About Yizhou Intellectual Property & Law Firm
Shenzhen Yizhou Intellectual Property Operation Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Yizhou Intellectual Property Agency (General Partnership) – Code 44331
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Shenzhen, Yizhou is a full-service firm integrating intellectual property and legal services. We combine the strengths of a licensed IP agency and a professional law firm to provide clients with one-stop solutions covering the entire lifecycle of innovation — from creation, protection, and management to commercialization and dispute resolution.
Our Expertise
Patent & Trademark Services – drafting, filing, prosecution, invalidation, enforcement, and global portfolio management.
Litigation & Legal Services – IP litigation, commercial contract disputes, compliance, and corporate advisory.
Strategic Consulting – IP valuation, due diligence, market entry strategies, and government funding projects.
International Practice – partnerships with over 100 countries and regional offices in Nanning and Wuhan, enabling efficient cross-border IP and legal operations.
Our Strengths
Integrated IP & Legal Service Platform ensuring seamless protection and enforcement.
Multidisciplinary professionals across mechanical, electrical, software, materials, biotechnology, and chemical fields.
Proven record of high grant rates (82% invention / 98% utility / 99% design / 80% trademark).
Trusted by leading clients including CR Group, AOTO, and other innovative enterprises.
Our Philosophy
“Turning Knowledge into Productivity, and Innovation into Market Value.”
Yizhou — Navigating Intelligence, Empowering Innovation.
About Shenzhen Yizhou Intellectual Property Operation Co., Ltd.
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30 people in their team
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Practice areas
Intellectual Property
Yizhou’s Core Intellectual Property Services
Patent Services
At Yizhou, we provide end-to-end patent solutions that turn ideas into protected market assets.
Our team covers all major technical fields — including mechanical engineering, electronics, software, communications, materials, chemistry, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals — and delivers high-grant-rate filings through strict internal review and in-depth client collaboration.
Our patent services include:
- Patent search, drafting, and filing (China, PCT, and foreign jurisdictions)
- Office action response, invalidation, and appeal procedures
- Patent portfolio management and commercialization strategy
- High-value invention mining and R&D training workshops
Authorization performance: Invention 82% | Utility model 98% | Design 99%
Trademark Services
Yizhou offers comprehensive trademark solutions to safeguard your brand identity across borders.
We assist clients from registration to enforcement, ensuring that every mark aligns with your brand’s growth and market expansion strategy.
Our trademark services include:
- National and international registration (Madrid, EUIPO, USPTO, etc.)
- Opposition, cancellation, and dispute resolution
- Brand monitoring, anti-counterfeiting, and customs recordation
- Licensing, assignment, and portfolio optimization
Our goal is not only to register your mark — but to help it thrive and remain enforceable worldwide.
Copyright & Creative Works
As part of our integrated legal practice, Yizhou also provides copyright registration, licensing, and enforcement services for creative and technological works.
We help clients protect the originality of software, designs, content, and digital products, ensuring that innovation remains secure in today’s fast-moving creative economy.
Key areas include:
- Software and code registration
- Artistic and design work protection
- Licensing, royalty, and content use agreements
- Copyright infringement assessment and litigation
Integrated Legal & IP Solutions
Yizhou uniquely combines an Intellectual Property Agency and a Law Firm under one roof.
This structure enables us to deliver coordinated IP protection and legal enforcement, from filing to courtroom defense.
Our experts collaborate closely with attorneys to provide seamless support across prosecution, litigation, licensing, and corporate compliance, ensuring your innovations are both protected and monetized effectively.
Our Partners and Associates
Summary Profile:
YuXin is a seasoned intellectual-property professional, currently serving as General Manager of Yizhou IP. With more than 15 years of dedicated experience in IP services, she is a certified agent for leading technology companies, and brings a rich background in both domestic and international IP strategy and execution.
Career Highlights & Expertise
- Prior to her current role, she served as Director of the Domestic Software & Services Department, and subsequently as Director of the International Division at a major IP services firm. She also held the track of Deputy General Manager at the Shenzhen branch of another prominent IP-agency group.
- She holds a Master’s degree in Electronic Information Engineering from 哈尔滨工程大学, illustrating strong technical foundations which she leverages when drafting, prosecuting, and managing high-complexity patents, especially in software, communications and cross-border filings.
- Her core strengths lie in:
- Software & communications-technology patents (including coding, algorithms, wireless systems)
- Foreign-jurisdiction patent portfolios and global IP layout
- Patent-infringement risk analysis, patent re-examination and invalidation processes
- Industry/technology-landscape analysis and corporate IP-training programs
Distinctive Achievements & Client Coverage
- Certified agent for major global technology corporations such as 腾讯科技有限公司 (Tencent) and 华为技术有限公司 (Huawei), evidencing her fluency in high-end tech-IP matters.
- Has served a wide range of elite clients including: Tencent, Huawei, 平安银行 (Ping An), 迈瑞医疗 (Mindray), OPPO, TCL, 创维, 酷派, and Xiaomi’s ecosystem companies.
- Under her leadership, Yizhou IP has deepened its capabilities in global IP layout and enforcement, merging strategic advisory with high-volume prosecution to advance clients’ competitive edge in innovation-intensive fields.
Why You Should Work With Her
- Technical-to-Legal Bridge: Her engineering background enables effective communication with R&D teams and allows precise drafting of patent applications in technically complex fields.
