OUR 2025 SPONSORS & PARTNERS
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Platinum Partners
Gowling WLG
Website: https://gowlingwlg.com/
With more than 1,500 legal professionals in offices worldwide, Gowling WLG offers clients a comprehensive suite of sector-focused legal services. With an award winning global intellectual property practice, our full service firm stands out for its ability to provide support for the full life cycle of a smart idea.
Trade secret protection is an important part of this offering with services spanning multiple disciplines – from the development of trade secrets and data protection policies, to the drafting of NDAs and employment contracts, through to cybersecurity risk management and high stakes litigation.
Whether you are looking to identify and protect your trade secrets to avoid leakage, establishing the value of your intangible assets for merger or acquisition or pursuing a trade secret thief, we can help guide you through trade secrets law around the world and across a number of key sectors. Learn more
Marks & Clerk
Website: https://www.marks-clerk.com/
Marks & Clerk is an international law firm specialising in intellectual property (IP) law. With a vast network of over 650 professionals across the world, including a qualified team of experienced patent and trademark associates, the firm offers comprehensive technical expertise covering all aspects of intellectual property matters, such as patents, trademarks, designs and copyright. Its services encompass worldwide protection, portfolio management, strategic advice, commercial guidance, licensing, enforcement, clearance and searches, validity and infringement opinions, due diligence and litigation. Operating through a network of offices in Canada, Europe and Asia, Marks & Clerk consistently delivers high-quality, seamless and cost-effective services to clients both locally and globally.
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.
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.
Gold Partners
Barnes And Thornbug LLP
Website: https://btlaw.com/
Intellectual Property
Barnes & Thornburg’s Intellectual Property Department, with more than 130 attorneys and professionals, is one of the largest intellectual property practice groups found in a full-service law firm. Our practice covers a broad spectrum of services, including strategic IP portfolio services, prosecuting and litigating patents, trademarks and copyrights, enforcement of patents and trademarks, and defense of IP enforcement actions.
Our IP practice advises and helps a diverse and multinational roster of clients. From electrical and mechanical engineering, to chemistry and microbiology, to computer technology and business methods – our attorneys’ background and experience in several technical disciplines positions us to meet a variety of sophisticated business and inventorship needs.
Life Sciences
Barnes & Thornburg provides a wide range of interdisciplinary legal services to organizations engaged in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical and laboratory devices, health services and bioinformatics. Most of the lawyers in our biotech practice have educational and practical research experience pertinent to the biotechnology industry and many hold advanced degrees in organic chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, genetics, immunology and microbiology. We understand chemistry, biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device technologies. In addition, our intellectual property practice includes professionals with advanced degrees in molecular biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, biology, pharmacology, immunology, microbiology, biotechnology, bioengineering, physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, and civil engineering.
Our team represents a wide array of clients in this industry – from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Some of our representative clients include 3M Company, DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, Johnson & Johnson, H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Co., Hillenbrand, \
Solutions Partner
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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Discuss your objectives with Duncan Henderson, Legal Commercial Director, [email protected]