Leader Patent & Trademark Firm (“Leader IP Group”), originated from 1985, is engaged in delivering premium IP services to domestic and international companies across the full spectrum of IP matters – including patent mining, patent drafting and prosecution, patent validity action, IP litigation, IP analysis and strategy, IP licensing and negotiation.

The professional team has around 600 members possessing solid technical backgrounds in various technologies such as communication, integrated circuit, automotive industry, machinery Industry, material and chemistry, with 95% holding a master degree or a doctor degree, and a considerable proportion having overseas work/study experience, and also some foreign staffs. The team is clearly aware of the differences between China’s IP practice and those in other countries, familiar with various problems and targets of foreign patent applications entering China, and thus can provide valuable comments on drafting, document amendments and utilization of appropriate procedure to optimize the patent documents, thereby helping foreign clients to improve the efficiency and quality of their patents in China under controlled time and cost.

Leader IP Group’s IP litigation team has rich experience in patent infringement actions before courts and patent invalidation proceedings before CNIPA. More than 200 patent related disputes are handled per year, some of which are well-known and some are awarded “Guiding Case” or “Typical Case” by the Supreme Court and/or Intellectual property Courts, such as the series of patent infringement litigations between Qualcomm and Apple, the series of patent disputes between Ericsson and Huawei, and the series of SEP and NSEP infringement litigations sued by Nokia against Shanghai Huaqin. Due to the accumulated experience of patent-related disputes, Leader IP Group also has outstanding performance on evidence-searching, FTO analysis, and providing foreign companies with client-customized patent infringement analysis, litigation strategies and invalidation defending strategies.