PATENT PROSECUTION

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Invention harvesting

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Global preparation and prosecution

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Portfolio planning

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Prior art search

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Process and docketing control

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Quality control

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Annuity fee maintenance

Our team members have a wide range of technical backgrounds, including electronics, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, IC, optoelectronics, software, semiconductors, machinery, new energy, chemical engineering, materials science, biomedical engineering, medical devices, and biotechnology. The team can also provide customized IP service to corporations, including:

For corporations with established in-house patent operation, Purplevine can improve and optimize their process in areas such as strategic portfolio planning, patent and risk analysis, invalidity challenges and defense, litigation, and patent transactions;

For start-up and early-stage corporations, the team can help establish and manage their in-house IP operation, including invention harvesting, patent drafting, prosecution, patent and risk analysis, invalidity challenges and defense, litigation and patent transactions.

Purplevine IP Group provides a wide base of well-known Chinese and international clients with patent prosecution services. The efficiency and quality of our services have been well recognized by our clients.

CSOT

The only designated IP provider.

YMTC

Supplier highly recognized by YMTC.

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SF

One of SF’s key suppliers.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

AI field

With an intimate knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI), we maintain a long-term partnership with the world’s best enterprise-level AI laboratories. With years of engagement in AI patent layout and preparation, we have gathered rich experience in patenting core technologies in the field, particularly computer vision, voice recognition, natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and autonomous driving; and we have delivered a plurality of high-value AI patents to world-class enterprises and labs, and hereby garnered customer recognition and confidence.

Internet technology field

Adept in Internet technology patenting, our patent agency team, as a constant partner to Internet-based titans, have gathered rich experience in this respect. With insight into inventive products and advanced technologies in the Internet such as cloud technology, blockchain, and big data analysis, we have helped customers obtain a stream of high-value patents and hereby established a reputation in the industry.

Bio-pharmaceutical field

With background in biology, chemistry or medicine, our bio-pharmaceutical team has a perfect mastery of macromolecular and micromolecular drugs and preparations thereof, and clinical drug application. Over half of the team members have experience of technology R&D in pharmaceutical enterprises.
Our team once held the fort for a genetic testing startup with international background with respect to patent layout and application. Collecting and studying mountains of technology R&D materials in English of the startup, our patent agents developed a full understanding of its innovation achievements and practical needs and managed patent layout and protection of all core technologies concerned from various angles. With such efforts, the client was granted a train of invention patents within a year. Besides, the client’s early cancer screening product was successfully launched under our potent protection of IPRs.

For more details, please consult: IP_MARKETING@PURPLEVINEIP.COM

IP CONSULTING

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Strategic patent planning and mapping

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Innovation research and intelligence

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Competition and risk analysis

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FTO analysis/design around

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High-value patent mining

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IP due diligence

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Initial Public Offering- related patent services

Practice Area

Our analysis and consulting team consists mostly of members with backgrounds in corporate intellectual property management and patent examination. They have collectively handled over a thousand patent cases and established specialized teams in various industry sectors including panels, semiconductors, the Internet of Things (IoT), new energy vehicles, medical devices, and medical AI. These specialized teams are dedicated to providing high-quality and consistent professional services to clients from different fields.

One-stop global IP services

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Analysis

Planning and Mapping

Prosecution

Monetization

Overseas IP risk analysis & management

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Overseas IP risk analysis

China countermeasure strategies

Global IP litigation and licensing negotiation

IP services in M&A

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Intellectual property due diligence

Intellectual property agreement

Intellectual property dispute resolution

Intellectual property-related financial data

IPO related patent services

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Proactive resolution of intellectual property issues

IP risk management

Harvesting and strategic filing for high-value patents

Pre-IPO planning

Customized services

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IP training

Strategic planning

IP management optimization

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REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

PV enterprise

With comprehensive and thorough knowledge of the product technology, our consulting team built a reusable patent database compatible to updates with accuracy and recall ratio of retrieval strictly controlled, for continuously keeping the client abreast of patent risks and layout information in time;

Relying on the database, we delve into the client’s rivals regarding their patent layout in particular, while furthering communication and discussion with tech professionals across the client’s R&D project teams and production lines. With a complete patent layout, the client is set to fight against any IP risks that may arise in the future.

Bio-pharmaceutical company

Our consulting team analyzed and assessed patents with potential risks recognized within a short space of time, along with multi-patent stability analysis and assessment, infringement comparison and determination of unrecognizable high-risk patents, and study and lawsuit prospect analysis on high-risk predecessors. In terms of risk response, we do the trick and hereby win favorable feedback.

