Name of party: intellectual property agency, wuhanko lake (general partnership)
Unified social credit code: 91420100 ma7gnqj52w
Address: 58 light valley avenue, new technology development area, east lake, wuhan, hubei province off south
1 4th floor, 04th floor, fukusung medical park
Implementing partner: ion fei
Partner: ren fei, cebu
In may 2025, a natural person, xu, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for violating the personal information of citizens by the people's court of zhou county, shanxi province. In the course of the case, it was established that xu had illegally purchased business and citizen's personal information and that he had used the information purchased to register the patent operations of the state intellectual property office for a system account for sale. On the basis of this information, the national intellectual property office, in its further examination of the patent applications of the enterprises involved, found that there were more patent applications for the use of false patent applicants for information on behalf of the persons concerned, chen and liu, who had purchased the information from xu。
It was also determined that the current partners of the parties did not work full-time in the parties, but simply attached the patent agent's qualifications to the parties. At the same time, many patent agents registered by the parties did not practise their profession exclusively in the parties, nor did they write or review the relevant patent applications on their behalf, which seriously prejudiced the interests of the clients. During the period from july 2022 to march 2025, some of the patent applications filed on behalf of the above-mentioned persons were initially recognized as irregular and were withdrawn。
On 14 october 2025, the state intellectual property office served the person concerned with the notice of administrative penalties of the state intellectual property agency (the state secretariat's note (2025)). (xvi) informing the person of the facts, reasons, grounds and content of the penalties to be imposed by the administrative penalty and to be included in the list of serious breaches of trust for the supervision of the market and informing the person of his rights. Upon receipt of the notice, the party did not request a hearing within the legal deadline。
In conclusion, the national intellectual property agency (inip) considers that a person who rents a licence to practise a patent agency to submit a patent application for the fraudulent application of information relating to an illegal sale by a criminal person seriously disrupts the business order; a person who, in violation of the requirements of the patent agent's filing, fabricates a number of patent agents to practice in the institution by means of a “boarding certificate” and appoints the patent agent to perform the commission of the matter in the relevant patent agency letters, but the undersigned patent agent is a qualified person who is not actually involved in the preparation or examination of the relevant patent application, thereby seriously harming the client's interests. The above-mentioned acts, which constitute an offence under article 51, subparagraphs (viii) and (ix), of the act on patent agents, constitute a serious offence under article 25, paragraph 1 (e), of the patent agent ordinance, which is “absconded with serious consequences”。
In accordance with article 25, paragraph 1, of the patent agents ordinance, taking into account the facts, nature and circumstances of the offence committed by the person, the following penalties have been decided:
The licence of the patent agency of the intellectual property agency (general partnership) of lake wuhanko was revoked。
In view of the fact that the above-mentioned acts fall within the meaning of article 9, paragraph 2, of the act on the control of serious mistrust lists for the supervision of markets “to engage in serious unlawful patent and trademark agency conduct”, and in accordance with articles 2 and 12 of the act on the regulation of the control of serious mistrust lists for the control of markets, it was decided to include the institution of intellectual property agency (general partnership) of wuhanko lake on the list of serious mistrust lists for the control of markets, to publicize them through the national credit information system and to implement the corresponding regulatory measures. The period for inclusion was from 5 november 2025 to 6 november 2028. Upon expiry of one year, the person concerned may apply to the agency for the early removal of the list of serious breach and breach of trust under articles 16 and 17 of the act on the control of serious mistrust lists in the management of market supervision, to stop publicizing the relevant information and to lift the corresponding regulatory measures。
Within 30 days from the date of receipt of the decision on penalties, the person concerned shall notify the client of the termination of the contract of entrustment, the proper handling of the outstanding business and the procedure for the cancellation of the licence of the patent agent to practise it before the state intellectual property agency. If the person concerned is not in agreement with this decision, he or she may, within 60 days from the date of receipt of the decision, apply to the national intellectual property authority for administrative review in accordance with the law, or within six months from the date of receipt of the decision, initiate administrative proceedings before a competent people's court. During the review and proceedings, the decision was not suspended。
National intellectual property agency
5 november 2025
