One Legal retains its place in the rankings this year. The firm has picked up new clients in the form of US corporate Las Vegas Sands. Other continuing clients include Advent Software and Yahoo! The firm is highly regarded by peers for its trade mark practice, with one noting: "It has considerable experience and skill in trade mark prosecution." The team is ably led by director Regina Quek, of whom a peer notes: "I have a lot of respect for her abilities." The IP team is praised in general by clients for providing "prompt, careful, thorough service".
A client summarises: "The firm's attorneys and staff are extraordinarily quick to respond; they do so proactively and include business activity context with their search opinions."
IP prosecution firm Pyprus makes gains in the patent prosecution rankings this year, going up one Tier. Peers acknowledge the firm's expertise in patent filing and drafting, with a peer singling out director Alex Tan for special praise. Director Andy Lye and head of trade marks Constance Mah are praised by a client for being "very efficient and accommodating to our queries".
The firm is recommended by a client: "Pyprus also provided professional advice to us all the way from our first idea to the completion of filings, they followed up closely with updates and brought urgent matters to our attention for immediate action to be taken."
Notable work in the past year includes securing worldwide patents protection for PureCircle, IP advice and trade mark registration for the Ministry of Education and advising on the IP valuation of regional cable and satellite broadcaster Xinya Satellite TV.