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A&O Shearman
Website: www.aoshearman.com/en
A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets. This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world.
Our trade secrets group operates on a multi-jurisdictional, cross-disciplinary basis, involving lawyers from our intellectual property and employment teams, as well as our litigation, investigations, white-collar crime, and arbitration specialists. We provide services to innovative clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, life sciences, defence, aerospace, chemicals, telecoms and high technology.
Platinum Partner
Bonabry
Website: www.bonabry.de
Bonabry is a team of experienced and specialized patent and IP litigators united in the belief that the most excellent solutions for our clients require independent and inventive thinking supported by a working environment that implements the ideas of tomorrow. The team is composed of five partners (Dr Alexander Harguth, Carl-Alexander Dinges, Daniel Hoppe, Dr Jan Peter Heidenreich and Konstantin Schallmoser), two counsels (Christian Holtz and Dr Sarah Salaschek) and two associates (Alice Pasch and Isabel Werner). The new offices are based in Hamburg, Munich, and Paris.
Bonabry represents its clients in all areas of IP litigation and licensing. Their services include patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, designs, and related fields such as competition law and pharma regulatory law. The key industries include life science and pharma, telecommunication and network technology, automotive, industrial engineering, semiconductors, electronics and software, cosmetic and consumer goods as well as luxury goods and fashion.
Carpmaels & Ransford
Website: www.carpmaels.com
Carpmaels & Ransford LLP is a leader in the European IP market, having driven innovation in the industry for over 200 years. The firm advises clients on all aspects of intellectual property, including drafting, filing and prosecuting patent and trademark applications; drafting and negotiating licence agreements and other commercial IP agreements; advising on the transfer of property rights; assisting clients with patent restoration matters; and conducting enforcement and revocation litigation.
The firm has one of Europe’s largest IP teams serving blue-chip clients across the globe, including Johnson & Johnson, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novartis, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Mars, Gilead, Raytheon, Regeneron, Takeda, Allergan and Xeros. The firm’s attorneys have considerable technical knowledge, bringing together experience from industry-leading companies, academic research at leading universities and extensive patent expertise in the areas of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, engineering, tech, chemistry, materials, supplementary protection certificates and information and communication technologies and standards.
Through its fully integrated dispute resolution and transactions teams, the firm is able to provide a holistic service to clients which supports their IP needs from inception to commercialisation. The dispute resolution team, made up of experienced solicitors, barristers and patent attorney litigators, represents clients at all levels of the European Patent Office. The team is also adept at conducting enforcement litigation and revocation actions before the UK Intellectual Property Office and patent, copyright, trademark and other IP litigation in the English courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union, often advising in cases where parallel or related litigation is ongoing in courts across Europe or in the United States.
As a European IP firm with litigators and patent attorneys under one roof, Carpmaels & Ransford is looking forward to offering clients the chance to both obtain UPs using the existing EPO procedure and enforce their patents across Europe in the UPC.
DERIS
Website: www.deris.com
Deriş is Türkiye’s go-to firm for high-stakes patent work, combining lawyers, patent attorneys and enforcement specialists in one of the country’s largest IP-dedicated teams. This integrated structure enables the firm to manage the full patent lifecycle—from filing and prosecution to oppositions, litigation and enforcement—with consistent strategy and execution.
The team includes three European Patent Attorneys, giving Deriş uncommon technical depth and procedural insight for a litigation-focused law firm. This capability strengthens the firm’s ability to design and coordinate strategies that bridge European and Turkish patent systems.
Deriş advises clients across life sciences, electrification, automation, chemicals, advanced manufacturing and construction materials—sectors that increasingly define Türkiye’s innovation landscape. The team regularly handles the Turkish leg of multi-jurisdictional disputes and aligns enforcement with clients’ launch plans, market expectations and distribution models.
Beyond disputes, Deriş is recognised for strategic patent counselling, including freedom-to-operate and validity analyses, portfolio development, employee invention schemes, and know-how and licensing arrangements.
