Lifang & Partners, founded in 2002, has established a reputation as one of the country’s leading law firms concentrating on intellectual property law and has a broad range of commercial law practices.

With offices in Beijing, Guangzhou and Wuhan, our firm provides litigation, prosecution, licensing and counseling services relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and related matters.

With over 50 law practitioners, LIFANG continues to grow rapidly and provides high-quality legal services and business solutions based on a profound knowledge of PRC law and practice and an understanding of each individual client.

Our firm possesses the most preeminent intellectual property litigation group in the country. We have some of the nation’s best litigators who possess extensive and first-chair trial experiences.

The emphasis of our firm’s practice is towards providing legal services in IPR intensive sectors, especially chemistry, mechanics, automobiles, materials science, electronics, telecommunications, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, Internet and entertainment.

We provide our services in Chinese, English, Japanese and French languages.

Our firm has also established and continues to co-sponsor the Beijing Intellectual Property Institute, a renowned research center dedicated to IPR issues, chaired by Mr. Cheng Yongshun, senior partner of LIFANG and a well known retired IP judge. The center is the first think tank of its kind in China and is made up of permanent and guest academics and industry specialists.