On 20 May 2022, Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business (ALB) announced the IP Rankings 2022. KWM was recognised as Tier 1 firm in both Patent and Trademark/Copyright for the 10th consecutive year.
KWM’s ranked practices:
- Patent, Tier 1
- Trademark/Copyright, Tier 1
Since its establishment in 2001, the KWM IP team has grown into a line-up of nearly 70 partners and more than 400 multi-disciplinary and legal professionals along with China’s booming IP industry. The team has a leading edge in patents, trademarks, IP litigation, IP transactions and other forefront fields of IP legal services. With years of effort, the team has always adhered to the original aspiration and kept forging ahead. As the country vigorously implements the national IP strategy, the team relies on the firm’s comprehensive resource advantages in terms of locations, platforms and a global network to improve our services from breadth to depth, and strives to provide a wider variety of client groups with innovative, international and high-quality services covering the entire IP business chain.
The ALB 2022 rankings are separated into two tables: Patent and Trademark/Copyright. The rankings are made on a general basis of such indicators as overall caseload, complexity of cases, deal size, as well as clients, teams, and year-on-year growth momentum of firms specialising in the IP practice from January 2021 to February 2022.