With 100+ years of IP experience, precedent-setting decisions and a reputation for seamless international coordination, Deriş delivers patent strategies that balance technical, legal and commercial insight for cross-border matters where the stakes are highest.
Fisher & Richardson
Website: www.fr.com
Fish helps pioneering life sciences and AI companies to optimize the process of creating new drugs through AI-assisted drug development and discovery. As one of the most experienced AI law firms, Fish aids clients in navigating patent strategy and protection, including application of the "simultaneous conception and reduction to practice doctrine," licensing and collaboration agreements, trade secret protection, regulatory and compliance, litigation and enforcement, and strategic AI planning. Our ability to pair dynamic legal strategies with in-depth Life Sciences industry experience is what separates Fish from other law firms. At Fish, we’ve prosecuted the patents for some of the essential technologies that underpin today’s cutting-edge AI services. AI innovation is advancing faster than the law can catch up, and it takes knowledgeable legal teams to stay on pace. With technical prowess virtually unheard of in the legal industry, Fish’s attorneys have been working with revolutionary technologies for decades. As a result, we know better than most how to protect our clients’ assets when they push the boundaries of IP law.
Gün + Partners
Website: gun.av.tr
We are one of the oldest and largest law firms in Turkey and are considered internationally to be among the top-tier of legal services providers.
We are a full-service law firm leading the intellectual property field among others, providing dispute management, advisory, transactional, prosecution, investigation, and regulatory markets law services to domestic and multinational corporations.
We are based in Istanbul, with working and correspondent offices in Ankara, Izmir and the major commercial centres in Turkey.
We operate mainly in Turkish and English and also work fluently in German and French.
We advise a large portfolio of clients in numerous fields of activity including life sciences, insurance and reinsurance, energy, construction & real estate, logistics, technology, media and telecoms, automotive, FMCG, chemicals and the defense industries.
Our vision is to be the leader in the services we provide, sensitive to wider society, the environment, and our employees as an innovative and sustainable institution.
Our clients’ success is at the heart of our own success. We closely monitor developments in the business sectors in which our clients operate and invest in accumulating industry specific knowledge to understand their changing needs. We actively participate in professional, trade and business organisations in Turkey and internationally.
We are committed to adapt to our clients’ changing business needs by delivering innovative, high quality and commercially prudent legal solutions.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Website: www.herbertsmithfreehills.com
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Website: www.hoyngrokhmonegier.com
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Website: www.linklaters.com
Linklaters cross-border Intellectual Property team successfully advises market-leading companies on high-profile IP litigation and complex IP-driven transactions.
We advise clients in a broad range of sectors, with a focus on IP-heavy industries such as healthcare and life sciences.
Our history of advising clients in the healthcare and life sciences sector is long and we have developed strong working relationships and a deep understanding of our client’s business environment. Many of our lawyers have technical backgrounds and therefore have in-depth understanding of complex technologies.
We support our clients with outstanding legal skills, expert sector knowledge and a pragmatic mindset in cross-border IP disputes. More specifically our litigation practice covers the full scope of dispute resolution, including court proceedings, arbitration, mediation and settlement discussions. Where possible, we aim to resolve disputes before court proceedings become necessary. However, where litigation is unavoidable, we take care to pick the right cases to pursue through the courts and continue to look for pragmatic solutions.
We tackle the entire spectrum of IP rights, including patents, supplementary protection certificates, copyrights, designs and trademarks. Our practice also covers issues of confidentiality, as well as trade secrets protection and misappropriation.
Marks & Clerk
Website: www.marks-clerk.com
Marks & Clerk is an international law firm specialising in intellectual property (IP) law. With a vast network of over 650 professionals across the world, including a qualified team of experienced patent and trademark associates, the firm offers comprehensive technical expertise covering all aspects of intellectual property matters, such as patents, trademarks, designs and copyright. Its services encompass worldwide protection, portfolio management, strategic advice, commercial guidance, licensing, enforcement, clearance and searches, validity and infringement opinions, due diligence and litigation. Operating through a network of offices in Canada, Europe and Asia, Marks & Clerk consistently delivers high-quality, seamless and cost-effective services to clients both locally and globally.
