Innovation - Technology & Intellectual Property Hardware • Software • Telecom • Internet • Media • Ip • Life Sciences

2016 EDITION

INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HARDWARE • SOFTWARE • TELECOM • INTERNET • MEDIA • IP • LIFE SCIENCES

Michelle K. Lee USPTO

P. 32

Ronald Van Tuijl INTA

P. 35

Sundar Pichai Google

P. 37

Alexander Karp Palantir

P. 49

Tao Wang DJI

P. 47

Hassan Safer-Tebbi Siemens Healthcare France

P. 52

Samer Salty Zouk Capital

P. 55

Josh Walden Intel

P. 38

Tony Elumelu The Tony Elumelu Foundation RANKINGS P. 54 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AMERICAS P.61 EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTORS REINING A WHIRLWIND: EUROPE P.117 EXPERT VIEWS P.228 CREATING (NEW) ORDER IN A ASIA P.209 Marc-Roger Hirsch TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE P.12 Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, DIRECTORY Hirsch & Associés Mexico, Peru, USA, Belgium, France, PATENT & TRADEMARK ATTORNEYS P.236 LEADERS Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, FINANCIAL ADVISORS P.247 P. 265 THE 50 PEOPLE OF THE YEAR Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, VENTURE CAPITAL P.248 IN IP & IT P.32 United Kingdom, China, India, Japan LAW FIRMS P.249

EDITO

JANDIRA SALGADO JEANNE YIZHEN YIN MANAGING EDITOR ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR

FARTHER, FASTER, AND SMARTER

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.”

- Bill Gates

You might have noticed something special about 2015. 40 years ago, Steve Wozniak tested his first working prototype, giving birth to the Apple I. 30 years ago, the domain name .com saw the light of day and Windows 1.0 was released. 20 years ago, Pixar came out with Toy Story, transforming the whole animated movie industry. 10 years ago, Pandora, YouTube, Amazon and the first “wiki” were born, shaking the way we listen to music, watch videos, go shopping and share knowledge. Today, early innovators have matured to become influential powers, as Apple and Facebook dare to say no to the US government. Emerging countries are gaining power, as China remains the champion of IP fillings. Cutting-edge technologies are disrupting traditional thinking, as AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol. Start-ups are challenging established players, while being challenged themselves by newcomers, as is the case of unicorns.

Legal professionals are continuously challenged In a world where new technologies and business models are converging with long-establishing practices, legal professionals must think wider and farther than ever. Major tech players are looking for ways to enter traditional sectors like financial services, healthcare, media and automobile, and online businesses are extending into providing offline services. Legal professionals need to act and react faster than ever. Traditional IP concerns are still there, but lawyers have permanent new challenges such as global data protection, cyber risks, liability risks of new products as connected objects, Virtual Reality, 3D printers, drones or autonomous vehicles. Regulation is far from tight, and the dually-qualified lawyer/engineer is the rare pearl every entrepreneur wants at his side. The world is reshuffling the deck. So keep your eyes and minds open and don’t underestimate any changes. Such is the way not to miss the pace of innovation. If you snooze, you lose. Dennemeyer: The Whole World of Intellectual Property

Translations Patent Mapping IP Legal advice Strategies Patent MappingCopyright EP - Validation Descriptions Domain Names Domain Names Attorneys Flat fee prosecution Descriptions IP Docketing IP Contracts IP Docketing Flat fee prosecution Copyright Domain Names IP Due DiligenceEP - Validation BrandsIP Contracts Software Solutions Filings Copyright PCT - Nationalizations Descriptions PatentPCT - Nationalizations Seminars IP Due Diligence Domain Names IP Docketing Descriptions Filings Mapping Filings Descriptions Patent Mapping Strategies Copyright Patent Mapping Prior artDescriptions searches Designs Designs Copyright IP Legal advice

Brands Software Solutions IP Contracts Trademarks Docketing EP - Validation DIAMS iQ DIAMS iQPatents Trademarks IP Contracts Trademarks Seminars Software EP - Validation Copyright Portfolio Analysis Recordal ServicesDesigns Trademarks Patent Mapping Portfolio Analysis Portfolio Analysis PCT - Nationalizations DIAMS iQ Patents Descriptions Flat fee prosecution Solutions Patent Mapping Flat fee prosecution searches Prior art Strategies Software Solutions Software Domain NamesMonetization Filings Designs Translations Patent IP Legal advice Mapping Copyright Translations Copyright Brands Trademarks Seminars Brands Filings Contracts Designs Domains Copyright StrategiesTrademarks Prior art searches IP Legal advice Descriptions Filings Domain Names Brands Trademarks Brands Copyright

IP Docketing Trademarks

Attorneys Copyright Descriptions iQ Diams PCT - Nationalizations IP Contracts Strategies Descriptions Prior art searches Filings Descriptions Flat fee prosecution Trademarks Strategies IP Docketing IP DocketingEP - Validation Consulting IP Due Diligence Copyright Filings Copyright Software Solutions Patents Brands IP Contracts Translations DIAMS iQ EP - ValidationFilings Software Solutions EP - Validation EP - Validation IP Contracts Prior artIP searches Docketing Copyright Filings Descriptions Domain Names Translations Designs PCT - Nationalizations DIAMSFilings iQ IP Contracts Prior art searches Descriptions

PatentsSolutions Software Designs Strategies Copyright IP Legal advice DIAMS iQ IP Docketing Translations

Filings Domain Names

Descriptions Copyright Filings Brands SoftwareBrands Solutions EP - Validation Consulting Designs CopyrightFilings Descriptions Patent Translations Docketing Mapping Brands

IP Contracts Trademarks Prior art searches Prior art

Software Solutions Software Flat fee prosecution PCT - Nationalizations - PCT IP Legal advice

IP Due DiligenceIP Due Patents Consulting Software Solutions Portfolio AnalysisiQ DIAMS DIAMS iQ

Consulting Translations IP DueCopyright Diligence DIAMSStrategies iQ IP Contracts Designs EP - Validation Filings

Patent Mapping Prior art searches Patent Valuation Patents

Flat fee prosecution DIAMS iQ Validation - EP PCT - Nationalizations Patents Copyright

IP Docketing Designs Seminars Filings IP Flat fee prosecution Software Solutions

Descriptions Patents EP - - Validation EP Trademarks

Flat fee prosecution

Strategies

IP Due Diligence Due IP Translations Seminars Trademarks Patents Brands Flat fee prosecution

Domain Names Domain DIAMS iQ IP Legal advice Brands Domain Names

Filings

DIAMS iQ Filings PCT - Nationalizations

SUMMARY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Rapidly-evolving legal landscapes, financing models, technological progress and shifting mindsets are paving the way to a new world order in innovation and technology.

12 Providing Direction 12 Statistics: Who is Leading Global Innovation? Your local contact for all intellectual property services: 15 Mapping the Legal Landscape worldwide - around the clock 15 European Patent with Unitary Effect: Between Good Intentions and Uncertainty 16 Anti-counterfeiting: A Global Effort All your IP matters will be handled by a single, dedicated Dennemeyer contact, while more complex tasks may be 17 International Arbitration: Gaining Traction in IP disputes managed by a team of experts and offices worldwide. AUSTRALIA • BRAZIL • CHINA • CROATIA • FRANCE • GERMANY • JAPAN • LUXEMBOURG • POLAND • ROMANIA • SWITZERLAND • UAE • UK • US 18 Funding the Future 18 Investments: A Song of Fire and Ice 20 Valuation: Are Unicorns Becoming Endangered?

21 Unlocking Potential 21 Technology: Unlimited Progress or Pandora's Box?

24 Changing Tides 24 Uberization: The Blossoming of Innovation

26 Honing Excellence 26 Bryan, Garnier & Co: twenty years of conquering and development Learn more: http://www.dennemeyer.com/contact/ Dennemeyer: The Whole World of Intellectual Property

IP Docketing Trademarks

PatentsSolutions Software Designs Strategies Copyright IP Legal advice DIAMS iQ IP Docketing Translations

Filings Domain Names

Descriptions Copyright Filings Brands SoftwareBrands Solutions EP - Validation Consulting Designs CopyrightFilings Descriptions Patent Translations Docketing Mapping Brands

IP Contracts Trademarks Prior art searches Prior art

Software Solutions Software Flat fee prosecution PCT - Nationalizations - PCT IP Legal advice

IP Due DiligenceIP Due Patents Consulting Software Solutions Portfolio AnalysisiQ DIAMS DIAMS iQ

Consulting Translations IP DueCopyright Diligence DIAMSStrategies iQ IP Contracts Designs EP - Validation Filings

Patent Mapping Prior art searches Patent Valuation Patents

Flat fee prosecution DIAMS iQ Validation - EP PCT - Nationalizations Patents Copyright

IP Docketing Designs Seminars Filings IP Flat fee prosecution Software Solutions

Descriptions Patents EP - - Validation EP Trademarks

Flat fee prosecution

Strategies

IP Due Diligence Due IP Translations Seminars Trademarks Patents Brands Flat fee prosecution

Domain Names Domain DIAMS iQ IP Legal advice Brands Domain Names

Filings

DIAMS iQ Filings PCT - Nationalizations

Your local contact for all intellectual property services: worldwide - around the clock

All your IP matters will be handled by a single, dedicated Dennemeyer contact, while more complex tasks may be managed by a team of experts and offices worldwide. AUSTRALIA • BRAZIL • CHINA • CROATIA • FRANCE • GERMANY • JAPAN • LUXEMBOURG • POLAND • ROMANIA • SWITZERLAND • UAE • UK • US

Learn more: http://www.dennemeyer.com/contact/ SUMMARY

50 LEADERS

Leaders League has identified 50 impactful leaders across the globe, whose ambitions and achievements are reshaping the world of innovation and technology: institutional leaders, established tech players, individuals responsible for innovative start-ups, traditional industrials, nurturing environments such as universities, funds and accelerators... all remarkably engaged in respectively diverse fields. Dialogues, insights, inspirations.

32 INSTITUTIONS 37 ESTABLISHED PLAYERS 40 RISING STARS 50 TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIALS 54 NURTURERS

RANKINGS

61 AMERICAS 62 Argentina 63 Argentina Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 63 Argentina Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 64 Argentina Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 65 Brazil 66 Brazil Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 67 Brazil Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 68 Brazil Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 69 Brazil Best Law Firms - Media, Sports & Entertainment 70 Brazil Best Law Firms - Technology & Digital Services 72 Canada 73 Canada Best Investment Banks - TMT 74 Canada Venture Capital Funds List 75 Canada Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 76 Canada Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 77 Canada Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 78 Canada Best Law Firms - Trademark & Copyright Litigation 79 Canada Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 80 Chile 81 Chile Best Law Firms - General IP 81 Chile Best Law Firms - Technology & Digital Services 82 Mexico 83 Mexico Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 84 Mexico Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 85 Mexico Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 86 Mexico Best Law Firms - TMT 87 Mexico Best Law Firms - Data Protection 88 Peru 89 Peru Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 90 Peru Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 90 Peru Best Law Firms - Enforcement & Anti-piracy Actions 91 Peru Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 92 Peru Best Law Firms - Data Protection 94 USA 95 USA Best Investment Banks - TMT 96 USA Best Investment Banks - Health & Pharma 97 Venture Capital’s Finest 101 USA Best Venture Capital Funds 102 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 103 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 105 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 106 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 107 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Life Sciences 108 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 109 New York Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 110 New York Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 111 New York Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 111 New York Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 112 New York Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 113 California Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 114 California Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 115 California Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 115 California Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 116 California Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing

117 EUROPE 118 Top 50 Europe Software Vendors 119 Europe Best Venture Capital Funds 120 Belgium 121 Belgium Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 122 Belgium Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 123 Belgium Best Law Firms - TMT 124 Belgium Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 124 Belgium Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 126 France 127 France Best Investment Banks - TMT (Large Cap) 127 France Best Investment Banks - TMT (Small & Mid Cap) 128 France Best Investment Banks - Health & Pharma (Large Cap) 128 France Best Investment Banks - Health & Pharma (Small & Mid Cap) 129 France Best Venture Capital Funds 130 France Best Software Editors 2015 131 France Best Law Firms - Telecoms 132 France Best Law Firms - IT & Software 134 France Best Law Firms - Internet 136 France Best Law Firms - Data Protection 138 France Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 142 France Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 145 France Best Patent Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 146 France Best Trademark Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 149 Germany 150 Germany Venture Capital Funds List 151 Germany Best Investment Banks - TMT 152 Germany Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 153 Germany Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 154 Germany Best Firms - Trademark Prosecution 155 Germany Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 156 Germany Best Law Firms - IT SUMMARY

158 Italy 159 Italy Best Investment Banks - TMT 160 Italy Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 161 Italy Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 162 Italy Best Law Firms - General IP Litigation 164 Italy Best Law Firms - Media 165 Italy Best Law Firms - Information Technology 166 Luxembourg 167 Luxembourg Best IP Attorneys - IP Prosecution 168 Luxembourg Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 169 Luxembourg Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 170 Netherlands 171 Netherlands Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 172 Netherlands Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 173 Netherlands Best Law Firms - General IP Litigation 174 Netherlands Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 175 Portugal 176 Portugal Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 176 Portugal Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 177 Portugal Best Law Firms - General IP Litigation 178 Portugal Best Law Firms - TMT 180 Russia 181 Russia Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 181 Russia Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 182 Russia Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 182 Russia Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 184 Spain 185 Spain Best Investment Banks - TMT 186 Spain Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 186 Spain Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 187 Spain Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 187 Spain Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 188 Spain Best Law Firms - TMT 190 Switzerland 191 Switzerland Best Investment Banks - TMT 192 Switzerland Venture Capital Funds List 193 Switzerland Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 194 Switzerland Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 195 Switzerland Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 196 Switzerland Best Law Firms - Trademark & Copyright Litigation 197 Switzerland Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 198 Turkey 199 Turkey Best IP Firms - Patent Prosecution 199 Turkey Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 200 Turkey Best IP Firms - Trademark Prosecution 201 Turkey Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 202 United Kingdom 203 United Kingdom Best Investment Banks - TMT (Large Cap) 203 United Kingdom Best Investment Banks - TMT (Small & Mid-Cap) 204 United Kingdom Best Investment Banks - Health & Pharma 205 United Kingdom Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 206 United Kingdom Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 207 United Kingdom Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 208 United Kingdom Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 209 ASIA 211 China 212 China Top Private Equity Firms 214 China Best Domestic Law Firms - Patent Litigation 215 China Best Domestic Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 216 China Best Domestic IP Firms - Patent Prosecution 217 China Best Domestic IP Firms - Trademark Prosecution 218 India 219 India Best Investment Banks - TMT 220 India Best Domestic IP Firms - Patent Prosecution / Litigation 221 India Best Domestic IP Firms - Trademark Prosecution / Litigation 222 Japan 223 Japan Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 223 Japan Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 224 Japan Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution / Litigation 224 Japan Best Foreign Law Firms - General IP Litigation

EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTORS

228 Connected objects in healthcare are very valuable IP Rights! By Caroline de Mareuil-Villette and Claire Verschelde, French, Belgian & European Patent Attorneys. ICOSA 230 Trademark package: harmonizing proceedings and strengthening rights By Delphine Rudloff and Anaïs Pallut, lawyers. Loyer & Abello 232 Distribution of regulated products – Avoid pitfalls in litigation By Lorenza Ferrari Hofer and Janine Demont. PESTALOZZI

TOP ADVISORS DIRECTORY

236 PATENT & TRADEMARK ATTORNEYS 247 FINANCIAL ADVISORS 248 VENTURE CAPITAL 249 LAW FIRMS

Contact Editors - France Marketing & circulation 15, Avenue de la Grande-Armée - F75116 Paris Thomas Bastin, Héléna Suffrin, Fabien Nizon, Antoine Valle Magdalena Ciemielewska Phone: +33 (0)1 45 02 25 00 Proofreader Phone +33 (0)1 43 92 93 79 - [email protected] www.leadersleague.com Mark Amiama Maïté Torrico [email protected] Publishing director & CEO Key account manager Pierre-Étienne Lorenceau Constance Fang, Chinara Iskaliyeva Sponsorship & advertising [email protected] Administration & finance Thomas di Benedetto - [email protected] Managing editor Geoffroy Toko Hélène Charneau - [email protected] Jandira Salgado Phone : +33 (0)1 45 02 25 99 Mila Galdo - [email protected] [email protected] Antoine Valle - [email protected] Art director Senior editor Claire Seichepine Jeanne Yizhen Yin Graphic designers Editors - International Lola Benzazon, Héloïse Daubannes, Caterina Leone, Luiza Azevedo Coelho da Rocha, Thomas Di Benedetto, Angélique Ogou, Solenne Proux, Sarah Siu, Julien Sommier Meghdut Roy Chowdhury, Mila Galdo, Claudia Hong Liao, Flora McFarlane, Elodie Sigaux, Roberta Veronese Pictures Shutterstock.com

A publication by: Leaders League SAS - N° RCS Paris : B422 584 532 Main shareholders: P.E. Lorenceau, P. Netter, A. Chaltiel, C. Lorenceau. Printed by Rotimpres – Pol. Ind. Casa Nova – Carrer pla S’Estany s/n 17818 AIGUAVIVA (Girona) The contents of this publication may not be reproduced, translated or adapted, either in whole or part, in any form or by any means without the express consent of Leaders League, except when permitted by art. L 122-5 of the French Code of Intellectual Property. Unauthorised photocopying is illegal. Leaders League may not be responsible for any loss of or damage to texts and photos submitted. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Rapidly-evolving legal landscapes, financing models, technological progress and shifting mindsets are paving the way to a new world order in innovation and technology.

12 Providing Direction 12 Statistics: Who is Leading Global Innovation?

15 Mapping the Legal Landscape 15 European Patent with Unitary Effect: Between Good Intentions and Uncertainty 16 Anti-counterfeiting: A Global Effort 17 International Arbitration: Gaining Traction in IP disputes

18 Funding the Future 18 Investments: A Song of Fire and Ice 20 Valuation: Are Unicorns Becoming Endangered?

21 Unlocking Potential 21 Technology: Unlimited Progress or Pandora's Box?

24 Changing Tides 24 Uberization: The Blossoming of Innovation

26 Honing Excellence 26 Bryan, Garnier & Co: twenty years of conquering and development INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

REINING A WHIRLWIND: CREATING (NEW) ORDER IN A TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE

Given exponential technological development in new and upcoming hubs of innovation, an increasingly business-friendly legal sector, increased awareness among customers through social media penetration, and an overall positive mindset towards emerging technologies, a host of hitherto inconceivable problems are entering the picture. Time is running out for tried and tested business practices as bold and disruptive ventures, both startups and established giants, are taking over the world. So what does the road ahead look like?

Statistics: Who is Leading Global Innovation?

