Intellectual Property

Our firm’s intellectual property team acts for a wide range of multinational and local corporations including world renowned designer brands and fashions houses, department stores, international food and restaurant chains, telecommunication corporations, cosmetic businesses and trademarks of various listed companies in Hong Kong.

Our intellectual property team is well equipped in both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters including:-

• litigation on infringement of trademarks, copyrights, patents, designs and/or passing-off; providing legal advice on registration strategy, trade mark registrability and availability for use, as well as any potential issues
• trademark registration disputes, primarily in Hong Kong and China
• administrative and enforcement actions protecting intellectual property rights in China
• registration of trademarks, patents, industrial designs in Hong Kong, China and overseas countries
• commercial intellectual property works including licensing/ franchising, sale and purchase, assignment of intellectual property rights; drafting sale and purchase agreements and assignment of IP assets, and license agreements
• advising on intellectual property related aspects of computer laws, Internet and telecommunications

Our intellectual property team maintains well-established professional relationship with overseas intellectual property practitioners as well as China’s state-designated intellectual property agencies, which is essential in serving both international and domestic clients in the most cost and time effective manner.