LiangMa Law Firm

Liangma Law Firm is a double-certified boutique law firm focusing on intellectual property rights. It is a law firm approved by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Justice as well as a patent agency approved by the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China. At the beginning of its establishment, intellectual property rights have been the main focus of the firm. We have devoted ourselves to the field of intellectual property law.

Merits and Cerfitications

Member of the Guangdong Patent Agency Association

Member of the China Trademark Association

Governor of the China Copyright Association

Governor of the First Board of Governors of Shenzhen Nanshan Intellectual Property Alliance

Mentor of the Nanshan District Innovation

Deputy Director and the Members of the Intellectual Property Professional Committee of Shenzhen Lawyers Association

 “Outstanding Contribution Expert” of Shenzhen Science and Technology Association of Experts Service Center

Patent Department

Given that most of the Patent Department’s associates have engineering knowledge and come from a legal background, we can help clients defend their rights through litigation, industrial and commercial investigation, customs inspection, and e-commerce platform complaints; help clients respond to lawsuits and the e-commerce platform to deal with complaints; provide legal counsel on patent application; patent search, mining and distribution; patent analysis; patent evasion design; patent early-warning monitoring; product infringement risk analysis and assessment; systematic control of product infringement risks; patent reexamination; claim invalid patents ; reply invalid patents ; apply for patents for invention; utility model; design; compose utility model retrieval/evaluation reports; record patent exploitation license contracts; transfer and modify patents; apply for patent right evaluation report; and restore patent rights.

Trademark Department

Our Trademark Department consists of professional intellectual property lawyers and trademark agents. Our team has strong legal theoretical foundation and rich practical experience. Not only can we deal with the trademark right stage of the application, but all kinds of infringement of trademark disputes and litigation. Our working language includes Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, etc.  We provide high-quality legal services for our clients, including domestic trademark agency business, trademark search and inquiry, registration application, renewal, transfer, change, etc, trademark rejection review, objection, invalidation, cancellation of the application and defense, trademark licensing contract filing application, well-known trademark recognition; foreign trademark registration application, international trademark registration application, single country registration application: North America, Europe, south and central Asia, Australia and many other countries; trademark litigation services, trademark contract dispute, franchise contract disputes, trademark ownership and infringement, network domain name rights and tort disputes, Internet domain name contract disputes, trademark objection review, rejection of request for invalidation of administrative disputes litigation, trademark review, rejection of registration of trademark re-examination, cancellation of re-examination made by administrative litigation, counterfeiting trademarks, special criminal litigation, protection of trademark rights including customs protection, platform, complaints, administrative punishment, etc; trademark layout planning, enterprise trademark trusteeship, enterprise trademark strategic layout, enterprise trademark management and use guidance.

Copyright Department

The head of our copyright department is the President of South China branch of star entertainment law. We are familiar with copyright problems in the entertainment industry, internet enterprises and knowledge payment enterprises. Our copyright department provides a variety of services to our clients such as assisting copyright holders to defend their rights through litigation, industrial and commercial investigation, customs inspection and e-commerce platform complaints to assist our client in responding to complaints and also assist e-commerce platforms in handling complaints; enterprise copyright risk diagnosis; enterprise copyright risk prevention and control; enterprise copyright protection and application; copyright registration of works/computers; recording of copyright contracts; registration of copyright-related rights; registration of contracts for film and television products; registration of transfer or license of computer software copyright; change of software registration items and recording of copyright customs information.

Department of Trade Secrets and Anti-Unfair Competition

This department is headed by the director of the firm and provides clients with the following services: litigation on disputes over ownership of trade secrets; criminal proceedings concerning trade secrets; procedures for the administrative protection of trade secrets; establishment of enterprise business secret management/protection system; legal matters related to trade secrets in business license/transfer/investment/merger and acquisition; false publicity litigation and administrative reconsideration; litigation for defamation of goodwill; diagnosis of enterprise unfair competition risk; formulation of enterprise unfair competition risk coping strategy; civil action against unfair competition; anti-unfair competition administrative reconsideration and administrative litigation cases.

IP Agent and Annual Retainer

We are pleased to be engaged as IP Agents and legal advisors of our clients for general corporate legal services and services related to intellectual property rights. As IP counsel, we provide the following services: patent application, assessment reports, patent implementation licensing contract, change and transfer of patents, patent evaluation reports, patent restoration,trademark registration application, renewal, transfer and change of trademark. Among others, we specialize in the field of trademark review, including trademark objection, invalidity, revocation application, well-known trademark recognition,copyright  registration,copyright transfer, copyright contract filing and software registration.

International DepartmentAbout

Our International Department focuses on assisting Chinese enterprises to invest in global ventures and helps foreign corporations to operate locally in China. We provide cross border investment advice to overseas clients on investing and operating legally in China. We have rich experience in dealing with overseas clients. We are professionals in business and commercial laws, especially foreign investment law.