The CELG Intellectual Property Specialized Committee comprises the Patent Legal Department, Trademark Legal Department, Copyright Legal Department, Film and Television Culture Legal Department, Competition Law and Trade Secret Protection Legal Department, Platform Intellectual Property Protection Legal Department, and Foreign-related Intellectual Property Legal Department. These departments are dedicated to providing professional legal services in the fields of patents, trademarks, film and television culture, copyrights, unfair competition, trade secrets, data compliance, privacy protection, and antitrust. The services permeate every aspect of the entire intellectual property industry chain. Nearly half of the professional lawyers in the Committee hold master’s degrees or higher, and several lawyers are qualified as patent agents.

The lawyers of the Committee possess extensive experience in intellectual property litigation. A number of intellectual property cases have been selected as the annual top ten cases by the Supreme Court and provincial and municipal courts. They have handled a large number of patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition and trade secret cases, including data unfair competition causes, such as “one-click copy” and data migration, invalidation of trademark squatting case through the recognition of famous trademark “Moganshan”, the Siemens-Osram case, the Lu Xun print case, the Wuliangye “Laozuofang” case and the “Big Head Son” case. Additionally, they have extensive experience in non-litigation legal services in areas such as trademark agency, patent agency, trade secret compliance, copyright infringement monitoring, and public opinion handling.

　　Legal services provided by CELG in this field:

　　• Trademark: Trademark difficult registration, special trademark consultants, special projects for trademark compliance risk control systems, trademark infringement monitoring and difficult dispute handling, trademark case litigation agency service, trademark application, opposition, trademark invalidation announcement and other ownership affirmation dispute agency services.

　　• Copyright: Full-process non-litigation legal services for film and television cultural industry projects, IP incubation and operation services, online public opinion handling, copyright infringement monitoring services, and litigation agency services for copyright cases.

　　• Patent: Litigation agency services for patent cases, infringement analysis, patent applications, reexaminations, patent rapid preliminary examination, patent layout, design around, patent searches, patent invalidation declarations, FTO reports, special projects for patent compliance and risk control systems, specialized patent consultants and other services.

　　• Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition: Legal services for trade secret compliance, litigation agency services for trade secret cases, and litigation agency services for unfair competition cases.

　　• Antitrust and Competition Law: Concentration of operators declaration, mergers and acquisitions control, antitrust compliance and consulting services, antitrust investigation services and antitrust litigation.