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Dragon International Patent Office (DRAGON) is a well-known leading intellectual property law firm in China, officially authorized in 1998 by the China State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) as one of the few Chinese law firms qualified for handling foreign IP matters. DRAGON provides full legal services for obtaining, maintaining, evaluating and defending intangible assets including patent prosecution, trademark prosecution, copyright, intellectual property litigation, intellectual property contracts, license agreements and other intellectual property related matters.
The founder and leading attorneys of DRAGON were the earliest members of the SIPO with experiences as former senior examiners or high-ranking officers. They are considered as the leading IP experts in China owing to their experience, expertise, and intimate understanding of the SIPO patent examination requirements and Chinese patent law.
DRAGON has more than 100 staff members including more than 30 patent attorneys, 10 trademark attorneys, 5 attorneys at law and more than 40 technical experts. Among DRAGON's patent attorneys, more than ten are former patent examiners or members of the Patent Reexamination Board of the SIPO with the extensive knowledge of patent examination; 4 once participated in drafting the Patent Law of the PRC and its Implementing Regulations; and many studied and/or worked in foreign patent offices or foreign patent firms. They have close links with the SIPO and its patent examiners. Among DRAGON's trademark attorneys, some previously worked in other trademark firms and hold their degrees in law. Having filed and prosecuted thousands of trademark applications entrusted by foreign and domestic client, they are very knowledgeable with the Trademark Law of the PRC and its Implementing Regulations.
Most of DRAGON's patent attorneys and technical experts have previously engaged in scientific or technical work before their being patent attorneys, and they have PhD or master degrees in science. Their technical expertise covers a wide range of scientific and technological disciplines. With their strong background in science, great ability to understand the cutting-edged technology and proficient English and/or Japanese, they can provide highest quality legal services to the foreign and the domestic clients.
The Patent Attorneys of DRAGON's Patent Application Division have previously worked in Patent Filing Procedures Division of the SIPO for many years. They are thoroughly experienced in the legal procedures of filing and prosecuting patent applications, and have a deep insight into the SIPO patent filing requirements. Their fluent English and Japanese both in speaking and in writing assures DRAGON to meet its foreign clients' needs with high levels of efficiency and responsiveness. DRAGON's management of the filing procedures is distinguished by its rationality, accurateness and effectiveness.
The headquarters of DRAGON is located in Beijing, China, with a branch office in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1998, as a window of DRAGON in Japan, Dragon International Patent Tokyo Office provides local language professional services covering from patent application to legal consultation easily accessed and fast responsive to its Japanese clients.
Since its foundation, DRAGON has established long-term cooperative relationships with a great number of leading companies and law firms around the world. Many of DRAGON's clients are members of Fortune's Global 500 companies. Every year, DRAGON files thousands of patent applications and hundreds of trademark applications in China for its foreign and domestic clients with a reputation for its non-mistake record in prosecution of the applications, and DRAGON also helps its domestic clients file hundreds of patent and trademark applications abroad. A unique combination team of patent attorneys, with experiences as former SIPO examiners, and attorneys at law, with the background in science, enables DRADON to win a number of widely watched IP cases, such as the case of invalidating the patent owned by US Pfizer Inc. on the use of sildenafil citrate, the active ingredient of the erectile-dysfunction drug "Viagra". DRAGON is proud of keeping its winning rate in IP litigation cases as high as 80% in recent years. Now DRAGON has been widely regarded as one of the fastest expanding and most successful private intellectual property law firms in China.
Having a highly experienced team of registered patent and trademark attorneys, equipped with modern office facilities and advanced patent/trademark application management software system and database, with its mottos "Clients' concerns are our topmost concerns" and "Honest, Cooperative, Diligent and Devoted", which are consistently applied in all of the firm's activities, DRAGON stands ready to provide its worldwide clients with the legal representation of the highest quality and the most valuable professional services in intellectual property laws and in related matters.
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