Enterprise’s exercise and utilization of IP assets and rights need to comply with laws, policies and regulations.

We provide our clients with IP compliance management schemes to systematically improve their compliance management capabilities according to their industry characteristics and the government regulatory system.

There are risks of infringing the IPRs of others in the R&D, manufacturing, sales and other business activities of an enterprise, such as the risk of infringing the patents, trade secrets, copyright and trademarks of others in the course of R&D, manufacturing and sales.

Meanwhile, others may also impose the risk of infringing the IPRs of the enterprise.

We provide our clients with IP risk prevention and control schemes to systematically improve their ability to prevent and control IP risks in the light of their specific IP risks, industry characteristics, and competition situations.

Trade secret management has attracted more and more attention from enterprises as one of the important ways of managing operation results and technological achievements. The non-disclosure and permanent protection of trade secrets can provide special protection for technological achievements of enterprises that is different from that of patents.

In view of the types and characteristics of trade secrets that need to be protected, through investigation and improvement of contract texts, rules and regulations as well as management processes, and based on the actual condition of enterprises, we work out customized trade secret management systems for enterprises so that they can make more detailed adjustments based on their current management status quo and the current condition of major competitors in the industry.

Through the effective operation of the system, enterprises can not only protect their trade secrets in a complete, full and effective manner, but also prevent enterprises from infringing the trade secrets of others.

The effective management of IP is indispensable for an enterprise to achieve its goals through IP. Although different enterprises have different demands for IP management due to different business scales and development stages, it is the only way for innovative enterprises to succeed by gradually strengthening IP management through their own IP management systems.

Each enterprise should establish its own IPR protection systems step by step according to its own characteristics, rather than mechanically applying  the model of others. Operability and full respect for the history and reality of clients are the prerequisites for the smooth and effective operation of the corporate IP management system.

When establishing a corporate IP management system, we need to figure out the IP information on aspects including patent, trademark, know-how, copyright, trade secret, domain name and trade name, as well as the IP information circulation among HR, R&D, manufacturing, market and other business activities so as to realize the seamless connection with the IP management system based on the existing corporate management framework and avoid excessive impact on its current management system.

Our team has accumulated rich experience in building IP management systems for big enterprises and can provide comprehensive solutions for corporate IP management based on the strength of our rich experience in IP dispute resolution and IP application.

The value of IP to an enterprise depends, to a great extent, on the strategic position of IP in the business activities of the enterprise and the way it manages IP. Effective strategy and management will be crucial for enterprises to improve the quantity and quality of their IP in the long run.

IP strategy can help an enterprise to determine the position, direction, and development modes of its product R&D and IP in its overall business activities in a certain period of time, so that the enterprise’s leaders can clearly define their goals and the path to achieve the goals.

Our lawyers participated in the formulation of the National IP Strategy of China in 2005, and since then, we have paid more attention to the construction of enterprise IP strategy and management system. We have taken the lead in accumulating a large number of cases in this field, involving not only large state-owned enterprises, but also large and medium-sized private enterprises and joint ventures, including the overall formulation and construction of enterprise IP strategy and management system, as well as the construction of IP management system for specific business and products.

Our team members' working experience in enterprises, as well as long-term experience as legal advisers for enterprises, make us more familiar with the internal operation and management of different enterprises, which also helps us to work out practical and effective solutions for enterprises.

In the formulation and implementation of an enterprise’ IP strategy, we work with the client to preliminarily determine the direction, objectives and strategies of its business strategy as well as the client's basic ideas about IP through due diligence, assist the clients in determining the IP strategic objectives in details, investigate, analyze and evaluate the status quo of the client's IP and major competitors in major technology fields, as well as the ways of promoting and managing the client’s IP, assist the client in developing medium and long term IP strategic plans and corresponding implementation plans, and provide follow-up services such as consulting and training service for the implementation of the client’s IP strategy.

We formulate trademark management and utilization strategies for our clients, particularly including:

* System construction on trademark management and utilization;

* Strategic plan for comprehensive brand protection;

* Trademark licensing and franchising;

* Global trademark monitoring;

* Drafting and negotiating coexistence agreements, etc.

For products with IPR infringement risks, how to avoid the corresponding risks through designing around is a complex issue involving technology and law.

With years of close collaboration among excellent IP lawyers and patent attorneys, Wis & Weals is able to formulate product IP design around plans for our clients in accordance with their market demand.

In order to fully protect the IPRs in new products and R&D schemes, so as to avoid IPR impairment, we usually suggest clients carry out complete patent mining and layout, at least for core technologies.

Our team of IP lawyers and patent attorneys fully communicate with clients' technical teams on technical solutions, sort out and decompose the technologies and work out patent layout schemes that are in line with the clients' competitive purposes on the basis of full retrieval, aiming to improve the quality of patent rights to the largest extent and to avoid the appearance of authorized but ineffective patents as far as possible.

Wis & Weals has been deeply involved in the business and internal management of various kinds of clients. We are deeply aware that IP training is of great significance in improving clients’ awareness of IP and the improvement of management and practical skills.

We have accumulated a wealth of experience in the course of providing training services for our clients over the years and are well aware of the personalized requirements of our clients for the purpose and effect of training. Therefore, we have prepared the following IP practical courses for our clients based on a large number of cases we have handled over the years and assigned senior partners and scholars in the corresponding fields to give lectures.

* Comprehensive course on IP management;
* IP management in HR activities;
* IP Management in R&D activities;
* Risk pre-warning management of IPRs in new products;
* Patent mining and layout;
* IP issues in the process of initial public offering (IPO);
* Management of trade secrets;
* IP litigation and protection;
* Patent management;
* Patent application practice and skills.

Our services include:

* IP training;

* Legal consultation on IP;

* Drafting and negotiation of IP contracts;

* Argumentation and disposal of potential IP disputes;

* Dealing with IP issues in HR activities;

* IP affairs in M&A investment activities;

* IP due diligence;

* IP risk analysis and demonstration;

* Construction of IP management system, etc.