Potter Clarkson
Website: www.potterclarkson.com
Leading European intellectual property law firm, Potter Clarkson helps companies, organisations, and individuals across all sectors of business to understand, create, protect, and defend the commercial value of their innovations anywhere in the world. Its 200-strong specialist team of patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys, litigators, and licensing specialists, operate from dedicated offices in the UK, Sweden, and Denmark.
Potter Clarkson is widely recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, particularly renowned for its expertise in life sciences disputes. The firm’s contentious practice regularly handles high-profile litigation across major jurisdictions worldwide, including proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) and, more recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC). With multiple actions currently underway, Potter Clarkson is actively leveraging the EPO’s existing procedures to obtain Unitary Patents and enforce patent rights across Europe through the UPC.Potter Clarkson is widely recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, particularly renowned for its expertise in life sciences disputes. The firm’s contentious practice regularly handles high-profile litigation across major jurisdictions worldwide, including proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) and, more recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC). With multiple actions currently underway, Potter Clarkson is actively leveraging the EPO’s existing procedures to obtain Unitary Patents and enforce patent rights across Europe through the UPC.
Potter Clarkson is widely recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, particularly renowned for its expertise in life sciences disputes. The firm’s contentious practice regularly handles high-profile litigation across major jurisdictions worldwide, including proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) and, more recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC). With multiple actions currently underway, Potter Clarkson is actively leveraging the EPO’s existing procedures to obtain Unitary Patents and enforce patent rights across Europe through the UPC.
Gold Partners
Barnes and Thornburg LLP
Website: btlaw.com
Barnes & Thornburg’s Intellectual Property Department, with more than 130 attorneys and
professionals is one of the largest intellectual property practice groups found in a full-service law firm. Our practice covers a broad spectrum of services, including strategic IP portfolio services, prosecuting and litigating patents, trademarks and copyrights, enforcement of patents and trademarks, and defense of IP enforcement actions. Our IP practice advises and helps a diverse and multinational roster of clients. From electrical and mechanical engineering to chemistry and microbiology to computer technology and business methods – our attorneys’ background and experience in several technical disciplines position us to meet a variety of sophisticated business and inventorship needs.
Life Sciences
Barnes & Thornburg provides a wide range of interdisciplinary legal services to organizations engaged in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical and laboratory devices, health services, and bioinformatics. Most of the lawyers in our biotech practice have educational and practical research experience pertinent to the biotechnology industry and many hold advanced degrees in organic chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, genetics, immunology, and microbiology. We understand chemistry, biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device technologies. In addition, our intellectual property practice includes professionals with advanced degrees in molecular biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, biology, pharmacology, immunology, microbiology, biotechnology, bioengineering, physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, and civil engineering.
Our team represents a wide array of clients in this industry from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Some of our representative clients include 3M Company, DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, Johnson & Johnson, H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Co., and Hillenbrand.
Finnegan
Website: www.finnegan.com
As one of the largest IP practices in the world, Finnegan was founded nearly 60 years ago with a focus on offering the highest quality IP legal services. Since we focus primarily on IP, every resource of our firm is dedicated to hiring the top talent in the IP world, and providing them with the IP resources needed to excel. We have a decades-long track record of successfully prosecuting and litigating some of the world’s most significant patent, trademark, copyright, and licensing matters. We also represent clients on IP issues related to advertising, trade secrets, European patents and trade marks, international trade, portfolio management, the Internet, e-commerce, government contracts, antitrust, privacy, and unfair competition. We offer full-service IP legal and technical experience in virtually every industry and technology—from electrical and computer technology, industrial manufacturing, consumer products, medical devices, and biotechnology to pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and alternative energy.
