AFD China Intellectual Property Law Office

AFD China has a client-supporting team in Washington, USA, which helps bridge the time difference and respond to overseas inquires in a timely manner. We have built partnership with over 3550 associated foreign law firms across over 100 jurisdictions with which we have maintained wide and in-depth collaborations. Such close cooperation strengthens and diversifies our international capabilities.

Together with our partners, we assist a wide variety of clients in filing and prosecution around the globe. Among them are Fortune-500 enterprises like Nike, tech giants like Meta (formerly known as Facebook), and biotech companies with state-of-art products and technologies like Intercept Pharmaceuticals and Illumina.

With multi-jurisdictional experiences, we understand the subtle nuances among different legal systems and keep developing sophisticated approaches to deal with various issues and to produce suitable solutions for clients with diversified needs. Meanwhile, we are a multi-lingual team with excellent English proficiency and German, Japanese and Korean capabilities.

Because of the outstanding performance, we were recognized by the Capital Intellectual Property Service Association as a patent firm with strong international IP service abilities in September 2020.

Our services have been recognized by the industry and won awards in the surveys of several well-known overseas platforms. We are awarded the Patent Firm of the Year of China IP Awards in 2020, Patent Litigation Firm of the Year in 2021, Pharma, Biotech & Life Sciences Firm of the Year through 2021 to 2023, and Technology, Media & Telecoms Firm of the Year of China IP Awards in 2024 and 2025. We have been an Asia IP ranked firm in patent prosecution, patent contentious, and trademark prosecution since 2015, and in trademark contentious since 2020. We have been ranked in IAM Patent 1000 for Patent Prosecution and Strategy consistently since 2016, and were newly recognized for Patent Litigation in 2025. We are awarded IP Stars recommended firm in patent prosecution and patent contentious and trademark prosecution by Managing Intellectual Property every year since 2015. We are a WTR 1000 ranked firm in trademark prosecution and strategy every year since 2018, and in trademark enforcement and litigation since 2024.