1.  Domestic Patent Application: inventions, utility models and industrial designs;

2.  Foreign Patent Application

3.  Technical Search and Patent Law Research: Patent Search of Europe, U.S., Japan, Korea, etc

4.  Patent Licensing, Application Right of Patent, Assignment of Patent;

5.  Duration of Patent and Management of Patent Fees；

6.  Filing of Patent Contracts

7.  Litigation Affairs: Dispute over the Patent Infringement, Dispute over Patent Ownership

8.  Re-examination of Patent, invalidation declaration of Patent

PRC Patents

1. The Applicant shall submit the materials for patent application to the Agent in accordance with requirements of State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), including word descriptions, drawings or document indicating priority right in foreign patent application, and disburse application fees and agent fees during application phase. The Agent shall submit relevant documents to SIPO for application of patent subsequently.

2. If no rejection reason is found, right of utility models and industrial designs shall be granted to the Applicant after the preliminary examination of SIPO. Examination of Inventions is comprised of two phases: preliminary examination and substantive examination. If no rejection reason is found, right of invention shall be granted after two examination phases of SIPO.

3. The Applicant shall disburse registration fee, certificate fee and annual fee, etc after being granted the patent right by SIPO which shall proceed to certificate issuance and public announcement procedure after the receipt of such fees. 

4. The Applicant will obtain the certificate of Patent within 2 to 3 months after the payment of certificate fees and shall, in accordance with governmental rules, pay annual fee until termination of patent (patent right shall be terminated automatically in case of breaching the payment obligations of annual fees). Patent right shall take effect as of the date of public announcement. 

1. Article 45 of PRC Patent Law states that:“ starting from the date of the announcement of the grant of the patent right by the patent administration department under the State Council, any entity or individual considers that the grant of the said patent right is not in conformity with the relevant provisions of this Law, it or he may request the Patent Reexamination Board to declare the patent right invalid.”For the purpose of protecting the stateliness of Patent Law and interests of public,invalidation declaration procedures are enacted in the patent examination procedure under PRC Patent Law.

2. Anyone requesting invalidation or part invalidation of a patent right shall submit a request to the Patent Reexamination Board stating in detail the grounds for filing the request for invalidation, making reference to all the evidence as submitted, and indicating the piece of evidence on which each ground is based. The request and facts shall be made in duplication. The Applicant could withdraw such application prior to the invalidation decision made by the Board.

3. Where the patentee or the person who made the request for invalidation is not satisfied with the decision of the Patent Reexamination Board declaring the patent right invalid or upholding the patent right, such party may, within three months from receipt of the notification of the decision, institute legal proceedings in the people's court.