Top Team International Patent & Trademark Office

Established in 1985, TOP TEAM International Patent & Trademark Office (TOPTEAM) nowadays provides services in all aspects of IP rights protection and has helped its clients secure tens of thousands of IP rights in Taiwan, the US, Europe, Japan, mainland China and other major markets.

TOPTEAM is recognized for its capabilities of patent drafting and worldwide prosecution, in the areas of semiconductor industry, chemicals and materials, electrical circuit, software, telecom, bio-tech, pharma, mechanical, among other high- tech sectors, as well as industrial designs. Each year, we file more than 5,000 patent and trademark applications in Taiwan and abroad.

Our IP service team is made of more than 70 professionals, including 30 patent attorneys, and attorneys at law, with diverse technical backgrounds or legal expertise. The proven expertise, practice experiences, and work ethic enable us to assist clients in handling large portfolio management, start-up IP building, challenging situations, and delicate issues.

Our trademark service team is led by attorneys at law, who provide domestic and international clients with litigation, legal opinions and counseling services. The trademark work covers pre-filing trademark search/opinions, branding strategy consulting and IPR enforcement plan, infringement analysis, dispute handling and litigation proceedings after trademark registration. With the diversity of the clientele from high-tech companies to consumer brands, from international clients to star-up entrepreneurs, different strategies are customized from the perspective of the clients’ best interests for business development.

Our litigation and legal service team with competent attorneys at law enables us to run the gamut of legal services, from IP litigation to consultation. The legal team also works with the patent attorneys and engineers for patent or trade secrete work to provide professional services ranging from consulting on technical issues, infringement or dispute cases to legal advice and litigation proceedings for clients in Taiwan and overseas.

On top of the outstanding patent and trademark prosecution performance, our services in support of other IPR aspects are equally powerful. TOPTEAM advises on IP strategy planning, from filing, licensing, trade secret managing, company IP management, to dispute resolution proceedings.

The trade secret services provided by the patent and legal teams include in-house infrastructure review, litigation support and IP strategy planning wide solutions. The attorneys counsel clients on secret identification and classification, security control methods, compliance audits, non-disclosure agreement drafting, internal training, etc.

Our well-seasoned attorneys can provide comprehensive advice on pretrial and ad hoc preservation of evidence, as needed, whether or not to file a lawsuit. Also, as a part of IP strategy planning, the patent attorneys work with clients to find out the best weight between patent claim scopes and trade secret to protect research results, according to the industrial outlook and market trends.

In addition to the work in Chinese and English, our Japanese team also provides professional and efficient services for Japanese speaking clients or inventors. The trilingual working capability provides the international clients streamlined services if any of the three languages involved, from the communication to technical translation.

We also pay high attention to data security. To achieve continuous operation, the investment on IT keeps securing the daily operation from all kinds of cyber-attacking.

Last but not least, we perpetually value our responsibility to the society and the environment. For environmental protection, we have fully transformed our huge paperwork to digitalization, and encouraged recycling and power saving in office for daily operation to this end. The charity foundation of our firm also keeps assisting the students and families who need financial support, establishing the role model of taking social responsibility for other companies.

At TOPTEAM, we genuinely listen to clients’ need and concerns, and team up together to safeguard their brand identity, reputation and market distinction connected to their marks. We work with businesses of various scales, from start-ups, and SMEs through world leading companies, across electronics, IC design, energy, entertainment, sporting goods, clothing, internet markets, online food ordering, and the press, among other industry sectors.