Trademarks
We deeply understand what a trademark means to the client. We provide a full range of tailored trademark services to our clients, from acquiring the right to enforcing the right.
Trademark services we provide include:
Search and watch
Registration application and prosecution
Review of refusal
Opposition and invalidation
Change and assignment
Renewal
Non-use cancellation
Licence recordal
Pledge recordal
Recordal at Customs
Administrative litigation
Infringement litigation
Anti-counterfeiting actions
Portfolio management
Investigation and negotiation
Madrid application
Global registration and protection
Patents
Dakun provides clients with comprehensive patent related services, from early consultation, patent search, patent application, patent mapping, technical layout, to infringement analysis, litigation and enforcement, patent exploitation, etc., to safeguard every invention of the client and realize the commercial value of every investment.
Patent-related services we provide include:
Patent drafting
Patent application and prosecution
Patent re-examination and invalidation
Patent search
Patent litigation and enforcement
Other patent related services
Copyright
Works such as literal creations, drawings, photography, short online videos, film and television works, computer software, industrial designs, and personal portraits all may enjoy copyright protection in China. We provide our clients with comprehensive legal services for the copyright of works and also provide overall solutions for commercialization of or external cooperation relating to the clients' copyright.
Copyright-related services we provide include:
Consulting services on copyright-related commercial matters
Cooperation negotiation and contract drafting and review relating to copyright
Copyright recordal
Transaction and license negotiation and contract drafting and review thereof
Copyright infringement litigation and enforcement
Unfair competition & trade secret
A trade secret is an important intellectual property asset that can bring high commercial value to its owner, which may include technical information and business information covering client information and commercial plan, etc. Acts of unfair competition include those of infringing the trade secrets of others.
In addition, the Anti-Unfair Competition Law in China also protects rights such as trade names, packaging and decoration of well-known commodities, domain names, etc. and the Law also applies to false or misleading publicity, dissemination of false or misleading information and monopoly operations.
We provide our clients with compliance review, enforcement and other services relating to anti-unfair competition and trade secret protection.
Unfair competition and trade secrets related services we provide mainly include:
Drafting and review of confidentiality and non-compete agreements
Design and review of trade secret protection system
Business conduct compliance review and consultation
Trade secret infringement actions
Anti-unfair competition compliance review and consultation
Anti-monopoly compliance consultation, investigation response, complaint-initiating and other related services
IP consultancy
We advise clients in all aspects relating to IP, especially relating to IP management system establishment, IP training, expert opinion, etc. Meanwhile, we also provide clients with long-term regular consultancy services.
IP litigation
We represent clients in various IP litigation cases, which include:
Trademark-related administrative, civil and criminal litigation
Unfair competition-related administrative, civil and criminal litigation
Copyright-related administrative, civil and criminal litigation
Contact-related litigation
Patent-related administrative, civil and criminal litigation
IP-related investigation
Investigation services we provide include:
IP due diligence
IP infringement investigation
IP-related market investigation (e.g., brand reputation and market share investigation, trademark similarity investigation)
IP transaction
While we assists our clients in completing the required paperwork to proceed a signed transaction, e.g., to record the assignment with the IP offices, we may also be involved from negotiating the key terms of an IP transaction to drafting or reviewing an agreement and sorting out its finer details.