Our commitment to quality is continually recognized worldwide by our clients, colleagues, and respected publications such as:
- #1 Tier National Ranking for Intellectual Property Law, 2010-2024 (U.S. News—Best Lawyers Best Law Firms)
- Practice Group of the Year, 2017, 2019, 2022 (Law360)
- #1 Tier National Ranking for Intellectual Property Litigation, 2024 (Benchmark Litigation)
LAVOIX
Website: www.lavoix.eu/en
LAVOIX, a European firm fully dedicated to Intellectual Property (IP), has close to 200 IP professionals including 80 attorneys-at-law, industrial property attorneys and technology specialists.The firm’s sheer size and the diversity of its team’s areas of expertise enable LAVOIX to assist its clients in every aspect of IP across all business areas and technological fields.
Our Life Science team has extensive technical expertise in many areas including biotechnology, pharmaceutical chemistry and bioinformatics.
Our attorneys are able to prosecute patent applications in the three European Patent Office official languages (English, German and French). Our Munich office provides direct and easy access to the EPO and the German Patent Office.
Our Life Science team is also regularly involved in oppositions, appeals and oral proceedings before the EPO, management of Supplementary Protection Certificates, as well as due diligence, precontentious opinions and national or pan-European litigations.
With a view to maximize the position of our clients and meet their specific needs, our Life Science Team also monitors the latest developments of the European Union’s law which could potentially affect our client’s businesses, in particular in respect of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agrochemicals and medical devices.
Maiwald Intellectual Property
Website: www.maiwald.eu/en
As one of Germany’s largest and best-known firms in the field of intellectual property (IP), providing optimal services to our clients is of paramount importance to us. Our team comprising about 250 people in Munich and Düsseldorf works closely with each other and with foreign associates, always with an eye to the client’s particular needs, regardless of the particular industry or type of company, whether start-up, medium-sized firm or large corporation, in Germany and worldwide. We at Maiwald will do everything to ensure that all your IP matters are handled with competence and commitment.
You can rely on Maiwald’s wide-ranging expertise. We provide a full range of services covering all aspects of IP law. Our highly qualified patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law unite all of the most important skills one would expect of an interdisciplinary team: sound legal knowledge, business proficiency and a broad range of technical and scientific know-how. And, it goes without saying, absolute professionalism, efficiency and close attention to the needs of each individual client. So you may be assured of receiving the best possible advice on all IP-related issues based on our proven competence and industry knowledge.
Mewburn Ellis
Website: www.mewburn.com
Mewburn Ellis is one of leading P firms in Europe, showcasing an exceptional breadth and depth of expertise to address all your IP needs, both now and in the future. With five European offices – London, Bristol, Manchester, Cambridge, and Munich – we operate seamlessly as one unified firm. This ensures our clients benefit from a diverse range of relevant skills and knowledge, delivered by some of the brightest minds in the IP profession. Our IP specialists will guide you through every stage of the IP lifecycle. We offer comprehensive advice on patent, trade mark, and registered design protection, as well as assistance with any IP-related disputes and legal or commercial requirements. If you need help reviewing your IP assets, we can conduct IP Audits to evaluate your existing IP portfolio, identifying related risks and opportunities, and providing strategic advice and guidance aligned to your business objectives.
At Mewburn Ellis, we bring passion and commitment to our clients, immersing ourselves in their businesses to understand not just their immediate needs, but also their long-term goals. This strategic and personalised approach allows us to deliver creative and cost-effective solutions tailored to each client's specific requirements.
Plasserraud IP
Website: www.plass.com/en
Founded in 1906, Plasseraud IP is one of the leading European firms in the IP sector. Plasseraud IP supports companies in their innovation projects - helping them protect inventions, enhance the value of their ideas, and defend their rights in Europe and internationally.
Plasseraud IP brings together more than 400 professionals, including 175 patent and trademark attorneys, based in 9 French cities, and 6 international offices (Shanghai, Prague, Madrid, Alicante, Munich and Amsterdam).
