Interested in how you can get involved with Tech & Innovation Patent Litigation 2026?
Based on your objectives, we can create bespoke packages for you. From presenting your expertise on stage to partnering with us to deliver networking activities. Partner with us in 2026 to showcase your brand and make valuable new connections. Opportunities include thought leadership, branding, and networking.
Discuss your objectives with Duncan Henderson, Commercial Partnerships Director, [email protected]
Diamond Partner
Fisher & Richardson
Website: https://www.fr.com/
Fish helps pioneering life sciences and AI companies to optimize the process of creating new drugs through AI-assisted drug development and discovery. As one of the most experienced AI law firms, Fish aids clients in navigating patent strategy and protection, including application of the "simultaneous conception and reduction to practice doctrine," licensing and collaboration agreements, trade secret protection, regulatory and compliance, litigation and enforcement, and strategic AI planning. Our ability to pair dynamic legal strategies with in-depth Life Sciences industry experience is what separates Fish from other law firms. At Fish, we’ve prosecuted the patents for some of the essential technologies that underpin today’s cutting-edge AI services. AI innovation is advancing faster than the law can catch up, and it takes knowledgeable legal teams to stay on pace. With technical prowess virtually unheard of in the legal industry, Fish’s attorneys have been working with revolutionary technologies for decades. As a result, we know better than most how to protect our clients’ assets when they push the boundaries of IP law.
Platinum Partners
A&O Shearman
Website: https://www.aoshearman.com/en
A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets. This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world.
Our trade secrets group operates on a multi-jurisdictional, cross-disciplinary basis, involving lawyers from our intellectual property and employment teams, as well as our litigation, investigations, white-collar crime, and arbitration specialists. We provide services to innovative clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, life sciences, defence, aerospace, chemicals, telecoms and high technology.
Bonabry
Website: https://www.bonabry.de/
Bonabry is a team of experienced and specialized patent and IP litigators united in the belief that the most excellent solutions for our clients require independent and inventive thinking supported by a working environment that implements the ideas of tomorrow. The team is composed of five partners (Dr Alexander Harguth, Carl-Alexander Dinges, Daniel Hoppe, Dr Jan Peter Heidenreich and Konstantin Schallmoser), two counsels (Christian Holtz and Dr Sarah Salaschek) and two associates (Alice Pasch and Isabel Werner). The new offices are based in Hamburg, Munich, and Paris.
Bonabry represents its clients in all areas of IP litigation and licensing. Their services include patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, designs, and related fields such as competition law and pharma regulatory law. The key industries include life science and pharma, telecommunication and network technology, automotive, industrial engineering, semiconductors, electronics and software, cosmetic and consumer goods as well as luxury goods and fashion.
Clifford Chance
Website: https://www.cliffordchance.com/home.html
Clifford Chance is one of the world’s pre-eminent law firms, with significant depth and range of human and IT resources across five continents. The firm is always striving to exceed the expectations of its clients, which includes banks and other financial institutions, corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations. Providing the highest quality advice and legal insight, Clifford Chance prides itself on its approachable, team-based and tech-savvy way of working.
DERIS
Website: https://www.deris.com/
Deris is a one-stop shop for IP services with one of the largest and internationally regarded IP prosecution and advisory team.
We have been the pioneer in shaping the IP landscape by obtaining the precedent decisions & participating the preparation of the IP legislation upon the invitation of the legislative bodies. We provide a wide spectrum of high-quality services that are essential for securing, maintaining and enforcing IP rights.
Our services and counseling are supported by the trademark attorneys and technical experts, who are national and European patent attorneys, under a unique service approach combining longstanding enforcement experience with prosecution-technical expertise. Our goal is to secure enforceable IP rights in the market so that they can be transformed into sustainable commercial values.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Website: https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Hoyng Rokh Monegier
Website: https://www.hoyngrokhmonegier.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Linklaters
Website: https://www.linklaters.com/
Linklaters cross-border Intellectual Property team successfully advises market-leading companies on high-profile IP litigation and complex IP-driven transactions.
We advise clients in a broad range of sectors, with a focus on IP-heavy industries such as healthcare and life sciences.
Our history of advising clients in the healthcare and life sciences sector is long and we have developed strong working relationships and a deep understanding of our client’s business environment. Many of our lawyers have technical backgrounds and therefore have in-depth understanding of complex technologies.
We support our clients with outstanding legal skills, expert sector knowledge and a pragmatic mindset in cross-border IP disputes. More specifically our litigation practice covers the full scope of dispute resolution, including court proceedings, arbitration, mediation and settlement discussions. Where possible, we aim to resolve disputes before court proceedings become necessary. However, where litigation is unavoidable, we take care to pick the right cases to pursue through the courts and continue to look for pragmatic solutions.
