Trademarks · patents · domains · anti-squatting
China is a first-to-file jurisdiction for trademarks and most patents — which makes the timing of your filing as important as the filing itself.
That single fact drives a counterintuitive rule: file before you negotiate, not after you incorporate. A trademark or key patent filed a month too late — after a prospective partner, distributor, or employee has seen your plans — can end up registered in someone else's name and cost years to recover.
We coordinate pre-market trademark registration across the relevant Chinese classes, invention and utility-model patent filings, design patents, and domain-name acquisition, all before public disclosure of your China plans. Where prevention comes too late, we run trademark-squatting and unfair-competition actions to recover the mark.
We work in English and Chinese, on your timeline. Initial consultations are confidential and without obligation.