On February 6, the Shanghai Intellectual Property Services Association released on its official website the Notice on the Release of the List of Leading Intellectual Property Service Institutions (including cultivating institutions) in Shanghai. Watson & Band Law Offices passed the review for the first batch of “Leading Intellectual Property Service Institutions in Shanghai” and Watson & Band IP Agent Ltd. was selected into the list of the second batch of “Leading Intellectual Property Service Institutions in Shanghai (cultivating institutions)”.

With over 20 years of experience in intellectual property, W&B boasts strong competitive edge and high reputation in intellectual property related legal services. Its IP team has represented many cases, successfully enforcing IP rights for numerous well-known enterprises at home and abroad. The relevant cases were selected as yearly typical cases multiple times by the Supreme People’s Court, IP courts and local courts, earning W&B recognition and praise from many well-known professional media outlets around the world focusing on intellectual property, as well as several awards. W&B provides IP services in brand operation of enterprises, technical information, internal operation and management, external transactions and licensing for innovation projects, and many other fields, thus accumulating rich experience in making overall IP strategies, designing and constructing global platforms for IP management, IP standardization management, establishing rules and regulations on rewards and compensation for service inventions, as well as management and protection of trade secrets, IP transactions and licensing, operation of IP capitalization, etc.

Meanwhile, W&B’s IP team constantly endeavors to provide clients with services including patent application, review, invalidation, search, analysis, examination and evaluation, management of annuity, trademark application, opposition, examination and evaluation, search, analysis and strategy making, registration of integrated circuit, copyright and domain name, IPR protection by customs and other agency and consulting services. Moreover, W&B is now developing new business in patent navigation and layout, implementation of nation standards for IPR, innovation vouchers, etc. W&B has experience in an array of fields, including chemistry, biology, medicine, computer software, communications, data, automobile, mechanical manufacture, electronics and semi-conductor, with experienced and bi-lingual patent attorneys, trademark attorneys, technical personnel, experts and consultants, and professional technical translators in specialized departments. In recent years, W&B has received recognition from many well-known rating agencies for its IP agency and consulting services, especially in IP non-litigation sector, with several patent attorneys recommended by the ranking list in the industry.

In the future, Watson & Band will commit to providing comprehensive and one-stop IP services for enterprises in different industries, clearing the way for IP protection of such enterprises from IP mining and layout, to application for determination of ownership, and to protection, enforcement, transfer and transformation of intellectual property rights.