Runping & Partners (R&P) cherishes a professional team with more than 130 staffs, comprising senior patent attorneys, trademark attorneys, patent engineers, attorneys at law, intellectual property counselors, and professional translators of foreign languages, their discipline backgrounds involve Mechanics, Electronics, Telecommunication, Electrics, Chemistry, Biology, Pharmaceuticals, Laws, etc.

The patent agents in R&P not only possess rich agency experience, but also master the technological knowhow in the art, they are apt at in-depth communication with R&D personnel in client firm, and adequately understand the technical solution and unearth the innovation points, fulfil a variety of intellectual property agent service entrusted by our client with high quality; meanwhile, our agency has sustained a favorable communication relationship with examination departments and Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of PRC, the agents can be timely informed of latest development of examination and standards of review by means of communicating with above-mentioned authorities, thereby ensure a high quality patent agent service of our agent firm.

With respect to the invention application case agented by Runping & Partners, the patent authorization rate is considerably higher than average level of our industry; as regards cases of utility model and exterior design agented by R&P, the rectification rate is lower, and the rate of obtaining direct authorization significant surpasses the industry’s average level.

Runping & Partners adopts a quality inspection system comprising four steps, namely “self-test of staff » check by supervisor » verification by Department manager » random inspection by Quality Supervision Department”, only if the four steps are accomplished, shall the document be sent to client or submitted to relevant authorities, such a thorough procedure is designed to ensure the high quality of documents.

Runping & Partners develops detailed and strict position regulations for each process sector, and coordinate the cross-functional work in every sector, so as to ensure our process management are interlocking and watertight. Our firm can closely check the three factors (i.e., documentation, time limit and fees) which are critical to the fate of intellectual property cases, thereby timely submit documentation, duly contribute official fees, and forward official notifications to client or present the documents to relevant authority in time. With respect to events concerning time limit, our firm will remind our client in many ways for a plurality of times prior to the expiration date, thereby ensure the normal operation of our customer’s cases and provide sufficient guarantee to the rights of principals.

Runping & Partners (R&P) has gone through an operation history of 10 years, the firm has revealed honest service and accumulated rich agent experience as well as powerful capability of handling with complex and difficult Intellectual Property cases, thus has won sincere praise and trust from domestic and overseas clients of prominent enterprises, public institutions, universities and colleges, research institutions and individuals by providing them with a wide range of intellectual property services.

R&P has been rendering intellectual property services to 400 plus domestic and overseas clients over recent decade, including Sinopec, PetroChina, CNOOC, Zoomlion, BYD, Shenhua Group, COFCO Group, Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group, Foton, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Nankai University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Institute of Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of PRC, etc.

In the meanwhile, R&P has established business contact with more than 500 intellectual property agency or law firm in 60 plus countries and regions, and has won widespread praise and confidence of our cooperative partners, our firm has offered IP services to some well-known transnational company, comprising Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Dell computer, Mitsubishi Gas, InterDigital and IKEA.

R&P is currently a member unit of "Zhongguancun Science Park Enterprise Credit Promotion Association", "Zhongguancun Digital Content Industry Association", “intellectual property affairs partner” of the China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (CASME) and China Trademark Association, and council unit of Magazine “Intellectual Property Rights”, in addition, R&P has been awarded “unit with harmonious labor relationship in Beijing” for several times.

Runping & Partners (R&P) has established a strict time limit management system, each work content of every employee shall meet its deadline to ensure that the inquiries from clients can be replied in time, the demands of clients may be satisfied as far as possible, the cases shall be submitted timely and documentations are forwarded to clients rapidly. The commissioned cases of exterior design and trademark application, if the documentations provided by the client are reasonably complete, can be submitted on the same work day. As regards the extraordinary urgent case of invention or utility model, R&P is also capable of submitting documents at the top speed to meet the requirements of our client.