The market notes that CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office has been working on more litigation in recent years and its active presence has nudged the firm up a tier on the patent contentious ranking. "CCPIT has been very active in litigation after Ma Hao became the president," says a rival.
Demonstrating its grasp of patent litigation, Ma led a team for Shimano, a manufacturer of cycling and fishing equipment, that sued sue two Chinese companies for infringing two of its design patents. As the products in question are not consumer products, the CCPIT team had to overcome difficulties in collecting evidence by obtaining evidence of offer-for-sale of the products in a trade show and in the companies' office, and to prove that the office belonged to the infringers as it had no industrial or commercial registration. Shimano won the first instance cases and the cases are now in appeal before Tianjin High People's Court.