Overview
With dual qualifications as attorneys and patent agents, Aquila provides end-to-end professional representation in administrative proceedings for patents and trademarks, including appeals against rejection, invalidation requests, and responses.
Our team is adept at handling complex and challenging rights confirmation matters. In patent reexamination, we successfully overturned the original rejection decision within ten working days for a well-known university's invention patent rejection appeal and have helped multiple universities secure withdrawal of rejection decisions within three months. In patent invalidation proceedings, we have successfully invalidated the core patents of competitors for multiple enterprises in their entirety and have secured wins in every one of the more than ten invalidation cases we handled on behalf of both domestic and international petitioners, vigorously defending our clients' innovations and brand rights.
Services
- Patent / trademark appeal against rejection
- Patent / trademark invalidation request
- Patent / trademark invalidation defense
- Trademark non-use cancellation / opposition and response thereto
- Administrative right confirmation strategy counseling
- Administrative litigation arising from patent / trademark reexamination or invalidation
Representative Matters
- Represented a German automotive parts company in filing an invalidation request against a competitor's core Chinese invention patent, successfully prompting the China National Intellectual Property Administration to invalidate the patent in its entirety
- Represented a leading Chinese university in an appeal against rejection of an important invention patent; the original rejection decision was overturned in just ten working days, and the invention patent was successfully granted
- Represented a Swiss group in a Chinese invention patent rejection appeal; the original rejection decision was withdrawn at the pre-review stage of reexamination, and the patent was ultimately authorized
- Represented a German engineering machinery company in a Chinese invention patent rejection appeal; the original rejection decision was withdrawn at the pre-review stage of reexamination, and the patent was ultimately granted
- Represented an Israeli wind energy equipment manufacturer in filing an invalidation against a trademark maliciously registered by a domestic distributor, successfully having the disputed trademark invalidated
- Represented a German grinding equipment company in defending against an invalidation action brought by a competitor against its invention patent, successfully maintaining the patent's validity