Kilburn & Strode
Kilburn & Strode is a top-tier European IP firm that protects value for some of the world’s most innovative organisations. We are one of just a handful of firms to be ranked as top tier for both trademark and patent prosecution in each of the Legal 500, Chambers, World Trade Mark Review and IAM listings. With offices in London (HQ), Munich, The Hague, Amsterdam (Hilversum), and San Francisco, we’re the only firm to connect these centres for European IP with the pulse of the Silicon Valley.
Sheppard Mullin
Milbank
Milbank is a pre-eminent international law firm operating out of 12 offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more than 150 years, we have provided a broad range of innovative legal services and solutions to our clients, including many of the world’s leading commercial, financial and industrial enterprises, institutions, individuals and governments. Our lawyers offer a highly integrated and collaborative range of services across key practice groups worldwide to help clients achieve their strategic objectives. Milbank’s integrated practice is underpinned by our attorneys’ widely recognised technical excellence, sectoral expertise and strong tradition of innovation and client service.
Sun IP
Sun IP provides streamlined solutions for complex and deadline-driven IP translations and international patent filings needs, including PCT national phase entry, EP validations, and direct national filings. Our industry-leading translation and filing services are reinforced by a world-class technology platform and excellence in client service that seamlessly propels your IP casework throughout the globe. Sun IP’s accurate, timely, and transparent solutions enable clients to reduce costs, streamline the global IP workflow, and efficiently manage international patent budgets. Our translation and foreign filing services are reinforced by a secure, cloud-based technology solution and an unparalleled commitment to client service.
Perkins Coie
With more than 1,000 lawyers in 19 offices across the US and Asia, Perkins Coie represents great companies across a wide range of industries and stages of growth. We represent clients across a full range of life sciences areas including biologics, biosimilars, chemistry, diagnostics, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Our attorneys know the industry, as well as the laws and regulations that apply to it, and many have advanced science degrees. Our patent group in particular combines the focus and flexibility of a boutique patent firm with the complementary services of one of the leading technology law firms.
Powell Gilbert
Powell Gilbert is one of the UK’s leading law firms specialising in intellectual property litigation and advisory work. The firm is recognised as top tier for patent litigation in the life sciences sector, its lawyers having been involved in precedent-setting, highly complex pharma, biotech and medical device cases for decades.
With a successful record before the UK Patents Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and in referrals to the European Court of Justice, the team frequently advises on dispute resolution strategy and supports multinational litigation across Europe, in coordination with other jurisdictions.
All the firm’s lawyers have technical backgrounds, ranging from immunology, biochemistry and chemical engineering to molecular biology and computer sciences. Combined with its European litigation experience this makes Powell Gilbert ideally placed to assist clients in the forthcoming Unified Patents Court (UPC), with its Life Sciences Central division due to be based in London.
With a successful record before the UK Patents Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and in referrals to the European Court of Justice, the team frequently advises on dispute resolution strategy and supports multinational litigation across Europe, in coordination with other jurisdictions.
All the firm’s lawyers have technical backgrounds, ranging from immunology, biochemistry and chemical engineering to molecular biology and computer sciences. Combined with its European litigation experience this makes Powell Gilbert ideally placed to assist clients in the forthcoming Unified Patents Court (UPC), with its Life Sciences Central division due to be based in London.
Abe & Partners
Osaka, Japan-based Abe & Partners works in a wide range of international and corporate matters with a focus on intellectual property law and international commerce. Patent litigation that Abe & Partners has participated in to date covers the fields of pharmaceuticals, chemistry, electronics and machinery, involving advanced technology such as biotechnology, semiconductors, etc, in cross-border matters. The firm has extensive experience in representing and advising multinational and domestic clients in the pharmaceutical industry and is currently involved in the battle between brand pharmaceutical companies and generic companies.
Morrison Foerster
White & Case
White & Case is a truly global law firm, uniquely positioned to help our clients achieve their ambitions in today’s G20 world. As a pioneering international law firm, our cross-border experience and diverse team of local, US and English-qualified lawyers consistently deliver results for our clients. In established and emerging markets, our lawyers are integral, long-standing members of the community, giving our clients insights into the local business environment alongside our experience in multiple jurisdictions. We work with some of the world’s most respected and well-established banks and businesses, as well as startup visionaries, governments and state-owned entities.
