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Your gateway to the giant consumer market with solutions to IP challenges. Our multilingual specialists offer seamless communication, depth of experience and commercially wise advice for clients from patent, trade mark and copyright prosecution to enforcement and domain name disputes.
Our Beijing office was established in 1994 by Lloyd Wise, which merged with Marks & Clerk in 2007. Our Chinese office is one of the oldest local offices of an international firm in China, with an enviable reputation for quality and trustworthy advice on China-related intellectual property matters.
We have a multilingual team of specialists, qualified and experienced in both intellectual property law and various technology disciplines across contentious and non-contentious IP matters. We understand the challenges to IP protection as well as the need of securing innovation and safeguarding competitiveness in a rapidly elevating market like China. Our professionals have experience addressing complex IP issues arising from prosecution, enforcement and disputes. We work to identify clients’ need, to accompany clients’ requests and to solve client’s challenges across the IP landscape.
The majority of our professionals are fluent in both English and Chinese (Mandarin). We are able to communicate seamlessly in addition to being responsive
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Unit 1400, Beijing Sunflower Tower,
37 Maizidian Street,
Chaoyang District,
Beijing 100125,
P.R. China
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