- Global Mindset: With proven experience in managing overseas filings and cross-border IP strategy, she is well-equipped to assist companies expanding beyond China.
- Risk-Averse & Value-Driven: By combining infringement risk assessment, invalidation analysis, industry-mapping and training, she helps clients not only obtain protection, but derive commercial value.
- Trusted by Technology-Leaders: Her track record with top-tier Chinese and international tech brands underscores her ability to handle high-stakes IP portfolios.
Role and Contribution at Yizhou
As Overseas Market Director and Patent Attorney at Yizhou, Vigor plays a key role in bridging corporate innovation with practical IP and legal strategies.
Drawing on his extensive in-house background with major technology enterprises, he ensures that Yizhou’s services are deeply aligned with the real operational and commercial needs of businesses.
Vigor works closely with the firm’s management team, led by Ms. Zhang, to integrate enterprise-level IP strategy, licensing, and enforcement insights into Yizhou’s full-service platform—enhancing how clients plan, protect, and monetize their intellectual property across borders.
How He Strengthens Yizhou’s Client Services
- Enterprise-Driven Perspective:
Having led IP operations for large corporations, Vigor understands the challenges companies face in turning R&D output into valuable IP assets. He applies this insight to help Yizhou’s clients design patent portfolios that support long-term business goals. - Global Commercial Insight:
With deep experience in international licensing and patent negotiation, Vigor enables Yizhou to assist clients in cross-border enforcement, settlement, and technology transfer projects, particularly across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. - Strategic Integration of Legal + Business Thinking:
Vigor’s approach complements Yizhou’s technical expertise by adding a strong commercial and operational dimension, helping clients connect legal protection with tangible market advantage. - Collaborative Leadership:
Together with the firm’s technical and legal teams, Vigor leads customized programs in patent evaluation, FTO analysis, and IP commercialization, ensuring that each case is handled with precision, transparency, and measurable results.
Client Impact
Under Vigor’s guidance, Yizhou has strengthened collaborations with technology-driven enterprises, offering end-to-end IP strategies that integrate creation, protection, management, and monetization.
His corporate mindset allows Yizhou to serve clients not just as an IP agency—but as a strategic partner in innovation and business growth.
Philosophy
“At Yizhou, we don’t just protect ideas—we build bridges between innovation and value. Our mission is to make IP work for business, not the other way around.”
Candy is a highly experienced Patent Attorney at Yizhou IP & Law, specializing in full-cycle intellectual property management, patent strategy, and risk prevention. With more than 10 years of hands-on IP experience across technology, finance, medical devices, and advanced manufacturing, she brings a strong combination of technical depth and corporate IP operational insight.
Before joining Yizhou, Candy led major IP functions at Ping An Group, where she managed over 3,000+ patents, built IP management systems for multiple subsidiaries, delivered customized R&D training programs, and drove patent transactions worth over CNY 2.4 million. Her expertise spans patent drafting, invalidation, infringement analysis, FTO studies, high-value patent cultivation, standards work, and government project applications.
Her strong analytical background also covers frontier technologies such as AI, blockchain, quantum computing, IoT, and satellite communications, producing strategic IP reports that directly supported corporate decision-making and industry positioning.
At Yizhou, Cnady combines her enterprise-level perspective with professional patent-agency skills to help clients:
- Build high-value, forward-looking patent portfolios
- Identify and mitigate IP risks
- Navigate complex technical and legal bottlenecks
- Optimize cross-border patent strategy and commercialization paths
She is certified as a Patent Attorney, Technology Broker, Standards Engineer, and an expert recognized by the Beijing FinTech Industry Alliance.
Case results
Industrial Technology Patent Portfolio – Mineralized Water Project
Patent
Yizhou led the complete IP strategy and global patent layout for a leading mineralized water manufacturer.
- Planned and executed 139 patent applications, including 38 dual filings (invention + utility), 8 design patents, and 8 U.S. filings, covering product, interface, and control logic.
- Protected 93 core technical points through multi-dimensional claims, ensuring comprehensive market protection from hardware to user interface.
- Result: established a defensible patent portfolio and achieved 47% invention filing ratio, maximizing global licensing value.
Grid Protection Optimization – National Energy Client
Patent
Provided end-to-end patent and technical layout support for a major state-owned electric power enterprise.
- Structured a 25-patent portfolio on “Regional Power Grid Protection Optimization Considering Intrinsic Risks.”
- Combined algorithmic patents, control systems, and hardware protection methods to strengthen IP protection in automation safety.
- Result: reduced invalidation risks and ensured all filings met national high-tech enterprise recognition standards.
IP Litigation and Enforcement – Electronics & Display Industry
Intellectual Property
Acted for a global electronics supplier in multi-jurisdiction patent enforcement involving LED module technology.
- Coordinated cross-border litigation and settlements in China, Germany, and Brazil, working alongside local counsel.
- Achieved favorable settlement outcomes with global retail chains, securing long-term licensing and compensation agreements.
- Result: reinforced client’s patent strength and facilitated monetization through technology licensing and brand reputation recovery.
Trademark Protection and Enforcement for a Consumer Brand
Trademark
Represented an international consumer goods company in trademark registration, opposition, and enforcement across Greater China.
- Achieved successful reversal of opposition decisions and obtained registrations in CNIPA, EUIPO, and USPTO.
- Implemented a brand monitoring and customs protection program, effectively blocking counterfeit exports.
- Result: strengthened cross-border brand integrity and market presence.