ZYIP helps roaming WiFi enterprises break through the barriers of overseas intellectual property - from priority crisis to structural innovation protection

2025-11-19

I. Case Introduction
When a leading company specializing in mobile roaming WiFi services launched its global expansion strategy, it encountered an urgent crisis where its core patents were unable to be expanded overseas due to the expiration of the domestic priority period. ZYIP, through assembling a cross-departmental expert team, after conducting in-depth analysis of international regulations and technical solutions, successfully identified new structural innovation points and thereby established an overseas patent protection system. This not only mitigated potential infringement risks but also helped the client's products gain market premium, achieving a strategic leap from risk management to value creation.

II. Case Details
1.Customer Type/Industry:
A leading enterprise in the roaming portable WiFi industry, specializing in the research and sales of mobile communication equipment, currently at a critical stage of expanding into the global market.

2. Customer pain points/issue description:
(1) The 12-month domestic priority period for the core underlying algorithm patent has expired, making it impossible to directly submit an overseas application through the Paris Convention.
(2) The scope of the original patent's claims is extremely broad. Any modification would not be able to avoid the damage to its own novelty, resulting in a high risk of rejection for the overseas application.
(3) If the overseas products lack core intellectual property protection, they will be directly exposed to the infringement risks from competitors, and the strategy for the billions-scale overseas market may be hindered.

3. Solutions and Process:
(1) Comprehensive international regulatory review: The International Department of ZYIP completed the comparison and analysis of patent laws in 12 target countries including the United States, Japan, and Europe within 72 hours. It was confirmed that there was no legal feasible path to resolve this crisis through procedures such as "priority restoration".
(2) In-depth disassembly of the original technical solution: A team of original case lawyers was organized to conduct more than 3 rounds of analysis of the tree-like diagrams of claims, ultimately confirming that it was indeed impossible to design an avoidance scheme at the algorithm level to bypass the novelty barrier.
(3) Collaborative exploration of new innovation points:
Assign patent experts from the structure department to be stationed at the customer's R&D center, and work with the technicians to review the research and development process together.
Guided by the "functional module disassembly method", finally, in the antenna layout and heat dissipation structure of the product, an innovative point that had not been disclosed and was patentable was successfully discovered.

4. Achievements/Results:
(1) Successfully established an overseas patent protection network: Based on newly discovered innovative points, we successfully applied for and obtained a group of structural patents in the United States, Europe, and other regions, creating a legal "moat" for our products to enter the overseas market.
(2) Generated significant commercial value: The patented products achieved a 200% brand premium on overseas crowdfunding platforms.
(3) Established a long-term protection mechanism: We have established an "innovation patent exploration dual-channel mechanism" for our clients, ensuring that future core technologies can be protected in a three-dimensional manner from both the "algorithm" and "structure" perspectives simultaneously.

III. Case Significance
This case goes beyond the traditional boundaries of intellectual property agency services, demonstrating the ability to solve extremely complex problems within the established legal framework through cross-disciplinary technological insights and collaborative innovation. It not only provides a new solution for Chinese high-tech enterprises to overcome the "deadlock" of intellectual property issues during their overseas expansion, but also profoundly reveals that through the in-depth intervention of professional services, potential major crises can be transformed into opportunities for building future competitive advantages, achieving a strategic shift of intellectual property from a "cost center" to a "value center".

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