Innovation. This magic word is heard and economies, Republic of Moldova, Kenya the ranking, proves itself versatile in auto- read every day, yet it still holds a certain and China demonstrated a considerable motive (Aisin Seiki), electronics (Canon) mystery. Maybe we can draw some les- level of results thanks to the improve- and medical/manufacturing (Daikin) in- sons from the leaders of innovation in our ment of infrastructures and quality of dustry, while the USA, which also has 35 world today. labor force. The national policies and fre- companies on the ranking, has an edge in quent cooperation of public and private the energy (Chevron), chemical (3M) and A diversified landscape? sectors helped the developing countries software (Google) industries. These coun- WIPO annually examines the innovation flourish, and in response narrowed their tries are also considered the leaders in in- performance of over 140 countries and technology gap with developed coun- novation quality, which stresses that the economies around the world with up to tries. academic performance, patent families and 79 indicators, dividing countries into the governmental support cause strong im- groups and comparing them with their … Maybe not yet pact on the innovation performance. economic peers, in terms of the amounts On the flipside, the 2015 Thomson Reuters invested in human-capital, innovation in- Top 100 Global Innovators ranking tells a … But with hope frastructures, quality of academic perfor- slightly different story. As comprehensive Although countries with high incomes mance and international dimensions for industrial performance requires long-term may be one step ahead, emerging coun- patent applications. dedication and sufficient resources to im- tries are also catching up: China conti- The 2015 Global Innovation Index prove the innovation systems, only 11 nued to lead IP filings in 2014 and is a counts Switzerland, the UK, Sweden, the countries host at least one of the world’s main driver of growth, and numerous Netherlands and the USA as the world’s leading innovative organizations, and two smaller countries in the lower middle or five most-innovative nations, and indi- countries alone account for 75% of the low income group are transforming into cates that Singapore, India, Mauritius, list: Japan and the USA, making them the cradles of innovation, helping to enhance Chile and Israel also outperform their true innovation hubs of the world. Japan, the creativity industry and bring the entre- peers within the region. Among the rising which owns the most companies (40) on preneurial spirit to the next level.

12 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE  HIGH-REVENUE COUNTRIES ARE OUTPERFORMERS Top performing countries per region* NORTHERN AFRICA NORTHERN AMERICA & WESTERN ASIA USA Israel CENTRAL & SOUTHERN ASIA Canada Cyprus India EUROPE Saudi Arabia Kazakhstan Switzerland Sri Lanka UK Sweden

SOUTH EAST ASIA & OCEANIA Singapore Hong Kong (China) South Korea SUBSAHARAN LATIN AMERICA AFRICA & THE CARIBBEAN Mauritius Chile South Africa Costa Rica Senegal Mexico Source: WIPO Source:

*Excluding countries with high numbers of missing data points

 2014 GLOBAL IP FILINGS Patents Trademarks Industrial designs Global patent filings rose in 2014 for fifth straight Trademark applications have almost Total number dropped for the first time year, with China driving growth doubled since 2000 in 20+ years

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS PATENTS TRADEMARKS +4.5% +6% -8.1% 1.1 million designs in applications 2.7 million applications 7.45 million classes applications

CHINA USA JAPAN CHINA USA EU (OHIM) CHINA EU (OHIM) SOUTH KOREA 928,177 578,802 325,989 2,222,680 471,228 333,443 564,555 98,273 68,441 +12.5% +1.3% -0.7% +18.2% +6.7% +2.7% -14.4% +1.3% -2.3% Source: WIPO Source:

 JAPAN & USA ACCOUNT FOR 75% OF THE INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 2015 top 100 global innovators: representation by country 40 - 35 - 30 - 25 - 20 - 15 - 10 - 5 - 0 - USA China Japan France Taiwan Canada Sweden Belgium Germany Source: Thomson Reuters Source: Switzerland Netherlands South Korea

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 13 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

 TOP 50 GLOBAL INNOVATORS Here is a selection of 50 of Thomson Reuters annual Top 100 Global Innovators showcasing the world’s most innovative organizations.

RANKING ORGANIZATION Country Industry

1 3M Company USA Chemical & Cosmetics 2 Abbott Laboratories USA Pharmaceuticals 3 Air Products Japan Chemicals & Cosmetics 4 Aisin Seiki Japan Automotive 5 Alcatel-Lucent France Telecommunications 6 Alstom France Oil, Gas, & Energy 7 Amazon USA Software 8 Analog Devices USA Hardware & Electronics 9 Apple USA Telecommunications 10 Arkema USA Chemicals & Cosmetics 11 Avago Technologies (formerly LSI Corporation) USA Hardware & Electronics 12 BASF Germany Chemicals & Cosmetics 13 Bayer Germany Pharmaceuticals 14 Becton Dickinson USA Manufacturing & Medical 15 BlackBerry Canada Telecommunications 16 Boehringer Ingelheim Germany Pharmaceuticals 17 Boeing USA Aerospace & Defense 18 Bridgestone Japan Automotive 19 Bristol-Myers Squibb USA Pharmaceuticals 20 Canon Japan Hardware & Electronics 21 Casio Computer Japan Hardware & Electronics 22 CEA - The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission France Institution & Government Research 23 Chevron USA Oil, Gas, & Energy 24 CNRS, The French National Center for Scientific Research France Institution & Government Research 25 Daikin Industries Japan Manufacturing & Medical 26 Dow Chemical Company USA Chemicals & Cosmetics 27 DuPont USA Chemicals & Cosmetics 28 Emerson Electric USA Household Goods 29 Ericsson Sweden Telecommunications 30 ExxonMobil USA Oil, Gas, & Energy 31 Fraunhofer Germany Institution & Government Research 32 Freescale Semiconductor USA Hardware & Electronics 33 FUJIFILM Japan Hardware & Electronics 34 Fujitsu Japan Hardware & Electronics 35 Furukawa Electric Japan Household Goods 36 General Electric USA Household Goods 37 Google (now Alphabet Inc.) USA Software 38 Hitachi Japan Hardware & Electronics 39 Honda Motor Japan Automotive 40 Honeywell International USA Household Goods 41 Idemitsu Kosan Japan Oil, Gas, & Energy 42 IFP Energies Nouvelles France Institution & Government Research 43 Intel USA Hardware & Electronics 44 InterDigital USA Telecommunications 45 Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Japan Institution & Government Research 46 Johnson & Johnson USA Pharmaceuticals 47 Johnson Controls USA Automotive 48 JTEKT Japan Automotive 49 Kawasaki Heavy Industries Japan Manufacturing & Medical 50 Kobe Steel Japan Manufacturing & Medica Thomson Reuters Source:

14 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE European Patent with Unitary Effect: Between Good Intentions and Uncertainty

On December 17, 2012 the Council of the European Union approved two regulations to create a European patent with unitary effect. A unitary patent, once granted by the EPO, will provide uniform protection with an equal guarantee in all of the participating countries. A Unified Patent Court will also set-up in order to offer a single, specialized patent jurisdiction. In 2015, Italy became the 26th member of this enhanced cooperation. The process for the ratification of the agreement is still ongoing, and the Unitary Patent package will come into force by the end of 2016. Benefits The unitary patent will be optional, and businesses can decide if they wish to use it on a case-by-case basis. For those seeking patent protection across the participating European countries, the unitary patent will offer a lower cost alternative to obtaining and maintaining a bundle of rights. Unlike the bundle of European rights, a unitary patent will not require validation in each individual member state, but will be subject to a single set of rules. The translation requirements for the unitary patent will also be significantly simpler and cheaper. The unitary patent offers savings not only in terms of administration costs, but also for enforcement.

Patentees will only need to enforce ©JPstock their patent in one court, rather than in multiple national courts, avoiding du- for those Member States which ratify is more cost effective – after all, what is plicated litigation. the UPC Agreement. Thirteen ratifica- the point of paying for a Europe-wide tions are required. Accordingly, not all injunction when your market is only in Criticisms 25 signatory States need to ratify and it a few Member States? Patent holders Even though it was necessary to moder- is even unlikely that all will do so in the will therefore need to think carefully nize the patent system, as the current foreseeable future. From the EU pers- about their strategy whether they want legislation dates from 1973; not eve- pective, this divides the Internal Market their existing patents to be opted out of ryone is happy with the new unitary and runs counter to their cohesive ob- the unitary litigation system. patent system. For some IP practitio- jective. From the perspective of patent ners the unitary patent package repre- holders, the lack of patent protection Brexit sents a significant step-back in terms in major European markets (at least The new unitary patent system would be of patent law quality and legal appli- Spain and Poland) could jeopardize in- vulnerable to a Brexit. Not only is the cability. According to critics, instead of novation. Eventually, the big challenge new system limited to EU member consolidating patent law in Europe, the remains the problem of the fees. SMEs states, but the UK must also ratify the unitary patent package would add frag- may take the view that what they need agreement for the new system to come mentation to the system. is protection in only a limited home into effect. A Brexit would require the The unitary patent would not cover the market and therefore stay with nor- existing agreement to be re-written, and full territory of the Internal Market. It mal patents or European Patents with the new unitary patent rights to be is restricted to EU Member States par- limited designations. When it comes extended to the UK as a non-EU juris- ticipating in enhanced cooperation. In to litigating, SMEs may also find that diction, and this would add uncertainty addition, it will become operable only enforcement in one or two key markets in a field already rife with mines.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 15 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Anti-counterfeiting: A Global Effort

Counterfeiting represents up to 10% of feit goods include: Indonesia, India, Morocco, proach providing effective response to a global global trade today. In 2009 the Organization Ghana, Greece, Malaysia, Republic of Korea problem. A good example of taskforce work is for Economic Co-operation and Development and the United Arab Emirates. the US National Intellectual Property Right (OECD) estimated its global financial impact Coordination Center, which brings together between $250B and $500B. From that we can Creating taskforces all government and law enforcement agencies estimate in 2015 counterfeiting accounted The phenomenon is indeed huge, but there involved in the interdiction of counterfeit for around $1.7B, more than illegal drugs and are also examples of good practices in tackling goods. Such a taskforce enables an inclusive prostitution combined. counterfeiting. Operation OPSON led by Eu- approach in order to meet different operatio- ropol and Interpol, brings together a number nal and administrative objectives. In Europe, of public and private sector agencies to address Europol and EUIPO (previously OHIM) are The economic effects the threat of food and beverage counterfeiting. trying to implement this model, thus stren- Counterfeiting is a not victimless crime, with Working in partnership, this operation has re- gthening their ongoing cooperative efforts serious unsuspected economic and social sulted in a multi-agency, multidisciplinary ap- against the infringement of IP rights. impact on both micro and macro-economic levels. On top of obvious revenue losses, pri-  vate companies are suffering from damaged CHINA REMAINS THE PRIMARY SOURCE-COUNTRY Source-countries of counterfeit goods brand reputations, due to sub-par imitations. Meanwhile, the European economies are wit- nessing the destruction of jobs by counterfei- % Ghana 1.96 India 1.77% ters, as well as skepticism around the sound- United Arab Emirates 2.49% ness of investing in innovation. Employment All other countries 5.3% is severely affected, as a study from Frontier Turkey 3.68% Economics estimated 2.5 million jobs were lost by counterfeiting in the G20 economies. Internet and e-commerce have become ma- Greece 5.83% jor enablers of the distribution and sale of counterfeit goods. Counterfeiters are able to operate across multiple jurisdictions, and are 13.31% able to take down and set up new websites Hong Kong overnight without losing their customer base. 62.12 % Counterfeiters also utilize social media to pro- China mote and distribute their illicit goods. For Enforcement Report on EU Customs TAXUD DG Source: example, Facebook took down over 3, 000 listings in a 2.5 day period. The source-countries China holds the position of the world’s leading counterfeiting superpower. According to a report released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, from 2008 to 2010 almost 70% of all counterfeits seized globally came from China. For the US, the figure is even higher: US Customs say that in the same period 87% of the value of seized counterfeits originated in China. While the “Red dragon” remains the primary source-country of counterfeit goods, other countries are more and more involved in this traffic as well, such as India for pharmaceuticals and Turkey for foodstuffs, and counterfeits made for consumption can entail serious risks for the consumer’s health. However, counterfeiting in general is no longer perceived as a soft crime, and the Chinese are taking increasing measures to tackle counterfeit production, enforcing legislation and controls. Other source-countries of counter- ©Volodymyr Baleha ©Volodymyr

16 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE International Arbitration: Gaining Traction in IP disputes

According to World Intellectual Property in national courts, even if things could forum. They can avoid litigation in multiple Organization Arbitration and Mediation change with the introduction of the Uni- countries, which represents significant delay, Center, in 2015 some 400 cases with values fied Patent Court (UPC). expenses and opportunity for inconsistent ranging from USD 20,000 to several hundred results. With a properly drafted arbitration million USD have been administered by the Expertise clause or submission agreement, there are no WIPO Center. WIPO ADR services have been In the particular field of IP rights involving jurisdictional issues because the agreement to used by businesses of all sizes and research technologies, considering the rise of the arbitrate constitutes submission to the juris- organizations from more than 60 countries. high-tech industry worldwide, disputes dictions of the arbitrators. can arise from a wide spectrum of sources: In today’s world, disputes over intellectual cross-border licenses, technology transfer Party autonomy property rights frequently extend beyond agreements, distributorship arrangements..., Arbitration offers the parties the opportunity national borders. In this international and resolving such disputes in national to exercise greater control over the conduct context, alternative dispute resolution, courts can cause difficulties. In arbitration of the dispute-resolution mechanism. The and especially international arbitration, is proceedings, parties can select arbitrators parties can choose the applicable law, as well an efficient tool for resolving increasingly who have special expertise in technical areas as the location and language of the procee- complex and technical disputes. Moreo- relevant to the resolution of their dispute. dings, and can select ad hoc or institutional ver, litigating in multiple jurisdictions can arbitration. Procedural rules can also be tailor be extremely expensive and time-consu- A single forum made in order to meet their specific needs. ming. International arbitration offers a The parties can agree to resolve their mul- number of advantages over a controversy ti-jurisdictional disputes in a single arbitral The development of the UPC With its introduction, the UPC may make  PATENTS AND ICT ARE THE AREAS WHERE WIPO ADR CENTER IS MORE SOUGHT litigation the preferred option for patent Dispute Areas in WIPO ADR Cases as of June 2015 disputes within Europe by creating a specialized patent court with exclusive juris- TRADEMARKS diction for litigation relating to European PATENTS patents (there will be a trial period during Coexistence, Infringements, Licenses, Oppositions, Revocations Cross-licensing, Infringements, which companies may opt-out) and new Licenses, Ownership, Patent European patents with unitary effect. While 16% Pools, R&D / Tech Transfer, Royalty Payment it is too early to say anything for certain, it 35% is clear that the UPC has been created with COMMERCIAL the aim to provide a more efficient and 19% Distribution, Energy, cost-effective system as patents will not Franchising, Marketing, need to be enforced separately in each Sports state. However, even in this new efficient 8% 22% court system for patent disputes, arbitra- COPYRIGHT tion is still perceived as an interesting alter- Art, Broadcasting, Entertainment, native, and legal counsel should consider ICT Film and Media, Infrigements, the arbitration mechanism as one of the TV Formats Mobile Apps, Outsourcing, Systems most efficient ways to resolve intellectual Integration, Software Development, Software Licensing, Telecommunications property rights issues. Source: WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center Arbitration WIPO Source:

 ADR APPLIED TO IP CONFLICTS COULD NOT ONLY SAVE MONEY BUT ALSO TIME Time savings of alternative dispute resolution versus court litigation COURT LITIGATION FOREIGN JURISDICTION EXPERT DETERMINATION EXPEDITED ARBITRATION ARBITRATION MEDIATION COURT LITIGATION HOME JURISDICTION TIME TIME COST COST

ARBITRATION MEDIATION COURT LITIGATION FOREIGN JURISDICTION EXPERT DETERMINATION EXPEDITED ARBITRATION COURT LITIGATION HOME JURISDICTION Source: WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 17 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Investments: A Song of Fire and Ice

In 2015, the global financial market for the + deals – were announced for a combined the Chinese government’s push for State tech-related sectors had a buzzing year total of $1.90 trillion, a record high volume Owned Entities(SOEs) to pursue high-tech with some people laughing while others and activity. In particular, Pharmaceuticals deals. sulked: M&A reached its all-time high since & Healthcare ($723.7B) and Technology Seeking scale and comprehensive solutions, 2000, and the VC funding values and deal ($713.1B) drove most of the deals. corporate tech buyers are driving average values grew in spite of decreasing numbers and aggregate deal value. According to CB of transactions, but exits declined mainly Analysis of Bryan, Garnier & Co further Insights, 8 of the largest tech players have due to fewer IPOs and start-up sales. Geo- confirms last year’s acquisition spree in made twenty-three $1B + acquisitions since graphically, the rise of Asia offset the weak the TMT sector worldwide. Geographi- 2011, with Microsoft, Amazon and Sales- performance of Europe and the USA. cally, the USA recorded 1,085 deals, with force racing ahead with M&A activity last technology as the most active contributor year, whereas Yahoo, Google, Facebook, (68.2%), although e-commerce is also qui- Apple and Twitter pulled back. Microsoft A banner year for tech M&A ckly ramping up. In comparison, Europe has accelerated its acquisition activity under According to Dealogic, global M&A had a presents similar activity level and industry new CEO Satya Nadella, making 18 deals in record-setting year in 2015, with volume sur- breakdown: 1,104 deals in total with tech- 2015, nearly twice its previous level, while passing $5 trillion for the first time, breaking nology deals accounting for almost half. Yahoo, led by Marissa Mayer, ended with the previous level of $4.6 trillion set in 2007. Asia, in particular China, has become an only 1 disclosed acquisition after previously Sixty-nine $10B + deals – including ten $50B increasingly active player, driven largely by seeing nearly 50 in the two years prior. 

 2015 WAS A RECORD YEAR FOR M&A IN TMT & HEALTHCARE 2015 Global Top 10 Deals in TMT & Healthcare*

Buyer Target Deal Value ($B) Target Nationality Target Industry Announced Date

Pfizer Allergan 160.0 USA Pharmaceuticals 23 Nov.

Charter Communications Time Warner Cable 79.6 USA Telecom 26 May

Dell EMC 66.0 USA Technology 12 Oct.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Allergan Generics 40.5 USA Pharmaceuticals 27 July

Avago Technologies Broadcom 36.6 USA & Singapore Technology 28 May

AbbVie Pharmacyclics 20.8 USA Pharmaceuticals 26 May

Western Digital SanDisk 18.9 USA Technology 21 Oct.

Pfizer Hospira 17.0 USA Pharmaceuticals 5 Feb.

