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OUR 2025 SPONSORS & PARTNERS
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Platinum Partners
Fish & Richardson
Website: https://www.fr.com/industries/life-sciences/
Fish & Richardson has represented pioneering life science innovators from our earliest days. We work closely with life sciences companies to help them achieve their strategic IP goals through acquisition, partnering, licensing, financing, and enforcement. We do this by bringing a unique holistic approach to our clients’ IP matters, fostered by the collaboration between our patent prosecution, litigation, and regulatory practices. We have helped our clients build valuable patent portfolios worth billions of dollars, score big victories at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and win bet-the-company cases in court. When life sciences clients come to Fish to build an IP strategy, they know that we will leave no stone unturned when crafting creative and comprehensive solutions to maximize the value of their IP.
Gowling WLG
Website: https://gowlingwlg.com/
With more than 1,500 legal professionals in offices worldwide, Gowling WLG offers clients a comprehensive suite of sector-focused legal services. With an award winning global intellectual property practice, our full service firm stands out for its ability to provide support for the full life cycle of a smart idea.
Trade secret protection is an important part of this offering with services spanning multiple disciplines – from the development of trade secrets and data protection policies, to the drafting of NDAs and employment contracts, through to cybersecurity risk management and high stakes litigation.
Whether you are looking to identify and protect your trade secrets to avoid leakage, establishing the value of your intangible assets for merger or acquisition or pursuing a trade secret thief, we can help guide you through trade secrets law around the world and across a number of key sectors. Learn more
Linklaters
Website: https://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.
Maiwald Intellectual Property
Website: https://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.
Marks & Clerk
Website: https://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.
Pinsent Masons
Website: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/
Pinsent Masons international Life Sciences practice is one of the best in Europe.
Their team, comprising more than 100 sector specialists, many of whom are leading individuals in their field with relevant scientific degrees (some to Ph.D.) and experience, drawn from industry, is dedicated to helping their clients continue to develop cutting-edge strategies that use the law as a business enabler to positively impact their bottom line.
The team acts for businesses globally on complex market shifting transactions; cutting edge R&D collaboration; partnering and licensing deals; the most high profile, business-critical patent and regulatory litigations; and hugely impactful anti-trust investigations and litigations.
Comprising some of the world’s leading life sciences experts, the team works with senior management and in-house legal teams to navigate complex regulatory environments, develop effective risk management strategies, and spot and convert opportunities.
Schertenleib Avocats
Website: https://schertenleib-avocats.com/en/equipe/denis-schertenleib/
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Barnes And Thornbug LLP
Website: https://btlaw.com/
Intellectual Property
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 positions 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., Hillenbrand, \
Carpmaels & Ransford
Website: https://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.
Gün + Partners
Website: https://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.
LAVOIX
Website: https://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.
Potter Clarkson
Website: https://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.
Recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, Potter Clarkson is particularly well-known for its deep expertise in resolving life science disputes, its contentious practice routinely conducting high-profile litigation in key jurisdictions around the world as well as before the EPO, and now the UPC, with multiple actions currently on foot before this important new court.
Simmons & Simmons
Website: https://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: https://www.sternekessler.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Trevisan & Cuonzo
Website: https://www.trevisancuonzo.com/en/index.html
Trevisan & Cuonzo, established in 1993, is one of the leading independent Italian law firms working with some of the most technologically advanced and innovative businesses around the globe. The firm delivers client focused, industry specific, commercially aligned legal expertise covering a wide range of industrial sectors including life sciences, electronics, chemical, mechanical, automotive, food, telecommunications, media and entertainment, fashion. The firm has established a commanding reputation both domestically and internationally for its success in intellectual property, commercial and product liability litigation. The firm has a network of offices in Milan, Rome, Parma and Bari.
Gemini Law
Website: http://www.geminilaw.com/
Gemini attorneys are among the most experienced and successful at helping manufacturers of biopharma products navigate IP barriers to access the U.S. market. Gemini has particular expertise in patent strategy and litigation relating to biosimilar, biobetter, generic and 505(b)(2) products, as well as collateral issues concerning the Hatch Waxman and BPCIA regulatory schemes. Gemini is also very experienced in counseling early-stage biotech companies to optimize patent portfolios and mitigate the risk posed by competitors’ IP, as well as IP issues related to licensing and development transactions. Gemini offers “end to end” counseling on IP issues in support of biopharma product development and launch in the U.S., including:
- Litigation risk mitigation and avoidance
- Patent & trade secret design-around strategies
- Patent portfolio optimization
- Biosimilar (BPCIA) litigation & regulatory strategy
- Hatch Waxman litigation & regulatory strategy
- "Biobetter" & "fast follow-on" product litigation & regulatory strategy
- Pharmaceutical device-related litigation & regulatory strategy
- IP & regulatory issues concerning healthcare AI
- CREATES Act requests & litigation
- Section 1782 discovery requests for use in foreign litigation
- Global coordination of litigation strategy concerning biosimilar, generic and biobetter products
- Patent landscaping and freedom-to-operate opinions
- IP-related licensing, development & manufacturing transactions
- Lobbying and legislative initiatives relating to the BPCIA and Hatch Waxman laws
Finnegan
Website: http://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)
Pearce IP
Website: https://www.pearceip.law/
Pearce IP is a boutique firm offering intellectual property specialist lawyers, patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys to the life sciences industries (in particular, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotech, ag-tech and food tech). Pearce IP is recognised by MIP has the only leading regional IP firm with a female founder, and is certified by WEConnect International as women owned. Pearce IP is the 2021 ‘Intellectual Property Team of the Year’ (Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards) and was shortlisted for the same award in 2022. Pearce IP is ranked in IAM Patent 1000 and Managing IP (MIP) IP Stars, in Australasian Lawyer 5 Star Awards as a ‘5 Star’ firm, and the Legal 500 APAC Guide for Intellectual Property.
Our leaders have been recognised in virtually every notable IP listing for their legal, patent and trade mark excellence including: IAM Patent 1000, MIP IP Stars, Doyles Guide, WIPR Leaders, 5 Star IP Lawyers, Best Lawyers, and Australasian Lawyer 5 Star Awards, and have been honoured with many awards including Australian Law Awards – IP Partner of the Year, Women in Law Awards – Partner of the Year, Women in Business Law Awards - Patent Lawyer of the Year (Asia Pacific), Most Influential Lawyers (Changemaker), among other awards.
Taylor Wessing LLP
Website: https://www.taylorwessing.com/en/about-us
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RWS
Website: https://www.rws.com/intellectual-property-services/
RWS is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management, and intellectual property services. With over 60 years of experience, RWS's expertise in patent translations, foreign filing, patent maintenance and IP research is unrivalled.
RWS delivers high-quality translations in a format ready for filing, in compliance with national filing formalities and maintaining the same protective scope as the original text.
RWS also helps clients streamline their internal processes by providing flexible, cost-effective foreign filing services that reduce the administrative burden associated with EP validations, PCT national phase entries and direct filings.
When it comes to IP research, RWS offers the most robust services and tools available. AOP Connect, RWS’s market-leading research platform, enables clients organize study results more effectively. With services ranging from analyst studies to crowd-based searches, RWS provides tailored solutions to meet clients’ diverse needs.
RWS also provides a reliable renewals service that reduces the risk and workload associated with patent maintenance.
RWS clients include 18 of the top 20 WIPO applicants and 16 of the top 20 applicants at the European Patent Office.
Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).
