Intellectual Property
Hylands intellectual property mainly focuses on IP rights such as copyrights, trademarks, patents, network domain names, trade names, trade secrets, technical know-how, commercial franchise resources, layout design of integrated circuits and other scientific and technological achievements. The service also extends to complex and comprehensive legal affairs related to IP rights and unfair competition/monopoly in the market. The clients of Hylands come from a wide range of enterprises, institutions, and individuals engaged in entertainment, arts, media, sports, TMT, the internet, medical health, advertising, franchising, education and training, etc.
Hylands IP team is well versed in theoretical aspects, aware of the domestic and international legal norms, and attentive to the latest trends happening in the field. Hylands has considerable work experience, updated professional skills, keen insights and reasoning abilities to keep up with the technological revolution and subsequent developments. Adhering to the spirit of excellence and dedication the team has won many achievements to its credit. Hylands has proved expertise in avoiding IP-related legal risks, improving IP protection systems, ensuring the realization of intellectual property interests, and pursuing IP tort liability for clients. Many cases undertaken by the IP team of Hylands have become classic examples and reference points in revising national laws and judicial interpretations.
The team not only achieved outstanding results in legal practice but also participated in national legislation, administrative protection, academic seminars, and industry exchanges. Hylands is at the forefront of maintaining contacts and keeping up-to-date with legal developments and practices.
Hylands IP team has long been rated as a leading law firm in the field of IP by Chambers and Partners, ALB, MIP, Asia IP, The Legal 500, China Business Law Journal and LEGALBAND, and enjoys a high reputation in the industry.
Services
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- Dispute Resolution
- Dispute resolution is the most influential legal service of Hylands IP. Hylands has represented a number of cases that are of significance to China's IP legislation, and many of the cases it represented were rated as typical cases, innovative cases or influential cases of intellectual property judicial protection in Chinese courts of the year. Dispute resolution mainly focuses on IP contract disputes, infringement/rights protection disputes, administrative complaints/investigation and other services involving clients, involving intellectual property civil litigation/arbitration, administrative complaints/investigation, criminal proceedings, criminal incidental civil cases, etc., covering copyright, various legal affairs in the fields of trademarks, patents, anti-unfair competition, anti-monopoly, trade secrets, domain names, business franchising, customs protection, integrated circuit layout design, etc. Specific legal services for dispute
resolution include but not limited to analysis and demonstration of dispute cases, plan formulation, investigation and evidence collection, property/behavior preservation, negotiation and negotiation, case representation, execution, etc.
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- Application for Agency and Administrative Litigation
- Mainly provide clients with legal services in authorization and confirmation of registration/application in the fields of trademarks, patents, copyrights, etc. Business investigation, legalization and counterfeiting and piracy services. In addition, Hylands also provides clients with overseas IP inquiry, monitoring, registration/application and other communication and coordination services.
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- Application for Agency and Administrative Litigation
- Mainly provide clients with legal services in authorization and confirmation of registration/application in the fields of trademarks, patents, copyrights, etc. Business investigation, legalization and counterfeiting and piracy services. In addition, Hylands also provides clients with overseas IP inquiry, monitoring, registration/application and other communication and coordination services.
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- Legal Advisor
- Hylands has established stable and perennial cooperative relationships with many clients with IP as their core competitiveness, and provides perennial legal advisory services for such clients, including but not limited to: answering clients' daily legal consultations, drafting, reviewing, and revising contracts and laws documents, building intellectual property management systems, regulations and norms for clients, and participating in client business negotiations.