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Electrical Engineering Practice Group
Electrical Engineering Practice Group of Deheng IP services
clients’ patent activities in the front-edge of the rapidly
evolving electronics and information technologies. Understanding
of new business models in the industry becomes necessary to
fulfilling client’s need for counseling in patent strategy and
management of patent portfolios.
Practices of the Practice Group cover all the areas of
Electronics, such as Semiconductors, telecommunications, image
processing, multimedia, optical storage, computers, IP-based
convergence technologies etc. And each member of the Practice
Group has a degree in electrical engineering, or
telecommunications, or image processing, or optical engineering
or physics from top-ranked universities like Peking University,
Tsinghua University, and BUPT etc. By representing the clients
of international companies as industry leaders, the attorneys
continue to have access to most important innovations shaping
the world of future.
Many of attorneys in the Practice Group are studied or trained
aboard, and accumulate sound and proficient international
practicing experiences.

Mechanical Engineering Practice Group
Mechanical Engineering Practice Group has extensive experiences
in the field of scientific research, engineering design, product
development or IP management. Also, some of the attorneys have
been examiners or patent researchers in SIPO, and have extensive
experiences in patent examining, examining process and so on.
Professionals of the Practice Group obtained their Master or
Ph.D. degree in mechanical, physics, automatization and
automation, precise instrumentations, metallurgy, material
science, and related fields.
Using their collective experience in teamwork, the group
provides forward-looking strategic counsel to clients across
many industries and law affairs regarding the fields of patent
acquiring; drafting of patent specification; responding to the
office action; patent consulting and searching; and patent
reexamination, invalidation and litigation. In particular, they
have strong ability and abundant experience in legal affairs,
such as handling complicate and difficult reexamination cases
and patent invalidation cases, patent infringement analyzing and
providing legal position papers, licensing and technology
transfer, patent investigation, administrative enforcement of
patents, patent litigation, contracting and so on.

Chemistry/Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals Practice Group
Chemistry /Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals Practice Group
practices skilledly in a variety of the related area, such as
pharmaceutical chemistry, gene engineering, biochip science,
chemical engineering, inorganic chemistry, textile science,
metallurgy, environmental science, etc. All of them hold degrees
on scientific degrees, engineering degrees and advanced
graduated degrees in the field of biotechnology, chemistry, cell
and molecular biology, polymer chemistry and physics, physical
chemistry, microbiology, chemical engineering and biotechnology.
The attorneys of the Practice Group routinely draw upon DeHeng
IP’s expertise in related services such as drafting of patent
specifications, infringement analysis, administrative
enforcement of patents, etc. This multidisciplinary approach
permits DeHeng IP’s clients to achieve their goals objectives in
the most effective manner possible.

Litigation Practice Group
Litigation Practice Group furnishes clients a perfect litigation
practice focusing on the protection of patents and other
intellectual property. It provides clients with creative and
sophisticated strategies to resolve some of the most complex,
multifaceted disputes in China and aboard.
Litigators of the Practice Group are widely known for its
settlement and litigation capabilities. Most of the group’s IP
litigators hold not only advanced degrees in legal, such as
J.D., LL.M., LL.B., but also in science and engineering. Most of
them are qualified as both patent attorneys and
attorneys-at-law, which ensures that litigation cases involving
scientific or other complex issues will benefit from the
integration of the firm’s patent prosecution practice with its
IP litigation practice.
The group also provides comprehensive legal services in other
areas involving intellectual property:
-Patent search, opinions on patentability, validity opinions,
re-examination and invalidation and infringement analysis;
-Assignment of patents/trademark, licensing, negotiation for
settlement/licensing/agreement, commercialization of
intellectual property, and drafting contracts and agreement
-Counseling on corporate IPR strategy and process, investigation
and intelligence, intellectual property due diligence analysis,
and counseling clients with respect to claims of patent
infringement and defense to patent infringement;
-Providing advices on other intellectual property related
matters.

Trademark Practice Group
Trademark Practice Group works on a full range of trademark
business, including search, registration, review, opposition,
cancellation, licensing, litigation, transaction, and counseling
for clients from China and all over the world.
With the clients moving to the more enforcement side of the
established rights, the Department also shifts its priority
services to the projects more sophisticated if compared with
registration.

Application Group
Application Group represents a centralized support team to all
the attorneys of the DeHeng IP. The group’s work items include:
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Documentation
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Correspondence to all the clients and associates
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Time monitoring
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All the formality issues with the patent office
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Patent Fees
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Database and E-documents
- Secretarial assistance to attorneys

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