Intel Altera 16.7 USA Technology 1 June

Nokia Alcatel-Lucent 16.5 France Technology 15 Apr. Source: Leaders League analysis Leaders Source: * Exclu. Spin-Offs

 IN EUROPE AS WELL AS IN THE US, MOST TMT DEALS WERE CONCENTRATED IN THE TECH SECTOR 2015 TMT M&A deal volume: EUROPE vs USA

TOTAL Technology Media Telecom Ecommerce EUROPE USA 547 740 1104 1085 230 161 209 123 118 61 Bryan, Garnier & Co Source:

18 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE  Overall healthy VC environment increase on the $93.5B aggregate value Steering 2016 On the other hand, Preqin’s January recorded during the same period. Acquisition momentum is expected report reveals a different landscape of to continue in 2016. The KPMG 2016 venture capital in 2015. The aggre- A cold winter for exits M&A Outlook Survey reveals that Ame- gate value of venture capital deals in- However, overall VC exit activity de- rican deal-makers are motivated by low creased for the third successive year clined for the first time since the fi- interest rates, resilient stock prices, solid to $135.8B, 45.2% up from 2014 and nancial crisis in 2008. The number of employment numbers and an abundance more than doubled the level of 2013. exits decreased from 1,138 in 2014 to of cash. Sectors characterized by trans- The number of deals, though, recorded 1,052 in 2015, while the total exit va- formation are expected to have the most a slight decline (9,202 deals) compared lue shrunk by 41%, from $125.1B to deal activity: technology, pharmaceuti- to last two years (9,785 in 2013 and $73.3B. More than two thirds of total cals/biotechnology, healthcare, media/ 9,811 in 2014). global exits – 739, to be more precise telecom, consumer markets and energy. – were achieved through a trade sale, In spite of this relatively solid perfor- and the number of IPOs and follow-ons VCs are more prudent. 82% of respon- mance, geographical divergences conti- dropped to 215 in 2015 from 248 of dents in the Upfront VC Survey express nue to enlarge. Asia has seen a signi- 2014. caution or concern towards 2016; 91% ficant rise in VC activity, as Greater expect company valuations to go down China recorded 1,605 deals, surpassing Although five of the top ten exits hap- in the next year, with one third antici- Europe (1,373) for the first time, while pened in the USA, American stock ex- pating significant price corrections. The India recorded 927 deals, almost twice changes still had a tough time: according good news is that LPs are more optimis- the number of 2014 (512). Across the to Dealogic, 2015 marked the worst year tic: although LP contributions to the VC Atlantic, although aggregate deal value for tech IPOs since the depths of the industry are currently back to pre-reces- in North America increased, the nu- Great Recession in 2009, with merely sion levels, 2016 is expected to increase mber of deals in the region fell 23%, 28 companies going public, compared further as 82% of the surveyed LPs are from 5,587 in 2014 to 4,307 in 2015. to 62 in 2014 and 48 the year before. likely to maintain their existing invest- Similarly, Europe had its second annual To add salt to wounds, half of the tech ment pace. decline from a peak of 2,002 in 2013, companies that have entered the pu- and the lowest number of deals in the blic markets last year are trading below It is always tricky to read the crystal ball, region since 2010. their IPO price, including Etsy, Box and but one thing is for sure: fierce competi- On the financing level, 2015 saw Square. The deep freeze continued in the tion and disruptive innovation are 9,202 VC financings worth a combined first quarter of 2016, with zero Internet constantly generating high demand for $135.8B. This represents a 6% drop or tech companies going public on US new technology, IP assets and talent, and from the 9,811 deals in 2014, but a 45% exchanges. the whole world is shuffling the cards.

 2015 SHOWED THE END OF THE UPWARD TREND OF  THE NUMBER OF DEALS DROPED BY 6% IN 2015 THE VC-BACKED EXITS Number and aggregate value of Venture Capital Deals*, 2008-2015 Global number and aggregate value of Venture Capital backed exits*, 2008-2015

Aggregate deal value ($B) Aggregate deal value ($B) No. deals Aggregate deal value ($B) No. exits Aggregate exit value ($B)

12,000 - - 160 1,200 - - 140

- 140 10,000 - 1,000 - - 120 - 120 -100 8,000 - 800 - -100 - 80 6,000 - - 80 600 - - 60 - 60 4,000 - 400 - - 40 - 40 2,000 - 200 - - 20 - 20

0 - -0 0 - -0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

*Figures exclude add-ons, grants, mergers, venture debt and secondary stock purchases

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 19 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Valuation: Are Unicorns Becoming Endangered?

Too fast, too furious panies have been replaced with new me- reputations and general excitement about Somewhere between the existence of only thods to adapt to rapid-growth, tech-driven startups in the market. The fast-growing 4 unicorns worldwide in 2009, to 147 businesses. Capital efficiency has taken a breed of 21st century startups with valua- unicorns by January 2016, the face of the backseat to more subjective techniques tion over $1 billion, or ‘Unicorns’, have whole startup market changed drastically. involving user growth and brand value. now become more commonplace than the Time-honored valuation metrics for com- Profits have been replaced by the founders’ mythical creatures ever were themselves. 

 INCOME AND ASSETS HAVE GIVEN WAY  XBER, XIAOMI AND AIRBNB ARE THE TOP 3 HIGHEST VALUED START-UPS TO NEW CRITERIA The Billion dollar startup Club Comparison of valuation metrics TOTAL EQUITY OLD WORLD NEW WORLD COMPANY LATEST VALUATION LAST VALUATION FUNDING METRICS METRICS Uber $51.0 billion $7.4 billion August 2015 Income Users Xiaomi $46.0 billion $1.4 billion December 2014 Airbnb $25.5 billion $2.3 billion June 2015 Assets User Growth Palantir $20.0 billion $1.9 billion October 2015 Profit Founder Reputation Meituan-Dianping $18.3 billion $3.3 billion January 2016 Snapchat $16.0 billion $1.3 billion February 2016 Brand / PR / Growth WeWork $16.0 billion $1.4 billion March 2016 Reputation Market Excitement / Didi Kuaidi $16.0 billion $4.0 billion September 2015 Employees Competition Flipkart $15.0 billion $3.0 billion April 2015 Contracts Followers SpaceX $12.0 billion $1.1 billion January 2015 Source: Wall Street Journal Street Wall Source: Source: Wall Street Journal Street Wall Source:

 Declining numbers, declining faith future where they can defend their market ges to unicorns going to market are poor per- The real question here is, are they really wor- positions and become stable as they decide formance of recent unicorn IPOs and their th anywhere near their valuations? According to go public, or are acquired. But this is not failure to meet growth expectations. This to a survey conducted by RR Donnelley and representative of the entire sector. After star- can be highlighted by incidents such as the Merger Market, a vast majority (64%) of the tup valuations soaring over the past few years, much-publicized failure of former UK fintech respondents, VC professionals based in USA, the markets are beginning to see some signs unicorn Powa Technologies, failing to pay its Europe and Asia-Pacific, believe that uni- of strain and uncertainty. Financing terms are employees owing to shortage of steady capi- corns’ valuations will decrease while 24% becoming stricter. The likelihood of upco- tal, sending a negative message to the market. believe that they will not grow in 2016. Some ming tech startups reaching the valuation of the top-tier unicorns like Uber, Snapchat levels of the top-tier unicorns seems rather Dark times ahead and Airbnb have clearly shown consumer far-fetched at present. Almost every time a startup stumbles, em- value, and in spite of the fact that they are The aforementioned survey also points out ployees who own common stock lose money. not making as much profit at present as they that respectively 56% and 40% of the respon- This is due to the fact that after a company is should, their medium term returns show a dents believe that some of the major challen- bought and its share price falls, the money 

 64 % OF THE INTERVIEWED VCS EXPECT UNICORNS VALUATION TO DECREASE What will happen to the valuation of Unicorns I the next 12 Months?

Decrease significantly 4% Increase somewhat

Decrease somewhat 12% Remain the same

24%

60%

Source: Venue Market Spotlight 2016

20 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE  that the startup had raised usually needs to  THE POOR PERFORMANCE OF RECENT UNICORNS IPOS IS A BIG CHALLENGE be first repaid to other preferred shareholders What will be the biggest challenges to unicorns going to market in the next 12 months? before share-holding employees see a dime. Thus the flashy exits actually end up hurting Poor performance of recent unicorn IPOs the working class of the population in the in- 56% dustry. This was made abundantly clear by the Failure to meet growth expectations employees of former Silicon Valley-based uni- 40% corn Good Technology, who sued the board Market volatility for breach of fiduciary duty upon the acquisi- 36% tion of their company by BlackBerry. Add to this the competition from traditional indus- 28% Lack of profitability tries for companies like Airbnb, or a string of lawsuits for Uber, and the future does not look 28% Valuation markdowns by equity holders like it is going to be all rainbows and butter- flies for unicorns. 12% Founders' desire to retain control Source: Venue Market Spotlight 2016

Technology: Unlimited Progress or Pandora's Box?

A controversial backdrop again. With intense debates on stem cells modified organisms (GMOs), the world of Every life-altering invention comes with and embryonic research to heated politi- bioresearch has not been able to escape its fair share of controversies, and emer- cal and scientific arguments on genetically public scrutiny over the past decade.  ging technologies are no exception. With the World Economic Forum releasing its  THE USE OF CONNECTED DEVICES HAS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED list of top 10 emerging technologies for Trends in the use of connected devices between 2011 and 2015 2015, drones, 3D printing and precise genetic-engineering techniques sudden- TABLET ly came into the spotlight and quite pre- SMARTPHONE dictably, the debates have followed. The speculations about a forthcoming Indus- % trial Revolution, and a possible 25 billion 43 % 44 smart devices in existence by 2020 accor- 20 % 8 % ding to estimates by international research firm, Gartner, has only managed to add 2011 2013 2011 2013 fuel to the fire. Bioresearch MEDIAPLAYER LAPTOP Humankind has never taken to any kind of genetic engineering sitting down. Conventional genetic alterations had 49 % % 40 30% already caused enough controversy to be- 18% gin with, until new techniques emerged that would now allow us to directly “edit” 2011 2015 2013 2015 the genetic code of organisms in order to make them, for example, more adaptable to certain environmental conditions. Add to this the fact that now all 3.2 million DESKTOP INTERNET ON TV base pairs of DNA which make up the hu- 37% 44 % man genome can be sequenced in a matter 25% of minutes and delivered to your phone, 18% so questions of protection of this personal information naturally come up time and 2013 2015 2011 2015 Internet Exchange Amsterdam Source:

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 21 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

 Flying Robots 3D Printing transferred online. Thus, exclusive rights It was predicted that more than 1 On the one hand, 3D Printers open up for new inventions that are protected by million drones would be given as pre- a whole new world of possibilities in present patent laws could become de- sents during the 2015 festive season, terms of reduced waste reliance on cor- funct thanks to the advent of this emer- causing quite some anxiety to the US porations, thus enabling grassroots level ging technology, thereby reducing their Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). manufacturers. On the other hand they value for the patent owner. The increased use of drones in our pose a serious threat to the environment daily lives over the last few years has by hogging energy, emitting unhealthy caused a lot of speculation and raised airborne particles while bringing gun Connected devices concerns from a variety of authorities, control and bio-printing laws into ques- According to Gartner, there were 3.8 including political players, members tion. Also, the possibility of creating 3D billion smart, connected devices in of legislation as well as the common printed drugs and non-controllable subs- existence, as of the end of 2015. This public. According to a study conduc- tances could result in national security includes smart cars, smoke detectors, ted by Pew Research in association risks in the future. “Additive manufactu- smartwatches, industrial robots, street- with the FAA, 42% of Americans are ring” using 3D printers could potential- lights, heart monitors, fitness bands and “very concerned” about the possible ly jeopardize the whole patent system. even tennis racquets and toasters, all use of drones by law enforcement for 3D printing provides a platform to print transmitting tiny amounts of data to us, surveillance. In Europe, drone activity out physical objects based on Compu- each other and the cloud. While connec- has increased significantly, but under ter Aided Designs (CADs) which can be tivity on such a mass scale means  a fragmented regulatory framework, as opposed to stricter regulations in the US. Basic national safety rules apply,  THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT VARIOUS USES OF DRONES but the rules differ across the EU and Americans’ support of drones a number of key safeguards are not Support Oppose Don’t know addressed in a coherent way. TO HELP WITH SEARCH-AND- Though a majority of patent activity has TO TRACK DOWN FUGITIVES? been undertaken in the defense sector, a RESCUE MISSIONS? thorough analysis of the legislations surrounding civilian drones is becoming 9 % increasingly important owing to the 11 % substantial momentum that non-military 11 % drones are gaining. According to a study conducted by IAM, by 2024, the civilian 22 % market for drones would be growing at a proportionally faster rate than the military 67 % market. Recently, four major drone manu- 80 % facturers came together and created their own industry advocacy group, focused on unmanned aircrafts for the consumer market. This “Drone Manufacturers Alliance” comes at a time when the drone market TO MONITOR THE BORDERS TO ISSUE SPEEDING has grown large enough to demand a se- FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION? TICKETS? parate entity to address policy issues for the consumer market exclusively. These % small drone makers were previously part 12 % 10 of the drone industry’s most visible lob- bying group, UAV Coalition, along with 23 % companies like Google and Amazon in the 24 % commercial drone space. To sum it all up, despite an exponential increase in drone 64 % 67 % usage from traffic control to package delivery and search and rescue missions, the sector is still too new and dynamic to draw firm conclusions as to how it will develop and what lies ahead in terms of a globally

normalized drone regulation. Research/FAA Pew Source:

22 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE  billions of lives becoming easier and most surprisingly, it is not just young nufacturing and media. Consumers are people spending progressively less time people who are most likely to adopt an rapidly becoming a digitized culture and on manual labor, it also comes with its emerging technology. Accor- wearables have barely even share of obstacles. The different languages ding to the Waggener Edstorm scratched the surface of their of inter-device communication does not Wearables Survey of 2014, true potential. The entertain- even feature in the top tier of possible young people ages 18-34 and ment industry is currently at barriers to a Matrix-like future, with secu- those 45+ are most likely to the brink of a huge shift owing rity concerns and regulation issues taking purchase wearables. But as to Virtual Reality technology up the top spots. Also questions pertai- more and more consumers becoming increasingly more ac- ning to intellectual property pose a se- purchase wearable technolo- cessible. Genome-based treat- rious threat to data ownership concerns. gy, they unknowingly expose $100 ments are providing new ways themselves to both potential billion to customize therapeutic pro- The amount of money security breaches and ways that companies will lose tocol and enhance our control Wearables and Internet of Things that their data may be legally in 4 years to licensing or over diseases and medical treat- IP Owners (IoT) used by companies without ments, thus creating the possi- The rise of wearable technology and consumer awareness. bility of saving millions of lives. new frontiers being created in the Ultimately, our approach to legislation way humans and computers interact and regulation of these technologies through Perceptual Computing or the “And then there was Hope” will have widespread implications for Internet-of-Things (IoT) has fueled Even with all the problems listed above our lives and for those of our future ge- hopes of completely remote-controlled looming over the horizon, emerging nerations, not only for the sake of secu- households, simpler shopping, lower technologies as well as connected de- rity or ethics, but for the very defini- household bills, and lifestyle trackers vices are already altering spaces ranging tion of human existence and equality of embedded in everyday clothing. And from health care and agriculture to ma- individuals. ©Who is Danny ©Who

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 23 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Uberization: The Blossoming of Innovation

Sharing economies are becoming the The term “uberization” derives from norm in the 21st century following the pricing model Uber developed. the consuming habits of the digita- Unlike most services provided on the lized generation. This two- sharing platform, it charges sided marketplace eliminates differently according to de- the middlemen, turns what mand. By providing a plat- once were end-product in- form and a series of algo- vestments into scalable, rithms, this implementation flexible-turnover invest- of a simple supply-demand ments, and provides users on economic theory leads to the both sides more choices. You 68% flourishing of hundreds of name it, they rent it! of global survey respon- thousands of micro-entrepre- dents willing to share or Despite heavy governmental rent personal items neurships through direct P2P regulation, companies fea- interactions. turing sharing-economy business mo- With the increasing popularity of the dels are still showing strong presence concept, analysts estimate that the wire- ©northpix in various sectors. One crucial element less and financial industries may be the for sharing economies is high smart- fields that are mature enough for uberi-  SMARTPHONE USERS WILL REACH phone ownership, easy internet access zation. By collecting big data, wireless that enable users to respond promptly, service providers can filter out the most 2.5 BILLION IN 2019 and profound resources that reduce the popular times and uberize the price. On Number of smartphone users from 2014 to 2019 (in millions) cost for app development. Moreover, the other hand, as one of the most me- 68% of respondents worldwide are diated industries, traditional banks are willing to engage in shared services, losing clients as Internet eliminates the 3,000 - according to Nielsen, constituting asymmetry of information that banks another important element for the sha- hold as an advantage, and the compli- 2,500 - ring economy users. cated process of applying for loans has 2,000 -

1,500 -  SHARING ECONOMY SECTORS ARE LIKELY TO GROW MUCH QUICKER THAN TRADITIONAL RENTAL SECTORS 1,000 - Sharing economy sector and traditional rental sector projected revenue growth 500 - Revenue CAGR* 2013-25 Sharing economy sectors Traditional rental sectors 0 - Statsistica Source:

Peer-to-peer lending Peer-to-peer 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 and crowdfunding Online staffing accommodation

indirectly encouraged the growth of the virtual realm where pools of small len- +63% +37% +31% ders can combine online to grant loans. Although this normally requires a higher interest rate, platforms like Lending Music Club or Prosper achieved a loan amount Car sharing and video streaming of $7B and are expected to reach $150B by 2025, according to PwC. Combining technology and countless +23% +17% innovative ideas following the framework of the sharing economy, uberization embodies platforms that

Source: PwC Source: enable individuals with excessive re- Equipment B&B sources to pool together to form a pre- rental and hostels Book rental Car rental DVD rental cedent trend that might raise a revolution against the economic status quo. +5% +4% +3% +3% -5% Uberization for industries is unstop- pable, and is about to change the way we look at the market from every pers- *Compound Annual Growth Rate pective.

24 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE May 25

CELEBRATING FRENCH AND AMERICAN COMPANIES AND EXECUTIVES IN THE BAY AREA THE FRENCH-AMERICAN BUSINESS AWARDS – 3RD EDITION

CATEGORIES10 JURY120 MEMBERS ATTENDEES350

MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: WWW.THEFABA.COM INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

BRYAN, GARNIER & CO: TWENTY YEARS OF CONQUERING AND DEVELOPMENT

Over the years, Bryan, Garnier & Co has confirmed its position as the leading investment bank in Europe within the health sector. A leadership that it has built brick by brick, demonstrating an unparalleled level of expertise on this subject within the old continent.