An automotive radar startup

Catering to the client’s needs for proprietary technology protection and patent risk evasion, Purplevine tailored the following services:

Lay down a technology roadmap cleverly eluding from all related patents upon survey on Chinese patents of competitors, national or international;

Handle patent mining and layout planning with proposals for patent application for protection of proprietary technology;

Do a good research on the orientation and roadmap of patent development of each leading competitor, national or international, for reference of future R&D work;

Deeply dig into patent layout of all competitors, national or international, and demonstrate the client’s merits in the technical field in front of investors.

For more details, please consult: IP_CONSULTING@PURPLEVINEIP.COM

IP MONETIZATION

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Patents incubation and investment

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Portfolio evaluation

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Patent transaction and technology transfer

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Patent-backed financing

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Patent Securitization

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Patent monetization fund

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Patent alliance & pool

Practice Area

Focused Strategic Industries

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Leveraging our deep industry roots and insight to technological innovations in strategic industries, we are able to gain unique access to many high-value patent transaction opportunities across the globe.

Comprehensive and Efficient Professional Services

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With expertise in technology, law, marketing, management and finance, our elite international team can provide clients with one-stop comprehensive services in high-value patent coverage, selection, evaluation, transaction and monetization. Our network of patent agencies, monetization companies, investment funds and law firms are seamlessly connected to serve all of our business needs.

Innovative Patent Monetization Model

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We help our clients with patent monetization in various ways, including high-value patent incubation and investment, patent-based financing and securitization, monetization funds, patent alliance, patent pools, aiming to promoting localized development through combining portfolio, patents investment, and supply chain cooperation.

Global Eco-system

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We maintain close working relationship with leading companies in global high-tech industries, international IP organizations, appraisal firms, investment institutions, law firms, industry associations, local governments, judicial bodies, research institutes, media and international standard organizations.

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

Patent acquisition

Keywords：custom traceability, patent transaction

The client is a world-leading communication company with foray into other emerging industries. To accelerate new business development and promote industrial influence while minimizing patent risks in new industrial areas through advance recognition of the risks, the client entrusts Purplevine to investigate patent competitors and finalize deals in patent purchasing.

Patent cross-licensing

Keywords：patent licensing, global litigation

The client is a leading mobile handset enterprise. As a certain multinational competitor threatens to take legal actions around the world against the client in SEP dispute, the client expects Purplevine to render comprehensive services from case management to cross-licensing planning.

Patent pool founding and operation

Keywords：patent pool, patent alliance

The client is a leading enterprise in the storage industry, which expects and entrusts Purplevine to work out a roadmap for new storage technology development, patent standardization and industrial standardization and program for organizing a patent pool for relevant new storage technologies

Patent pledge financing

Keywords：patent evaluation, pledge financing

The client is a leading optic-electronic display enterprise in request for capital market valuation. It is intended to blaze a new trial for IP financing through valuation of its technologies and patents accumulated over the years and application of patent pledge financing and other integrated programs.

For more details, please consult: IP_MARKETING@PURPLEVINEIP.COM

LICENSING & LITIGATION

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Licensing/litigation strategy planning

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Infringement and stability analysis

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Investigation and evidence collection

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Licensing negotiation support

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Administrative enforcement

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Global litigation management

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Countermeasures in China and the U.S.

Practice Area

Strategic Planning and Global Management

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Rich experience in managing global licensing and litigation matters: We have managed over 50 patent litigation cases worldwide, and we take particular pride in being able to provide comprehensive and innovative solutions in resolving our clients’ IP global disputes.

We provide our clients with professional, efficient, and practical strategies, and we can team with external counsels to carry out overseas litigation strategy in a cost-effective manner. We offer flexible and customized fee arrangements to fulfill different needs of our clients.

Vast experience in bringing counterclaim litigation in China: We assist our clients in re-gaining leverage by taking legal actions in China as countermeasures.

Flexible Licensing Negotiation Strategy and Integrated Solution

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We excel at utilizing our industry experience and business network to reach favorable licensing results for our clients.

We excel at creating win-win solutions for our clients with their counterparts by deploying flexible patent monetization measures.

We excel at conducting licensing negotiations and providing strategic counseling to help our clients obtain favorable licensing or settlement terms.

Building World-class Litigation Defense Network

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We are a member in a top global lawyer cooperation network organized by China’s IP organizations, covering the world’s leading law firms in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, etc.

