Professionals

Tian Yuan has gathered elite lawyers in various fields, has more than 200 partners, more than 800 professionals, and provides customers with all-round, cross-regional, comprehensive and one-stop legal services with profound practice experience and project experience. and best business solutions.

Practices

With 30 years of experience in legal practice and continuous innovation in practice, Tian Yuan's business covers the main practice fields and emerging fields of Chinese lawyers, and maintains the level of China's top lawyers and cross-team comprehensive service capabilities in many fields. Transactions and projects and cases with great industry influence.

Insights & News

Tian Yuan lawyers keep up with the trend of the industry, focus on legal hot topics, and rely on unique perspectives and market insights to help clients understand the latest changes in the law, and use professional observation, analysis and insights to help clients make more informed business choices and decisions.

About Us

As a leading law firm with a long history and profound culture in China, Tian Yuan has always been based on legal services, constantly exploring and innovating, and has moved forward with the Chinese economy for 30 years. We have offices in 14 economically active cities in China and enjoys a high reputation in the industry.

Intellectual Property

With more than 30 years of professional experience and accumulation in the intellectual property (IP) industry, we focus on providing legal support to enterprises in IP innovation, protection and application, and continuously help enterprises address major challenges involved in their process of growth and expansion in regard to non-litigation and litigation of IP such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, business secrets and unfair competition.

 

We provide all-round and full-process legal services for IP litigation and non-litigation, including administrative confirmation and infringement litigation of trademark and patent rights, copyright infringement litigation, IP licensing and enforcement, business secret infringement litigation, IP strategic management consulting, and IP due diligence (FTO).

 

With a deep understanding of IP value and professional skills, we not only provide strategic business solutions to industrial giants and growing enterprises, but also provide valuable legal advice on complex IP transactions. We have developed a good reputation in the field of IP dispute resolution. Several cases handled by us were selected as typical IP cases of the year, earning us high praise and trust from clients.

 

 

 

Work Highlights
  • Represented Anhui Jinling International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd., in a dispute against Anhui Shengkai International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. et al. involving the infringement of trade secrets. The case was selected as one of the Top 10 IPR Cases and the 50 Typical IPR Cases in Chinese Courts in 2021
  • Represented PanGao Inflatable Co., Ltd. in a commercial secrets dispute against Gelin Company, Peng Quan (fictitious name), and Feng Yi (fictitious name). The case was selected as a typical example of commercial secret cases by the Guangdong Higher People's Court

  • Represented clients in multiple patent administrative litigations and patent ownership disputes involving fields such as biopharmaceutics, chemical engineering, and communication

  • Provided intellectual property compliance services for clients in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries during their listing or financing processes

  • Represented clients in multiple trademark administrative litigations and trademark infringement litigations

  • Acted as the legal representative in the retrial case of Peking University Founder Group v. Gao Tech for infringement of computer software copyright. The case was selected as one of the "40 Major Judicial Cases of the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-Up," and was one of only four IRR cases included in the list

  • Assisted Lenovo in becoming the first Chinese company to be the Global Partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Olympic history; Provided comprehensive legal support throughout the process of Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's global PC business, including IPR matters

  • Representing Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., handled a series of IPR dispute cases involving patent infringement, protection of trade secrets, and unfair competition. Through effective legal representation, successfully safeguarded Huawei's legitimate rights and interests, and overcome the legal challenges posed by overseas companies including Cisco from the United States

  • Representing Sichuan Yema Auto Co., Ltd., handled the trademark infringement case against Ford China involving the "Yema" trademark. This case is a typical example of Chinese companies filing a rights protection lawsuit against multinational corporations for trademark infringement and was selected as one of the Top 10 Typical Cases in Chengdu Courts in 2019

  • Representing the client, won the trademark rights lawsuit against HUGO BOSS in Germany, which was a typical boundary dispute between two well-known trademarks in the same category

  • Representing the client, successfully handled the administrative litigation case against the China National Intellectual Property Administration regarding the rejection of a biopharmaceutical patent. This case became the first biopharmaceutical patent case in the Supreme People's Court

  • Representing Beijing Watchdata System Co., Ltd., in a patent infringement dispute against Hengbao Co., Ltd. regarding the USBKey invention patent rights. This case boasts the highest compensation awarded since the establishment of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court

  • Represented the largest and oldest professional Internet and electronic publishing organization in China, the Chinese Academic Journal (CAJ-CD) and the China Written Works Copyright Society, in the second-instance and retrial cases related to copyright infringement. This case has significant implications for resolving disputes over online publishing of academic journals, including the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)

  • Representing Enlight Media, Enlight Pictures, Xu Zheng, etc., handled their second-instance dispute over unfair competition related to the infringement of well-known commodity names in the films "Lost in Thailand" and "Lost on Journey" against Wuhan Huagi Company, which were under review by the Supreme People's Court

  • Representing Beijing National Machinery Longsheng Automotive Co., Ltd., handled the copyright dispute involving infringement of design drawings against Wuhan Xinjianye Advertising Decoration Co., Ltd., an automotive 4S store. This is the first architectural work copyright dispute case accepted by the Beijing Municipality Haidian District People's Court

  • Representing Beijing New Oriental School, successfully fought an IPR battle involving copyrights and other intellectual property rights with the American company ETS. This effectively protected the legitimate rights and interests of New Oriental School and laid a solid legal foundation for its healthy development

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

Honors
  • The Legal 500 China
    2023
  • LEGALBAND Top Ranked Law Firms
    2023
  • Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific
    2023
  • Benchmark Litigation China
    2022
  • ALB China Intellectual Property
    2023
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