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    In recent years, Grandall served as permanent legal counsel or provided short-term legal services for many Fortune 500 companies and large multinational and listed companies, and has successfully represented many intricate and complex cases. For many years, cases represented by Grandall have been selected by the Supreme People’s Court and courts at all levels, provincial and municipal bar associations, and government agencies as annual intellectual property rights case studies, top ten online cases, and top ten cases.

    Grandall’s IP practice has been repeatedly recommended by LEGALBAND, Asialaw Profiles, The Legal 500, and other international authoritative ranking publishers, and the firm has been honored as ALB’s Leading IP Law Firm in Greater China, while ranking among its Top 15 IP Lawyers in China and among IP House’s Top 10 Trademark Civil Litigation Firms in China.

    IPR-Related Dispute Resolution

    IPR-related civil litigation and arbitration

    IPR-related administrative litigation

    Defense in IPR-related criminal proceedings

    Customs protection measures for intellectual property rights

    Assistance with the U.S. Section 337 investigations

    Non-contentious IPR-Related Services

    Advisory service for companies’ IPR-related issues

    Implementation of intellectual property standards

    Intellectual property training

    Negotiation and contract preparation for intellectual property transactions

    IPR-related legal risk assessment for product launches, IPR due diligence, tracking of competitor’s competitive investigation and provision of analysis opinions, pledge financing, and other legal services

    Patent, Trademark and Copyright Attorney Services

    Attorney services for trademark application, objection, review, invalidation, pledge and other procedures

    Attorney services for patent application, review, invalidation, pledge and other procedures

    Attorney services for copyright registration of various works, including software and IC layout design

    Record-filing procedures for IPR transfer and license agreement

    Recording filing procedures for customs protections of intellectual property rights

    First case in China accepting GPL defense: Nanjing Weilai Hi-Tech Co., Ltd. v. Jiangsu Yun Qingting Information Technology Co., Ltd. et al. for infringement of software copyright

    Tencent Technology v. Weiyuanma Software for unfair software competition - China’s first case in which the court awarded substantial damages related to the development and marketing of WeChat plugins

    China’s first administrative investigation and penalty for infringement of proprietary rights in IC layout design, and the first judgement in China awarded for a dispute over the ownership of IC layout design

    China’s first case in which the court ruled that a trademark lawsuit was initiated in bad faith and awarded damages: Zhongxun Digital Electronics v. Bittel Intelligent Technology for damages caused by intellectual property litigation initiated in bad faith

    China’s first criminal case involving piracy of audio works: Zhang’s infringement of copyright in Himalaya Technology’s audio works

    A landmark case setting a new record for damages awarded for online game trademark infringement and keyword search-related trademark infringement: Tencent Technology v. 4399 regarding trademark infringement

    First case in which a Shanghai court ruled that a case constituted an implied license of a patent: “Impression of Jialing River” Floating Bridge’s infringement of design patent rights

    First instance in Zhejiang Province where a civil dispute over the infringement of a geographical indication trademark was backed by a procuratorate: Yao and Zhang’s counterfeiting of the “West Lake Longjing” geographical indication trademark

    Apple Inc. v. Shenzhen Proview Technology in a dispute concerning the iPad trademark

    A criminal-civil crossover case involving an employee's breach of their confidentiality obligations - one of the Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases tried in Chinese Courts

    Yunnan Baiyao Group v. Yunnan Nuote Jinshen Oral Care Products LLC in a dispute over unfair competition (2020) - one of the 50 Typical Intellectual Property Cases tried in Chinese Courts in 2020 released by the Supreme People’s Court

    Changsha Wenhexin Catering Culture Co. v. Liuzhou Laofuqiao Lobster Restaurant in a case involving unfair competition (2020) - one of the 50 Typical Intellectual Property Cases tried in Chinese Courts in 2020 released by the Supreme People’s Court

    AstraZeneca v. Jiangsu Aosaikang Pharmaceutical in a dispute over invention patent infringement (2021) - recognized as one of the Supreme People's Court's 50 Typical Intellectual Property Cases tried in Chinese Courts in 2021

    An international arbitration case involving allegations of trade secret infringement between a Shenzhen company and a U.S. company - one of the Outstanding Foreign-related Legal Service Cases released by All China Lawyers Association