Twenty years in existence. Bryan, Gar- recurring financing needs. And, lastly, euros raised in twenty-four months for nier & Co is celebrating, in 2016, the by an intensity in mergers and acquisi- innovative companies. Its experience is success of its independent partnership. tions. The bank has therefore focused also unparalleled concerning the intro- Founded in 1996, the firm is now one on five specialisms: technology, me- duction of European companies on US of the rare independent European india and telecommunications (TMT), markets. The recent successful IPOs on vestment banks and still active on the health, energy transition, the consu- Nasdaq of DBV Technologies and Gala- old continent. Over the years, Bryan, mer and business services; the first two pagos NV illustrate the bank’s total abi- Garnier & Co has imposed itself as a being considered as the prio- lity to execute large-scale ope- leading Pan-European player, orga- rity for Bryan, Garnier & Co. rations. Lastly, Bryan, Garnier nised around three business activities: & Co stands out in merger Equity Research & Brokerage, Corpo- Large-scale operations and acquisition deals on the rate Finance and Asset Management. The bank is today developing European technology sectors. They bring together just over 150 pro- a wide range of business ac- The firm has supported more fessionals, of which 30 are managing tivities in order to be able to than twenty deals in 2015 on directors or equivalent. support businesses, irrespec- the TMT segment, including tive of their stage of develop- N°1 two of the three most impor- Sectoral thematic specialisations European investment ment. The teams have the- bank on Nasdaq Techno- tant software deals in France. The bank has been formed based on the refore been among the main logy offerings over the Firstly by advising Astorg for last 24 months “Growth investment bank” fundraisers in Eu- the acquisition of Metrologic model (Robertson Stephens, rope for non-listed Group from Carlyle (€152M), Alex Brown, Cowen…) ai- European growth companies. then by advising the shareholders of ming to support businesses In recent months, they have Talentia in its sale to Argos Soditic. and specialised investors on supported more than a dozen growth sectors. The choice fundraisings, such as that for A global footprint of fields covered has there- the start-up company, Jahia, Bryan, Garnier & Co is today present fore been dictated by several an opensource software pu- in the four corners of the globe with fundamentals. Firstly, a very 36 blisher, totalling twenty-five offices in Paris, London, Munich, Ge- Transactions in 2015 strong innovative component in Technology million euros. Bryan, Garnier neva, New York and New Delhi, as well which revolutionises indus- & Co is also today one of the as being represented in San Francisco, trial landscapes and leads to a com- key players in initial public offerings Tokyo, Singapore, Stockholm, Frank- plexity in understanding the value of (IPOs) on Euronext and other markets. furt, Brussels and Barcelona. In India, companies. Then, by significant and It thus accumulates nearly two billion it has been able to expand its capacity

26 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE through an exclusive partnership with of Cartagena Capital, one of the major group, benefiting our clients”, explains a local bank – O3 Capital –, positioned merchant banks specialising in new Greg Revenu, co-founder and mana- on the same sectors and established as technologies in Germany and North ging partner of Bryan, Garnier & Co. one of the leaders of the mid-cap mar- Europe. “Cartagena contributes to fur- Another building block therefore laid ket. The goal is to bridge the gap ther strengthening the level of expertise of for the building of the bank which, between the country of the Ganges and our teams in the fields of technology and over the next three years, could stren- Europe. The end of 2015 has, further- enables us to expand our geographical gthen its US operations through an ac- more, been marked by the integration presence in strategic markets for the quisition.

 LEADING TECHNOLOGY ADVISORS WITH A STRONG GEOGRAPHICAL FOOTPRINT

Offices Representatives Paris Geneva San Francisco Frankfurt London New York Tokyo Brussels Munich New Delhi Singapore Barcelona Stockholm

MAJOR DEALS IN 2015

DEAL VALUE

IPO Celyad 100 M$

IPO de Galapagos 317 M$

Follow-on of DBV 281 M$

LBO Metrologic group Confidential

LBO Talentia Software Confidential

Kobe Steel Confidential

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 27 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

“The number of unicorns remains these companies. The resulting valuations low in Europe” often seem ambitious, but are neverthe- less consistent for investors, because they are ultimately based on anticipations. This Leaders League. How do European uni- valuation approach, when observed in the corns manage to avoid American skepti- world of early-stage startups, is essentially cism? based on technological differentiation and Greg Revenu. The relatively low corrections quality of management. observed in the European market are not ne- Greg Revenu cessarily a factor of satisfaction. As such, the Leaders League. After your acquisition Managing Partner, number of unicorns remains low in Europe. of Carthagena Capital, what are your BRYAN GARNIER & CO In 2016, VentureBeat reported less than 15 future fields of development? in Europe, whereas the number of unicorns G. R. The presence of around twenty techno- exceeded 150 in the US market. All the logy-specialized bankers in Munich now al- same, over the past 24 months, more than lows us to better serve this market. Beyond €2 billion has been injected into these Euro- this strategic axis, the development of an in- pean companies through some investments dependent partnership such as ours, which that we had the privilege to advise. For exa- currently counts 12 partners and over 150 mple, we introduced DBV Technologies into professionals, is based on human encounters NASDAQ in 2015, and the company’s mar- and the willingness to build a common histo- ket capitalization now exceeds $1.5 billion. ry. It is possible to imagine the developments on multiple axes, ranging from strengthening Leaders League. You have raised seve- our core sectors (TMT and Health) to reinfor- ral funds of over €100 million. What is cing our teams in the sectors where our posi- the secret behind your process? tion is currently less favorable (Consumer, G. R. Such a scale of fund raising demons- Business Services...). The US market will also trates the very significant funding needs of be an important challenge.

“We aim to double our number of specializing in the health sector has clients in the next four years” also been exponential.

Leaders League. What are your objectives for the upcoming years? N. d’H. Our goal is to continue to be Leaders League. How has the US of- the leading bank in biotech, IT-software fice of Bryan Garnier developed since and new energy for the American insti- your arrival in 2010? tutional investors. We aim to increase Nicolas d'Halluin Nicolas d'Halluin. Thanks to our po- our market share and to double our nu- Partner, Head of US Brokerage, sitioning in the market, we have ex- mber of clients in the next four years. BRYAN GARNIER & CO perienced very strong growth in the US market, particularly in the new Leaders League. In your opinion, are energy, IT-software and consumer pro- European financial markets catching ducts sectors. Over the last four years, up with their American counter- we have strengthened our presence in parts? capital markets, especially in biotech, N. d’H. The interest of European mar- through IPOs of LDR, DBV, Geneu- kets, compared to the American mar- ro and McPhy and capital increases ket, has been increasing over the last of Transgene, Erytech, TxCell, Bone ten years. Liquidity is better, compa- Therapeutics and Celyad. Nowadays, nies have been restructured, and the we are recognized as the bank to go to valuations of growth sectors (especially when a European biotech company wi- Biotech and IT-Software) remain un- shes to raise capital in the US, or when dervalued with respect to their Ameri- an American institutional investor can counterparts. Our positioning in wants to invest in European startups. these sectors bodes well for Bryan, Our office’s development in clients Garnier Securities in New York.

28 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE “The German market for services as well as to be able to serve larger high tech growth companies clients. As the most active IPO bank for Eu- ropean growth companies on Nasdaq over is really vibrant” the past couple of years, Bryan Garnier has a vast amount of experience taking compa- Leaders League. What has led Cartagena nies to the stock market, something that we Capital to be Tech and unicorn focused? didn’t do at Cartagena Capital. After the first Falk Müller-Veerse. Cartagena Capital four months it feels that we have always been was founded by myself in late 2001 after working together. Falk Müller-Veerse leaving Durlacher, a research-driven tech Partner, Head of DACH* Region, investment and investment banking firm Leaders League. How is the german BRYAN GARNIER & CO headquartered in London. When I joined market for high-growth tech companies? Durlacher in 1999, our share price grew F. M.-V. The German market is really vibrant. an unbelievable 10,000 percent during the Especially the internet sector, led by the three year based on our cutting-edge knowledge famous Samwer brothers, who have let us ex- of the tech sector and the investments in perience lots of investment opportunities and the space. During the downturn in the interesting existing scenarios. For example, markets during 2000 and 2001 Durlacher the Samwers brought the incubator Rocket refocused on general small and mid-cap in Internet and fashion commerce company Za- the UK. Thus, after the Durlacher expe- lando to IPO. On the other hand, we see Ger- rience, I decided to start my own advisory man growth companies receiving a lot of in- firm for the tech industry. ternational attention, eg. Metaio (acquired by Apple in 2015), Teamviewer, Voxeljet (IPO on Leaders League. Why did you merge with Nasdaq) or Trivago (acquired by Expedia). Bryan Garnier rather than anyone else? Therefore, we are now seeing more US inves- F. M.-V. We merged with Bryan Garnier in tors entering the German market, e.g. Squoia, * including Germany, Austia and Switzerland order to able to provide a larger portfolio of Kleiner and many more.

“Content owners will negotiate harder” der. The second is that owners of distribution channels (including telcos, cable, Leaders League. What are the most im- digital, etc…) will make big and bold portant trends for the media sector? content bets. Finally, I expect that more Robert Pfeiffer. Rebirth of “content is tech wizards will drop in valuation and king”. Over the last years with Google, maybe disappear... Facebook, Apple and Netflix, we were gi- Robert Pfeiffer ven the impression that it’s all about au- Leaders League. What are the ambi- Managing Director, Head of Media, dience analytics and high-tech delivery. tions of Bryan Garnier in this area? BRYAN GARNIER & CO Audience analytics and high-tech delivery R. F. Spot the winners early. That means are becoming commodities as companies being able to identify great talent – around the globe catch up and as the costs creative, managerial, engineering, so- of achieving these objectives continues to cial… - and helping them find the right fall. That leaves content as the key diffe- type of capital at the right time and rentiator between a great media company right valuation and terms. But most im- and a mediocre one. And in a global media portantly: the right partners to make world mediocre media companies will be growth a success. We passionately be- replaced. So great media companies create lieve in Europe as a place where variety, and own great global content. culture, history, languages, democracy and freedom create exciting entrepre- Leaders League. Do you think that neurs and great companies. We can give there will be important changes in this these talented people access to capital sector in 2016? in Paris, in Munich, in London, in New R. F. Yes, I see three big changes. The first York in Mumbai and many more places is that content owners will negotiate har- around the world.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 29 50 LEADERS Leaders League has identified 50 impactful leaders across the globe, whose ambitions and achievements are reshaping the world of innovation and technology: institutional leaders, established tech players, individuals responsible for innovative start-ups, traditional industrials, nurturing environments such as universities, funds and accelerators... all remarkably engaged in respectively diverse fields. Dialogues, insights, inspirations.

WITH EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS OF:

33 Chris Vans, Cluster Manager Counterfeiting, EUROPOL 35 Ronald Van Tuijl, President, INTA 36 Luiz Otavio Pimentel, President, INPI BRAZIL 38 Josh Walden, Senior VP & GM of the New Technology Group, INTEL 42 Tuvia Elbaum, CEO & Co-founder, ZUTA LABS 45 Karoli Hindricks, Founder & CEO, JOBBATICAL 46 Don McPherson, Chief Scientist, ENCHROMA 48 Ritesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, OYO ROOMS 51 Mathieu Prot, Group IP Director, PERNOD RICARD 55 Samer Salty, Founder & CEO, ZOUK CAPITAL INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

INSTITUTIONS

Mihály FICSOR Michelle K. Lee Chairperson, EUROPEAN UNION INTELLECTUAL Director, UNITED STATES PATENT

Ex-President of the Hungarian Copyright Experts Council for 11 years Named as one of the top 50 Most Influential Visionaries in American Public Policy Holds a Doctorate in law and political science M.I.T. and Stanford Law School graduate Considers her role as creating a balanced system between innovation and competition

After being a judge at the Central District Court of Budapest in the late A respected figure in one of the biggest and oldest positions in the ‘70s and Director General of the Hungarian Copyright Bureau thereaf- U.S. government, as an M.I.T graduate Michelle K. Lee has com- ter, Dr. Ficsor went on to become the Deputy Director General of the bined her passion for science and technology with an expertise WIPO in 1992. During his time as a member of the roster of intellectual and fascination for the legal aspects of innovation. property experts at the WTO, he was part of two very important IP dis- This daughter of successful Chinese immigrants is no stranger to putes between the EU and Canada and the US and Japan, respectively. firsts: she held the role of Google’s first Head of Patents and Patent Dr. Ficsor was also the Chairman of the UNESCO Working Group strategy, as well as becoming the first woman to act as Director of until 2010, when he took over as the chair of OHIM’s Board, a the USPTO. decentralized agency of the EU, which was recently rechristened Her drive for entrepreneurship is reflected in changes she has led EUIPO. The organization aims to build a comprehensive and in- within the organization: expanding beyond Washington for the first teroperable European Trade Mark and Design Network together time, establishing 4 regional satellite offices and modernizing USP- with the EU’s national IP offices and the BOIP. TO’s technology and sponsoring programs for young inventors.

32 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE “Everything that can be produced can be counterfeited. Every sector is touched”

Leaders League. What exactly does your Organized crime from Europe or the US work at Europol’s Intellectual Property orders goods from China or other produ- Crime Unit consist of? cing countries because of the cost, while Chris Vansteenkiste. The Europol Intel- the main benefits are made in Europe lectual Property Crime Unit was created and the US. It is also interesting to see in 2008. It supports and strengthens coo- that the final production is often com- peration of the Member States in the fi- pleted in Europe, for example, where the CHRIS VANSTEENKISTE ght against intellectual property crimes, product will be finished and retouched. Cluster Manager Counterfeiting, especially when they affect health and Importing unbranded items is not illegal EUROPOL safety. Its main tasks in- and therefore these goods volve supporting opera- “WE FIGHT IP CRIMES cannot be intercepted or tional activities of live ESPECIALLY WHEN seized by customs border investigations, raising the THEY AFFECT HEALTH agencies. awareness of the law enforcement community on the AND SAFETY” Leaders League. Could you threat posed by intellectual tell us about some recent property crimes, and liaising with the in- significant operations launched by the Eu- dustry to monitor new trends. ropol’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit? C. V. A successful case is the Operation Leaders League. What sectors are most Opson, which is targeting food and beve- impacted by counterfeiting, and what rage goods. The first edition was damages does this represent for the EU launched in 2011 with nine countries in- economy? volved. In 2015 we launched the fifth C. V. Nowadays it is very difficult to edition with more than 10,000 tons and answer this question. Ten years ago I one million liters of fake food and drink would have said that IP crimes were only seized in operations across 57 countries. linked with luxury goods, perfumes and Another important case is the Silver Axe, clothing, such as sportswear. But recent- during which 350 inspections of contai- ly we have organized an operation sei- ners were carried out at major ports and Europol is the European Union’s law zing food and beverage: coffee, choco- airports in seven countries. As a result, enforcement agency. Their main goal late, fake whisky and champagne. Fake law enforcement agencies from Belgium, is to help achieve a safer Europe for the and sub-standard food and drink pose a France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Spain benefit of all EU citizens. real threat to health and safety. The au- Headquartered in The Hague and the Netherlands discovered 190 tons Works closely with law enforcement tomotive sector is also involved, as well of illegal or counterfeit pesticides. agencies in the 28 EU Member States, as pesticides and of course pharmaceuti- and other non-EU partner states and cals; everything that can be produced can organizations be counterfeited. Every sector is touched 900 + staff, 185 Europol Liaisons, and each day I’m surprised by new cases around100 criminal analysts, involving new products. over 18,000 cross–border investigations each year Leaders League. China is the primary source of counterfeit goods, although other countries are involved. Can you elaborate on how counterfeiting is geogra- phically distributed? C. V. The main percentage of counterfeit goods come from China, but Pakis- tan and India are producers of couter- feit pharmaceuticals and chemicals, and Vietnam and Cambodia are infamous producing countries, as well. The reason is very simple, they are countries with economies based on undervalued labor.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 33 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

“IP offices in South America have bia, Mexico and Central American countries. been evolving towards more Implementation of these agreements implied legal modifications concerning IP in each efficient and modern services” country, as it concerns real regulation evolu- tions going further than TRIPS’ (trade-related Leaders League. What are the main aspects of IP rights) minimum standards. trends in IP in South America? Luis Alonso García Muñoz-Najar. The Leaders League. What are the main first comes from the public sector: IP of- issues for APPI members? Luis Alonso García fices have been evolving towards more L. A. G. M. N. The activity of IP law firms Muñoz-Najar efficient and modern services. In Peru, and agents (boutiques) in Peru has re- President, PERUVIAN the National Institute for the Defense of mained stable. New stakeholders have ap- Free Competition and the Protection of peared and there has been a consolidation ASSOCIATION FOR IP (INDECOPI) was a starting point for of existing Peruvian offices, almost all of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY many regional offices and a guide for IP which are APPI members. Generally, AP- (APPI) management. Today, other offices are also PI’s interest can be summarized by the benchmarks, such as Chile and Colombia, need and concern to have an Authority with high IP management standards. They (INDECOPI) that acts in a predictable and are very efficient and concerned with pro- efficient manner, is capable of adequately CHILE AND COLOMBIA moting IP in their respective countries by managing administrative issues and sol- ARE BENCHMARKS WITH participating in public actions and policies ving and taking decisions (in a technical HIGH IP MANAGEMENT related to innovation, R&D, technology and timely fashion), and is capable of pro- STANDARDS transfer, collective brands and protection viding services in line with technological of geographical indication boost. improvements and developments. In addition, many countries from the region concluded free trade agreements, including Check out the full interview on our website, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Peru, Colom- www.leadersleague.com

“The SIPO’s growth epitomizes velopment earlier than other parts of the China’s economic development” economy. Now the whole country is expe- riencing the same trend, proving that wor- thwhile patents reflect future innovations Leaders League. As the world’s largest and economic change. and likely busiest patent office, what has been the SIPO’s evolution? Leaders League. What are future Lipu Tian. In spite of its short history, the challenges to China’s IP development? SIPO has been growing rapidly to reach L. T. China is the world’s largest national Lipu Tian over 2 million patent applications in 2013. user of Internet with nearly 700 million Ex-Director, STATE This was too many, with the quality and national web users, and recently we have INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY innovation of many patents being unsatis- been adapting our legislation, government OFFICE OF CHINA (SIPO) factory. Thus over the past years we have policies, businesses and society to keep up taken measures to encourage Chinese com- with the development of web technology. panies to focus more on quality. 2014’s The core issue is to better protect the IP statistics showed the dawn of change: in- rights of trademark and patent owners vention patents held stable growth, appli- from infringement due to the popularity cations submitted through PCT and Paris and facility of the Internet. Convention to Europe and the US grew Although China has become the largest IT IS A LONG-TERM rapidly, and utility model patents and de- producer of patents and trademarks, the EFFORT TO CULTIVATE sign patents had first-ever negative growth, general public still needs to raise its INNOVATION meaning enterprises are turning to patents awareness about IP’s importance. It is a that have higher added value, more techni- long-term effort to cultivate innovation cal content and greater quality. and improve the IP protection environ- The SIPO’s growth epitomizes China’s ment, if the government intends to economic development: we shifted from achieve its goal of building an innovative quantitative expansion to qualitative de- China by 2020.

