One customer who got we started

In mid-2001, a customer who needs about 10 China patent applications per year approached us, see what we can help. We took off as a practice to enlarge our coverage of legal and consultancy services. We also need to see what additional resources we need in order to provide values to this and other customers.

We need technicians for drawings, we need experience patent attorney to handle China filing, we need to plan to expand after this customer. We did feasibility study and a simple business plan with financial projection, and we kicked off.

First we decided to have associates in China to handle patent filing, we leveraged on one of our sister company who have draftmen in China. The small office was based in Hong Kong to work with customers in US and Hong Kong. This was the plan and we need to execute it quickly for the first batch of works.