RichIP Group is pretty good at handle Intellectual Property (IP) cases, specifically Patent and Trademark. RichIP Group can offer various professional IP services for local and foreign clients to seek global protections with competitive fees, including, but not limited to, applying for a patent or trademark registration, maintaining a patent or trademark registration, enforcing a patent or trademark right, dealing with IP cases under dispute, and providing appropriate solutions for IP difficulties. In addition to abundant practical experience, the senior experts of RichIP Group are familiar with various theories, and have delivered patent training courses and lectures to IP judges, patent examiners, patent attorneys, patent counselors, universities and research institutes in Taiwan and China for more than two decades.

Professional Background

The members of RichIP Group include Patent and Trademark Agents, Patent Engineers and Patent Administrators, and their educational backgrounds include Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. majored in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Industrial Design, Mechanics, and/or IP Right.

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Primary Service Area

  • Patent
  • Trademark

Patent

【General Business】

Evaluation for Patent Application
Is it suitable to protect your creation by a patent system?
Creator’s creation is a kind of wisdom fruit, but it cannot be necessarily protected by a patent system.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to determine whether their creations can be protected by a patent system; and
2. Provide suggestions on how to protect their creations, if applicably.
Patent Application
Do you know how to apply for a patent?
Patent application is so critical because it is the first step of seeking protection of a patent right.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to prepare patent application documents necessary for each interested country or region; and
2. Help clients to apply for a patent in each interested country or region.
Response to Office Action
Do you know that an examination is necessary for a patent application case?
The patent authority may issue an office action to a patent application case for lack of patentability.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to analyze the examination opinions and provide suggestions; and
2. Help clients to argue against the examination opinions.
Patent Management and Maintaining
Do you know that paying annual fees is necessary for keeping a granted patent or a patent application case valid?
Annual fee payment is a measure of a patent system, but different countries/regions may have different rules.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to manage their patent application cases or granted patents; and
2. Help clients to pay annual fees regularly.

【Particular Business】

Patent Invalidation
Do you know that a granted patent right may be invalidated?
Under some circumstances, a granted patent right may be invalidated.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to invalidate other people’s patent rights; and
2. Help clients to fight against patent Invalidations raised by other people.
Analysis of Patent Infringement
Do you have problems of infringing other people’s patent rights or being infringed by other people for your patent right?
There are many infringement risks in the patent thicket full of infringement traps, so it is critical to carefully identify the matter of infringing a patent right or being infringed.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to evaluate the possibility of infringing other people’s patent rights; and
2. Help clients to evaluate the possibility of being infringed by other people for their patent rights.
Patent Training
Do you want to improve your patent ability?
In the case where industrial development engages closely with a patent system, enhancement of patent ability brings more competitiveness.

For this, we are able to:

1. Providing basis courses of patent theory or practice for ones who are non-patent practitioners; and
2. Providing advanced courses of patent theory or practice for ones who are patent practitioners.
Patent Portfolios
Do you know that a single patent right can only provide limited protection?
One single patent right may be enough for protecting one single specific technique, but it may hardly protect the whole commercial interests behind the technique.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to evaluate the degree of protection of their desired patents; and
2. Help clients to formulate appropriate strategies for patent portfolios.
Patent Searching
Do you know that patent searching is a goal-oriented task?
Depending on different needs or goals, there are different methods and strategies for patent searching.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to figure out their searching goal; and
2. Help clients to perform appropriate patent searching.

Trademark

【General Business】

Evaluation for Trademark Registration Application
Is it suitable to apply for a trademark registration for your interested design?
The sake of a trademark is to indicate the source of trademark owner’s products/services, and distinguish them from other people’s products/services; however, not all of designs are qualified for registered trademark.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to determine whether their interested designs are qualified for registered trademarks; and
2. Provide suggestions on how to apply for trademark registration, if applicably.
Trademark Registration Application
Do you know how to apply for trademark registration?
Trademark registration application is so critical because it is the first step of seeking protection of a trademark right.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to prepare trademark registration application documents necessary for each interested country or region; and
2. Help clients to apply for trademark registration in each interested country or region.
Response to Office Action
Do you know that an examination is necessary for a trademark registration application case?
The trademark authority may issue an office action to a patent application case for lack of trademarkability.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to analyze the examination opinions and provide suggestions; and
2. Help clients to argue against the examination opinions.
Trademark Management and Maintaining
Do you know that paying extension fees is necessary for keeping a registered trademark valid?
Extension fee payment is a measure of a trademark system, but different countries/regions may have different rules.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to manage their registered trademarks; and
2. Help clients to pay extension fees regularly.

【Particular Business】

Trademark Invalidation and Revocation
Do you know that a registered trademark may be invalidated or revoked?
Under some circumstances, a registered trademark may be invalidated or revoked.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to invalidate or revoke other people’s registered trademarks; and
2. Help clients to fight against trademark invalidations or revocations raised by other people.
Analysis of Trademark Infringement
Do you have problems of infringing other people’s trademark rights or being infringed by other people for your trademark right?
“Trademark goes ahead of market” is one of foresight strategies in the modern business management, so it is critical to carefully identify the matter of infringing a trademark right or being infringed.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to evaluate the possibility of infringing other people’s trademark rights; and
2. Help clients to evaluate the possibility of being infringed by other people for their trademark rights.
Trademark Training
Do you want to improve your trademark ability?
In the case where industrial development engages closely with a trademark system, enhancement of trademark ability brings more competitiveness.

For this, we are able to:

1. Providing basis courses of trademark theory or practice for ones who are non-trademark practitioners; and
2. Providing advanced courses of trademark theory or practice for ones who are trademark practitioners.
Trademark Portfolios
Do you know that a single trademark right can only provide limited protection?
In a dynamic market, one single trademark right can hardly protect trademark owner’s whole commercial interests.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to evaluate the degree of protection of their desired trademarks; and
2. Help clients to formulate appropriate strategies for trademark portfolios.
Trademark Searching
Do you know that trademark searching is a goal-oriented task?
Depending on different needs or goals, there are different methods and strategies for trademark searching.

For this, we are able to:

1. Help clients to figure out their searching goal; and
2. Help clients to perform appropriate trademark searching.