34 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE “With the laws regarding Intellectual Property continuously changing, in-house trademark practitioners must be well versed”

The International Trademark Association elected Mr. Ronald van Tuijl as its new President for 2016, to address some of the biggest challenges concerning Intellectual Property matters at present like counterfeiting, plain packaging, etc. The US-headquartered global association of trademark owners and professionals aims to focus on internationalization and overall growth.

Leaders League. Are there one or more meeting outside the US. Plans for delega- RONALD VAN TUIJL IP challenges that you would like to talk tions to Brazil and Argentina, to support all President, INTA about in greater depth? our Latin American activities, and due dili- Ronald van Tuijl. Firstly, let us talk about gence for a local office are in the process. counterfeiting. This is not a new issue, but due to its sheer size and the risks it presents, Leaders League. Can you further explain it needs to be spoken about time and again. the Presidential Task Force that you BE CURIOUS. INTA has developed stringent Global An- launched on the role and position of in- BE PROACTIVE. IF YOU ti-Counterfeiting Strategies to tackle this pro- house trademark professionals? SEIZE ALL THE POSSIBLE blem. We are making continuous efforts to R.v.T. With the laws regarding Intellectual OPPORTUNITIES AND ASK understand the role of IP officers and General Property continuously changing, it is essential THE QUESTIONS BEHIND Counsel in various multinational corporations to make sure that in-house trademark practi- THE QUESTIONS, IT WILL (MNCs) through our forums, leading to the tioners are well versed with the laws and their MAKE YOUR JOB MUCH harmonization of counterfeiting measures. We roles in various companies. Some of the motiva- MORE INTERESTING have also partnered with Business Action to tions behind setting up the task force included Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP), and the establishment of current roles of in-house have been co-organizing a series of workshops TM practitioners, positioning of their teams, for IP owners and other stakeholders to help helping them further their careers notwithstan- solve counterfeiting as an issue. ding the economic cycle and eventually getting The second challenge is that of plain pac- relevant feedback from them after they conduct kaging. I strongly believe that this is not a surveys and interviews. As of now, the Pre- tobacco issue, but more of a trademark and sidential Task Force consists of members from brand issue with the potential to affect mul- all over the world with different backgrounds, tiple industries. So INTA has taken steps to including regular members as well as associated reach out to various local and national go- members representing law firms. vernments in order to repeal or reject any legislation in violation of international treaties. Leaders League. Your IP work experience $2 trillion Size of global counterfeiting market ranges from tech, consumer goods to to- Leaders League. The internationalization bacco. How do you keep yourself updated of INTA continues this year. Would you on different industries’ developments? elaborate on the opening in Singapore? R.v.T. I have been fortunate enough to have How about Latin America? worked as an in-house counsel in large- 10,000 R.v.T. There are quite a few reasons why we sized MNCs in completely different sectors. Expected number of attendees at the INTA chose to open an office in Singapore. It has I attended as many workshops, training pro- Annual Meeting 2016 been ranked as one of the best countries in grams, seminars as I possibly could, even if terms of ease of doing business, aside from they were not directly related to my day-to- having the best IP protection laws in Asia. day IP work. I read a lot, especially when it Growth, Internationalization, Connections: Key Also, its position in the heart of the Asian came to IP updates and case laws in various words to describe the expectations for 2016 community will help us solve the problems trade magazines and kept myself constantly of our members, protect trademarks and updated by talking to my peers. tackle new challenges in the region. The registration for our new office in Singapore Leaders League. What advice would you stands completed as we speak. give to new in-house professionals? As for Latin America, we have been conduc- R.v.T. Be curious. Be proactive. If you seize ting various activities there already. We orga- all the possible opportunities and ask the nized a Leadership Meeting in Panama City questions behind the questions, it will make in 2015, which was the first major INTA your job much more interesting.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 35 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

“A Brazilian battle for productivity in Intellectual Property rights”

Luiz Otavio Pimentel was nominated president of the Brazilian National Institute for Industrial Property (INPI) in August 2015. In this interview he points out the main trends and challenges the INPI has been facing and the many advances Brazil has achieved with regard to intellectual property prosecutions and international business competition.

Leaders League. What are the main IP INPI. Have you been able to move forward trends in Brazil? in achieving your goals? Luiz Pimentel. The demand for intellectual L. P. When I took over, my main goals were LUIZ OTAVIO PIMENTEL property rights protection has been growing. reducing the time of analysis in areas such President, INPI BRAZIL Brazilian society has seen an increase in the as patents and trademarks, enhancing au- number of entrepreneurs and start-ups. In- tomation, and improving the quality of ma- teractions between universities, companies nagement and working conditions. We are and technology centers have become more looking for faster alternatives to process the and more common. All of this has an im- applications and for measures to gain pro- pact on the demand for IP prosecutions. The ductivity, such as teleworking, optimization main trend is a greater demand for efficiency of procedures and decentralized examination and quality of services. in other Brazilian states. We are optimizing OUR GREAT CHALLENGE our IT tools, improving the general manage- IS TO OVERCOME THE Leaders League. As the main challenges in ment and reviewing INPI’s structure. We’re “DISEASE” OF BACKLOG, emerging countries are greater speed and also working on better career plans, working A BATTLE FOUGHT quality in applications for trademarks, conditions and remuneration system. JOINTLY BY BUSINESS, patents, and industrial designs, what has GOVERNMENT AND THE the INPI adopted to achieve this? Leaders League. What is the main pro- INSTITUTE L. P. We have been developing projects to blem the INPI has to deal with? address the situation of applications awai- L. P. The INPI is part of the industrial, forei- ting decision (backlog). There are initiatives gn trade and innovation policy. It has been such as review of management procedures, designed to provide and protect differentia- increase in efficiency, establishment of goals, ting elements in business competition and to boost in productivity and production, impro- support Brazilian companies’ international ved IT and automation, adoption of examina- insertion through IP protection. Our great tion priorities, and service quality control. We challenge is to overcome the «disease» of have the BR Priorities project, which encou- backlog, a battle fought jointly by business, rages the introduction of protected Brazilian government and the Institute. This means innovative products into the world market. that we have to examine applications for pa- The INPI currently employs 192 examiners Brazilian companies and inventors who have tent, trademark, industrial design and other in full productivity and 19 in training, made the initial application for a patent in items that are within our competence faster totaling 211 technicians Brazil, but also made a request abroad, may and always with the utmost quality. Luiz Otavio Pimentel graduated with ask the INPI for priority examination wit- a degree in Juridical Science at Faculdade hout a date restriction. By the PPH project, Leaders League. What about internatio- de Direito de Cruz Alta (1984) and is an Brazilians use the result of the examination nal cooperation agreements? Associate Professor at Universidade at the INPI to speed up analysis in the U.S. L. P. Our newest agreement is the technical coo- Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and vice versa. Additionally, we recently peration with the European IP Office (EUIPO) launched a project that benefits small compa- in which we joined the TM View, a system by nies with priority patent examination and fast which it is possible to search brands for free on track processes for environmental and pu- the Internet. This global platform of brands blic health applications. Another measure to brings together about 32 million applications speed up industrial design processes was the and registrations from 41 countries and four review of technical requirements and focus on international organizations. In addition, we the drawings submitted. For brands, we are maintain cooperation to conduct bilateral and reformulating some procedures to optimize multilateral activities, with associations, fo- and standardize decisions. rums, foreign IP offices, WIPO and the WTO.

Leaders League. It’s been less than a year Check out the full interview on our website, since you assumed the presidency of the www.leadersleague.com

36 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE ESTABLISHED PLAYERS

Sundar Pichai Steve Kessel

© D.R Chief Executive Officer, GOOGLE © D.R Senior Vice President, AMAZON.COM Has academic degrees from IIT, Stanford and Wharton Oversaw digital strategies, notably development of Kindle Has phenomenal memory, can remember every number he has ever dialed Led the digital retail team after rejoining Amazon in 2012 Suggested as contender for CEO at Microsoft Holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business

Pichai’s life has seen a meteoric rise from his early days as an A graduate of Dartmouth College with a BS in computer science, engineering student in India. Right after finishing his B.Tech from Kessel has expertise in digital media. He served as Senior VP, IIT in Kharagpur, he was offered a scholarship from Stanford. Worldwide Digital Media, and VP of digital in Amazon. With Silicon Valley molded the love for technology and innovation deep understanding of Amazon following the worldwide digital in this young engineer’s heart, and by 2004 he was working on revolution, Kessel forged his reputation in the field, starting Google’s search toolbar. During his early days at Google, Pichai with the development of Amazon’s original Kindle e-reader and convinced the co-founders that the company should build its own ending with the launch of the Kindle Fire tablet in 2011. After web browser. This resulted in Chrome, presently the most widely returning from a short break, he rejoined Amazon as Senior used web browser. In 2013, he took over the responsibilities of VP, and is working on a project that involves zero-counter Android and by the end of 2014, was in charge of almost all of bookstores, aiming at innovating the payment method and Google’s Apps. Pichai finally took on the role of Google’s CEO turning Amazon into a platform that supplements both online from Larry Page, upon the formation of Alphabet in 2015. and physical retail channels.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 37 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

“Most of Intel’s innovation initiatives come from its New Technology Group”

Leaders League. From wearables, wire- Leaders League. What do you identify as less charging, UAV to robotics, Intel has the biggest challenge during your trans- been quite active in recent years. Where formation from the PC era to the new di- does your innovation come from? gital boom? Josh Walden. Most of the innovation initia- J. W. Intel has really smart people working tives at Intel come from a department that in a range of areas – everything from how I run called the New Technology Group to build the most powerful, capable and en- (NTG), whose mission is to imagine, explore, ergy-efficient chips to people with PhD’s in JOSH WALDEN nurture and deliver game-changing techno- cultural anthropology, studying how people Senior VP & GM of the New logies and products that make amazing ex- adopt and use all kinds of technology. The Technology Group, INTEL periences possible. Our work includes eve- mission of my organization is to ensure that rything from longer-term research that might we move quickly to explore and realize new sound like science fiction to many people - opportunities based on emerging trends and it’s not uncommon for us to collaborate and technologies. That means trying to get with academic researchers market quickly and iterating on these types of projects - “INTEL WANTS TO BE off of those initial offerings. to products that are selling AT THE FOREFRONT OF That is very much the new today. Intel RealSense, the ADDING HUMAN-LIKE Intel and it’s something that Intel Curie module and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich is very technologies for wearable de- SENSES TO DEVICES” keen on. Intel has the tools vices are all examples of this and resources to take advan- latter category. A lot of other innovations tage of new models of computing, commu- BIO EXPRESS happen across Intel: probably the most no- nications and experiences which are key to Joined Intel in 1983 as a process engineer table is the huge innovation from our Tech- move quickly. Previously led Intel’s Fab/Sort nology and Manufacturing Group, which Manufacturing organization continues its work on Moore’s Law. Leaders League. What is Intel’s vision for Ex-VP & GM of the Platform our future tech life in five years? Engineering Group Leaders League. At Intel, how do different J. W. Intel wants to make the most amazing project teams cooperate with each other? experiences of the future possible. Right J. W. It depends. In some cases, there is a now we’re looking at three ways to make huge amount of cooperation and cross-pol- this happen. First we want to help create a lination. For example, our Intel Labs orga- world where everything is smart and INTEL’S NEW TECHNOLOGY GROUP nization spends a lot of time and effort re- connected. You can see this happening in WHEN? searching technologies that can help evolve our Internet of Things Group as well as the April 2015 Intel’s current products. In those cases, there technologies for wearables, sports, fashion is a huge amount of joint work and collabora- and related markets coming from my WHAT? tion between the researchers in Intel Labs and group. Second, Intel wants to be at the One single unit that encompasses the engineers in the product business units. forefront of adding human-like senses to operations formerly carried out by the company’s New Devices group and New For instance, we partner with the Data Center devices. The Intel RealSense cameras that Business Initiatives group Group to ensure they have the right techno- can see and sense the world in three logies, accelerators and systems that continue dimensions are prime examples of this. WHY? to delight our customers. In other cases, a Intel RealSense technology is being added Help to drive greater synergies among small team may be off by itself exploring an to PCs, tablets, UAVs, robots and more. Intel’s various research and interesting technology or business idea. These Finally, we see the cloud playing a huge product-development efforts are essentially little start-ups within Intel and role in processing, storing and making use they may operate fairly independently and, of all the data generated by smart in some cases, may be secretive. An example connected devices and by devices that would be that we recently had an internal sense the world like humans. Now, all of venture that was exploring new technologies that said, if I see an interesting opportunity and business models and, while that particu- that isn’t part of these categories, I will lar venture didn’t turn into a business, it ope- pursue it immediately. The structure of my ned the door for other opportunities original- organization – which is multi-faceted – ly not seen. It’s fun to see how ideas evolve can change very quickly, depending on the and can find use in different areas. opportunity.

38 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Nikesh Arora Chirantan “CJ” Desai President & Chief Operating Officer, SOFTBANK CORPORATION President of the Emerging Technologies Division (ETD), Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Google until July 2014 EMC Serves on the board of Colgate-Palmolive and Bharti Airtel Former Executive Vice President at Symantec Splits his time between Silicon Valley, Japan and India Began his career at Oracle, where he launched the first cloud service Under SoftBank’s newest flag bearer, in him. Another thing Arora under- A veteran of the tech industry, Desai Nikesh Arora’s, the Japanese telecom took after joining the company was to supervises R&D and launches new giant has invested $1 billion in South look for opportunities in India through products as the company transitions Korean e-commerce business Coupang speed pitching sessions with almost 40 from a hardware-centric to a growing and $627 million in Indian marketplace Indian entrepreneurs, in order to really software-oriented business. He also Snapdeal over a span of just 2 months. understand the market. The CEO has a focuses his activities on developing He has also led investments in massive lot of hope in the growing start-up eco- innovative solutions for the storage ride-sharing companies including Ola system in India and believes that now and converged infrastructure indus- Cabs in India and Kuadi Dache in is a phenomenal time to be an entre- try, as well as future disruptive tech- China. Expected to succeed the founder preneur in his country of origin. nologies. As such, he will face an im- Masayoshi Son as CEO, this man is With the help of his small, hand- portant transition this year. In 2015, clearly injecting new dynamism into the picked team of ex-Google/LinkedIN Dell, the 2nd biggest American PC 35-year old Softbank. recruits, he plans to make five to ten in- manufacturer, announced its merger Arora spent 10 years as an executive at vestments a year of $100 million to $1 with EMC. If approved, the new en- Google, heading the global sales team billion each. When it comes to inves- tity will be worth $67 billion, ranking and opening up new advertising mar- ting, Arora prefers start-ups that have as the largest tech deal in history thus kets before joining SoftBank last year. proven products and a need to expand; far. And how such massive companies Soon after taking the helm, Nikesh there are also personal factors, as he re- with entrenched cultures will come made a personal commitment to his portedly said “I only invest in founders together remains to be seen, but the new company by buying $483 million who are willing to be my friends, hang out process is certain to call on Desai’s in shares, to reinforce the market’s faith with me and build large companies.” unique expertise.

with research centers, like our 8-year “The subject of entrepreneurship partnership with the National Institute is near and dear to my heart” for Research in Computer Science and Control (Inria).

Leaders League. Data storage repre- Leaders League. How do you accom- sents 28% of Microsoft’s group reve- pany start-ups in digital? nues. What measures will you imple- N. G. Having been a young entrepre- ment to strengthen your leadership in neur, the subject of entrepreneurship is the cloud? near and dear to my heart. For students, Nicolas Gaume Nicolas Gaume. As one of the 3 big- the Imagine Cup competition rewards Developer eXperience Director, gest players in the Cloud, we distingui- the most innovative projects in catego- MICROSOFT FRANCE sh ourselves on three main axes. First, ries such as business creation, commu- Microsoft is a committed player in the nity projects or video gaming. The data protection of its customers. We BizSpark program, launched in France also play the hybrid Cloud card, which about 10 years ago, allows us to accom- allows our customers to choose to host pany 3,000+ start-ups in France. We also data in their own data centers or in the have a special support program of 10 Microsoft Azure Cloud, depending on partner accelerators. We offer tech sup- their levels of sensitivity and require- port and entrepreneurial expertise MICROSOFT IS A ments. Additionally, the Azure Cloud is through numerous workshops, as well as COMMITTED PLAYER IN THE open and interoperable with many so- our network of customers and partners DATA PROTECTION OF ITS lutions on the market, such as RedHat to help start-ups develop sales. Our own CUSTOMERS or Linux. Finally, Microsoft is a cut- accelerator, Microsoft Ventures, further ting-edge player on all aspects of data assists companies with great potential. from collection, processing to predictive Such support of young companies shows analysis. These technological advances our ambition to add value to French stem especially from our collaboration start-ups while respecting their goals.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 39 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

RISING STARS

SEED PHASE

Lauri Järvilehto CEO, LIGHTNEER

Finnish serial entrepreneur and founder of Helsinki Academy of Philosophy, Järvilehto believes humans can learn through gaming and co-founded Lightneer to create future learning games, having generated nearly $1B in revenue since 2015.

Olivier Roberdet Co-founder, PRIZM

Wanting to transform our music experience at home, this 26-year IT genius launched Prizm, a context-conscious music streaming adapter that recognizes the tastes and moods of people in the same room to play music that everybody likes.

Jeff Huber CEO, GRAIL

Jeff Huber, an ex-Googler, has recently taken over the responsibilities as CEO of Grail, a start-up that has raised $100M from Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to create a blood test for the detection of early stage cancer. Having lost his wife to cancer, his decision to lead Grail is also largely personal.

