As a result of our long-standing representation of innovators, we have developed a high level of experience assisting clients with the protection of the IP crucial to their success. In addition, we have frequently represented companies in the defense of IP disputes both at the trial and appellate level. Mayer Brown full-service IP practice has 65 lawyers worldwide who focus on three areas:
Litigation of disputes involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, licenses, franchises and related antitrust matters;
Patent, trademark and copyright procurement and strategy, including prosecution before the United States Patent & Trademark Office and European Patent Office by our registered practitioners in the United States and Europe; and
IP opinions and transactional matters.
In Chambers USA 2006, clients enthused about us as being an “extremely supportive and accessible” team that is “always up to the task . . . efficiently handling every case that comes its way.” Chambers also reported that clients described our IP litigators as “phenomenal,” “high energy,” “superb strategist[s]” and “brilliant in bringing together all the issues.”
Likewise, Chambers has warmly endorsed our European practice as a “creative and agreeable” team for its “marvelously commercial” IP practice and depth of its experience. (Chambers & Partners UK Directory 2006 Edition). Chambers further describes our German practice as possessing “strong lawyers [and is] recommended for transactional work, patent prosecution and litigation.” The leading German legal journal, JUVE, has called us an “often recommended firm with continuous dynamic growth in its Competition practice as well as in its Intellectual Property practice (trademark and industrial design law, patent law: contentious and non-contentious).”
