Linda Liu & Partners: Professionalism Makes the Difference

Linda Liu & Partners, established by Ms. Linda Liu in 2003, is a registered patent agency recorded with the Dongcheng District Administration for Market Regulation of Beijing Municipality and approved by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA). It is also a registered trademark agency with the Trademark Office under the CNIPA.

Since our establishment, Linda Liu & Partners has adhered to the principles of “Integrity, Credibility, and Quality Assurance” and embraced a people-oriented approach, valuing each client and uniting the expertise of our entire team. We are dedicated to delivering high-quality services while continuously enhancing our professional capabilities.

With our distinctive philosophy and exceptional service quality, Linda Liu & Partners has earned widespread recognition in the intellectual property field both domestically and internationally.

For over two decades, we have delivered comprehensive, one-stop intellectual property services to the clients from China, Japan, the United States, Europe, and beyond. Our expertise spans the entire spectrum of IP solutions, including: patent and trademark prosecution (filing, granting, and post-grant proceedings), patent document retrieval and analysis, trademark application monitoring and investigation, copyright registration, customs recordation, drafting and negotiation of IP-related contracts, and resolution of infringement disputes.

In patent and trademark prosecution, we are recognized for outstanding quality of application and responding to Office Action, earning consistent acclaim from clients. On dispute resolution side, our strategic approach to infringement dispute resolution has garnered widespread praise for its effectiveness and client-focused outcomes.

We also proactively undertake industry responsibilities by providing specialized Chinese IP consulting services to global intellectual property professionals and driving international IP collaboration. To date, the firm has published 8 IP-related books in Japan, authored over 100 professional IP papers, contributed extensively to IP journals in Europe and the United States, organized IP lectures and seminars across Japan, and hosted IP symposiums in China, inviting leading global experts to share insights. These initiatives underscore our commitment to fostering knowledge exchange and strengthening global partnerships in the intellectual property field.
 
Business Philosophy: Integrity as the Foundation, Quality as the Priority
 
“Integrity, Credibility, and Quality Assurance” form the cornerstone of our firm. Throughout client collaborations, we steadfastly adhere to the principles of practicality and realism, thoroughly and objectively assessing our professional capabilities and caseload capacity to reasonably accept client entrustments. Should any issues arise, we promptly provide clients with transparent updates and proactively seek solutions, resolutely rejecting any form of deception or dishonest practices.
 
Regarding quality control, our firm focuses on three key dimensions: High Quality, Reasonable Pricing, and Rapid Response. Through regular and ad-hoc client satisfaction surveys, we actively gather client feedback and refine our service strategies to meet evolving needs. This dynamic approach ensures our service quality consistently meets expectations, providing clients with exceptional value in intellectual property services.
 
Our Specialties: Professional Expertise, Unwavering Focus, Achieving Excellence
 
★Multi-post checking System to Strengthen Quality Assurance:              
The intellectual property industry demands exceptional precision and professionalism, yet human operational oversights remain inevitable. To ensure the highest quality in every task, our firm has implemented a rigorous and diversified checking system. Our checking process goes beyond mere repetition of prior steps; it involves in-depth analysis of each team member’s working style and tendencies to conduct targeted checks. Additionally, we employ a double checking system that integrates advanced electronic management tools with manual reviews, creating a comprehensive safeguard against errors and minimizing risks across all workflows.
 
★Strengthening Team Collaboration, Harnessing Collective Wisdom
Intellectual property services demand not only individual expertise but also seamless teamwork, especially when handling cases involving clients’ critical interests. For high-stakes matters such as reexamination and invalidation proceedings, technical appraisals, administrative mediation, and litigation, our firm establishes dedicated task forces. These teams leverage members’ unique strengths and foster collaborative brainstorming, significantly enhancing case success rates. This approach has earned widespread client recognition, reflected in numerous letters of commendation and gratitude.
 
★Upholding Client-Centric Values, Delivering Professional Excellence
Our firm steadfastly adheres to a “Clients-first” philosophy, prioritizing their interests above all. We emphasize multidimensional communication with clients, spanning insights into technology and law, personal ethics, and professional integrity, to deeply understand their needs and objectives. By integrating specialized knowledge with practical experience, we provide value-added strategic counseling that empowers clients to better realize the value of their intellectual assets. This collaborative approach fosters mutually beneficial partnerships, driving shared growth and achieving win-win outcomes for both clients and our firm.
 
★Optimizing Organizational Structure, Enhancing Management Efficacy:
Our firm is driven by a robust core leadership team that steers strategic direction and ensures steady progress. Supported by over 60 dedicated managers, this structure provides a solid foundation for sustainable growth. Our age-diverse workforce, spanning professionals from 30 to 70 years old, forms a balanced talent pyramid, safeguarding institutional stability and continuity.
In terms of management model, we adopt a dual-track approach integrating work quality management and workflow management, where seasoned attorneys concentrate on improving our professionalism while management core personnel focus on optimizing workflows, with both parties collaborating synergistically to deliver safeguards for client interests.
 
★Focusing on Talent Cultivation and Building an Elite Team:
Since our establishment, we have prioritized talent cultivation as a crucial strategy, consistently identifying and cultivating exceptional professionals. Guided by the firm’s philosophy of “Honesty, Trustworthiness, Quality Assurance, Efficiency, Loyalty, Cohesion, Cost-effectiveness, and Continuous Refinement,” we require all staff to observe professional ethics and be faithful to both the firm and clients while ensuring service quality, enhancing work efficiency, and fostering team spirit. Through systematic professional training and work ethic education, the firm has cultivated a large cohort of dynamic and ethically grounded core professionals who grow and thrive in tandem with the firm, forming the backbone of its sustainable development.
 
★Nurturing Cultural Heritage and Enhancing Comprehensive Qualities:
While advancing employees' professional capabilities, we place high emphasis on staff members' daily conduct, dressing etiquette, and cultural-recreational engagements, dedicating efforts to foster their ethical quality and cultural heritage. We staunchly believes that becoming a good person forms the essential foundation for developing into a good attorney, and excelling as an attorney serves as the critical pathway to becoming elite talents in the intellectual property domain.
 
★Strengthening Industry Exchanges and Promoting Shared Development:
We have consistently maintained amicable interactions with other entities in China’s intellectual property industry. Despite intense industry competition, we firmly believe that peer progress drives industry advancement, upholding an open and inclusive philosophy. While rigorously safeguarding trade secret, we proactively incorporate successful practices from peer firms and extend support during critical industry needs, contributing to the collective growth of China’s intellectual property field. Simultaneously, we actively share our operational principles and cultural values with industry peers, fostering constructive engagement and mutual advancement within the intellectual property community.
 
★Deepening Multilateral Collaboration and Driving Industry Advancement:
We proactively integrate into the intellectual property ecosystem, engaging deeply in exchange initiatives with Chinese administrative authorities and academic circles while dedicating efforts to public welfare endeavors. In the course of intellectual property regulation revisions, we actively contribute ideas and proposals, participate enthusiastically in professional activities organized by agent associations and regulatory authorities, and contributes expertise to the standardized development of the industry; additionally, We proactively build bridges for Sino-foreign intellectual property exchanges, introducing international agency experts and scholars to IP-related regulatory authorities and research associations in China to facilitate cross-border knowledge sharing and accelerate the internationalization process of the intellectual property industry.