40 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE "Entrepreneurs need to be logically Leaders League. How is the innovation en- creative in order to come up vironment in Japan, financially speaking? S.N. In spite of the existence of a large mar- with truly disruptive ideas" ket, the prospects for an entrepreneur in Japan are largely governed by the fact that people belong to an ageing society deeply Leaders League. Can you define rooted in old traditions, and the concept of Perceptual Computing in the simplest “one job for life” still exists. So it is not the ea- of terms for our readers? Also, how did siest place to be an innovator or a disruptor. Shunsuke Nakamura winning the Intel Perceptual Computing But some innovations, especially in sectors CEO, SHIKUMI DESIGN Competition change Shikumi Design’s dealing with non-verbal communication path? like music, or emerging technologies like Shunsuke Nakamura. It is the ability FinTech or IoT, are not related to nationality of an electronic device to sense what is and hence attract funding more easily. going on in its near vicinity and provide appropriate feedback to create an Leaders League. In your view, how do THERE ARE MANY enhanced human experience. There are design and technology come together in DEVICES WITH SENSORS many devices with sensors that can de- today’s rapidly evolving entrepreneurial THAT CAN DETECT HUMAN tect human behavior quite easily, and climate? BEHAVIOR QUITE EASILY, the rise of this technology is going to S.N. During the course of my PhD in de- AND THE RISE OF THIS revolutionize the next frontier of hu- sign and technology, I came to realize that TECHNOLOGY IS GOING TO man-computer interaction. Winning at creativity does not always come in the REVOLUTIONIZE THE NEXT the Intel Perceptual Computing Com- form of a random set of ideas. It arrives FRONTIER OF HUMAN- petition gave us an international push from profound logical thinking. So I be- COMPUTER INTERACTION and the confidence to move on from lieve that entrepreneurs need to be logical- entrusted development to developing ly creative, in order to come up with truly our own products. disruptive ideas.

George Hotz Erik Hersman © D.R Mengting Gao Founder, CEO, COMMA.AI Co-founder & CEO, BRCK Founder & MD, KITCHEN STORIES Develops a semi-autonomous driving system Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow and Senior with limited resources TED Fellow Passionate amateur chef Founded in 2015, comma.ai’s valuation has Founded iHub, Nairobi’s tech innovation hub and Graduated from WHU Business School with other reached $20M, according to Forbes co-founded Ushahidi co-founder Verena Hubertz A hacker who unlocked the iPhone As a technologist and blogger who The brain behind one of the App at age 17, George Hotz has earned a grew up in Kenya and Sudan, Hers- Store’s most successful apps that reputation ever since. A decade later, man has always had a fascination provides professionally produced he surprised the world again by buil- with the application of technology to in-house content for all categories ding an AI system for self-driving cars, develop the region. His mobile app of cooks, Gao’s motto: "anyone can closely emulating human driving be- Ushahidi played a vital role in map- cook". The two founders of Kitchen haviors. Hotz comments and queries: ping violence during the Kenyan crisis Stories initially had other plans, but “AIs today are like small children, what in 2007-’08. Later, he led the design ended up creating an app in 12 lan- can we do to grow them up?” and prototyping of a physically robust guages, that went on to be featured Having secured funding from VC connectivity device which could hold on the Apple Keynote address, was firm Andreessen Horowitz in March enough power to survive a blackout, downloaded 3 million times in less 2016, Hotz expects to ship his first suited for a continent like Africa. Thus than a year, and raised almost $2M product by the end of 2016, with the backup generator for the Internet, in 2015 from Point Nine Capital and a system compatible with the top BRCK, was born, and has raised $3M Cherry Ventures. This app differen- five most popular cars in the US. in funding from investors including tiates itself through its HD photos, He claims that his self-driving device Jean and Steve Case, TED, MKS Al- videos, and step-by-step recipes, is targeting a different customer ternative Investments and Synergy as opposed to amateurish content sector than its main competitors, Energy. Erik regularly writes for two on most other cooking apps. Gao’s Tesla and Google, and that his influential blogs called WhiteAfrican story was recently featured on the product enables cars to drive in and Afrigadget, discussing technolo- Apple App Store on the occasion of more diverse road conditions. gical innovation in Africa. International Women’s Day, 2016.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 41 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

“It annoyed me that I had no way to print a document on the move”

ZuTa Labs, a Israel-based start-up, has come out with the world’s first Robotic Printer. A viral hit on the crowdfunding website, Kickstarter, the product also won the “Best of Innovation” Award at CES 2015. The robotic printer is slated for worldwide release later this year.

Leaders League. What gave rise to the ceiving a lot of attention from the people and initial idea of a Robotic Printer? Was it a the press, who showered support. Somehow product that evolved before taking its cur- our product had gone viral. It was 100% TUVIA ELBAUM, rent form? word-of-mouth publicity, and it was fasci- CEO & Co-founder, Tuvia Elbaum. During my ten years of ex- nating to realize that our proof-of-concept ZUTA LABS perience as an entrepreneur, I have had to and our plans to create the actual product move around a lot. I have had to work out had somehow convinced many people that of coffee shops, on the train, at parks, like a the Robotic Printer was something that they lot of people today. I had to go up to the odd really wanted, even if much work still re- barman or the lobby receptionist asking him mained to be done. to print a document for me. It annoyed me IT WAS FASCINATING that in spite of having Internet connectivity Leaders League. What is the way ahead for TO REALIZE THAT OUR on my phone or my laptop, I still had no way your product once it is out in the market? to print a document on the move. Without T. E. We believe that our Robotic Printer PROOF-OF-CONCEPT being able to find a solution for this online, will help revive a $37 billion printing mar- HAD SOMEHOW I came up with an idea to create a truly mo- ket which hasn’t seen a lot of innovation, CONVINCED A LOT bile printer by making the cartridge move just like GoPro helped revive the camera OF PEOPLE THAT THE around on paper. So my team and I took a industry six years ago, at a time when Ko- remote controlled car, removed the body, and dak was filing for bankruptcy owing to the ROBOTIC PRINTER WAS attached a printing cartridge to create the first rising popularity of camera phones. Once SOMETHING THAT THEY working prototype. We tested different wheel the product is released to the public, and REALLY WANTED sizes to perfect the movement of our working we have enough users, we will open it up model, until we were confident that we had to the developers in the market so they can something substantial in our hands. Later this create apps for it and find new ways to inte- went on to become part of our Kickstarter ract with their Robotic Printers. It could be a crowdfunding campaign, along with a design game, an educational app that helps kids to of the actual Robotic Printer, which was still write and code, or an app for architects. The in its development phase. possibilities are endless.

Leaders League. The product was hailed Leaders League. With so many companies as a Kickstarter sweetheart. Was the viral moving to completely digitalized commu- ZUTA LABS nature of the campaign organic, or did you nication, do you think this product will use some differentiated marketing tactics? still find relevance 5 years from now? ROBOTIC PRINTER T. E. Before the campaign we never knew if T. E. The printing pattern has changed over Winner, Best of Innovation at Consumer people liked our product or believed in it as the past few years. People have become more Electronics Show 2015 much as we did. So in order to test it in pu- environmentally aware and they don’t print blic, we just created a simple video with a the way they used to ten years ago. They are couple of friends and put it on the platform, more conscious about wasting paper or ink, without spending a lot of money or creating which is expensive. Yet, people still find the $37 BILLION a differentiated campaign for customer ac- need to print a document or two in simple The total size of the printing market, quisition, like a number of Kickstarter cam- use cases. Sometimes you would just need to that the robotic printer is hoping to disrupt paigns do nowadays. However, people really print out your itinerary, plane tickets, or a liked the product, so it got a lot of funding receipt to attach to your Amazon package quite quickly. Within the first twenty four while returning it. It is at times like these, hours, it was already the second most po- that our Robotic Printer will bring value to pular product on the platform. Every week, its users. Kickstarter came out with a newsletter, and our product got featured on it. That gave it Check out the full interview on our website, a further push, and by this time we were re- www.leadersleague.com

42 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE GROWTH PHASE

Rolfe William Swinton © D.R Qi Yin © D.R Baiju Prafulkumar Bhatt Co-founder, REALITYMINE Co-founder & CEO, MEGVII Co-founder, ROBINHOOD

Completed both his Bachelors and Masters at Co-founder and Non-Executive Director of Crow’s A Tsinghua graduate, a PhD candidate on leave Stanford University Nest Ventures from Columbia and an ex-Microsoft engineer Co-founded financial software company, Chronos Co-founder of shopConnect Named in Forbes’ 2016 “30 Under 30 Asia” list Research with Vladimir Tenev This serial entrepreneur has wisely Yin’s tech adventure embarked early: Right after completing his educa- put mobile technology and data at as a sophomore he already started tion, Bhatt moved to New York the core of his business. RealityMine work at Microsoft Research Asia on with Tenev to pursue careers in the is a consumer centric data collection a facial-recognition project, which financial industry. While building platform which uses passive mo- was later used in Xbox and Bing. In trading platforms for major financial bile data to analyze behavior, me- 2011, with two schoolmates, this institutions at their jointly-owned dia consumption and advertising. 23-year-old entrepreneur created company Chronos Research, Bhatt Looking deeper into the whens, the Megvii to develop image recognition realized that electronic trading firms whys and the whats, the platform and other artificial intelligence tech- were unfairly charging customers can determine consumer behavior nologyies Today, the company boasts up to $10 for every trade while the and analyze how emotions govern the most advanced facial recognition transactions cost next to nothing to motivation to purchase. By creating applications and counts Citic, China execute. To democratize access to RealityMine, Rolfe William Swinton, Merchants Bank, Meitu (China’s lea- financial markets, the duo moved has significantly advanced the role ding photo app developer) and Ant back to California and came up with of mobile and wider digital research Financial (Alibaba’s financial arm) as Robinhood, a zero-fee stock trading in the marketing industries and me- key customers. His dream? Helping app. In May 2015, the app got fun- dia agencies, helping to transform machines to read and understand ded $50M for a Series B Round, led their business models. the world. by New Enterprise Associates.

“We wanted e-commerce to Leaders League. As a Mexican woman skyrocket in Mexico” entrepreneur, what are the chief difficulties you faced in the implementation Leaders League. How did the idea of of your business? Kichink arise? C.de. H. I like to think of myself as Claudia de Heredia. The idea of Kichink someone who transforms this. Being a started because we wanted e-commerce to woman in this very male environment has skyrocket in Mexico and change its eco- empowered me, because I am different. nomy, applying what we like to call "com- I am the new voice, the fresh idea, and I Claudia De Heredia mercial Inclusion", democratizing the tools use that towards my advantage. Of course Founder, KICHINK to make e-commerce available to everyone. I have had to face very chauvinistic encounters where people simply don´t want Leaders League. As an e-commerce to make business deals with a woman, but site, what are the innovative aspects of those are the exceptions. Kichink? BEING A WOMAN C.de. H. We are a 360° model, we empower Leaders League. What advice can you IN THIS VERY MALE anyone to sell online through a completely give to younger entrepreneurs in Latin ENVIRONMENT managed platform that enables the stores to America? HAS EMPOWERED be up and running in no time, regardless C.de. H. I would advise them to try to ME, BECAUSE I AM of their size. Our business model is quite make good products that solve problems DIFFERENT different too, we charge a commission per in their countries and to be passionate, transaction that means we are in line with because being an entrepreneur is a lot of our stores’ interests, more like a business work. If you are not passionate about your partner than a provider relationship. project then don´t do it.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 43 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

“Confidentiality and non-use of Qwant does the opposite. There is no data are icing on the cake” one single cookie and the regulations of European data protection authorities are respected.

Leaders League. Do you think users Leaders League. How did you get are mature enough on privacy issues the idea to target the search engine to appreciate your argument on this market dominated by an actor in a matter? Jean-Manuel Rozan, quasi-monopoly position? J.-M. R. Internet users are looking for President & Eric Léandri, Jean-Manuel Rozan. In 2011, Google easy use and attach importance to the Managing Director, QWANT wanted to create an entire universe right to privacy. Our value proposition around its products, favoring its own is based on excellent search results services at its competitors’ expense. and good ergonomics. If faced with The intent of Internet neutrality was two offers of equivalent service qua- abandoned. It became thus possible to lity, we naturally lean towards the one create an alternative purveyor of posi- proposing additional promise. For us, tive values. With Eric’s savvy, we could confidentiality and non-use of data are WE OFFER USERS adventure in a way that has proved icing on the cake. When Google dis- FREEDOM OF CHOICE, useful and necessary for all: operators, plays customized results related to tar- WHICH THEY ARE DEPRIVED users, media... geting and data exploitation, one must OF WITH TRADITIONAL Eric Léandri. Unlike other govern- ask who the winner is. The benefits for SEARCH ENGINES ment-encouraged attempts, it is users Google are obvious, but users’ stories that have led us to success. With the are not that simple. public’s adherence, the EU has de- E. L. We offer users freedom of choice, cided to support us. Google has built which they are deprived of with tradi- a closed universe under its control; tional search engines.

“We work hard to improve urban Leaders League. With 99top, the com- mobility” pany proves its capacity to innovate and to adapt to the market trends. How do you maintain the entrepreneurial 99Taxis is an app that helps organize the spirit inside the firm? chaotic yet huge taxi business in Brazil. P. V. 99 team is fantastic and I totally believe in every single person who works Leaders League. At the very beginning, for this project. The commitment of the how did you handle the fact that your team surprises me every day. People who Paulo Veras model requires two critical masses: work here are passionate about what they CEO, 99 TAXIS users and drivers? do and constantly develop ideas and pro- Paulo Veras. We knew it would be a jects aiming to improve the quality of our tough job to reach both masses. So, in the services to users and taxi drivers, and also very begining, we reached out to the taxi to make urban mobility better every day. drivers on the streets and explained the The best thing I can do is to keep them free app to them. This was around 2012, when to think and contribute with innovative smartphones were not yet popular as they ideas to constantly improve the 99 app. are today. It was quite difficult to convince a person that a device that he didn’t have Leaders League. What are you main IN 2015, 99 REACHED 40 would connect him to an app that he goals for the next 5 years? MILLION RIDES, 8.5M APP never heard about, and then bring him P. V. Our current focus is on the develop- DOWNLOADS AND 150K + passengers in a fast and economical way. ment of the Brazilian market, which has a TAXI DRIVERS However, only three years later, in 2015, lot of growth potential. We are working 99 became a market leader in the sector, hard to continue as the market leader in reaching 40 million rides, 8.5 million app our area of expertise and through our downloads and 150K + taxi drivers regis- technology to contribute to improve ur- tered in the system around the country. ban mobility.

44 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE “Why limit people for their passports, if they can help develop communities with their skills?”

Jobbatical is an Estonia-headquartered job matching site for year-long sabbaticals abroad in emerging tech cities like Penang, Nairobi or Tallinn. Launched in 2014, the start-up is on a mission to build a global marketplace for “career adventures”. Jobbatical generates revenue by taking a small commission on each successful hire, and has set up a system with the hiring companies to help new employees relocate.

Leaders League. From being the youngest no means superior to me, they were just like- KAROLI HINDRIKS inventor in Estonia, to a leading TV exe- minded people with lots of experience. The Founder & CEO, JOBBATICAL cutive and launching a multitude of chan- experience gave me courage; it opened up nels, at which point did you exactly come my mind and instilled the faith in me that up with the idea of Jobbatical? one day I might just be able to change the Karoli Hindriks. All of my previous expe- world. riences to this point have been necessary and somehow helped in coming up with the idea Leaders League. What has the response of Jobbatical. The company I started when I been like from Asian countries like Japan, WE, AS A GENERATION, was in high school gave me the courage to where they consider that a job is for life? HAVE COME TO THE go out of my comfort zone and experiment. K.H. Japan is a country we really need to My experience with the continual hiring learn a lot more about to discover where we CONCLUSION THAT process during my time as a TV executive fit in. According to a recent manpower sur- HAVING A ‘SAFE’ JOB made me realize that hiring local talent in vey, 83% of companies in Japan are having IS NOT A NECESSITY a place like Estonia is not the easiest task, a hard time filling job positions owing to an ANYMORE, ESPECIALLY and I concluded that this must be a problem acute shortage of talent. Even then, the tradi- that a lot of companies face in smaller coun- tional nature of the workplace makes it very BECAUSE THE WHOLE tries which are not known for being tech or hard to convince companies to look outside MARKET IS NOT SAFE start-up hubs. Being a millennial myself, I their country for employees. Comparatively, IN GENERAL understand how the norms in business are it has been much easier to contribute to the changing. Owing to the general instability job market in more open-minded Asian in the job markets caused by the financial countries like Singapore, Indonesia and crises in recent years, we, as a generation, Malaysia. South East Asia presents a very have come to the conclusion that having a promising scenario, with an average GDP ‘safe’ job is not a necessity anymore, espe- growth of 7%, and not enough local exper- cially because the whole market is not safe tise to create a global market. It is our goal in general. We don’t have to pretend to like at Jobbatical to help with the creation of this 9-5 jobs anymore. We are also much more global marketplace. 30,000 curious to explore unknown places. Hence Total size of talent pool on the Jobbatical website after successfully launching the whole suite Leaders League. What kind of socio-eco- of Fox International Channels in the Bal- nomic problems can be solved utilizing tic regions and managing them for almost the data collected from Jobbatical in a 7 years, when I decided to quit everything couple of years? and go for a sabbatical in Malaysia, I wasn’t K.H. In a couple of years, we will have 60% very concerned about what people thought enough data to visualize entire sectors of Applicants between the age of 25-35 about my decision. In fact this turned out the economy in particular countries, and be to be my first real jobbatical, and I decided able to influence international policy ma- to join Singularity University after moving to kers to aid with the act of hiring based on Silicon Valley thereafter. talent and not geographical location. We $2M want to be able to get rid of certain biases in Amount of money raised in the latest Leaders League. To what degree did your the hiring process like candidates with fo- funding round experience at Singularity University help reign sounding names, or weaker passports. you with Jobbatical? If we succeed, it will open up a whole new K.H. Singularity University helped me be- range of job opportunities for people in lieve that it is possible to make a global im- countries with a surplus of talent, who can pact, even if you are from a random country relocate to countries which could use their like Estonia. The people I met there were in talents.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 45 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

"Tackling color deficiency is a new frontier that is central to our overall interest"

Did you know that an estimated 300 million people have some form of color vision deficiency (CVD), meaning 1 in 12 men, and about 1 in 200 women worldwide? Imagine that one day these people might see vivid colors thanks to correct glasses. Interview with Don McPherson, Chief Scientist of EnChroma, a glass manufacturer dedicated to bringing color to the color blind and to enhancing the lives of 300 million people.

