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Named where the client consented, anonymised where they did not. A cross-border patent dispute against a US company, a trademark case won on appeal, two patent-navigation studies on the public project record, and a litigation record that has run to the Supreme People's Court.

Cross-border patent dispute

Turning back a US patent-holder's infringement claim

A Xiamen technology company received an infringement warning from a major US automotive manufacturer. We compared the asserted patents against the product, judged the risk real, then examined the patents' own validity and found prior art capable of undermining them.

Outcome — Armed with that analysis, the client negotiated a favourable settlement and avoided the loss — then retained us for a full wireless-charging patent-risk review.

Chinese client vs US patent-holder

Pre-litigation validity analysis & settlement · Wireless charging

Trademark infringement litigation

Won at first instance and on appeal — platform held jointly liable

The client held five registered marks in Class 25 (footwear). A seller offered look-alike goods through a marketplace storefront, and the platform did not act on the cease-and-desist letter. We sued both.

Outcome — The court ordered the infringer to stop and pay damages and the marketplace to close the store, with the platform jointly liable. The judgment was upheld on appeal.

Chinese client vs domestic infringer + marketplace

Shenzhen Bao'an District Court; Shenzhen Intermediate Court · Footwear

Patent navigation — R&D programme

Mapping a crowded motor field before the R&D budget was committed

Three-phase induction motors are specified for peak load and then spend most of their life at part load, where power factor falls away and energy is wasted. Working for an induction-motor manufacturer in Fuzhou, we took the field apart patent by patent: where the Chinese and foreign filings sit, who holds them, which routes are already fenced off, and where the research is actually moving — winding and connection design, starting and braking, structural changes for heat dissipation and high-temperature service, forced-air cooling that can be maintained in the field, and rare-earth permanent-magnet materials.

Outcome — The study set the direction for the client's own programme — NVH performance, and the efficiency gains needed for the IE4 and IE5 classes — and for the patent filings that came out of it. Intenova is named on the project record as the patent-navigation service provider.

Commissioned by 福州万德电气有限公司, Fuzhou

Filed patent-navigation project (R&D activity) · Electric motors

Patent navigation — business strategy

Reading the whole solenoid-valve field before a medical-device maker moved on it

A solenoid valve inside diagnostic and treatment equipment is a small component with a long patent trail. We decomposed the technology, mapped where the Chinese and foreign filings sit, went through the litigation the field has already produced, identified the points where claims cross and infringement becomes possible, and read the competitors' portfolios for direction — the trend, the research hotspots, and the technical barriers already standing.

Outcome — The deliverable was a filing strategy built on what the field already owns rather than on guesswork, and a documented view of the IP risk that travels with an electric fluid-control product sold across borders. Intenova is named on the project record as the patent-navigation service provider.

Filed patent-navigation project (business operation) · Medical devices

Further matters our attorneys have handled

A sample of the dispute and litigation record behind the firm — anonymised, shown as evidence of capability rather than claimed as inbound work.

Source: firm profile 2026, attorney case record.

More inbound cases in preparation

Named inbound matters — oppositions, invalidations and filings for overseas brands entering China — are being compiled, with the client's name where we have consent and anonymised by industry and home jurisdiction where we do not.

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