WIPR Leaders
WIPR Leaders is a one-stop guide to the leading IP practitioners in the world. The handbook lists over 2,500 lawyers across patent, trademark, and copyright practices. Following an extensive nomination period, our research team vetted the nominated lawyers for suitability by exploring their work. This meant looking at practice history, industry expertise and notable cases, as well as any additional activities, such as writing and teaching responsibilities, which have allowed the lawyers to shape and influence other and future IP practitioners.
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Partner Rob Rodrigues manages high-stakes business and intellectual property disputes in Brazil. He assists FORTUNE 500 companies and startups in matters requiring complex technical ability with strategic approach. Rob is managing patent portfolios of the largest life sciences and telecommunications companies in the planet. His understanding of the Brazilian market makes him a “go-to” lawyer when dealing with enforcement measures. Rob is an experienced attorney and acts as lead counsel in several preliminary injunction proceedings and patent trials. In addition, Rob assists clients with the largest transactions involving IP assets. His litigation-oriented mindset adds value when managing cross border risks. His clients praise his technical skills, his ability to perform under pressure and his outstanding leadership in the local community. He has also published articles in technology law journals around the world and is currently an editor of the Kluwer Patent Blog. Licks Attorneys
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Partner Henry Gabathuler is a partner in the Patent and Litigation Practice Group at Leason Ellis, where he counsels clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies on all aspects of patent prosecution, litigation, and intellectual property portfolio development and licensing. Henry is a registered patent attorney and has extensive experience securing patent protection in the U.S. and worldwide. He also handles patent, trademark, copyright, antitrust and general business litigation matters, at both the district court and appellate court levels and often in a leading role. He counsels clients in a variety of industries including computer hardware and software, oil and gas, consumer electronics, telecommunications and medical technologies. Leason Ellis LLP
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Partner/Attorney at Law/Trademark Agent As a partner and director of the international trademark department of Unitalen Attorneys at Law, Lei (Ray) Zhao has accumulated extensive practical experience in trademark prosecution and IP enforcement.
Zhao works as a legal consultant providing IP services for many listed companies, famous domestic companies, public figures and multinational clients in litigation and non-litigation cases regarding patents, trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, domain names and network infringements.
He also counsels clients on IP strategy and IP infringement issues. Unitalen Attorneys At Law
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Partner and Patent Attorney In his activity as patent attorney, Jan works in the fields of materials science and basic industry (metallurgy, metal processing, ceramics, glass, building materials, plastics processing, industrial furnace design),as well as the technical sector in General and inorganic chemistry. In legal matters Jan has a special interest in contract law, in particular licensing and legal purchase agreements. He also has extensive dealings in opposition, nullity and infringement proceedings.
As a German Patent attorney and as well as a European Patent Trade mark and Design Attorney of course another field of interest is trade mark and design/model law.
Jan has many years of experience in the field of industrial property protection (since 1996). He completed his training in a patent and legal attorneys’ office, in the German Patent and Trade mark Office and at the German Federal Patent Court. Afterwards Jan worked in a Munich attorneys’ office before becoming a co-founder of a Munich patent and legal attorneys’ office in 2002.
In 2013 Jan became founding Partner of Patronus IP in Munich. From March 1 he's Partner at HGF Europe LLP.
Prior to training as a patent attorney, Jan studied Material Sciences at the Technical University of Clausthal. In the course of the studies he gained experience in the glass industry, the cement and construction materials industry, and the refractory industry. HGF
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Chief International Marketing & Development Officer, Vice President Vice President, Licensing & Litigation Management
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Partner Ashley has been practicing Chinese IP law since 2005 and was admitted to the PRC Bar in 2008. She is regularly involved in both contentious and non-contentious IP matters, specialising in trademark, copyright, domain name, Internet law and anti-unfair competition matters. Ashley has extensive experience before the China Trademark Office and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board. Her client base includes international corporations from a wide range of industries. Ashley handles intellectual property transactions and licensing, as well as regulatory matters that affect a brand owner’s business operations in mainland China. She provides advice on domain name disputes, IP strategy and IPR enforcement with regards to online take-downs, AIC raid actions and litigation in China. AWA Asia Ltd
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Partner Simon Bradbury is a partner at Appleyard Lees, focusing on patents in the life sciences and biotechnology sectors. His broad expertise includes artificial intelligence and machine learning in drug discovery, medical devices, and microbiology. He has advised clients in matters relating to oppositions, appeals, infringement, revocations, and invalidity actions. His clients include large multinationals as well as startup companies. Appleyard Lees
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Partner Christian W. Appelt focuses on the counselling of SMEs in Germany and Europe in all aspects of intellectual property, especially patents and utility models, and on representing and advising large, internationally active companies, especially from Japan, China and the US. He has been a member of the Board of the German chapter of LES since 2010, acting as President from 2018 to 2020, and now being member of the Advisory Board of LES Germany. He represents his clients at the German patent authorities and courts, as well as at the European Patent Office (EPO) and at the UPC. Boehmert & Boehmert
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Managing partner Laura Collada has more than 30 years’ experience in IP and is a managing partner at Dumont, where she has worked since 2000. She has taught copyright and industrial property law at various universities in Mexico City. She also worked as a director of the sub-office for the prevention of unfair competition at the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property.