We tackle the entire spectrum of IP rights, including patents, supplementary protection certificates, copyrights, designs and trademarks. Our practice also covers issues of confidentiality, as well as trade secrets protection and misappropriation.
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.
Potter Clarkson
Website: https://www.potterclarkson.com/
Leading European intellectual property law firm, Potter Clarkson helps companies, organisations, and individuals across all sectors of business to understand, create, protect, and defend the commercial value of their innovations anywhere in the world. Its 200-strong specialist team of patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys, litigators, and licensing specialists, operate from dedicated offices in the UK, Sweden, and Denmark.
Potter Clarkson is widely recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, particularly renowned for its expertise in life sciences disputes. The firm’s contentious practice regularly handles high-profile litigation across major jurisdictions worldwide, including proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) and, more recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC). With multiple actions currently underway, Potter Clarkson is actively leveraging the EPO’s existing procedures to obtain Unitary Patents and enforce patent rights across Europe through the UPC.Potter Clarkson is widely recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, particularly renowned for its expertise in life sciences disputes. The firm’s contentious practice regularly handles high-profile litigation across major jurisdictions worldwide, including proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) and, more recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC). With multiple actions currently underway, Potter Clarkson is actively leveraging the EPO’s existing procedures to obtain Unitary Patents and enforce patent rights across Europe through the UPC.
Potter Clarkson is widely recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, particularly renowned for its expertise in life sciences disputes. The firm’s contentious practice regularly handles high-profile litigation across major jurisdictions worldwide, including proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) and, more recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC). With multiple actions currently underway, Potter Clarkson is actively leveraging the EPO’s existing procedures to obtain Unitary Patents and enforce patent rights across Europe through the UPC.
Schertenleib
Website: https://schertenleib-avocats.com/en/equipe/denis-schertenleib/
Please visit our website for more information.Gold Partners
EIP
Website: https://www.eip.com/uk/
EIP specialises in high-value and complex patent matters. Our multidisciplinary team combines patent attorneys, litigators and commercial IP lawyers, and we have specialists in three of the world’s main patent markets - Germany, UK and US, and now also in the Nordics through our recent expansion into Sweden.
The benefit of this combination is well illustrated by EIP’s successful representation of clients in high stakes patent litigation before the UK High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and before the German District and Federal Courts.
Our contentious expertise extends to conducting offensive and defensive oppositions before the European Patent Office, often involving multiple parties and relating to cutting edge platform technologies, to representing clients in national litigation proceedings in the UK and Germany, and since 1 June 2023, also the UPC.
Our litigation practice has built an enviable reputation for quality and success amongst its competitors and clients, with a strong track record including a landmark ruling on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) from the UK Supreme Court. Our patent attorneys work hand-in-hand with the litigation team in the UK and Germany, to provide technical expertise and put forward the very best case on large scale international patent litigation matters.
In addition to our existing UK, German and Swedish capabilities, EIP Amar, an alliance between EIP and Amar Goussu Staub in Paris, is a dedicated, experienced and technically skilled team of patent litigation specialists created to support clients in any high-stakes litigation before the UPC.
EIP is increasingly involved in advisory and strategic project work in relation to the enforcement of patent rights, including portfolio analyses, infringement and validity analyses and claim charting, and strategic IP advice such as due diligence related to acquisitions and joint ventures.
EIP’s Life Sciences team offers multi-qualified and multi-disciplinary teams to suit the specific needs of each client. Innovations in this sector are increasingly intersectional and, by bringing together life sciences expertise with EIP’s long established strengths in areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, our team provides an inter-disciplinary life sciences offering that keeps pace with such innovations.
Finnegan
Website: http://www.finnegan.com/
As one of the largest IP practices in the world, Finnegan was founded nearly 60 years ago with a focus on offering the highest quality IP legal services. Since we focus primarily on IP, every resource of our firm is dedicated to hiring the top talent in the IP world, and providing them with the IP resources needed to excel. We have a decades-long track record of successfully prosecuting and litigating some of the world’s most significant patent, trademark, copyright, and licensing matters. We also represent clients on IP issues related to advertising, trade secrets, European patents and trade marks, international trade, portfolio management, the Internet, e-commerce, government contracts, antitrust, privacy, and unfair competition. We offer full-service IP legal and technical experience in virtually every industry and technology—from electrical and computer technology, industrial manufacturing, consumer products, medical devices, and biotechnology to pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and alternative energy.
