The current Managing Partner at Deep & Far Attorneys-at-law, C. F. Tsai is the first patent practitioner in the country who both has technological and legal backgrounds and is qualified as a local attorney-at-law, and appears to be the sole one who has both passed bars in technology and law. After earning his marine engineering bachelor from National Chiao Tong University and getting extensively involved in patent work, he managed to finish his law degree from National Taiwan University and then his master’s degree in comparative law from Soo Chow University. He does not like me-too activities, and likes to perform excellent or value-added work.
Deep & Far Attorneys-at-law are prepared to provide the most valuable IP work for those clients who view their IP assets as invaluable. It provides competent IP services for clients across the world. The team is not just claiming provisions of the most valuable and competent IP services, but is eager to show its extraordinary competence.
Deep & Far values the quality of any work, just like life. The team states, “Without the best quality, we wonder whether we can permanently subsist. We never compromise with the quality.” Every work involving the protection scope of a patent application needs to be quality controlled by two tiers of senior reviews. It thus demonstrates that the firm maintains quality at all costs because it believes that clients will eventually appreciate the efforts and contributions it made and retain services after all because they cannot find better sources of service quality elsewhere.
Deep & Far Attorneys-at-law
According to Mr. Tsai, although it is difficult to define a certain kind of achievement or success, service quality should be the core factor for a real one. To somehow achieve or succeed in a short period may be totally different from reaping in the long run or for a lengthy period. To succeed or survive over decades or centuries, there must come together many factors because there must be challenges and troubles everywhere and anytime during the existence of life or business.
Deep & Far has won services from more than a fifth of the top 100 domestic corporations, in addition to a quarter of the hi-tech companies in the science-based industrial park located at Hsin Chu. From the international sector, it won services from Armani, Baidu, Beckhoff, BYD, CICC, Chep, Cypress, Dr. Reddy, Gleason, Grenzebach, Haribo, H & M, Infineon, Intercept, InterDigital, Lenovo, Lupin, Motorola, MPS, NovaLED, Oppo, Piramal, Schott Glas, SeeReal, Sun Pharma, Teva, Torrent, Toyo Ink. However, a bright past does not always guarantee a brilliant future because a changing environment always presents new or different challenging factors that must be addressed creatively. He says,
“The most important secret to how we tackled our initial struggles is to insist on the provision of the best quality and improvement of the service quality so that neither the client nor the competitors can find a criticisable loophole in the work quality we provide.”
A Complex Legal Issue
The most complex legal issue the Deep & Far team worked on is the validity of Taiwan Utility Model No. 4986, filed and patented in 1971, because it involved historical damage records and disputes until December 17, 2010. More than 50 civil, criminal and administrative court cases have been filed in this regard, and more than 200 judges have ruled in favor of the patentee. This firm represented the accused infringer to challenge the validity of the patent at issue in 1996. Deep & Far won two times in the very same cases at the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC), ruling that the Patent Office and the lower court were wrong. Unfortunately, the patentee made it possible that the Code of Civil Proceedings was amended in 2003 to stipulate that even if Deep & Far won the very same administrative cases, the civil damage cases could not be overturned and that it eventually lost the very same cases before SAC in 2010. Mr. Tsai recalls, “The weapons we had are merely justice in mind and the truth and our competence to show that the patent at issue should be invalid. Our efforts then brought lots of attention, sympathy, and admiration.”
Reason to Choose Deep & Far Attorneys-at-law
Most of the Deep & Far Attorneys-at-law services are related to IP, especially patents. The team is proud and confident in providing the most competent services. Because the claim is the core of patent protection and everyone tends to boast how wonderful he is or would be. At Deep & Far Attorneys-at-law, the team feels like taking challenges to show their extraordinary competence by receiving from the client, e.g.:
- A pending or granted patent specification for comments about how it can improve the claims.
- A pending patent specification without the claims for the firm to draft the claims for the client’s comparison with the original claims.
- With the firm the client is currently using at the same time, an initial disclosure based on which the team and the currently used firm can respectively prepare their claims so that the client can compare and find out which firm can provide the better claims.
The Past and Vision for Upcoming Years
Mr. Tsai sees COVID 19 as something similar to a kind of struggle or challenge the world met in the past. He emphasises that the firm only recognises that it likes and needs to stay with the virtues of perseverance, toughness, and courage related to cognition of quality services, and consigns the future results to the universe what it should deserve through adhering to such virtues.
He also adds that the philosophies presented above are very unique while the competition nowadays is getting heavier and heavier. Only time will tell or prove whether the team is unique enough to survive or prosper in extreme competition or a severe environment.
