Watson & Band, one of China’s oldest intellectual property service providers, offers agency and consulting services concerning trademarks, patents and copyrights, as well as enforcement and litigation services and commercial IP-related legal services. Its industry specialty lies in the fields of chemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, electronics, telecommunications, metallic materials and semiconductors.
Managing partner Jean Yang is based in the firm’s office in Shanghai. She specialises in trademark and copyright applications and litigation concerning anti-counterfeiting. Liming Zhang, Jianguo Huang, Cathy Wu, Joe Liu and Xiaobo He are other key partners.
In one IP dispute, the firm advised circular materials technology company Umicore in a patent invalidation case involving a ternary cathode material used in lithium-ion batteries. Another case sees the firm acting for Chengdu IXING Biotechnology in a graphical user interface (GUI) design patent infringement lawsuit.
China Post Technology, Hangzhou Deep Vision Technology, KEFUKAI Process Equipment (Shanghai) and TDK China are some of the firm’s clients.
