close collaboration with clients’ R&D teams, in-house legal counsel, and international IP advisors to ensure seamless integration of patent prosecution activities with product development cycles, innovation roadmaps, and overall business strategy. Last year, it conducted over 60 onsite investigation and 30 raid actions for a house cleaning brand, destroying multiple stores, warehouses and factories operating counterfeiting products worth more than Rmb10 million (US$1.46 million) seized and destroyed.  

Foundin Intellectual Property provides tailored filing strategies, expert legal guidance, streamlined portfolio management, and rapid responsiveness, earning the continued trust of a growing global client base. The firm’s prosecution practice is strategically informed by deep litigation and transactional insights. This past year, its work has been particularly focused on proactive brand protection and risk mitigation. A key area of its prosecution advisory involves safeguarding trademarks against non-use cancellation risks; it frequently counsels clients on the specific types of evidence recognized by CNIPA and courts. It has successfully handled over 500 trademark, copyright and unfair competition litigation cases, excelling in combating trademark squatting, domain name disputes and anti-counterfeiting actions. It has handled more than 2,000 patent applications, primarily assisting foreign applicants in China and Chinese applicants abroad. It has achieved multiple successful outcomes for clients such as an Italian company, where it navigated complex amendment guidelines to secure grant by ensuring compliance with original disclosure limits, avoided unnecessary further office actions through voluntary preemptive amendments, and effectively defended claims by articulating how well-known technical knowledge supports patentability.

Founded in 2022, LingHui Partners handled nearly 600 trademark applications in 2025. The firm handled prosecution matters for other clients including Schaeffler, Paragon Pet Products Europe, Wellness Pet and others covering Madrid International Trademark certifications, assignments and opposition work. The prosecution work encompassed the full spectrum of trademark lifecycle management: opposition proceedings (dominant for IKEA and Efes), refusal reviews and appeals (significant for Baoxiniao and CASETiFY), portfolio maintenance (renewals, assignments, and license recordals for Baoxiniao and Hershey), and enforcement actions including non-use cancellations and invalidations. Its trademark practice has encompassed a comprehensive docket of enforcement, infringement litigation, and administrative prosecution matters for multinational brand owners. The firm has managed complex portfolios involving well-known mark recognition, cross-border disputes, and parallel civil-criminal proceedings across China's specialized IP courts and administrative bodies.