Leaders League. From where did your re- biotech and involves contact with body issues, search into color deficiency stem? we need to go through the FTA approval, which Don McPherson. I didn’t choose to study co- takes time. We are also considering the possibi- DON MCPHERSON lor deficiency, it chose me! As a matter of fact, lity of collaborating with major manufacturers Chief Scientist, ENCHROMA when I started this subject, I knew nothing of contact lenses through patent application. about it and had no clue where my work was In addition, we are bringing production going. As a research scientist, I had my doc- back under our own roof in California, in torate in glass science and designed eye-pro- order to better monitor and control our ma- tection glasses for laser surgeons. One day a nufacturing process, which is very unique STUDENTS WITH friend of mine happened to wear these glasses and tricky. And we are also thinking about UNDIAGNOSED COLOR and discovered colors that were previously raising an additional two to three million DEFICIENCY COULD BE muddled and muted to him. I was very intri- dollars so as to expand into other countries MISLABELED AS SLOWER gued by this discovery, and since I don’t like and recruit more retailers and distributors. LEARNERS not understanding something, I wanted to figure out why. Together with Andy, current Leaders League. What have you done CEO of the company, we got funding from the well so far, and what would you have National Institute of Health (NIH) and started done differently if you could go back? over ten years of research. D. M. On the positive side, we have been very careful about managing our PR and su- Leaders League. In your opinion, what is per honest with people from the very begin- the greatest significance of tackling color ning about what they can truly expect from BIO EXPRESS Don McPherson received his Ph.D. in Glass deficiency? our glasses. Science from Alfred University in 1988. He is D. M. I think it is a new frontier where people On the other hand, we should have waited the author of 14 scientific published papers, realize that this is central to our interest, and a little bit to raise more money and fully de- holder of six patents, and has been awarded not only economically. For example, current- velop the product, but we didn’t expect the five NEI, NIH and National Cancer Institute ly in the USA, only 11 states test children’s complexity of the situation and launched too research grants. Dr. McPherson has also served as President of Bay Glass Research, color blindness. While many boys and girls soon. We encountered manufacturing dif- Vice President of R&D for Vetrazzo, and is are identified as having learning disabilities, ficulties, the glasses’ cost was very high, the the Founder and CEO of Counter Production. studies show that it’s just not this simple. frames were horrible, people couldn’t use Students with undiagnosed color deficiency them in the sports, and it wasn’t possible to could be mislabeled as slower learners, but do prescription lenses or ones for kids be- when teachers don’t know about this pro- cause our coating technology wasn’t mature blem, they start treating children differently: enough. In a word, it was very stressful for us they stop calling them, and instead of helping to fix all the details at that time. But people them, ignore them. When I heard about this, liked our glasses and therefore we carried on! I decided that EnChroma could be part of the solutions and help treat these kids more fairly. Leaders League. Where do you see HIS MOTTO Personally, every time I heard people say EnChroma in ten years? Technology should make people’s life things like “Wow, every brick looks so different- D. M. A lot of amazing things could happen wonderful ly red,” I was reminded about how wonder- over such a long time. For example, I hope a ful our world is. Many people tend to forget rich organization could purchase 1 million HIS REPUTATION The scientist who accidentally developed to appreciate our colorful planet, and these glasses to send to developing countries. Or it glasses that could correct color blindness glasses can open our eyes to this. would be great if we could find a business partner who has a well-developed global dis- THE SECRET OF HIS SUCCESS Leaders League. Apart from pediatrics, what tribution system and knows how to sell to Curiosity, optimism & humility are your other current focuses of work? every corner of the world. We are currently D. M. We are working on contact lenses, which selling around 30,000 pairs per year, com- are more discreet to wear, and its research is pared to a market of 300 million people, so going quite well. However, since this concerns there is huge potential to do much more.

46 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE MATURITY PHASE

Tao Wang Salman Khan CEO & Founder, © Geek Park Co-founder & CEO, DJI KHAN ACADEMY World’s first drone billionaire according to Forbes Developed his first helicopter flight-control system in senior year and built prototype controllers out of his dorm room Graduated from MIT in science, mathematics and Has two banners “Brains only” and “No emotions” on his office door electrical engineering MBA at Harvard Business School Relaxed shirt, round glasses, golf cap, helicopter. Since then, he spent most of Salman Khan was working as a hedge sharp-tongued and hard-nosed, Tao his spare time reading about aircraft fund analyst when he started using on- Wang is perhaps not the conventional models and ended up studying electro- line tools to teach his cousin in math. Chinese businessman, yet his tough nic engineering at the Hong Kong Uni- 10 years later he is on the list of Time’s management style and perfectionism versity of Science & Technology. Belie- most influential people in the world, towards products have largely contri- ving that the products alone can deliver and Khan Academy, the free online buted to the rise of DJI, a company his messages, Wang seldom speaks in education platform he founded, has a he created a decade ago in a 3-room public or accepts interviews, which YouTube channel which counts more apartment with two schoolmates in makes his recent speech at Shenzhen than 2 million subscribers. Salman Shenzhen. Today it has reached an an- University even more precious, where Khan’s mission is “to accelerate lear- nual turnover of about $1B and beco- he advised new students: “If you just ning for students of all ages. With this in me the world’s No.1 consumer drone follow the main stream without knowing mind, we want to share our content with manufacturer with 70%+ of global where to go, you will never have tail wind whoever may find it useful.” The choice market share. along your journey.” At the helm, Wang of a non-for-profit organization is mo- Born in 1980, Wang’s lofty dreams clearly knows where to steer DJI in the tivated by the aim to create an institu- started at young age, when he read a future: discrete but sure, he is piloting tion that will last for generations and comic book on the explorations of a red a global drone revolution. be accessible to everyone.

“Africa is the new frontier for business” miracle. The amount of our work done is incredible, and we spend a lot of time on the continent and 99% of our staff Leaders League. Jumia has experienced is in Africa today. So this success is the continuous growth since 2012 to sum of a lot of work, daring and most become an e-commerce leader in Africa. of all resilience! What are the reasons for this rapid success? Leaders League. What are the challenges Jérémy Doutté Jérémy Doutté. The market is more for entrepreneurs in Africa? CEO, JUMIA of a success factor than the team or J. D. Africa is the new frontier for bu- the quality of execution, and figures siness, full of opportunities for those who confirm our early intuition. AIG / Jumia want to work well, but we must naturally is the only group to have had the auda- think of risks and ask the right questions. city of conducting this project in multi- It is still very difficult to find well-equip- THE MARKET ple African countries and the ability to ped talent to deal with start-ups’ pro- IS MORE OF A SUCCESS raise the necessary funds to start work. blems. Places like Silicon Valley and Berlin FACTOR THAN THE TEAM The culture of AIG, holding group of have allowed talented entrepreneurs to OR THE QUALITY Jumia, also accounts for this success: exchange, meet and form networks. This OF EXECUTION difficult situations do not scare us, and is not yet the case of Africa, which repre- we love complexity. In spite of existing sents a real handicap. Moreover, entrepre- opportunities, few companies wanted neurs naturally need funds to start their to go to Africa due to difficulties, es- business, but the African financing market pecially in logistics. There is thus no is still too small.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 47 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

“The things that investors find most attractive are clear vision, the ability to execute and team-strength”

OYO Rooms is a technology-driven network of Indian hotels spread across 177 cities, offering standardized and affordable stay experiences. The company provides an easy-to-use mobile app for all its customers, which allows them to order room service directly from their smartphones, as well as check in and out of the hotel without having to wait at the reservation desk.

Leaders League. What is OYO Rooms’ big- phones, was probably the best place to launch RITESH AGARWAL gest advantage over Airbnb in a country this business and demonstrate its success. Founder & CEO, OYO ROOMS like India? We are keeping a close watch on internatio- Ritesh Agarwal. When we launched in In- nal markets. In January 2016, we launched dia, the problem was not as much about ma- our international expansion with Malaysia WE STARTED OUR king hotels or bed-and-breakfast properties because of the attractive market characte- INTERNATIONAL discoverable, as it was about building trust ristic of sizeable Internet and mobile pe- EXPANSION WITH and credibility in a segment where customers netration which is complementary to our MALAYSIA BECAUSE OF had no benchmarks or recommendations to approach. We will continue to tap other THE ATTRACTIVE MARKET go by. There was not a single hotel brand or markets at the right time. CHARACTERISTIC OF travel website that guaranteed quality ac- SIZEABLE INTERNET AND commodation in the budget-hotel category. Leaders League. What are the reasons MOBILE PENETRATION This was for a reason – standards of service behind the success of OYO Rooms with in- and amenities in this category just did not vestors like SoftBank and Sequoia Capital? exist. So with OYO, we set about building a R.A. The things that investors find most at- predictable and standardized experience for tractive are a clear vision, the ability to exe- guests, and ensuring that we secured enough cute, and team-strength. OYO was concep- inventory so that anytime availability was tualized to solve a really big problem in the not a challenge. hospitality sector. It unlocked a massive op- In a little over a year, the OYO brand name portunity that had existed but wasn’t avai- has come to symbolize value-based offerings lable until we took the lead. Clearly, our bu- of clean rooms with assured amenities such siness plan had long-term sustainability that as free wifi and complimentary breakfast. was attractive to our investors. We also have By taking care of these basic expectations of extremely talented folks at the leadership le- travelers, we have now built India’s largest vel, and investors trust our abilities to exe- network of branded hotels. cute our plans. 17 Age at which Agarwal started his first Unlike us, Airbnb does not control guest business experience through standardization because Leaders League. Considering you started one of their USPs is authentic and local ex- your first business at age 17, and went on periences. While this can appeal to niche lei- to win the Peter Thiel fellowship without sure travelers, family travelers and business ever setting foot in a business school, how travelers prefer to have such deliverables and important do you consider a formal bu- Amount of money raised in $100M expectations outlined and do not like sur- siness education? the latest funding round led by SoftBank prises. This has contributed to our success R.A. I am not a big believer in formal educa- in the category compared to older, well-esta- tion but neither do I dissuade folks from it. It blished players in online travel. really depends on what works for a person, at their particular life-stage. I think it is im- 65,000 Total number of rooms Leaders League. Do you think this concept portant to follow your dreams. offered by OYO would have worked in any other country? Life is the best teacher, and all my learning R.A. OYO pioneered a business model which has been on the job. I loved the Thiel Fel- is a first in the world. I believe that the OYO lowship experience because it gave me an business model has potential in markets such opportunity to experience what being part of as South East Asia, Africa and South America a network and ideating with like-minded where unbranded hotel supply is fragmented folks feels like. I don’t miss that anymore be- and under-serviced. But India, where the Inter- cause now I have over a thousand folks who net population is booming, primarily through are working with me day in and day out to youth who are increasingly adopting smart- solve the very problems I want to solve.

48 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE days ago, we have filled some important “To keep your edge over gaps in talent and skill that existed within competition, you should focus the company. Today we have a team, which although not yet fully complete, I believe is on customers” much stronger. We are currently building the foundations Hotel Urbano, the Brazilian hotel-booking of a great momentum for Hotel Urbano in start-up backed by several US Venture the near future, especially in 2017. This is Capital Funds, underwent critical transitions where our plan is going to take us. in 2015. The recently appointed CEO Maurizio Maurizio De Franciscis De Franciscis talks about the company’s new Leaders League. How do you make sure CEO, HOTEL URBANO vision. Hotel Urbano keeps its edge over competition? Leaders League. What will be the biggest M. D. F. The best way to do that is actually challenges for Hotel Urbano in 2016? not to focus on your competition but ins- Maurizio De Franciscis. The biggest tead to focus on your customers. We’re challenge for Hotel Urbano, especially in constantly trying to move one step closer to the first half of 2016, is to set up business our customers, and this has had great im- processes to organize our growth more pact on our market position. It can be real- sustainably. We have grown substantially ly tricky because customers usually move WE ARE BUILDING over the past few years and our focus very fast. Especially here in Brazil, people THE FOUNDATIONS OF A right now is to improve productivity and are becoming better educated on online GREATER MOMENTUM FOR efficiency. We need to make sure we become purchasing, travel, mobile and social plat- HOTEL URBANO a scalable business. We want to be able to forms. So to keep your edge over competi- absorb future growth without increasing the tion you should focus on customers and level of complexity of the business and the really design the company according to number of people in the management team. what they need... without forgetting to an- Since I started as CEO of Hotel Urbano 120 ticipate their needs as well!

Alexander Karp © DR Dr. Tej Tadi Co-founder & CEO, PALANTIR Founder & CEO, MINDMAZE

Has no business or technology background Winner of the Pfizer Award for Neuroscience Source: Speakerpedia Source: Founded Caedmon Group before becoming the CEO of Palantir in 2009 Known as “the conscience” of Palantir as he leads decision making in critical issues Holds an Executive MBA degree from IMD, Switzerland It is not surprising to find MIT or Har- B2B company specializing in detecting An electronic engineer and neurosci- vard MBA alumni as executives in Sili- the signs of terrorism or unlawful acti- entist, Dr. Tadi came up with a system con Valley, but how about people with vities such as fraud by diving through combining virtual reality, computer no business background at all? Holding large quantities of data. graphics, brain-imaging technology double PhD degrees (a Doctor of Juris- Remaining discrete in the first six years and neuroscience while pursuing a prudence degree from Stanford and a of its business, their company received PhD in Swiss Federal Institute of Tech- doctorate in Neoclassical Social Theo- its early investment from In-Q-Tel, nology (EPFL). The hand-tracking, ry from Frankfurt University), Karp CIA’s investment arm, and cooperated mind-reading technology that Tadi doesn’t seem like a typical CEO. Before closely with U.S government counter- has developed, aims to help patients founding Palantir, he created his own terrorism agencies such as NSA, FBI suffering from neurological disorders investment fund, the Caedmon Group, and CIA. By the word of mouth, this se- to recover faster than with traditional where he worked as a money manager cretive data mining company extended physical therapy. This led to Dr. Tadi for high-net-worth individuals, but his its service to JP Morgan in 2010, thus being named ‘Young Global Leader’ fund turned out to be successful during starting to drag attention and now by The World Economic Forum at only two years. He then moved towar- works for government agencies as well Davos in 2015. Subsequently, Mind- ds the high-tech data analyzing indus- as major banks and corporations. Ha- Maze completed a funding round of try together with his former Stanford ving received $2.4B funding without a $100M from Hinduja Group, putting classmate Peter Thiel, also the co-foun- single sales force, today Palantir is re- it in the Unicorn club with companies der of PayPal, in partnership with Joe garded as one of the booming unicorns valued at over $1 billion. The device, Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen and Nathan alongside with Airbnb, XiaoMi and MindMotion Pro, is certified for use in Gettings, to launch Palantir in 2004, a Uber, with a $20B market value. European medical centers.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 49 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIALS

Pablo Isla Chairman & CEO, INDITEX Gill Pratt (ZARA, MASSIMO DUTTI, BERSHKA AND OTHERS) CEO, TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (TRI) World’s 3rd best-performing CEO by the Harvard Business Review, 2015 Gill Pratt holds Doctorates in Philosophy, Electrical Engineering and Computer Installed numerous fully-automated garment storage and retrieval systems Science from MIT, Associate Professor and Director of MIT’s Leg Lab Inditex generated 15,000 jobs worldwide in 2015 Former Program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

The son of a versatile executive, Isla spent years in various industries This former associate professor at Franklin W. Olin College has an and has an acute sense for business. As the pioneer in fast-fashion impressive track record. He is the man Toyota has recently chosen to industry, Inditex is well-known for its logistics system and short lead the brand new Toyota Research Institute, in Palo Alto. Dr. Pratt product cycle. Isla’s strategies led Inditex to invest $1.7 million in new focuses his activity in the field of robotics and intelligent systems. technologies in order to improve their logistics service and supply Funded by an initial five-year, $1 billion investment, the TRI has chain, focusing on automation to create time-saving dispatches and to been created with the aim of enhancing the safety of automobiles. catch up with rapid international expansion. But this ambitious project seems keen to do more than make cars Isla also launched the Global Water Management Strategy to secure the smarter and safer, and the TRI’s development is crucial, as pointed- sustainability of water as a resource, cooperating with suppliers which out by its CEO: “We believe we can significantly improve the quality of endorsed the strategy. He also launched the Roba Amig program to life for all people, regardless of age, with mobility products in all aspects donate garments to those in need, and created the ZNormativa model of life” as an ultimate aim is also to use AI to aid seniors with both to further improve Inditex’s waste management. in and outdoor mobility.

50 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE “As long as there is one counterfeited bottle in the market, we will take action”

To perpetuate Pernod Ricard’s reputation as “Créateurs de Convivialité” (creators of conviviality), Matthew Prot watches over carefully the authenticity of wine and spirits of the Group. Group IP Director, he leads the battle against counterfeiting and is engaged in many actions on civil, administrative and criminal levels, especially in China.

