Watson & Band, Intellectual Property (PRC Firms) | Chambers Greater China Region Profile

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Watson & Band is an integrated legal and IP services provider that is represented primarily by Watson & Band Law Offices and Watson & Band Intellectual Property Agent Ltd. For many years’ running, Watson & Band has been named a top-tier legal and IP services agency in China by various authoritative international legal rating services.

As one of China's oldest intellectual property service providers with the qualifications as a foreignrelated patent agency, Watson & Band maintains a leading position in the intellectual property industry due to its extensive experience. Watson & Band's IP-related services cover agency and consulting services concerning trademarks, patents, copyrights and other new types of IP rights, enforcement and litigation services, and commercial IP-related legal services.

Watson & Band's IP practice team is made up of hundreds of professionals including lawyers, agents, engineers, professors, scientific researchers and senior consultants. IP services offered by Watson & Band encompass the fields of chemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, machinery, electronics, telecommunications, data, optical physics, automatic control, metallic materials and semiconductors, etc.

Our services in this area mainly include:

⚫　IP Agency and Consulting Services

⚫　IP Enforcement and Litigation Services

⚫　Commercial IP-related Legal Services

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Intellectual Property: Non-litigation (PRC Firms) - China

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What the Team is Known For

Watson & Band has a prominent IP practice with a client base that includes multinationals and domestic corporations. The team maintains a notable practice that regularly represents clients in patent, copyright and trade mark infringement matters. In addition, the team offers services on non-litigious IP work such as IP transactions and portfolio strategy matters. It combines its IP specialism with its general corporate and commercial offering.

业务优势

华诚律师事务所突出的知识产权业务拥有包括跨国公司和国内企业在内的客户群。律所保持了令人瞩目业务，定期代表客户处理专利、版权和商标侵权事宜。此外，该团队还就非诉讼性的知识产权工作提供服务，例如知识产权交易和组合策略事宜。该团队将其知识产权专长与一般公司和商事法律服务相结合。

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Work Highlights

Watson & Band represented eight companies, including Warner Bros., Sony and Paramount, in copyright infringement litigation against Reren Video concerning unauthorised film and television programmes on the platform.
Watson & Band represented JUKI Corporation in an invalidation filed by an applicant and acted for JUKI in the subsequent administrative litigation initiated by the applicant.
华诚律师事务所代表重机公司应对由某申请人提出的无效程序，并在后续由该申请人提起的行政诉讼中代表重机公司。
华诚律师事务所代表包括华纳兄弟、索尼和派拉蒙在内的八家公司，就人人视频平台上未经授权的电影和电视节目构成版权侵权，向人人视频提起诉讼。

Strengths

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It is a firm of high integrity and won’t sugarcoat anything that’s going on in the legal community in China. The firm has a great sense of camaraderie and a very high standard of performance.