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    • Intellectual property dispute resolution is the core practice of Wis & Weals Law Firm. Wis & Weals has an outstanding team of intellectual property lawyers, patent attorneys and trademark attorneys with rich experience in intellectual property litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution.


    Domestic dispute resolution in PRC

    The intellectual property litigation team of Wis & Weals is active in courts at all levels in China, especially in the intellectual property courts, intermediate courts and high courts in Beijing and all over China, and in the Supreme Court of China as well.


    In the long-term practice, our IP litigation team has got a profound and unique understanding of the litigation environment and judicial culture in China, which makes our services professional and, on this basis, formulate litigation strategies that best accommodate the overall interests of our clients. We strive to make litigations in line with the business interests of our clients.


    We are deeply aware that IP disputes involve not only complex legal issues but also many business, industry, and social issues that affect the business of our clients. Our experienced litigation team will put forward creative litigation strategies according to the characteristics of our clients and effectively resolve clients’ disputes.


    International disputes resolution

    The IP litigation team of Wis & Weals has rich experience in overseas IP litigations, arbitrations, and dispute resolution, and providing support and management service for our clients' overseas litigation and arbitration in Europe, the United States, Asia and other countries and regions.


    Wis & Weals has a cooperation network of IP lawyers across Europe, the United States, Japan ,and South Korea, able to provide clients with international and domestic IP litigation services.


    In recent years, we have formulated strategies and conducted business management for many Chinese enterprises to prevent and avoid overseas IP risks and resolve disputes. In particular, we have strategically taken both legal and commercial measures to effectively safeguard our clients' overseas IP interests based on their specific circumstances, including but not limited to participating in litigations, filing requests for patent invalidation, and launching negotiations. Thanks to these measures, the relevant enterprises have been able to enhance their awareness of overseas IP risk control and their ability to defuse the risks and become more confident in dealing with overseas IP disputes.


  • +-  Patents

    Patent is one of the external manifestations of core competence of an enterprise. Patent litigation has become a common means of market competition.


    The patent litigation team of Wis & Weals assists clients in dealing with patent litigation related to patent infringement, patent invalidity and patent licensing. In particular, we are at the leading edge of standard essential patent disputes resolution in the field of communication.


    We are deeply aware that patent litigation is a long and complex process, which usually requires a lot of energy and financial resources. The patent litigation team of Wis & Weals will evaluate the litigation strategy jointly with the clients in order to balance the clients’ potential interests and the related costs to safeguard the clients' interests to the largest extent.


    Representative cases
  • +-  Standard Essential Patents

    Standard essential patent disputes are among the more complex and leading edge disputes in patent litigations, involving numbers of issues such as industry practice, standards, licensing negotiations, licensing declaration, infringement affirmation, licensing fee rate, and injunction etc.


    Our patent litigation team has experience in handling classical standard essential patent infringement cases in the field of communication as well as the associated antitrust disputes, patent licensing fee disputes and patent invalidation disputes. We have obvious leading advantages in providing clients with an full solution from licensing policy to disputes resolution.


    Representative cases
  • +-  Trademarks

    The trademark litigation team of Wis & Weals assists clients in dealing with trademark litigation related to trademark infringement, invalidity, revocation, rejection and licensing as well as administrative complaint such as anti-counterfeiting.

    Representative cases
  • +-  Copyrights

    The copyright litigation team of Wis & Weals assists clients in dealing with lawsuits related to copyright infringement and cooperative development of books, computer software, online games, music and databases. In particular, are at the leading edge of disputes resolution over computer software and Internet copyright.

    Representative cases
  • +-  Trade Secrets

    Trade secrets are not known to the public, which makes it difficult to protect. According to our statistics, the plaintiff's winning rate in trade secret infringement lawsuits is obviously lower than those in other IP cases. Therefore, to effectively protect trade secrets, one needs not only richer litigation experience, but also ready targeted measures to protect trade secrets before disputes occur in order to fully meet any possible litigation needs.


    The IP litigation team of Wis & Weals assists clients in dealing with civil lawsuits, criminal complaints and administrative matters concerning infringement of trade secrets, as well as disputes over employee confidentiality and non-competition.


    Representative cases
  • +-  Anti-unfair Competition & Anti-monopoly

    With the intensification of market competition, disputes over anti-unfair competition and anti-monopoly to maintain the normal market competition order are gradually growing.


    We assist clients in handling with anti-unfair competition and anti-monopoly lawsuits, responding and initiating anti-monopoly investigations. In particular, we are at the leading edge of monopoly disputes resolution over the abuse of market dominance and intellectual property.


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  • +-  Contracts

    We assist clients in dealing with various types of IP contract disputes in connection with cooperative development, commissioned development, licensing, etc.


    Meanwhile, we provide clients with services such as drafting and reviewing technology licensing, transfer and cooperation contracts, carrying out due diligence on the authenticity and validity of technologies and intellectual property, formulating licensing policies, and negotiating technology transactions, especially examining and formulating intellectual property clauses in contracts.


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  • +-  Software & Internet

    Wis & Weals is one of the earliest teams to deal with software and Internet legal affairs in China. As early as in 1999, our team members had began to handle Internet legal affairs for a number of clients.


    Over the past two decades of practice, we have dealt with a large number of software and Internet legal affairs for our clients, such as computer software infringement, Internet copyright infringement, Internet unfair competition, domain name disputes and so on. In particular, we are at the leading edge in dealing with patent disputes involving computer software.


    Representative cases
  • +-  Intellectual Property Crime

    Patent is one of the external manifestations of core competence of an enterprise. Patent litigation has become a common means of market competition.


    The patent litigation team of Wis & Weals assists clients in dealing with patent litigation related to patent infringement, patent invalidity and patent licensing. In particular, we are at the leading edge of standard essential patent disputes resolution in the field of communication.


    We are deeply aware that patent litigation is a long and complex process, which usually requires a lot of energy and financial resources. The patent litigation team of Wis & Weals will evaluate the litigation strategy jointly with the clients in order to balance the clients’ potential interests and the related costs to safeguard the clients' interests to the largest extent.


    Representative cases