Asian Legal Business (hereinafter “ALB”), an authoritative journal published by the Thomson Reuters Group, recently published its 2017 ALB IP Rankings, in which Watson & Band took the lead in the Mainland China Trademark/Copyright Practice.

Watson & Band’s copyright & trademark litigation team has enjoyed brilliant achievements in recent years, and it has also taken the lead in rankings published by WTR1000 and Chambers. A number of Watson & Band cases have been selected as “Typical Cases” by the Supreme People’s Court, or the Beijing and Shanghai Higher People’s Courts or Intellectual Property Courts. A copyright infringement and unfair competition case involving the game Six Schools, for example, was selected as one of the 2015 Top 10 Cases Involving the Judicial Protection of IP Rights Heard by Shanghai Courts, and the “UL” trademark dispute appellate case was selected as one of the 2016 Typical IP Cases Heard by Courts in China, one of the 2016 Top 10 IP Cases Heard by Shanghai Courts and one of the 2015 Top 10 Innovative IP Cases Heard by Beijing Courts.

Watson & Band has also been recognized for its outstanding accomplishments in the area of patent services by the 2017 ALB IP Rankings.

ALB, a top-tier legal journal published by the Thomson Reuters Group, is one of most authoritative benchmarks in the legal industry. In order to publish fair and transparent IP practice rankings, ALB conducted comprehensive assessments of the candidates based on information collected from data, interviews, newspapers, periodicals and market recommendations submitted by participating law firms.