Collada focuses her practice in the areas of fashion, media and telecommunications. She has written for World IP Review and is a member of INTA, Marques, AIPPI and ECTA. Dumont Bergman Bider & Co
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Consultant Mr. Krishna's area of practice encompasses the entire spectrum of intellectual property management. He has to his credit vast and diverse experience in Trade Mark prosecution. In addition, he is actively involved in counseling a wide range of Indian and multinational clients. He has been playing a pivotal role in client counseling, especially in the development of IP portfolios, licensing and joint ventures. Krishna & Saurastri Associates LLP
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Senior Partner A Senior Partner in K Law, Nikhil is an IP attorney with 25 years of experience in IP Litigation
Prosecution, Licensing, Enforcement and Strategy. Nikhil has advised on M&E issues for a range of clients including music publishers, record labels, film producers, intermediaries, radio stations, performers, actors and models.
He has managed the IP enforcement portfolios of several luxury brands and software companies; advised on various niche IT issues, and represented plaintiffs in electronic trespass and hacking matters.
He has been recognized as Top 100 Individual Lawyers by the Forbes India Legal Powerlist 2021, as Super 50 Lawyers and Top TMT / Fintech Lawyers in India by ALB, 2021. Krishnamurthy & Co. (K Law)
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Partner Parminder Lally joined the patent profession as a trainee in 2011, qualified as a patent attorney in 2015 and joined the Cambridge, UK, office of Appleyard Lees in February 2019. She previously worked as an in-house patent attorney at Cambridge Mechatronics, a research and development and IP licensing company, and was the company’s first in-house IP specialist. Lally’s clients include startups based in Cambridge and London, as well as global companies, and she specialises in computer-implemented inventions (such as software and artificial intelligence) or those inventions which are more mathematical. She has also represented clients, including Samsung Electronics, before the European Patent Office. In addition to tutoring trainees from other firms for the European Qualifying Examinations, Lally is a council member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. Lally has been involved with IP Inclusive since it was formed in 2015, and was co-leader of the project that led to the creation of Careers in Ideas, which raises awareness of the IP profession. Appleyard Lees
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Managing Partner David Leason is the managing partner at Leason Ellis and has an extensive practice that focuses on patent prosecution and counseling. He counsels clients in a variety of industries such as oil and gas, software, and medical technologies that range from individual or start-up to Fortune 100 companies. The legal industry recognises Leason for his thoroughly considered opinions on patentability, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and validity issues. He has been quoted in publications such as Law360 and Intellectual Asset Management and has been an invited speaker for the Corporate Committee of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association and the Practicing Law Institute. Leason Ellis LLP
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Partner Lanny LEE is one of the founding Partners of HFG and been practicing law for more than 20 years in China. She has extensive experience in Intellectual Property rights including trademark, patent, copyright, business secrets and unfair competition.
Lanny’s legal opinions and professional expertise on legislation & practices regarding Intellectual Property rights are often invited by media. Her articles were published in magazines such as Intellectual Property, Modern Law Science, Japanese Patent，Japanese Intellectual Law Management , Chinese Trademark, as well as China Daily and Managing Intellectual Property.
Lanny mainly provides professional Intellectual Property legal services to world 500 companies or which 80% are foreign-invested companies and 20% Japanese enterprises. Moreover, Lanny has several cases listed as typical cases in China in the recent consecutive years. HFG Law Firm & IP Practice
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Partner Claire Lehr has over 20 years’ experiences in the trade mark field advising clients in their branding and trade mark matters. A partner in Edwin Coe, Claire is based in London. The non-contentious side of her practice spans the life cycle of trade marks, from searching and taking a trade mark application through to registration; she has had notable success in overcoming “difficult” absolute grounds objections and navigating a path to settlement in multi-jurisdictional opposition and other IPO proceedings. Increasingly, she advises on contentious matters, including infringement and passing off. Claire’s client portfolio includes established clients in the automobile, financial, hospitality / leisure and retail sectors. She chairs MARQUES’ Programming Team and currently serves as a Project Team Leader on INTA’s Leadership Development Committee. Edwin Coe LLP
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Of Counsel Michelle Levin has been a staple in the firm’s trademark practice group for over ten years. Michelle focuses on all aspects of domestic and foreign trademark prosecution, managing the worldwide trademark portfolios of clients from a variety of industries. She also conducts clearance work, including U.S. and foreign trademark availability searching and counseling on selecting new marks. Michelle is also regularly involved in contentious matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board as well as oppositions and cancellation actions abroad. Leason Ellis LLP
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Chief Vice President/Partner/Patent Attorney /Attorney at Law Deshan Li joined a large patent and trademark law firm in 1996. As a patent attorney, attorney at law and director of the electrical pepartment of that firm, Li has been very active in patent procurement and patent enforcement and accumulated extensive practical experience. He has successfully dealt with a number of difficult patent prosecution and litigation cases.
Li's practice focuses on the technical fields of image processing, telecommunication, computer science and automation etc.
He also counsels clients on patent validity, patentability and infringement issues. In 2007, he joined Unitalen and is responsible for the management of foreign patent business. Unitalen Attorneys At Law