Sunshine IP Law Firm

Establishedin 2000, Sunshine Intellectual Property Group is an IP-related ecological integration and comprehensive service platform integrating IP matters including application and verification, consulting and research, litigation and enforcement, operation and investment, strategic planning and assessment of innovation project in China and abroad for patents, trademarks, copyrights, layout-design of integrated circuit, new varieties of plants and other intellectual property rights. Supported by a senior product development and service team, Sunshine provides the society with quality intellectual property services in all fields of technology, and provides worldwide protection for the value proposition of innovation subject.

An elite team with rich practical experience

Sunshine possesses more than 600 experts in intellectual property agency, litigation and research, more than 70% of them are with Ph. Dor Master’s degrees, and several experts among them are experts of IP Case Guidance and Research Base of the Supreme People's Court, CNIPA Leading Talents, the National Patent Information Leading Talents, CNIPA Training Teachers for Patent Agency Practice, Star Rated Patent Attorney, intellectual property judicialappraiser, and experts of many provincial and municipal intellectual property expert base.

Sunshine achieved the win rate of 80% for the litigation cases, and 80% of the invention patent applications are granted on average. Over the years, Sunshine has been awarded many national, provincial and municipal honors and recognition. Sunshine has been rated as a National Intellectual Property Service Brand Institution, and has consecutively won the titles of "Beijing AAAAA Patent Agency", "Beijing Five-Star Rated Patent Agency", and "China Outstanding Intellectual Property Service Team", and has been rated as A+ by the National Patent Agency Information Publicity Platform.

An agency expert team adheringto the service principle of "Quality First"

Sunshine patent agency team has filed nearly 80,000 patent applications to date. Successively representing many large enterprises and universities including GREE, SANY Heavy Industry, Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute, H3C, Inspur Group, Mengniu Group, Tsinghua University, Peking University, the patent agency team won recognitions and praises from the clients for many times.

A practical litigation elite team intensive studying winning strategies and risk management

The Litigation Team has handled more than 3,000 cases of patent invalidation, patent infringement litigation, administrative proceedings, trademark litigation and other litigation cases, including patent invalidation proceedingsinvolving high-tower granulating technology,Mobike patent invalidation proceedings, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge patent invalidation proceedings, Tencent "Wesee" trademark administrative litigation, Zhongshan Yunteng trademark infringement lawsuit, Liebherr trademark administrative litigation, Zhoukou "Changshoushan" trademark administrative litigation, Olympic“ Giant Footprint” inventor/designer & patent ownership dispute, Sanju Environmental Protection unfair competition litigation, CBI trade secret litigation and many other cases with social impact, among which, nearly 30 cases have been selected as annual typical cases or annual reports by the Supreme People's Court or the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) in recent years. Many representative cases, with their complexity and innovation, have also beenidentified as important precedents ofsimilar cases or have been ranked in the typicalcases of national or local judicial and administrative authorities.

A think tank-type strategic decision supporting team deeply engaged in industry trend and policy analysis

With more than 20 years of practical experience in intellectual property analysis, consulting and research projects, the Research and Consulting Team has undertaken theproject"Overseas IP Early Warning and Funding Project for Beijing Enterprises" of Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office for 17 consecutive years, and was awarded many honortitlesincluding the first batch of "Demonstrative Creating Institution for Intellectual Property Analysis and Review Service" and the first batch of "Cultivating Institution of China National Intellectual Property Service Brand Agency" by CNIPA. The Research and Consulting Team also provided all kinds of patent analysis and consulting services including patent early warning, patent navigation, patent mining and layout analysis for Lenovo Group, State Grid, Mobike, Mengniu Group, GREE and other renownedenterprises.

A brand equity strategy expert team covering entire chain security protection and commercial monetization of trademarks and copyrights

The trademark and copyright team always adheres to the service concept of " dedicated, careful, concerted, thoughtful, modest", strictly controls the quality of services. Through comprehensive and well-placed core services including trademark search, the Trademark and Copyright Team helps the enterprises to reasonably avoid market competition risks, protect their core brand assets, and acquire superiority in competition. The trademark and copyright team provides a number of professional services includingdomestic trademark registration, layout, reexamination, opposition, invalidation and copyright registration and protection, and providedthe clients including China Tobacco Guangxi, SANY Heavy Industry, Wanda Group, Sanju Environmental Protection, Global Energy, Huadian Heavy Industries, Shougang Corporation and many other renowned enterpriseswith professional trademark and copyright related services.The trademark and copyright team has been consecutively selected the title of "Outstanding Trademark Agency 2023" by the China Trademark Association, and was listed "National Top 600 Trademark Agencies 2024", and awarded "AAA Trademark Agency" prize.

A cross-domain strategic advisor and going globalrisk control management team integrating international rules and global resources

The International teampossesses 17 years of experience handling international patent agency, providing both the enterprises going global and foreign enterprises coming to China with full range of IP-related services. The international teamhas handled thousands of international applications,to date,and represented many internationalservice mattersincludingLiebherr patent trademark application, Broad Ocean’s patent infringement litigation, and Yachiyo patent application. The international team actively cooperates with and assists national and local intellectual property offices and other relevant authorities and institutions to promote establishment of a mechanism of overseas intellectual property enforcement and assistance, andmaintains good business cooperation with more than 200 law firms in nearly 180 countries and regions in Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Oceania, and provides domestic and foreign applicantswith the most professional and economical services in international patent application agency and legal matters.

So far, Sunshine Intellectual Property Group has developed into a renownedintellectual property service agency with capabilities to serve globally. In China, its subsidiaries have been established in Suzhou, Shenzhen, Nantong, Wuxi, Nanjing, Shijiazhuang, Haikou, Foshan, Tianjin, Taiyuan, Hangzhou, Changsha, Guangzhou, Wenzhou, Nanchang, Hong Kong, and its offices have been established in Tokyo, Japan, Silicon Valleyand Houston, USA and other global technology and trade center.