Our award-winning Intellectual Property (IP) Practice is Hong Kong’s largest and one of the region’s leaders. We provide comprehensive contentious and non-contentious IP legal advice across Hong Kong and The Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC). We take a multidisciplinary approach to the increasingly complex IP issues faced by modern businesses and our philosophy is to bring together attorneys from all areas of our practice to devise practical and effective strategies to achieve your legal and business objectives. Many of our team members have degrees in different science and technical disciplines, in addition to a law degree.  Our broad IP knowledge base, together the support of a full service law firm, helps us to find unique solutions to our clients’ problems.

What we do

We offer a seamless service across Hong Kong and Mainland China covering all areas of contentious and non-contentious IP work including trade marks, copyright, designs, patents, technology, data protection, marketing and advertising, IP transactions and e-business. We have an impressive record of success in precedent-setting litigation cases and enforcement actions in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

What they say about us

We are proud that so many independent legal directories have chosen to present us with prestigious awards. Some recent examples include:

• Ranked Band 1 in Intellectual Property in China (International Firms) by Chambers Asia Pacific (2016 - 2020)
• Ranked Tier 1 in Intellectual Property in Hong Kong by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2016 - 2020)
• Recognised as a Top Tier firm in Hong Kong for ‘Enforcement and Litigation’ and 'Prosecution and Strategy' by World Trademark Review 1000 (2016 - 2020)
• Recognised as a Top Tier firm in Hong Kong for ‘Patent Litigation’ (2018 - 2020), 'Patent Prosecution' and 'Patent Transaction' (2019 - 2020) by IAM Patent 1000
• Winner of 'Hong Kong Trademark Firm of the Year' Award (2019 - 2020) and 'Hong Kong Patent Firm of the Year' Award (2020) by Global IP Awards, publishers of IAM and World Trademark Review (WTR)
• Winner of ‘Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year’ Award by ALB Hong Kong Law Awards (2019)
• Winner of 'IP (Patent) Firm of the Year' Award and 'Hong Kong Law Firm of the Year' Award by China Business Law Journal (2015 - 2017 and 2019)
• Winner of 'Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year' Award in both Hong Kong and China by Asian-mena Counsel (2018 - 2019) 

Prestigious independent publications such as Chambers Asia-Pacific notes our practice 'combines one of Hong Kong's largest and most established teams with a solid presence in the PRC. Respected industry publication, Managing Intellectual Property, has ranked our trade mark, patent and copyright practices Tier 1 in its independent directory every year since 2008.