Release time:2021-07-01 source:

How time flies! Panawell & Partners LLC (Panawell) is celebrating the 18th anniversary of its establishment on July 25, 2021.

On July 25, 2003, Panawell & Partners LLC was jointly founded in Beijing by Ms. Fenghua Wang and Ms. Cunxiu Gao, who previously worked for the patent management department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with years of patent practice and rich management experience. In the very first year, Panawell drafted and filed more than 300 patent applications. In the early days, the Firm mainly served the Institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Tsinghua University and other national first-class scientific research institutions in filing patent applications for their research projects.

In 2007, when China, in a critical period of reform and development, developed the national intellectual property implementation strategy to boost the IP innovation and application, it is imperative to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights. Facing the national strategic needs and to seize the opportunity to achieve even greater growth, Panawell ushered in the second-generation partners, who, well trained in European and American IP law firms and having worked in large renowned domestic IP agencies and the examination departments of the China National Intellectual Property Administration, have rich experience from years of practice in the IP laws. In the past, Panawell had developed its capacity of providing a full range of IP services to its steadily increasing foreign and domestic clients in increasingly wider areas of patent and trademark application, copyright registration, and IP right enforcement.

In January 2015, Panawell formally established the Panawell Law Firm to have further expanded the scope of its IP-related service provision to such an extent as to cover licensing, due-diligence investigation/inspection, trade secrets protection, domain name arbitration, and litigation. In August 2019, Panawell also set up a oversea branch in Tokyo and a domestic branch in Chengdu (provincial capital city of Sichuan) to meet the needs of the business development. The established branches have further extended the corporate service coverage, making its convenient and timely services available and accessible to clients domiciled away from Beijing.

Faced with the global Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the Panawell staff worked together strenuously and persistently at their posts, overcoming all difficulties,and performing their duties to the clients’ greatest satisfaction. As a result, the Firm did not stop working for just a single day throughout the pandemic in the year, and its business continued to grow steadily, serving its domestic and foreign clients and filing more than 1,000 patent and trademark applications for them in this extraordinary year alone.

To date, Panawell has grown from 6 employees at the outset of its incorporation to the present over 60 employees, of whom nearly 30 have their master and doctoral degrees and among whom more than 30 are patent and trademark attorneys, and over 10 attorneys-at-law.

Looking back on the past, the two founders have laid a solid foundation, and the second-generation partners have further expanded the areas of IP-related service provision, and all its staffs are fully committed to providing quality and professional IP-related legal services to the clients, with their excellent performance widely recognized and praised in the IP industry. Looking forward to the future, we are fully confident and determined to move forward, persistently upholding our corporate ethos of clients first and first-class service provision, and striving to provide our clients with even better services for the protection of their inventions and innovations.
 

Panawell’s two founders, Ms. Fenghua Wang and Ms. Cunxiu Gao


Staff gathering in 2008


Staff on the IP Promotion Day sponsored by Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office


Outing in the Wulin Mountain in 2011


Panawell Annual Carnival in 2016


The Huangshan Mountain Tour in 2016


The Journey to the Picturesque Guilin in 2018


Touring Luoyang in 2019


A Corporate Afternoon Tea Party in 2021


The Panawell Partners

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