Our licensing & litigation team comprises former members of top-notch law firms and corporate legal departments. With profound legal background and practical industry experience, as well as deep understanding of both Eastern and Western cultures, they can fully understand and address the needs of Chinese multi-national companies caught in a complex overseas IP dispute.

Through intensive and unimpeded cooperation and communication with top law firms worldwide, we are able to provide one-stop services to Chinese enterprises in coping with complicated international IPR disputes, 24/7.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

Ericsson v. Purplevine’s Client

Overview: Purplevine represents a leading global communication company in a patent litigation brought by Ericsson in the Eastern District of Texas (“EDTX”). At the beginning of case, our client successfully invalidated four of five patents-in-suit, and filed a motion for summary judgement for the remaining patent on the ground that the asserted claims were ineligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The EDTX denied the motion, and the case proceeded to trial, where the jury ruled that the client infringed Ericsson’s patent and awarded $110 million compensation. Upon Purplevine’s suggestion, the client decided to appeal the case to the US Court of Appeals (“CAFC”). In April 2020, the CAFC accepted our argument and ruled that the remaining patent is ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Such ruling vacated the EDTX’s $110 million damage judgement against our client.

NPE v. Purplevine’s Client

Overview：Purplevine’s client was sued for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court by an international NPE (Non-Practicing Entity). After taking over the case management, the Purplevine IP team conducted technical analysis and formulated litigation response strategies for the patent in question. In addition to fighting this NPE in litigation proceedings, the Purplevine team evaluated the feasibility of bringing IPR proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Finally, as a result of the PTAB’s investigation, the NPE’s ongoing patent infringement litigation may be suspended; if the patent in question is eventually invalidated, the damages arising from the series of lawsuits initiated will also be extinguished. The NPE chose to quickly reach a settlement with Purplevine’s client and filed a joint motion to stay proceedings with the PTAB.

Purplevine’s Client v. Its Competitor

Overview：Purplevine represents a leading panel manufacturer in a lawsuit against its competitor pending in China. While the case was ongoing, the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court accepted our request of freezing a large amount of defendant’s funds and declaring an injunction refraining the defendant from making products utilizing the paten-in-suit.

For more details, please consult: IP_DISPUTE@PURPLEVINEIP.COM

TRADEMARK & COPYRIGHT

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Trademark strategy planning

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Global filing & prosecution of trademark

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Trademark dispute & enforcement

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Post registration maintenance & management

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Trademark licensing & transaction

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Copyright registration

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Domain name & business name enforcement

Purplevine’s Strengths and Scope of Services

Vast pool of trademark resources

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Close partnership with leading trademark agencies worldwide

Trademark services with global perspective

Meeting the global branding needs of multi-national companies

Rich experience in trademark representation

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Majority of our cases involve international trademarks and brands

Our team has enjoyed unfettered access to the Trademark Office through the years

Our core team members have over two decades of aggregate trademark experience

Trademark process control

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Our process professionals are well-versed in the trademark process

We drive for cross-department collaboration to support high quantity and high-quality cases

We are specialized in helping clients manage trademark quality and costs

Legal risk management

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We closely monitor regulatory and legal developments around the world so that we can provide most up-to-date counseling to our clients

We can provide customized analysis and recommendations that are professional, effective and compliance-driven

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

Trademark strategy management

For a domestic medical device company, Purplevine customizes the following services upon competitor analysis:

Make elaborate analysis on marked competitors’ trademarks and deduce competitors’ trademark layout therefrom;
Work out a trademark management scheme and trademark strategy planning for the following 3-5 years in conjunction with the client’s trademark actualities;
Serve the client wholeheartedly and collect opinions from the client stage by stage, so as to meet the client’s needs in real time.

Integrated trademark management

For an international tech group and its affiliates in request for trademark protection, Purplevine provides:

Full chain and one-stop trademark service package, including but not limited to trademark layout planning, trademark risk assessment, trademark registration and application, trademark dispute and protection of trademark rights, trademark maintenance and management;
Personalized solutions with a view to the client’s specific business needs, in an attempt to gratify various requirements of the client and keep the client posted of results in real time.

Trademark opposition in China

Major concerns of the client: the target company plotted no trademark layout beforehand and consequently its former agency preempted registering the trademark.

Through meticulous analysis on the competitor’s information and exhaustive market research, Purplevine’s senior trademark agents collected evidence via various channels, demonstrating that the client has used the brand for over 20 years. The former agency registered the trademark in Taiwan in an unauthorized way. With corroborating evidence and ample reason, we helped the client successfully revoke the trademark registered by the former agency for performing relevant services.

For more details, please consult: IP_MARKETING@PURPLEVINEIP.COM