Patent

Mechanical, Metal, and Construction-related Inventions

• General machinery, transportation machinery, and equipment
• Industrial machinery and devices
• Medical, therapeutic, and diagnostic machinery and equipment
• Civil engineering and construction machinery
• Research equipment and apparatus

Telecommunications and Computer-related Inventions

• Operating systems, middleware, and software applications
• Web solutions, communications, and networking technologies
• Database solutions, system integration (SI), and enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• E-commerce solutions and business method (BM) inventions

Food, Chemical, and Biotechnology-related Inventions

• Inventions related to food and pharmaceuticals
• Plant varieties, feeds, fertilizers, insecticides, and fungicides
• Petrochemical and textile-related inventions
• Biotechnological inventions such as genomes, stem cells, and genetically engineered plants and animals
• New compound inventions, including organic and polymer compounds

Electrical and Electronic Inventions

• Household electronics, industrial electronics, and medical electronics
• Audio equipment, image processing devices, and digital processing equipment
• Computers, computer components, and peripherals
• Mobile phones, PDAs, PMPs, and mobile communication devices
• Processors, memory devices, semiconductors, and sensors
• Microprocessor control systems, embedded systems, and ubiquitous computing systems

Designs and Simple Mechanisms

• Design of household goods and consumer products
• Improvements of existing products
• Inventions related to simple mechanisms and mechanical structures

Application and Registration

• Consultation on patent/utility model filings
• Embodiment of abstract ideas into patentable concepts
• Review of patent/utility model requirements
• Drafting and reporting of specifications
• Patent/utility model filing and prosecution
• Response to office actions and interim proceedings
• Patent/utility model registration
• Post-grant management and annuity maintenance

Disputes, Trials, and Litigation

• Provision of patent/utility model/design information
• Appeals against refusal of design or utility model applications
• Infringement analysis and opinions
• Infringement warnings and cease-and-desist letters
• Responses to third-party challenges and disclaimers
• Drafting legal briefs and arguments
• Invalidation trials
• Correction trials and combined correction/invalidation proceedings
• Licensing trials and trials on scope of rights
• Criminal complaints related to infringement
• Civil litigation for infringement and damages

Overseas and International Applications

• National applications under the Paris Convention (U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, etc.)
• International applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)