CPA Continues to be Ranked Top Tier IP Firm in China & CPA Deputy General Manager Selected to Hall of Fame Again in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025
On 20 November 2024, the 2025 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific rankings was released. China Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd. (CPA) is pleased to report that our firm was ranked again this year a Tier 1 firm in China in both IP non-contentious and IP contentious categories. Thanks to long-standing industry recognition of our sustained professional excellence, CPA has been conferred these honours for many years in a row.
China Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd.
IP non-contentious：Tier 1
IP contentious：Tier 1
In Legal 500's editorial commentary, remarks on our firm read as: "Headquartered in Hong Kong, China Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd. has locations in Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai and assists its international and domestic clients with a range of non-contentious and contentious IP issues. The firm has specialised expertise in a number of different sectors such as tech, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing."
And some commendations from clients include: "Solid professional knowledge in communications-related fields, and good at handling invalid cases; Yanfeng Xiong has very unique insights in patent invalidation cases and helped our company successfully win many key cases." This year, Mr. Xiong Yanfeng, deputy general manager of our firm, was selected again to The Legal 500 Hall of Fame in the field of intellectual property, an award of the highest ranking and honour to outstanding lawyers who have received constant praise by their clients for continued excellence.
Hall of Fame: Xiong Yanfeng
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of CPA. After forty years' growth, our firm has developed into one of the largest IP agencies in China with about 230 patent attorneys, 40 trademark attorneys and 20 litigators, providing both domestic and foreign clients with comprehensive, one-stop, efficient, and high-quality IP legal services, among them prosecution, litigation, mediation, licensing, assignment, and consulting, in the areas of patent, trademark, copyright, domain name, and anti-unfair competition. In recent years, in addition to maintaining its leading position in the number of patent and trademark applications in China handled on behalf of foreign applicants, our firm has also been actively expanding its service to help domestic applicants with their patent and trademark applications overseas.
