OUR 2024 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.
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.
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.
GOLD PARTNERS
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.
Clifford Chance
Website: https://www.cliffordchance.com/home.html
Clifford Chance is one of the world’s pre-eminent law firms, with significant depth and range of human and IT resources across five continents. The firm is always striving to exceed the expectations of its clients, which includes banks and other financial institutions, corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations. Providing the highest quality advice and legal insight, Clifford Chance prides itself on its approachable, team-based and tech-savvy way of working.
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
Hoffmann Eitle PartmbB
Website: https://www.hoffmanneitle.com/en
Please visit our website for more information.King & Wood Mallesons
Website: https://www.kwm.com/uk/en/home.html
Please visit our website for more information.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.
Schertenleib Avocats
Website: https://schertenleib-avocats.com/en/equipe/denis-schertenleib/
Please visit our website for more information.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.Taylor Wessing LLP
Website: https://www.taylorwessing.com/en/about-us
Please visit our website for more information.Venable LLP
Website: https://www.venable.com/
Venable LLP is an American Lawyer Global 100 law firm headquartered in Washington, DC that serves as primary counsel to a worldwide clientele of large and mid-sized organizations, nonprofits, high-net-worth entrepreneurs, and other individuals. With more than 850 professionals across the country, including in California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Virginia, and Washington, DC, the firm strategically advances its clients' objectives in the United States and around the globe. Venable advises clients on a broad range of business and regulatory law, legislative affairs, complex litigation, and the full range of intellectual property disciplines. For more information, please visit https://www.venable.com/
SOLUTION PARTNERS
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 in the IP arena RWS expertise in patent translations, foreign filing and IP research services is unrivalled.
Clients trust RWS to deliver high-quality translations in a format ready for filing, in compliance with national filing formalities and maintaining exactly the same protective scope as the original.
RWS also helps clients simplify and streamline their internal processes, by providing flexible, cost-effective foreign filing and renewals services dramatically reducing the administrative burden associated with EP validations, PCT national phase entries and direct filings.
When it comes to research, RWS offers the most robust intellectual property (IP) researcher services and tools available. From our market leading patent research database, PatBase, to the world’s most comprehensive set of IP search offerings from desk based analysts to crowdsearch.
RWS clients include many of the world's largest filers including 19 of the top 20 applicants at the World Intellectual Property Organization 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).
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