Our firm has extensive expertise in supporting companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, particularly in patent filing, portfolio management, and patent litigation. Do you have questions about patents, IP contracts, trademarks, or regulatory aspects in pharma and biotech? Have you developed an innovation in life sciences or healthcare technologies? Are you interested in exploring the intersection between intellectual property and biotechnology? Come meet the Plasseraud IP experts at The Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation conference.
For more information: https://www.plass.com/
Simmons & Simmons
Website: www.simmons-simmons.com/en/expertise/service/intellectual-property/patents
Our international Patent team seamlessly integrates the specialized expertise of a boutique practice with the extensive service offerings of a major international firm. Recognized in the market for our high-calibre clients and active involvement in leading global patent cases, we stand as a trusted force in the European legal landscape; with offices and well established patent experts in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich and Milan and with Pharma & Biotech as one of our firm’s four core sectors.
Leveraging our extensive experience, we adeptly guide clients through specialised procedures, including infringement seizures, preliminary injunctions, patent infringement actions, patent nullification actions, and non-infringement declarations. With over 45 years at the forefront of IP law and practice, our international reputation is anchored in a pre-eminent track record in complex patent litigation (alongside a market-leading IP transactions and regulatory practices). Our comprehensive suite of services offers a "one-stop-shop" for pharma and biotech clients needing advice and strategic partnership on patents and other areas of IP.
Simmons and Simmons has played a pivotal role in the development of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) system. Our partner, Kevin Mooney, is acknowledged as one of the "fathers of the UPC", if not “Mr UPC”. Positioned at the forefront of every aspect of the new system, we don't just advise on the law – we actively shape it.
Sterne Kessler
Website: www.sternekessler.com
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is a full-service intellectual property law firm that provides innovative solutions tailored to your business and industry. Since our founding in 1978, we have grown to become one of the largest IP specialty law firms in the United States. We collaborate across the full spectrum of IP to deliver real results for our clients—from patent and trademark prosecution, to patent litigation in federal district and appellate courts, strategic IP counseling, due diligence, and post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Our team includes attorneys, patent agents, and technical specialists with 100+ advanced degrees, including 60+ Ph.D.s,, in science and engineering disciplines. We work with the world’s leading innovators and brands, ranging from individual inventors and startups to renowned universities and Fortune 500 companies.
We are proud to be one of the most highly regarded IP specialty law firms, and we have cultivated an environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating. And we’re honored that our attorneys and staff have voted Sterne Kessler as a Washington Post “Top Workplace” for 10 years running.
Stephenson Harwood LLP
Website: stephensonharwood.com
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RPX
Website: www.rpxcorp.com
RPX Corporation is the leading patent risk management platform, offering defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence, and advisory services. Since its founding in 2008, RPX has introduced efficiency to the patent market by providing a rational alternative to litigation. The San Francisco-based company’s pioneering approach combines principal capital, deep patent expertise, and client contributions to generate enhanced patent buying power. By acquiring patents and patent rights, RPX helps to mitigate and manage patent risk for its growing client network. As of July 1, 2025 RPX has invested nearly $5B to acquire rights to more than 300,000 US and international patent assets on behalf of more than 265 clients.
Registration Partner
Reddie & Grose
Website: www.reddie.co.uk
Reddie and Grose is a European IP firm with offices in London, Munich and Cambridge. Our life sciences team is made up of specialist hubs that allow us to offer tailored services across the entire IP spectrum. This blend of specialism and diversity is recognised as one of our key strengths.
Our biotech hub is based out of our Cambridge office and has decades of experience taking clients from university spin-off to IPOs, as well as being experts in obtaining plant variety protection. Our London team specialises in managing the global patent portfolios and supplementary protection certificate strategies of multi-national companies based in the UK and Europe. In Munich, the team focuses on contentious pharmaceutical cases, regularly representing clients in EP opposition proceedings and advising on European product launch and litigation strategies.
Combining all this knowledge ensures that are clients will always benefit from rounded, commercially aware, advice of the highest standard.