Our commitment to quality is continually recognized worldwide by our clients, colleagues, and respected publications such as:
- #1 Tier National Ranking for Intellectual Property Law, 2010-2024 (U.S. News—Best Lawyers Best Law Firms)
- Practice Group of the Year, 2017, 2019, 2022 (Law360)
- #1 Tier National Ranking for Intellectual Property Litigation, 2024 (Benchmark Litigation)
LAVOIX
Website: https://www.lavoix.eu/en
LAVOIX, a European firm fully dedicated to Intellectual Property (IP), has close to 200 IP professionals including 80 attorneys-at-law, industrial property attorneys and technology specialists.The firm’s sheer size and the diversity of its team’s areas of expertise enable LAVOIX to assist its clients in every aspect of IP across all business areas and technological fields.
Our Life Science team has extensive technical expertise in many areas including biotechnology, pharmaceutical chemistry and bioinformatics.
Our attorneys are able to prosecute patent applications in the three European Patent Office official languages (English, German and French). Our Munich office provides direct and easy access to the EPO and the German Patent Office.
Our Life Science team is also regularly involved in oppositions, appeals and oral proceedings before the EPO, management of Supplementary Protection Certificates, as well as due diligence, precontentious opinions and national or pan-European litigations.
With a view to maximize the position of our clients and meet their specific needs, our Life Science Team also monitors the latest developments of the European Union’s law which could potentially affect our client’s businesses, in particular in respect of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agrochemicals and medical devices.
Mewburn Ellis
Website: https://www.mewburn.com/
Mewburn Ellis is one of leading P firms in Europe, showcasing an exceptional breadth and depth of expertise to address all your IP needs, both now and in the future. With five European offices – London, Bristol, Manchester, Cambridge, and Munich – we operate seamlessly as one unified firm. This ensures our clients benefit from a diverse range of relevant skills and knowledge, delivered by some of the brightest minds in the IP profession. Our IP specialists will guide you through every stage of the IP lifecycle. We offer comprehensive advice on patent, trade mark, and registered design protection, as well as assistance with any IP-related disputes and legal or commercial requirements. If you need help reviewing your IP assets, we can conduct IP Audits to evaluate your existing IP portfolio, identifying related risks and opportunities, and providing strategic advice and guidance aligned to your business objectives.
At Mewburn Ellis, we bring passion and commitment to our clients, immersing ourselves in their businesses to understand not just their immediate needs, but also their long-term goals. This strategic and personalised approach allows us to deliver creative and cost-effective solutions tailored to each client's specific requirements.
RPX
Website: https://www.rpxcorp.com/
RPX Corporation is the leading patent risk management platform, offering defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence, and advisory services. Since its founding in 2008, RPX has introduced efficiency to the patent market by providing a rational alternative to litigation. The San Francisco-based company’s pioneering approach combines principal capital, deep patent expertise, and client contributions to generate enhanced patent buying power. By acquiring patents and patent rights, RPX helps to mitigate and manage patent risk for its growing client network. As of July 1, 2025 RPX has invested nearly $5B to acquire rights to more than 300,000 US and international patent assets on behalf of more than 265 clients.
Solutions Partner
RWS
Website: https://www.rws.com/intellectual-property-services/
RWS is a content solutions company, powered by technology and human expertise. We grow the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood. Everywhere.
Our proprietary technology, 45+ AI patents and human experts help organizations bring ideas to market faster, build deeper relationships across borders and cultures, and enter new markets with confidence – growing their business and connecting them to a world of opportunities.
It’s why over 80 of the world’s top 100 brands trust RWS to drive innovation, inform decisions and shape brand experiences.
With 60+ global locations, across five continents, our teams work with businesses across almost all industries. Innovating since 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).
More information: rws.com
TPR
Website: https://www.tprinternational.com/
TPR is a world-class leader in patent and literature research for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, trusted for over 30 years. Our team of specialised Search Analysts, known for their global reputation for excellence, provides actionable insights to support IP protection, innovation, and strategic decision-making.
Chemistry & Biotech Expertise – Advanced searches in both large and small molecules leveraging cutting-edge indexing and algorithms, including chemical structures, Markush structures, sequences, formulations and biosimilars.
Comprehensive Subject Knowledge – Our team includes experts in molecular biology, immunology, genomics, gene therapy, and medical devices, with many Search Analysts formerly serving on the patent information teams at leading companies such as GSK, Merck, Pfizer, Novartis, Abbott, Eli Lilly, Amgen and Genentech.
Tailored Patent Search Solutions – From freedom-to-operate to validity/invalidity, litigation, EPO opposition, IPR, due diligence, landscape and white-space analyses, we address the critical challenges in pharma and biotech.
TPR’s highly experienced U.S. and European Search Analysts, global reach, and passion for excellence make us the most trusted choice for pharma and biotech corporations and law firms.