Recently, Asian Legal Business (ALB), a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, announced the "Intellectual Property Rankings 2020" list, and Jingtian & Gongcheng once again made the list in the "trademark/copyright" field.
This ranking list of intellectual property rights is made by ALB based on comprehensive evaluation of performance declaration, interview and editorial department market evaluation. This year is the fourth consecutive time that Jingtian & Gongcheng has been listed on the ALB Intellectual Property List since it was first selected in 2017, which fully reflects the high recognition of Jingtian Gongcheng's service level, team ability and development speed in the field of intellectual property by third-party professional institutions and markets.
The IPR team is oriented to protect clients' business interests, providing clients with a full range of legal services in the field of IPR, and assisting clients in coping with major business challenges arising from technological innovation and competition.
The business scope of the IPR team covers the fields of patents, copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition related to intellectual property rights and anti-monopoly. The team is able to customize and provide various litigation and non-litigation services including intellectual property investment risk assessment, intellectual property litigation resolution and intellectual property management strategy design according to the special business needs of clients, and has outstanding achievements in many subdivision areas, which are widely recognized by professional rating agencies in the legal industry and the market. In addition to four consecutive years on the ALB Intellectual Property Rankings, Jingtian & Gongcheng has also won the Legal 500, Asialaw Profiles, Benchmark Litigation "Intellectual Property" recommended law firm. A number of partners in the field of intellectual property were awarded "ALB China Top 15 Intellectual Property Lawyers" and "International Trademark Review" was recommended lawyers.
In recent years, the representative items of Jingtian & Gongcheng in the field of intellectual property include: a series of patent infringement and invalidation cases between Samsung and Huawei, a case in which Huawei filed an invalidation application for a standard patent owned by InterDigital and a case in which FRAND fee dispute was involved, a case in which YY Live Broadcasting was involved in a game copyright dispute with a game company, a case in which Jin Yong sued Jiangnan for copyright infringement and unfair competition dispute, a Chinese-authorized project of such top international museums as the British Museum of Great Britain, the National Gallery of British Art, V&A and the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the United States and the Boston Art Museum, providing legal services relating to intellectual property rights for the United Nations Global Compact Organization, providing trademark infringement litigation agency services for the China Duty-free Goods (Group) Co., Ltd., providing legal consultancy services relating to intellectual property rights for the Agricultural Economic Law Research Society of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural Rule of Law Research Office, and providing legal consultancy services for Universal Music Copyright Management Group (UMG) in China.
Jingtian & Gongcheng thanks clients and partners for their trust and support. The firm will continue deepening its level of service and expanding its areas of service in the IP field, nurturing and recruiting IP talent so as to provide clients with even better IP services.
