The seed industry is a strategic and fundamental core industry of the country, serving as a "chip" to ensure food security and promote agricultural modernization. Its healthy and orderly development relies on the solid support of professional legal forces. The Gaopeng Seed Industry Legal Service Team is led by Lawyer Wang Haiyang, who has been deeply involved in the research and legal services of seed industry intellectual property for nearly 20 years. As a highly influential benchmark professional team in the domestic seed industry field, it has gathered a group of composite professionals who are both familiar with the rules of the seed industry and proficient in legal practice. They have long been deeply immersed in various key links of the seed industry chain, deeply understand the special characteristics, complexity, and development laws of the industry, and can accurately grasp policy guidance, regulatory requirements, and legal practice points.
The team has always been based on the overall development of the national seed industry, closely tracking industry policy guidance, technological innovation trends, and the forefront of judicial practice, accurately understanding the legal pain points and demand difficulties of the entire chain of variety cultivation, breeding, promotion, planting, production and operation, resolutely abandoning the "pan legal service" model, focusing on intensive work in the seed industry field, forming a composite professional ability covering intellectual property rights, corporate governance, dispute resolution, administrative compliance, criminal risk control and other fields, and realizing the dual empowerment of "legal profession+industry awareness". Team services run through the entire life cycle of variety breeding, propagation, promotion, planting, production, and operation, building a closed-loop legal service system of "pre prevention, in-process control, and post disposal". We are committed to providing comprehensive, specialized, and refined one-stop legal solutions for various entities such as seed industry enterprises and research institutions, helping to strengthen the national seed source security defense line and promote high-quality innovative development of the seed industry.
Based on the customer's development stage, business model, and risk characteristics, the team adheres to a customized service path and tailors targeted, implementable, and efficient legal solutions. It not only focuses on solving current legal problems, but also provides legal support for the customer's long-term development, achieving resonance between legal services and seed industry development, and helping customers achieve high-quality development. Gaopeng is committed to building a high-quality team of seed industry lawyers with both industry depth and legal precision, with the core goal of "specialization, refinement, uniqueness, and innovation". With solid legal power, Gaopeng empowers the seed industry to innovate, upgrade, and achieve stability and long-term success.
Our legal services provided in Seed Industry area include:
Corporate Governance and Investment and Financing
- Focusing on the characteristics of seed industry enterprises, providing pre service services such as enterprise establishment, organizational form optimization, and scientific construction of equity structure, to consolidate the foundation of enterprise development.
- Customized design of shareholding models and equity incentive plans to help companies unite their core teams and stimulate development vitality.
- Fully support investment and financing transactions, provide due diligence, transaction structure design, risk prevention and control services, and promote the deep integration of capital and seed industry.
- Optimize the company's articles of association, improve the business decision-making mechanism, promote the standardization and normalization of corporate governance, and enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise.
Intellectual Property Protection
- Provide full process agency services for the application, registration, and renewal of plant variety rights, patent rights, and trademark rights, and establish a comprehensive intellectual property protection system.
- Professional handling of substantive examination responses, corrections, re examinations, and other matters related to variety rights applications, improving the success rate of applications and assisting in the transformation of innovative achievements.
- Efficiently respond to disputes over variety ownership and infringement, crack down on infringement through various means such as fixed evidence, administrative complaints, and judicial litigation, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of rights holders, and provide support for seed industry innovation.
Civil dispute resolution
- Focusing on handling various civil disputes in the seed industry, including intellectual property disputes such as variety ownership and infringement of new plant variety rights.
- Professional agency technology contracts, planting and recycling contracts, seed sales contracts and other contract disputes, accurately sorting out legal relationships and efficiently resolving conflicts.
- Properly handle civil litigation related to seed product liability and quality disputes, while taking into account the legitimate rights and interests of all parties, and maintaining a fair and just trading order in the seed industry market.
Administrative Law and Compliance
- Administrative review and litigation matters such as rejection, invalidity, and renaming of new plant variety rights, and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the parties in accordance with the law.
- Provide full process services for agricultural and rural department administrative penalty response, hearing, administrative reconsideration, and administrative litigation for enterprises, and properly handle administrative supervision crises.
- Interpret regulatory policies in the seed industry, assist enterprises in establishing a regular compliance management system, proactively avoid administrative regulatory risks, and achieve compliant operations and stable development.
Contract and transaction risk control
- We provide refined services such as contract drafting, review, and modification for core trading scenarios in the seed industry, including seed buying and selling, technology development cooperation, variety authorization, breeding and manufacturing, and market promotion.
- Focus on optimizing core clauses such as quality standards, inspection and quarantine, breach of contract liability, intellectual property ownership, and risk sharing, and plug risk loopholes.
- Provide legal due diligence, transaction structure design, and risk isolation solutions for major transactions to ensure transaction security and facilitate smooth transactions.
Criminal Compliance and Defense
- Focusing on criminal risk points in the seed industry, providing criminal risk investigation and prevention services for the production and sale of fake and inferior products, fake and inferior seeds, infringement of variety rights, illegal operations, etc., and building a full process criminal compliance system for pre prevention, in-process control, and post disposal.
- We provide comprehensive services such as pre compliance review, crisis response, post criminal defense and appeal, to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and related practitioners in accordance with the law, help enterprises avoid criminal risks, and achieve healthy and sustainable development.
