Intellectual property and competition law (including anti-monopoly law) is one of the core practice areas of Baokun. Baokun secures trademarks, patents, copyright, know-hows, goodwill, domain name and other rights of intellectual property and unfair competition through administrative and judicial methods by an experienced team of lawyers. We have represented domestic and overseas clients to succeed in cases of a large quantity in intellectual property litigation, arbitration, administrative disputes and unfair competition disputes. We are good at providing clients with related intellectual property rights protection and improvement, the policy compliance, legal opinions and proposals. Legal services provided by Baokun in this practice area include:
- Design, drafting and training of IPR protection programs, IPR internal audit program and implementation, external audit response, or IPR-related consulting.
- Design, drafting and training of compliance programs for competition policy (including anti-bribery), design and implementation of internal investigation programs or design and implementation of external investigation response programs, or consulting related to competition policy compliance.
- Assessment of intellectual property disputes, consultation on response plans, and representation in initiating disputes or resolving disputes.
- Drafting, revising, and negotiating major agreements related to intellectual property rights and competition policy.
- Advising clients on anti-monopoly law and issuing corresponding legal opinions in M&A projects and IPO projects, and drafting relevant anti-monopoly filings and acting as a filing agent for clients according to their mandates.
Representative Cases
- Represented Wacom of Japan and Hanvon in a series of disputes over invalid patents and infringement of patents on tablets
- Represented Microchip Technology Inc. in a series of disputes over patents and copyrights of microcontrollers against Haier
- Represented Logitech Inc. of the United States and Top-Seed Technology Corp. In a series of disputes of invalid patent and patent infringement on wireless keyboard mouse receivers
- Represented CA Technologies of the United States and Hearts One Enterprises, Inc. In a dispute of software copyright infringement
- Represented P&G of the United States in a dispute of copyright infringement on Rejoice fonts against founder
- Represented Springtour.com in a trade secret dispute case
-Represented clients in a negotiation in response to Microsoft infringement complaints
- Represented China Resources Zizhu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in an acquisition project of overseas pharmaceutical proprietary technology