Guangzhou Xianglong Investigation Firm

I. The Supervision of the trends of the market

Guangzhou Xianglong’s protection of the intellectual property not only includes the investigation and attack of the infringing action, but also lay stress on the supervision of the market trends of the infringing products. The long-termed supervision system of the market trends is a really efficient brand-protection system which is suitable to China’s national conditions. It takes overall professional control of market and gives concentrated system protection to the clients in the light of the well-known brands.

II. The Protection of the Rights of the Trade Mark, the Patent, and the Legal Management

1.The Investigation of the Infringement of the Trade Mark and the Patent and of the Unjust Competition

• The producing spot, the technological process, and the store-house of infringing products;
• The sale process, the sale channel, and the sale data of the infringing products;
• The information of the main infringers.

2.The Attack of the Infringement of the Trade Mark and the Patent and of the Unjust Competition

• To work out efficient attacking plan for the client. After accepting the client’s commission, we will begin to investigate and collect evidence. Through the administrative and criminal channel together with the civil channel, we will organize the authorities of the public security bureau, the patent bureau, the industrial and commercial bureau, the technological supervision bureau, and the media to take part in the attacking.
• To watch out after the attacking to prevent the revival of the illegal action. In the meam time we will help the client to accomplish the necessary legal procedures after the attack. And we will attend the mediation and the litigation on behalf of the client when necessary.

III. The Legal Service of the Intellectual Property Right:

• Legal Discrimination: To discriminate the infringement of the intellectual property and/or the infinging products, to advise on what measures to take to protect the right efficiently, and to present the proposal in accordance the the client’s request.
• Legal Litigation: To co-operate with large lawyer’s firms to deal with the litigation of the intellectual property on behalf of the client.
• To provide the service of information collection of the intellectual property state, the infringement cases, and the investigation of the specific product in China.

Case I.Protection of Intellectual Property Right:

A certain American company is one of the 500 largest enterprises. The cosmetics it manufactures are very popular with the consumers. But since 2002, a great deal of counterfeit products has appeared in China, especially in Guangdong area. After we undertaking the commission, we set up a special investigation group to coordinate the local liaisonmen with the thorough investigation of the major professional markets in Guangdong and found out several counterfeit source factories. On November 10, jointly with the government executives concerned, we seized over 1,000 boxes of counterfeit cosmetics in site, evaluated the related statistics, and provided the entruster with a detailed written report.

Case II. Protection of Intellectual Property Right:

On June 20, 2004, we co-operated with the government departments concerned to smash a factory which had counterfeited printing ink boxes of a certain corperation, a colour printing factory, and a store-house for end products, seizing over 20,000 counterfeit printing ink boxes worth two million yuan in the open market.