On the evening of January 12^th, the Award Ceremony and Banquet for the 9th China International IP New Year Forum & the 2019 Annual Conference of In-house IP Managers in China was held at the JW Marriot Hotel in Beijing. At the Ceremony, awards including “2018 Outstanding IP Service Team in China” and “2018 Outstanding IP Managers in China”, among others, were announced.

The annual appraisal and selection of Outstanding IP Service Teams in China is hosted by China Intellectual Property magazine. In order to comprehensively and impartially evaluate the overall capacities of the candidate teams, this year’s appraisal started with the practices and expertise advantages of candidate IP services teams, and it applied a method combining special index rankings with comprehensive interviews and reports. With our professional quality, outstanding performance and good reputation, Watson & Band stood out from the other candidates and received the award “2018 Outstanding IP Service Team in China” for the third time.