Patents

Ling and Yang Intellectual Property strives to achieve for our clients the most effective patent protection in the most efficient way possible. All our practitioners have abstained advanced degrees in the technical fields and have published many papers in their technical areas. With many years industrial experience, we understand both the technical significance of the inventions and the business practice of our clients.

We thoroughly discuss invention with our clients and, when appropriate, help them think through alternative embodiments that might serve to broaden the scope of protection. We also work closely with them in the process of drafting their patent application, as input from the inventor can be critical in understanding the problem solved, crafting the most effective description of the invention and in obtaining the broadest claims.

Ling and Yang Intellectual Property provides the following patent services:

• Patent drafting, filing and prosecution of local and foreign patent applications
• Filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), including filing of National Phase applications
• Prior art novelty searches and analysis for patentability, infringement and validity opinions
• International patent portfolio management, analysis, augmentation, and improvement

Our Global Solution

Our foreign filing department follows the constantly changing laws in each country to provide consulting services to our client and teams with our foreign partner IP firms to help clients maximize their rights around the world.

Most of our practitioners are fluent in English and Chinese and familiar the patent laws in both the United States and China. When clients in the United States seeking for IP protections in China or clients in China seeking the IP protection in the United States, our practitioners have tremendous advantage to provide a global solution and services. The bi-lingual ability bridge the gap of the language, culture and patent prosecution practice easily. When preparing patent application documents, we can find out the translation issues in very early stage. During the patent prosecution, we can eliminate the translation needs to reduce the costs for clients. When interviewing the inventors or the examiners, we can articulate the points or arguments better through and around the language and culture barriers.