Intellectual Property: Litigation (PRC Firms)
Greater China Region Guide 2024 : China
Band 4
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Provided by Watson & Band
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
Chambers Review
Watson & Band has a prominent IP practice with a client base that includes multinationals and domestic corporations. Its client roster comprises Giorgio Armani, Chengdu IXING Biotechnology and General Electric Company. 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 offerings.
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。其客户名册包括乔治阿玛尼、成都爱兴生物科技与通用电气。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。
Work Highlights
- Watson & Band acted for Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support in patent invalidation against a competitor related to a water treatment equipment.
- Watson & Band defended Chengdu IXING Biotechnology in a design patent infringement lawsuit regarding a GUI design. IXING received a favourable result before the Beijing IP court and the plaintiff's subsequent appeal was rejected by the Supreme People's Court.
- 华诚律师事务所代表威立雅水务技术处理针对其水处理设备市场的竞争对手的专利无效事宜。
- 华诚在一项涉及图形用户界面（ GUI） 设计的外观设计专利侵权诉讼中，为成都爱兴生物科技进行辩护。爱兴公司在北京知识产权法院取得了有利的结果，而对方随后的上诉被最高人民法院驳回。
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The fantastic team has done work exemplarily; it thinks strategically and acts with speed and thoroughness. It is driven by achieving good results and completing tasks within a very reasonable budget."
“这个优秀的团队出色地完成了工作，具有战略性思考。业务效率高而周全，以取得好的结果为基准，在非常合理的预算内完成任务。”
"The fantastic team has done work exemplarily; it thinks strategically and acts with speed and thoroughness. It is driven by achieving good results and completing tasks within a very reasonable budget."
“这个优秀的团队出色地完成了工作，具有战略性思考。业务效率高而周全，以取得好的结果为基准，在非常合理的预算内完成任务。”
Notable Practitioners
Tang Guohua focuses on patent work in the chemical area. He is skilful in handling applications and invalidations for foreign companies.
汤国华先生专注于化工领域的专利工作。他擅长代理外国公司的申请和无效程序。
