If you have a business in China and will like to get your business and IP protection, we will help you to craft a corporate IP strategy in China.

From our offices in Guang Zhou China, we cover all types of intellectual property rights including patents, industrial design, copyright and trademarks. We provide a full-service offering including filing, prosecution, monitoring, watching, enforcement, dispute resolution and China-specific IP strategy.

The process of registering IP rights in China is more expensive and far slower than in Australia. For example, trademarks take 18 months to be granted, design patents six to eight months and copyright recordal procedures three months. China has a first-to-file system requiring no evidence of prior use or ownership, leaving registration of popular foreign marks open to third parties, who register famous marks ahead of the legitimate owner. There have been cases of well-known foreign companies mark had been registered in China by an unaffiliated Chinese party even before the firm entering the Chinese market. It can be difficult, time-consuming and expensive to recover these marks, so it is far better to register trademarks early. However, this should not distract you from the potential of the Chinese market. Risks, such as IP theft, can be managed with the help from our professional team.