Smart & Biggar
Smart & Biggar is Canada’s largest IP and technology law firm. We work with global and domestic businesses and law firms, to help them secure, protect and maximise the value of their innovations and IP investments in Canada. We are consistently recognised as the leading Canadian IP firm by a wide range of third party domestic and international rankings. Our life sciences practice is one of the leading and most experienced teams in Canada for patent prosecution, IP transactions and licensing, litigation and regulatory issues. The firm works with a variety of clients to develop IP strategies from procurement, to enforcement, to licensing of innovations.
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is dedicated to the protection, transfer, and enforcement of IP rights. The firm’s integrated practice helps clients develop IP strategy and freedom-to-operate; prepare and prosecute patents and trademarks globally; and defend and enforce patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, US Supreme Court, and all forums in between. Our team of attorneys, patent agents, students and technical specialists includes some of the most respected practitioners of IP law. Most of our professionals hold advanced level degrees, including over 50 with master’s degrees and an additional 50+ with a doctorate in science or engineering.
HGF
HGF is one of Europe’s largest firms of IP specialists and the second largest in the UK. The firm has offices in the UK and mainland Europe which offer an integrated IP solution with patent attorneys, trademark attorneys and IP solicitors to provide a full-service IP solution for clients. The firm is currently the second highest filer of Community trademarks and of Patent Cooperation Treaty applications.
HGF offers the full range of services expected from leading patent and trademark attorneys and solicitors, but it is our dynamic approach to oppositions and appeals, strategic portfolio development and acquisition due diligence that distinguishes HGF in the marketplace. HGF believes each client is unique and works hard to ensure we understand your objectives, timescales and budget to successfully achieve your goals. Our specialist teams have expertise and experience covering a range of technical fields including chemistry, engineering, electronics and life sciences.
HGF offers the full range of services expected from leading patent and trademark attorneys and solicitors, but it is our dynamic approach to oppositions and appeals, strategic portfolio development and acquisition due diligence that distinguishes HGF in the marketplace. HGF believes each client is unique and works hard to ensure we understand your objectives, timescales and budget to successfully achieve your goals. Our specialist teams have expertise and experience covering a range of technical fields including chemistry, engineering, electronics and life sciences.
Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray’s life sciences IP team consists of experienced litigators and counsellors, patent agents, and technical advisors who provide clients with a full range of IP-related services covering all stages of the business cycle, from initial patent strategy and litigation to licensing and transactions. Our litigation team includes nationally recognised trial and appellate lawyers who combine scientific expertise with courtroom savvy. Bolstered by solid foundations in chemistry and biotechnology, our team has argued in all the important patent venues: the CAFC, PTAB, and federal district courts, including extensively in the districts of Delaware and New Jersey.
darts-ip
Darts-ip’s case law database brings more than three million cases from over 3,000 courts to 30,000 IP professionals, every day. Darts-ip was built on the belief that case law is powerful, and that this power should be leveraged to its fullest extent. Accessibility is the key: the inability to rapidly find comprehensive information from any jurisdiction has hindered IP professionals’ ability to effectively deploy the full power of case law in their daily practice. Our exclusive document-gathering structure combined with our unique analysis capabilities provides an unprecedented collection of IP case data. Darts-ip leverages the power of case law.
Elkington + Fife
As a leading IP firm, Elkington and Fife is sought out by clients who are also at the forefront of their fields. These clients include household names from the worlds of biotech, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, electronics and engineering.
The bulk of our work is focused on patent and trademark protection, but we are also well known for advising on other types of IP, such as supplementary protection certificates, plant variety rights, registered designs, domain names and copyright. We are particularly recognised for our high-quality patent drafting and prosecution, and our enviable opposition practice at the European Patent Office.
The bulk of our work is focused on patent and trademark protection, but we are also well known for advising on other types of IP, such as supplementary protection certificates, plant variety rights, registered designs, domain names and copyright. We are particularly recognised for our high-quality patent drafting and prosecution, and our enviable opposition practice at the European Patent Office.