Innovators at global multinationals, emerging growth companies and established mid-sized businesses all rely on Mayer Brown to help protect, preserve and enforce their intellectual property assets. Our lawyers select the right options to fit each client’s business strategy, whether they are assessing an IP portfolio, performing due diligence for an acquisition, securing a patent, trademark, trade secret or copyright, or using litigation to resolve business disputes over infringement or misappropriation. We help our clients protect their investment, increase their market share, and strengthen their competitive advantage. We are true interactive partners with every client.

Mayer Brown takes a multi-disciplinary approach to today's emerging issues in the development, protection and exploitation of intellectual property assets. We are uniquely positioned with a full-service IP practice that is fully integrated with other practices, providing antitrust guidance on transactions and competition disputes and unsurpassed appellate capabilities before the federal courts, the US Supreme Court and international tribunals. Because today’s economy transcends national borders, we offer comprehensive assistance in key business centers around the world.

At the heart of our practice is what clients call an “extremely supportive and accessible” team (Chambers USA) composed of “strong lawyers” (Chambers Europe) who are “creative” and “marvelously commercial” (Chambers UK). This global capability encompasses a large team of IP practitioners, located throughout the United States (with many of them admitted before the US Patent and Trademark Office) and in each of the key European business centers, particularly London and Frankfurt. Furthermore, our merger with Johnson Stokes & Master, one of the oldest and largest law firms in Asia, gives us a strong presence in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. In addition, we have relationships with firms around the globe to help us meet our clients’ worldwide IP needs.

IAM Licensing 250: The World’s Leading Patent and Technology Licensing Practitioners 2011 has ranked Mayer Brown in London for the second year in a row as being leading patent and technology licensing lawyers. Chambers Global 2009 ranked us in the top tier, noting both our “impressive litigation credentials” and “outstanding reputation in soft IP.” 

Practice at a Glance

• Full service practice with experience in a wide range of areas, including: Litigation & Enforcement, Counseling & Prosecution, and Transactions.

• Broad experience in a range of industries, including: advertising & marketing, biotech & pharmaceuticals, chemicals, communications & telecommunications, high tech, software, financial services, food & drink, and media, entertainment & sports

• Global presence, with practitioners in the US, Europe and Asia