Intellectual Property
We live and breathe IP. And we are ready to resolve
your intellectual property issues wherever and however
they arise.

Key contacts

Your ideas. Your innovations. Your brand. Our IP
practice understands that these assets make yourbusiness unique, and we know how to protect them.

Miriam Gundt, LL.M. (Aberdeen),

There’s a reason why more than half of the world’s top
100 brands (Financial Times, 2018) have chosen us torepresent them. With 400 IP professionals worldwide,
we combine a global outlook with local knowledge
across the life cycle of IP assets ― from development tocommercialization, and licensing through to maturity.
But it's not how many lawyers we have; it’s the way wework together that our clients really value.

Washington, D.C.

Many of our lawyers hold advanced degrees in scienceand engineering, helping us to fully appreciate theproducts and processes in traditional industries, as wellas emerging ones.

An interview with Miriam Gundt
Global Head of IP

Dr. Burkhart Goebel,
Hamburg
Dusseldorf

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Helen Xia (Shanghai IP Agency),
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Representative experience

EU Digital Services Act and DigitalMarkets Act

Advising Merck & Co., Inc. (Kenilworth, New Jersey,USA) in a trademark, domain name, and social media
dispute with Merck KGaA. over use of the name“Merck” in Europe and the U.S.

Areas of focus

Acting for Lilly in the landmark patent dispute Actavis v
Eli Lilly. The UK Supreme Court ruled in favor of Lilly,
reversing two earlier decisions. Lilly was also successful

False Advertising and UnfairCompetitionGovernment Rights in Intellectual

in the German Supreme Court.
Representing leading technology giants in theirmultijurisdictional and local patent disputes, includingBlackBerry, Dell, HTC, KPN, and Motorola.
Managing the EUTM portfolio and EUTM and PanEuropean conflicts of multinational companies like Dell,Estée Lauder, Mars, Starbucks, Billabong, Kenneth Cole,Euronews, Asahi Europe, Ocean Spray, and Ferring.
Managing Deutsche Telekom's global trademark anddomain name portfolio, and advising on complex colormark and other nontraditional trademark litigation inEurope and the U.S.
Representing uPI Semiconductor in a defense of an ITC
enforcement proceeding brought by Richtek
Technology involving Richtek's allegations of patent
infringement and trade secret misappropriation.
Representing a U.S. game software company and its
Chinese licensee to successfully obtain an interim
injunction from Guangzhou IP Court against aninfringing mobile game.
We filed and won the first paperless eUDRP case in adomain-name dispute before WIPO on behalf of aleading mobile phone manufacturer.
Advising SABMiller in the context of the mega merger
between AB InBev and SABMiller – in which Asahi
committed to acquire the Peroni, Grolsch, andMeantime brands globally.
Global IP counsel to the consortium of Audi AG, BMWGroup, and Daimler AG on their €2.8bn acquisitions ofNokia's digital mapping unit HERE.

Awards and rankings
IP Law Firm of the Year - Italy, Legalcommunity IP &TMT Awards, 2021-2018
French Trademark Firm of the Year, IAM/WTR Global
IP Awards, 2020
German Trademark Litigation Firm of the Year,

Property
FinTechIP Rights in Transactions
Licensing and CommercialTransactions
Strategic Counseling and PortfolioDevelopmentNuclear Funding Opportunities andGovernment R&D Agreements
Media and Entertainment
Post-Grant Proceedings
Cell, Tissue, and Gene Therapies
Clinical Trials
Inflation Reduction Act

Related practices
Copyright
Designs
Domain Names
Patents
Trademarks and Brands
Trade Secrets and Confidential
Know-how

Related sectors
Aerospace and Defense
Automotive and Mobility
Consumer
Education
Energy and Natural Resources
Financial Institutions
InsuranceIAM/WTR Global IP Awards, 2020
Global IP Firm of the Year, Managing Intellectual
Property Awards, 2019 & 2018
Ranked Band 1 for IP on a Global and Europe-widelevel, Chambers & Partners, 2019
Germany Patent Contentious Firm of the Year,
Managing Intellectual Property Awards, 2019 & 2018
Japan Foreign Firm of the Year, Managing Intellectual
Property Awards, 2020-2018 & 2016
China Foreign Firm of the Year, Managing Intellectual
Property Awards, 2019
Russia Patent Contentious Firm of the Year,
Managing Intellectual Property Awards, 2019
Germany Impact Case of the Year, Managing
Intellectual Property Awards, 2019
Germany Patent Litigation Firm of the Year, IAM
Patent Awards, 2019Japan Trademark Firm of the Year, World Trademark
Review Global IP Awards, 2019
European Patent Contentious Firm of the Year,
Managing Intellectual Property Awards, 2018
European Trademark Contentious Firm of the Year,
Managing Intellectual Property Global Awards, 2018
& 2017China Copyright Firm of the Year, Managing
Intellectual Property Awards, 2018
Hong Kong Prosecution Firm of the Year, Managing
Intellectual Property Awards, 2018
IP Team of the Year, The Lawyer Awards, 2018
UK Impact Case of the Year, Managing Intellectual
Property Awards, 2018

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