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ip legal skills for China

China's intellectual property system has undergone significant institutional consolidation — the National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) now oversees patent, trademark, and geographical indication registration — while the specialized IP courts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou handle high-value disputes with increasing technical sophistication. Working in this environment means navigating both domestic filings and the strategic interplay with international frameworks such as the PCT and the Madrid System, alongside a enforcement landscape where customs recordal, administrative raids, and civil litigation often run in parallel. The agent-ready legal skills for China IP in the ThomasMore catalog are built around these realities, covering patent prosecution, trademark clearance and portfolio management, copyright analysis, trade secret protection, and infringement strategy.

Each skill runs over MCP or downloads into your existing workflow, letting an AI agent draft a CNIPA office-action response, map a licensing agreement against Chinese contract and IP statutes, or structure an enforcement sequence across administrative and judicial channels. The ThomasMore catalog organizes these China IP legal skills by task, license, and author, so practising counsel can locate a precise capability rather than a generic template. As CNIPA examination guidelines and the IP courts' evolving case law develop, open-source contributors maintain the skills to reflect current practice. Use the filters above to narrow by the right skill type for your next China IP matter.