Recently, Watson & Band Law Offices appeared in the Patents list of the ALB 2017 IP Rankings published by the Asian Legal Business Journal (“ALB”), which belongs to Thomson Reuters.

The W&B IP litigation team has achieved remarkable results so far in 2017, allowing W&B to remain at the top of various renowned domestic and international law firm rankings issued by respected organizations such as the Chambers and Partners Asia/Pacific Legal Rankings and the WTR World Trademark Review. In recent years W&B has represented clients in a series of prominent patent litigation cases that significantly impacted the IP industry. These cases included two invention patent infringement cases -- one in which SMC sued Bouri Pneumatics and one involving Juki Corporation.

Asian Legal Business (ALB) is a world-class legal journal published by the Thomson Reuters Group, and it is regarded as one of the authoritative benchmark rankings systems in the legal world. The ALB IP Rankings include leading Asian IP law firms based on data taken from information forms, interviews and market surveys. It covers most Asian countries including China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.