Dacheng Included in the ALB China Intellectual Property Rankings for Eleven Consecutive Years

On May 20, 2024, Asian Legal Business (ALB), the internationally renowned legal media, unveiled the 2024 ALB China Intellectual Property Rankings. Dacheng Law Offices, with excellent business abilities and a high reputation among clients in the intellectual property field, stood out and was listed again in Patents and Trademarks/Copyrights. Dacheng was selected in the two sections for the first time in 2014 and has been shortlisted for 11 consecutive years so far. This year, its ranking in the Patents section has risen by one level.

At Dacheng Law Offices, we are sincerely grateful to our clients for their long-standing trust and support, as well as to the media and industry peers for their recognition of our legal service capabilities. Moving forward, we will be motivated by this honor, translating our responsibilities into tangible actions. We will continue to leverage the strengths of Dacheng's global legal service network to provide clients with professional, comprehensive, timely, high-quality, and efficient legal services.

Ranked Practice Areas

Patents

Trademarks/Copyright

Intellectual property (IP) and technology innovation is one of Dacheng’s main practice areas, covering patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, competition and antitrust, telecoms, media, and technology (TMT), culture, sports and entertainment, digitization and data (metaverse and data intellectual property), life sciences and healthcare, and other related practices and sectors.

Dacheng’s professionals in the IP and technology innovation practice have graduated from top domestic and international law schools, equipped with a solid academic foundation and extensive practical experience. With diverse expertise in patent, trademarks, communications, media, healthcare and tax and finance, they offer a wealth of professional knowledge and industry experience. From the perspective of protection of intellectual property and technology innovation, they provide comprehensive solutions for clients, covering intellectual property’s application, operation, licensing, transfer and infringement litigation，assisting clients in navigating complex legal issues, optimizing the value of their intellectual property assets, and securing competitive advantages in the market.

With our excellent performance in intellectual property and technology innovation practice, Dacheng has been consistently recognized by Chambers and Partners, a globally authoritative rating agency as a top-ranked law firm in the Asia-Pacific/Greater China Region and Guide in areas such as intellectual property, competition law/antitrust, communications and media: technology and communications, data protection and privacy. We have also received multiple awards from the Asian Legal Business (ALB) as the Anti-Trust & Competition Law Firm of the Year and have been listed on its Patent, Trademark/Copyright rankings. Additionally, we have been listed on the rankings of China’s law firms by The Legal 500 multiple times in areas of intellectual property: litigation, intellectual property: non-litigation, antitrust and competition law, TMT, data protection, life sciences and healthcare. Global Competition Review (GCR) has awarded Dacheng China’s Highly Recommended Law Firm in Antitrust multiple times.  Many of our lawyers have been consistently recommended over the years by numerous domestic and international professional organizations such as Chambers, The Legal 500, ALB, Benchmark Litigation, AsiaLegal, LEGALBAND, LegalOne, Who’s Who, IPHouse, IPRDaily, and Lvxin News in the fields of intellectual property, competition and antitrust, data, and artificial intelligence."

Dacheng has represented numerous domestic first-ever typical cases, such as   the first commercial secret infringement case in which the Supreme Court ordered an injunction during the second instance trial，the first domestic GUI (Graphical User Interface) patent infringement case, the first GUI patent invalidation case and the first administrative litigation of antitrust in China. Many of the cases we represent have been listed as the 'Top Ten Cases，Annual Typical IP Case and the Excellent Case of Judicial Protection of IP by the Supreme People's Court and various provincial and municipal people's courts.

The 2024 ALB China Intellectual Property Rankings consist of two sections: Patents and Trademarks/Copyrights. The ranking results are based on the investigation and comprehensive assessments of such indicators as work performance, market share, team growth, client profile, reputation, and development momentum of intellectual property institutions.