Patent Prosecution and Maintenance
Introduction
Our Experiences
As of the beginning of our firm's operation, we have represented clients to handle their patent prosecution and maintenance work. We represent our clients for their patent prosecution and maintenance work in Taiwan and foreign countries (such as China, USA, Europe, Japan, Korea etc.). In October 2003, our firm established alliance with Lee and Li-Leaven IPR Agency Ltd. in Beijing, China to jointly provide clients with quality Greater China Patent Services.
Our Teams
Members of the Patent Practice Group include patent attorneys, lawyers, technical experts etc., and some of them have passed the patent bar examination or the bar examination in China or US. More than 90% of our professional staff members received master or higher degrees in Taiwan or abroad, and they are all fluent in English or Japanese language. The Patent Practice Group handles patent cases in all kinds of technical fields, such as mechanical engineering, industrial design, semiconductor, electrical engineering, optical science, telecommunications, IT, chemistry, electrochemistry, medical science and biochemical technology, etc.
Our Expertises
Our firm has been continuously selected as the Best or the Top patent firm through international surveys, and some of our colleagues are also selected as the Best patent attorneys. Considering our professional resources, long lasting recognition and trust by clients, our alliance with Lee and Li-Leaven IPR Agency Ltd. in Beijing and long term cooperation with patent firms in other countries, Lee and Li has become the best choice for clients' global patent prosecution matters.
Scope of Services
- Invention harvesting
- Patent drafting
- Patent translation
- Strategic planning for filing patent
- Patent filing and prosecution
- Patent administrative appeal proceedings
- Patent right maintenance
- Patent term extension
- Patent compulsory licensing
- Patent linkage
- Patent recordation
- IC layout protection
- Plant variety/plant seed protection
Awards and Honors
- Managing IP – Tier One Patent Firm for Taiwan in Patent Prosecution
- Managing IP – Tier One Patent Firm for Taiwan in Patent Contentious
- Asialaw – Taiwan IP Firm
- Apex Asia – Patent Firm for Taiwan – Patent Prosecution & Patent
- Contentious
- Legal 500 – Tier 1 Law Firm for Intellectual Property in Taiwan
- Chambers – Band 1 Firm for Intellectual Property
- Asian Legal Business – Tier One Patent/Copyright/Trademark Firm for Taiwan
Milestone Cases
- Filed our first ROC (Taiwan) patent application for Ferro Corporation on 28 May 1953
- Appealed against decisions by the National Bureau Standards (NBS, precursor of the Intellectual Property Office (IPO)) not to accept patent applications for which the relevant microorganism deposits were not made, and caused the NBS to revoke such decisions (1994-1995)
- Filed a patent term extension application for a U.S. client, which was the first patent term extension application in the ROC (Taiwan) (1998)
- Successfully obtained for a client an invention patent relating to a new dosage form (instead of a new dosage), which was one of the first few cases at that time (2005)
- Argued, on clients' behalf, before the IPO and convinced it that submission of a foreign-language specification without the title of the invention should not affect the filing date in Taiwan, resulting in the IPO's revision of its examination guidelines thereafter
- Pointed out procedural defects in the IPO's examination (such as failure to issue a pre-rejection notice, failure to elucidate its opinions, etc.) which successfully led to the revocation of a number of decisions of rejection or other decisions unfavorable to patent applicants(2022)