AFD China Intellectual Property Law Office

AFD China has a client-supporting team in Washington, USA, which helps bridge the time difference and respond to overseas inquires in a timely manner. We have built partnership with 200 law firms in 30 countries and regions with which we have maintained wide and in-depth collaborations. Such close cooperation strengthens and diversifies our international capabilities.

Together with our partners, we assist a wide variety of clients in filing and prosecution around the globe. Among them are Fortune-500 enterprises like Nike, Coca Cola, tech giants like Meta (formerly known as Facebook), and biotech companies with state-of-art products and technologies like Intercept Pharmaceuticals and Illumina.

With multi-jurisdictional experiences, we understand the subtle nuances among different legal systems and keep developing sophisticated approaches to deal with various issues and to produce suitable solutions for clients with diversified needs. Meanwhile, we are a multi-lingual team with excellent English proficiency and German, Japanese and Korean capabilities.

Because of the outstanding performance, we were recognised by the Capital Intellectual Property Service Association as a patent firm with strong international IP service abilities in September 2020.

Our services have been recognized by the industry and won awards in the surveys of several well-known overseas platforms. We are awarded the Patent Litigation Firm of the Year in 2021 and Pharma, Biotech & Life Sciences Firm of the Year through 2021 to 2023 of China IP Awards, the Patent Firms of the Year of Asia IP Awards by Asia IP. We have been Asia IP ranked firm in patent prosecution and patent contentious, as well as trademark prosecution since 2015. We have been IAM Patent 1000 ranked firm in patent prosecution and strategy since 2016. We are awarded IP Stars recommended firm in patent prosecution and patent contentious and trademark prosecution by Managing Intellectual Property every year since 2015. We are WTR 1000 ranked firm in trademark prosecution and strategy every year since 2018.