Close Ties with Chinese Government Agencies

Our founder and Chairman worked as Commissioner of the CPO for more than ten years and personally introduced the modern intellectual property legal system into China. In 1998, he set up SIPO under the State Council, China's highest executive body, serving as its first Commissioner. Following his successful set up of SIPO, Dr. Gao was sent by the Chinese government to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva as a senior advisor. He returned to China in 2000 and currently serves as Honorary Chairman of the China Intellectual Property Society and Vice Chairman of the China Internet Society. In addition to Dr. Gao, East IP has several partners who have worked at various government agencies and in the Chinese courts, and who are extremely experienced in the handling of intellectual property-related matters. We have in-depth knowledge of Chinese government agencies and their internal workings, as well as close ties with officials in almost all key positions.

Extensive Legal Experience

We are unrivaled in the breadth and depth of our extensive intellectual property and technology-related legal experience in representing multinational companies in China. The head of our patent practice is a patent attorney licensed in both the US and China and has worked for many years at a leading law firm in the US. The head of our intellectual property practice received engineering Ph.D. and J.D. educations from Stanford University and was the sole attorney handling IP-related legal matters at the Beijing office of two leading US-based international law firms from 1993 to 1999. He was the head of the China IP and IT practice at a leading US firm before joining us. Several of our attorneys are licensed to practice in both China and the US. All the heads of our various practice groups have worked for international law firms before joining us. Consequently, they have extensive experience in representing multinational companies in respect of intellectual property, commercial arbitration, litigation, international trade and corporate matters.

Impressive Technical Expertise

Most of our attorneys have very solid technical expertise. Four of our partners have obtained a Ph.D. in engineering either from a leading US university, such as Stanford, or a major European university. We require all newly recruited attorneys to have either technical degrees or technical working experience - currently most of our attorneys have either a technical degree from leading universities in China, Japan, the US or Europe, or have extensive working experience in high-tech companies. The technical expertise of our attorneys covers all major technology areas and is particularly strong in areas such as semiconductor, computer software and hardware, telecommunication, electrical, electronics, as well as medical and life sciences. Apart from the academic backgrounds of our attorneys, our partners have garnered actual technical working experience at leading international high-tech companies in the US, Japan and Europe, before devoting themselves to careers in intellectual property and technology law.

Solid Financial Resources

We have committed substantial resources to projects that will greatly enhance our service quality. We have implemented vigorous training programs for our attorneys and are aggressively recruiting top Chinese and international attorneys. Our firm-wide intranet is built on Sun servers and an Oracle database with rigorous security protection. We are currently constructing a www.eastip.com network, which will provide extensive intellectual property-related information and services. Once completed, www.eastip.com, operated by our team of experienced attorneys and IT specialists, will be a unique and tremendously valuable resource for those who have concerns in the field of intellectual property. The information system will be run on a 24/7 basis providing up-to-date information and offering a variety of important services, such as deadline and infringement monitoring, intellectual property portfolio management, central data storage and access, and other real-time services. We are fully committed to investing in people, facilities and technology in order that we may better provide efficient, competitive and quality services.