For more than a hundred years, Deacons’ IP team has provided professional services to leading names in a range of different local and international industries.
Deacons’ IP team offers comprehensive services relating to patents and industrial design. All Chinese and English patent specifications are written by certified agents in house, while all our patent lawyers and certified agents hold degrees in science and engineering and are trained in handling complex R&D and technical matters for clients from high-tech industries.
Deacons’ IP team’s professional services include:
- Advice on patent infringement, FTO and validation/invalidation in Hong Kong and China
- Patent specification, patent and industrial design registration globally, and feedback to patent reviews
- Appeals and pleadings against the rejection of patent applications
- Opposition to authorised patents
- Consultation services in the area of patent review, administration and strategy, including the effective administration of internal procedures for handling new inventions
- Internal training on the protection of inventions and their applications
- Consultation services relating to mandatory permissions and technology transfer
- Patent protection/litigation
- Advice on patent commercialisation, including the transfer and acquisition of third party rights
Major areas covered by Deacons’ IP team’s patent and industrial design services include:
- Mechanical and manufacturing engineering, including issues relating to the technology, materials and packaging
- Electrical and electronic engineering, including integrated circuit and semiconductor technology, optical transmission technology and iconology
- Medical and surgical equipment and systems
- Biotechnology, biochemistry and pharmaceuticals
- Physics
- Chemistry, including medical chemistry, industrial chemistry, food science and agricultural chemistry
