Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution

Patent and Trademark Prosecution

Cross-border Technology Transfer

Intellectual Property Strategy Consultation

Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

● Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution

Intellectual Property dispute resolution is the core practice area of Wis & Weals. We have an integrated team of outstanding intellectual property lawyers, patent attorneys, patent engineers and trademark attorneys that is capable of providing comprehensive intellectual property dispute resolution for various clients.

Wis & Weals is deeply aware that intellectual property litigation is not only about winning or losing any specific cases, but also related to the clients’ market development strategy and their future competition. Therefore, we are good at dealing with intellectual property litigation with comprehensive consideration of the backgrounds of the clients’ long-term business strategy and the overall market competition environment.

We fully understand that although intellectual property is important to the clients, the importance varies among different clients. Therefore, based on our deep understanding of the unique demands of each client in accordance with their difference in region, industry, enterprise scale and development stage, Wis & Weals is able to provide customized and optimum intellectual property strategy for each client.

We firmly believe that intellectual property is the cornerstone of the long-term development of enterprises and the source of their core competitiveness. Therefore, we always associate intellectual property affairs with creating value, enhancing competitiveness and creating connections for the enterprises. The close integration of intellectual property affairs with its business objectives and market strategies will surely enables the enterprises to receive sustainable and guaranteed market return from intellectual property investment.

We emphasize that both multinational and Chinese enterprises need to be familiar with and use the evolving Chinese intellectual property system. Therefore, our mission is not only to resolve the specific disputes that our clients is currently involved, but more importantly assist them to better understand and apply the unique intellectual property system in China, as well as various values and cultures of China related to intellectual property litigation and arbitration.

Our strength lies in our integrated team of intellectual property lawyers, patent attorneys, patent engineers, and trademark attorneys. With their long-term experience and unique insights in their respective fields as well as their seamless coordinated working style, our team can provide our clients with precise, unique and strategic services that maximize the value of their intellectual achievements.

● Patent and Trademark Prosecution

Patent and trademark prosecution is the core practice of Wis & Weals. We have an integrated team of outstanding intellectual property lawyers, patent attorneys, patent engineers and trademark attorneys, and have been granted the patent and trademark agency qualification by National Intellectual Property Administration of China.

We do Not take obtaining a certificate as the ultimate goal of the patent and trademark application. Instead, we regard patents and trademarks as the seeds of corporate intellectual property. To play a leading role in future market competition, an enterprise must have the seeds well cultivated. Therefore, the excellency of service quality and the foresight in business are the directions of our patent and trademark prosecution.

Through patent mining, layout analysis and exquisite drafting in the course of patent prosecution, our patent attorneys consider not only the challenges that might occur during the examination process, but also the obstacles that may be encountered in subsequent invalidation, infringement disputes, licensing and transfer.

Patent prosecutions based on such comprehensive considerations will guarantee the high quality of patent and will greatly enhance the probability of success for the clients to use the patents for market competition in the future.

● Cross-border Technology Transfer

Wis & Weals firmly believes that the original purpose of the intellectual property system is to utilize intellectual achievements for the benefit of mankind. Therefore, a proper balance between the exclusivity and sharing is the attribution of the intellectual property system.

We understand that promoting the flow of technology and intellectual property is the basic approach to achieve the above goal, and that cross-border technology transfer is conducive in promoting the worldwide implementation of the purpose of the intellectual property system. We assist Chinese enterprises in obtaining technology from overseas and continually developing overseas markets. We protect foreign enterprises from intellectual property infringement in China, so that they can benefit from their intellectual property and maintain their competitive advantage through intellectual property management.

Our advantages lie in our integrated intellectual property team and rich experience we have taken the lead to accumulate in handling technology transfer projects. We can not only understand the technology of clients better, but also better discover and evaluate the value of technology in technology transfer and investment activities, design a win-win legal framework for technology transfer and implement it in a visible and verifiable way.

● Intellectual Property Strategy Consultation

Wis & Weals understands that as part of the assets created by the enterprises, the value of intellectual property highly depends on the enterprises' ability to manage and operate such assets. Therefore, the intellectual property management ability of an enterprise plays a decisive role in the enterprise’s ability to use intellectual property to participate in market competition.

Wis & Weals believes that through our rich experience in intellectual property training, management system construction, management in R&D, strategic planning, risk control, product design around and other services, we will be able to rapidly improve the intellectual property management capabilities of our clients within a short period of time.

● Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

Wis & Weals represents clients to initiate and deal with various commercial litigation and arbitration. We have experience in litigation in the Supreme People's Court of China and most influential local courts in China, as well as in arbitration proceedings in China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Arbitration Institute of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Beijing Arbitration Commission, etc.

Based on our profound understandings in the procedural law,  judicial culture and environment in China, we are good at drawing on mediation and settlement mechanisms at appropriate timing to protect the interest of clients while saving dispute resolution costs.

All the intellectual property lawyers, patent attorneys, patent engineers and trademark attorneys in our professional teams were graduated from renowned universities. Most of the members have academic background in both law and science & engineering, covering telecommunication, software, power engineering, machinery and equipment, mathematics, chemical engineering, biotechnology, pharmacology and material science.

Our well-structured team of lawyers, patent attorneys and trademark attorneys are able to provide clients with comprehensive legal services.

Most of the lawyers of Wis & Weals, with rich experience in technology R&D and management in enterprises, have a deep and innovative understanding of the needs of enterprises so as to   communicate with enterprise employees in different positions smoothly.

Besides Mandarin, our working languages also include English, Deutsch and Korean.

Wis & Weals is deeply aware that to run business in China, transnational corporations need not only to be familiar with the specific legal knowledge of China, but also to understand the local culture and tradition in judicial, political and commercial aspects. In this regard, we tend to provide our clients with strategic advice on the localization of their business in China while solving specific problems.

For the overseas intellectual property affairs of domestic enterprises, we provide internationalized legal services through the support of our associate intellectual property lawyers scattered across Europe, US, Japan, Korea and other countries and regions.

Wis & Weals adopts an integrated management, with further specialization of each team member, we are able to reestablish a more flexible and efficient work team catering to the needs of clients in different situations.

Our management mode is conducive to coordinating and making the best use of the professional capabilities of our lawyers, patent attorneys, patent engineers and trademark attorneys, which enables us to respond to our clients about the significant, complicated and urgent legal matters quickly and in high quality.

Our management model can not only provides our clients with one-stop intellectual property services, but also organize lawyers and patent attorneys from different technical fields to solve problems relating to technology, law and management.

Our mission is to transform our clients’ techniques and brands into their intellectual property and to transform their intellectual property into their competitive strengths.

Our fundamental value lies in transforming our clients’ intellectual achievements into their wealth and realizing the value of their intellectual property through the market.

Wis & Weals endeavors to practice with fine craftsmanship and polish every case with the utmost care. Precise on your case, loyal to your trust. On the basis of our strong professional background and ample social resources, we will provide our clients with comprehensive intellectual property solutions.