Leaders League. How does counterfeiting of our investigative resources with 9 other MATHIEU PROT affect the wine and spirits industry? international spirits producers federated to Group IP Director, Mathieu Prot. In our industry, counter- the International Federation of Spirits Pro- PERNOD RICARD feiting takes the form of the recycling of ducers (IFSP). Every day, over a hundred authentic bottles. These bottles are then investigators crisscross the country (shops, filled with a spirit that is not the original bars, karaokes) to ensure that the products one, which can be hazardous to health. proposed to consumers are authentic. If ap- Unlike other traditional luxury items, the plicable, the Chinese police are notified and consumer of counterfeit spirit is always an can launch raids, seizures and arrests. Since unwitting victim - because nobody wants 2007, this project is improving day after to drink fake alcohol. The fight against day: we launch criminal actions and clo- IT IS IMPORTANT counterfeiting is thus also a way to pro- sely monitor the sentences against Chinese TODAY TO LAY THE BRICKS tect our consumers. The advent of the counterfeiters. As long as there is one coun- OF THE PROTECTION digital age also requires us to rethink our terfeited bottle in the market, we will take OF OUR BRANDS IN THE anti-counterfeiting policy. Digitization oc- action. DIGITAL ERA TO ANTICIPATE cupies an increasingly important place in THE DEVELOPMENT the strategy of large companies, because Leaders League. How do you sensitize the OF THESE DISTRIBUTION it enables the brand to establish a direct courts of emerging countries to intellec- CHANNELS link with the consumer. The digital also tual property? presents a risk by creating new spheres M. P. We believe that the counterfeiting of of action and exchange for counterfeiters. products intended for human consump- For this reason, we have developed tools to tion, such as wines and spirits, should be monitor and detect the sale of counterfeits treated more seriously than any other type on the Internet. In spite of the small part of of infringement of intellectual property. In e-commerce in our industry, it is important collaboration with the IFSP, we act every today to lay the bricks of the protection day to sensitize the authorities to the an- NO. 2 WORLDWIDE of our brands in the digital era to antici- ti-counterfeiting fight. All major emerging in Wines & Spirits pate the development of these distribution countries are concerned: Brazil, Russia, channels, particularly by approaching ma- Eastern Europe, and of course China. We jor online sales platforms. meet regularly with the Chinese government to support our efforts, and I am very Leaders League. What methods have you pleased to say that this collaboration is in net sales 8,558 M€ used to combat counterfeiting? bearing fruit: since the launch of the Blue M. P. As co-leader in our industry, we invest Lotus Project, through numerous seminars significant resources to ensure that nothing and meetings with local and national au- will impede the positive experience of our thorities, we have witnessed a gradual yet 18,421 employees consumers with our brands. In terms of or- steady change in the situation. China is ganization, we estimate it is more effective now one of the countries filing the most to involve all the stakeholders in the com- patents and pays very close attention to the pany in the fight against counterfeiting. In protection of intellectual property, al- China, we have thus created the Blue Lotus though I believe that we should not be 27 brands Project, a structure of internal coordination complacent. At the international level, the bringing together the expertise and know- cooperation with the European Union, how of engineers, in-house lawyers, investi- chambers of commerce and our embassies gators and communication specialists. Since is also essential to sensitize the Chinese go- counterfeiting affects the entire industry, vernment for the highest levels of political we do not act alone. We share a large part decision-making.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 51 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

Peter Agnefjäll Simon Gresham Jones CEO, IKEA GROUP Global Vice President Digital Marketing, BURBERRY Worked as the assistant of founder Ingvar Kamprad and former CEO Mikael Ohlsson 60%+ of Burberry’s marketing budget is aimed IKEA has committed 1 billion Euro for climate action under his leadership at digital Launched “Growing IKEA Together – 2020” strategy Grasham Jones previously worked for Microsoft’s Xbox division, Disney and Universal Music Growing up in a family that ran a su- an active role in renewable energies. It Like it or not, luxury and tech in- permarket, Peter Agnefjäll steered his owns 700,000 PV solar panels and 314 dustries are becoming increasingly passion towards retail, entering IKEA off-sign wind turbines, and it invested interlinked. For example, Burberry’s as a trainee and having since spent 600 million Euros in renewable energy former CEO Angela Ahrendts hop- most of his career in the company. As in 2015. “It can bring exciting opportuni- ped to Apple to lead retail and the CEO of this firm with strong in- ties for innovation and growth for us and online stores, while its first (and ternal culture, Agnefjäll puts emphasis our partners,” Agnefjäll stated in the current) head of digital marketing, on the continuous growth of existing company’s annual report. Simon Gresham Jones, emigrated stores, and thus develops the strategy So far Agnefjäll has successfully upheld from Microsoft. In 2009 he led the “Growing IKEA Together – 2020”, in- IKEA’s leading role in furniture retai- clothing brand’s launch of its own viting employees to figure out ways to ling, and initiated a great number of social media site, Art of the Trench, improve products and shopping expe- opportunities for corporate sustaina- which attracted over 200,000 riences. bility, both in product innovation and unique users during first week. His What’s more, under Agnefjäll’s lea- IKEA’s active position in corporate so- initiatives continue: introduction of dership, IKEA is transferring from a cial responsibility. An example of the Burberry Kisses, partnerships with furniture store to a corporate that is de- latter is the company’s union with In- Apple and WeChat reinforcing the dicated to environmental issues and fu- dian social entrepreneurs to secure jobs fashion show experience with the ture solutions. Space 10, the lab IKEA for rural women. In ways such as these interplay of digital, physical, social launched in 2015 in Denmark, focuses Peter Agnefjäll is leading IKEA’s spirit to and mobile, setting the bar for how on finding solutions to improve future “create a better everyday life for the many luxury brands can fully utilize tech- urban quality of life. IKEA also plays people”, to this decade and beyond. nology.

“Our investments in R&D, at about 8% of revenues, translate a great number of benchmarks, health professionals can better optimize pres- into 4 patents filed per day” cribed care depending on situations. Site productivity can therefore be evaluated on tangible elements, and areas for im- Leaders League. What is the impact of provement emerge quickly. the development of e-health on your business? Leaders League. How do you see the Hassan Safer-Tebbi Hassan Safer-Tebbi. E-health is the digi- emergence of new competition in your Managing Director & CEO, talization of key processes. It corresponds industry? SIEMENS HEALTHCARE to the emergence of technology and H. S.-T. I have an interested but calm view FRANCE strong societal expectations of economic of these new actors. Of course, they arouse efficiency and decompartmentalization my interest due to their competing offers; of healthcare pathways. For industrials, however, these firms are often positioned technical frameworks of system intero- on other segments, such as the Quantified perability are set by the State. Infrastruc- Self. For years, our competitive landscape ture ranges from big data to small-image was wide, especially in our in-vitro activi- E-HEALTH compression software within this canvas. ties and imaging. As to the above-men- CORRESPONDS At Siemens, we offer cross-spectrum so- tioned calmness, it comes from our “Sie- TO THE EMERGENCE lutions. One of the major issues is instant mens Touch” that characterizes our offers OF TECHNOLOGY access to distance information, as with on the market. Our investments in R&D, AND STRONG SOCIETAL tele-radiology. At the other end of the at about 8% of revenues, translate into 4 EXPECTATIONS spectrum, our collaborative system Team- patents filed per day. Apart from collabo- play is based on the considerable quan- rating with the best research sites around tity of data collected by our equipment the world, some M&A operations are also to facilitate decision making. Thanks to expected in the mid-term.

52 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE David Beebe, VP Global Creative + Content Marketing, Mauro Moretti

© D.R MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL CEO, FINMECCANICA An Emmy-winning executive & producer President of the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) Leads the creative direction and content marketing strategy for Marriott’s portfolio of 19 brands Co-Chairman of the Italy-Japan Business Group Founded Disney-ABC Television Group Digital Studio Honorary Degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino

For traditional hotels used to providing predictable, standard A new era has begun for the Italian aeronautics industry - the services, no matter where and when, addressing how to attract Moretti era. Mauro Moretti, former CEO of Trenitalia, the primary and engage millennials searching for intimate and personalized train operator in Italy, led the company to first-time consolidated experiences meant the mode of conversation needed change. profits, as well as ambitious projects, such as the launch ofFrec - In September 2014, Marriott launched its own Digital Content ciarossa, the Italian high-speed train. At the head of Finmeccanica Studio, overseen by Beebe, to explore the concept of travel since 2015, this electronics engineer has focused his activity on with consumers using attention-grabbing content: short the company’s restructuring and transformation, concentrating all films (includingTwo Bellmen and French Kiss, which have the core business of aerospace, defense, and security into a single respectively garnered over 5 and 6 million views on YouTube), company. Research and development account for around 11% of music videos, TV series and interactive stories on Snapchat. the company’s revenue, and in 2014, over 1.5 billion Euros were And efforts have paid off: Fast Company just named Marriot among invested in R&D. On a visionary path, Moretti also sees a great 2016 Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Travel. future for drones, helicopters and unmanned airplanes.

Reed Hastings Founder & CEO, NETFLIX

Board member of Facebook, and on the board of Microsoft from 2007 to 2012 Former member of the California State Board of Education

Reed Hastings, the founder of Netflix, the man who has content, but mostly the intuition that we live in an on-demand changed how people consume television, inventor of the term world, where almost everything can be instantly chosen and “binge watching”, has taken bold steps forward to achieve the quickly personalized. This huge Netflix market penetration is launch of a company that offers its service to nearly every giving the best storytellers the opportunity to reach audiences country around the world, save China. His business model is in every corner of the world, and thus creating the possibility based on a perfect combination of marketing, technology, and of building connections between distant cultures.

Eric Hughes Vice President, Omnichannel Process & Systems, MACY’S

In order to be more prepared for the fierce competition in online retailing, Hughes and his team designed the “omnichannel system” to align Macy’s online and physical stores and let customers know the exact in-store inventory and location.

Ajay Bhalla President of Enterprise Security Solutions, MASTERCARD

In addition to ensuring the security of 51 million transactions annually, Bhalla has also led the creation of the MasterCard DigiSec Lab, which combines biometric technology with online payment security measures to deter fraud and false declines. © D.R

Zhang Ruimin Founder, CEO & Chairman, HAIER GROUP

As the only Chinese entrepreneur who won two Thinkers50 honors, Zhang showed his concern for innovation by founding Haier’s open online platform HOPE, which encourages close interaction and open-cooperation for ideas from all over the world.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 53 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS

NURTURERS

Tony Elumelu Carmen Lamacchia

© D.R Founder, THE TONY ELUMELU FOUNDATION CEO, NEW GLUTEN WORLD Chairman of three major companies: Transcorp, United Bank for Africa, Heirs Holdings Professor of Agriculture Sciences at the University of Foggia (Italy) Recognised as one of «Africa’s 20 Most Powerful People in 2012» by Forbes Magazine Winner of the NutriAwards 2015 rewarding innovation in nutrition and health Alumnus of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Programme Project member: Aldo Di Luccia of Foggia University and Carmela Gianfrani of Italy’s national research council (CNR) Elumelu’s first major success as a business leader came in the form A group of Italian scientists headed by Carmen Lamacchia has of leading the largest merger in the banking sector in Africa, the developed a method to modify a protein in wheat gluten so that acquisition of United Bank for Africa by Standard Trust Bank. In it does not spark the damaging reaction suffered by people with 2010 he started investing through Heirs Holdings in a multitude coeliac disease, which affects people with Western Caucasian of sectors, and also established the Tony Elumelu Foundation ancestry, although many sufferers go undiagnosed. The team to invest $100M in the future of Africa through local entrepre- has patented its method for creating friendly gluten in Italy and neurs. Elumelu has played a major role in the transformation of in the rest of the world. New Gluten World is a spin-off of the Africa into a start-up-friendly region, which can solve its own so- University of Foggia in partnership with Gruppo Casillo, an cio-economic problems through innovation. In one of his talks international market leader in the acquisition, processing and he addresses young entrepreneurs saying, “The return I want from sale of wheat. This gluten-friendly revolutionary project has been this $100M investment is your success, because your success is Africa’s awarded as 2015 Best Italian Innovation, by the PNI the Italian success.” Innovation prize.

54 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE “Sustainable investing has evolved from energy efficiency to a much broader resource efficient approach”

When sustainability has become an absolute necessity, what is the impact of technology on our use of resources? And what can Private Equity (PE) do to nurture innovations in Cleantech? Insights from Samer Salty, CEO of Zouk Capital, a PE and infrastructure fund specialized in this field.

Leaders League. What is Zouk Capital’s development that requires growth-stage capital, DNA? the companies must have commercially proven SAMER SALTY Samer Salty. Zouk’s DNA is all about a broad technology and we are active hands on inves- Founder & CEO, ZOUK CAPITAL approach to investing in the clean and efficient tors. We have investments in sectors such as economy. We have a distinctive dual track strate- Fintech, cybersecurity, and Internet of Things. gy of managing both Growth Capital and In- frastructure funds, which we believe capitalizes Leaders League. What are the current on the wide spectrum of investment opportuni- challenges or risks in the sector? What ties created by the global shift to greater resource can private equity do to support and de- THERE IS NO DOUBT efficiency. Our ambition is to build resource-ef- velop resource efficiency? THE NEXT BIG THING IN ficient companies and clean infrastructure assets S. S. As I mentioned before, the objective of re- SUSTAINABLE INVESTING IS that generate economic and sustainable value. source efficient investing was traditionally to “do OPPORTUNITY ITSELF more with less” - such as substitution, reduction Leaders League. How have the investments in or recycling of materials, water or energy. The the Cleantech sector evolved over last decade? widespread adoption of digital technology is S. S. We believe there has been quite a natural driving an explosion of new digital resources – evolution in sustainable investing over the past such as data, networks, and computing power ten years, which today goes beyond the traditio- – and creating new efficiency mechanisms such nal mandate of cleaner and greener to encom- as digitization, connectivity, analytics, automa- pass a broader “resource efficient” approach. For tion and machine intelligence. Zouk views these our investments, efficiency is not simply about new resources and efficiency mechanisms as BIO EXPRESS “doing more with less”; it is about using tech- significantly expanding the scope for delivering 27 years’ experience in private equity, nology to uncover improvements in resource disruptive efficiency gains with lesser depen- investment banking and technology consumption. Technology is driving resource dence on constrained physical resources. One of Having invested in companies such efficiency and sustainability. the main challenges is the understanding of how Anesco, Solarcentury, Lightning Science Technology has indeed become integral to sus- sustainable investing has evolved from energy Group, Off-Grid Electric, Sigfox and ip. tainability. Take Tanzanian “solar-as-a-service” efficiency to a much broader resource efficient Access company, Off Grid Electric as a prime example of approach. Alongside supporting the companies Holding a B.S. in Electronic Engineering how technology is key to its success. Not only is we believe best fulfil these criteria, we are also in from California Polytechnic and a M.S. in it providing affordable solar to homes across Tan- a position to promote a wider understanding of Management & Finance from MIT zania, it is technology that allows Off Grid Elec- resource efficient investing in business as a whole tric to be the world’s first massively scalable solar and the positive impact this approach makes on service. It is the way the system works, managed the future of a clean and efficient economy. through IT and mobile payments, that makes this business so disruptive. It is not simply about Leaders League. What do you think will be light, and yes the solar power offers 100x the il- the next big thing in sustainable investing? lumination of one kerosene lamp, but it is much S. S. There is no doubt that the next big thing is more about how the Internet of Things is ligh- the opportunity itself. While resource scarcity ting up Africa with a possible 50 million homes will long remain a critical issue, it is no longer HIS PHILOSOPHY gaining access to light and electricity through only a “green” approach that addresses the di- Make investments that both create economic this revolutionary approach to technology. lemma. Technology is filling the void and crea- value and build on sustainable principles ting highly efficient sustainable businesses – effi- Leaders League. What are your criteria of cient in resources and efficient in business HIS PASSION selecting investment targets? model. It is our job as investors to support the Sharing stories about Cleantech start-ups that have changed people’s daily lives S. S. If we look at our growth capital team growth and development of these companies. and their investments in resource efficient bu- Today, I would say there is no doubt that the big- sinesses, then we are looking primarily at Eu- gest driver of a sustainable approach to investing ropean companies, which are at a stage in their is the revolutionary effect of technology.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 55 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 50 LEADERS ABA Section of International Law

“I think right now it is Utopia for 2016 Europe Forum entrepreneurs”

Plug and Play is a global start-up ecosystem and venture fund specializing in the development of early-to-growth stage technology start-ups. Founded in 2006 by Saeed Amidi, the company has helped over 3,000 start-ups to date, with the help of its network of over 200 corporate and investor partners. At any moment, 350 start-ups can be found working out of the global accelerator’s Sunnyvale HQ. ■■ International Ethics

Leaders League. How did Plug and Play formative development in the fields of ■■ differentiate itself from the competition? B2B services, Industrial IoT, social and Mergers and Acquisitions SAEED AMIDI Saeed Amidi. At Plug and Play, we provide productivity tools and products that lead Founder & CEO, PLUG AND PLAY customized roadmaps for start-ups, helping to smart cities. Very soon, there will be a ■■ Dispute Resolution Under TTIP almost 200 each year. We support entrepre- company like Amazon in insurance, or an neurs right from university through our ol- Airbnb in banking, thus bringing techno- ■■ Collective Actions in the U.S. dest accelerator, Start-up Camp, and our at- logy to traditional industries. Berlin has tention to each start-up’s needs has given us one of the fastest growing start-up eco- and EU THE WAY CONSUMERS an edge over our competitors. For us, an ear- systems helping us tap into the European BUY PRODUCTS AND ly-stage start-up with 2 founding members markets through our German accelerator. ■■ straight out of college with a great idea can Brazil has a huge market, even for pro- Cross-Border Estate Planning SERVICES HAS BEEN have the same value as a 250-strong start-up ducts that are not the most innovative or TRANSFORMING RAPIDLY with over $200M valuation. original. Some start-ups like TruckPad, ■■ AND OUR DIFFERENTIATION Privacy and Data Security Business verticals that we currently fo- comparable to an Uber for the trucking HAS RESULTED FROM OUR cus on include Internet of Things (IoT), industry, have done much better in Brazil ■■ ABILITY TO PREDICT THESE Fintech and Security, amongst others. than in the U.S., showing the potential of Cross-Border Criminal Law CHANGES OVER TIME We are broadening our scope every year. countries with large populations in crea- ■■ I believe that we got lucky with our in- ting start-up marketplaces. The International Criminal Court vestment in PayPal 20 years ago, and in Dropbox and Lending. The way consu- Leaders League. In hindsight, what ■■ International Trade Agreements mers buy products and services, has been would you have done differently, if you transforming rapidly, and our differentia- were given the chance to go back to the in the 21st Century tion has resulted from our ability to pre- past? dict these changes over time. S.A. I started my first business, 35 years ■■ ago in Palo Alto packaging bottled wa- Corporate Counsel Roundtable Leaders League. Is it easier to become ter while my friend Pierluigi Zappacosta an entrepreneur now than 35 years ago started Logitech. Our paths have taken when you started your first business? very different terms. Today, Logitech is S.A. I think now is the easiest time to be- one of the largest players in consumer $3.5B come an entrepreneur. Take for example technology. Innovation in technology is Combined amount of funds raised by its companies like ZenMate or Number26 more scalable at a faster pace, impossible portfolio companies which have been able to make use of the with traditional industries like manufac- tools and opportunities available at Axel turing or automotives. So firstly, I believe Springer Plug and Play in Berlin, to acce- that if I had given as much importance to lerate their businesses and scale rapidly. technology innovation as I should have, 1,000 The possibilities of creating a global com- then my company today would have been The number of start-ups that Plug and Play will pany today are much higher. Conversely, if 50-100 times bigger. Secondly, when I May 29 – 31, 2016 invest in over the next 5 years your product is not good enough, or team was starting, I didn’t have a great men- members do not work well together, the tor or an advisor other than my father. If Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel • Rome, Italy market will not hesitate to accelerate your I had, I would have been better able to failure. Overall, I think right now it is Uto- leverage my skills to become a successful pia for entrepreneurs. entrepreneur much earlier on. Lastly, I wish I had invested in Airbnb Leaders League. What are the recent trends and Facebook when I had the chance. But in the start-up sphere that you have noticed in the investment world you cannot rein the countries where you operate? gret a lost investment opportunity, or a S.A. According to what I’ve noticed, the bad investment. At the end of the day, it’s entire world market is going to see trans- all part of the game.

56 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE

165131_EuroForum_A4Ad_p1.indd 1 3/22/16 12:06 PM ABA Section of International Law 2016 Europe Forum

■■ International Ethics ■■ Mergers and Acquisitions ■■ Dispute Resolution Under TTIP ■■ Collective Actions in the U.S. and EU ■■ Cross-Border Estate Planning ■■ Privacy and Data Security ■■ Cross-Border Criminal Law ■■ The International Criminal Court ■■ International Trade Agreements in the 21st Century ■■ Corporate Counsel Roundtable

May 29 – 31, 2016 Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel • Rome, Italy

165131_EuroForum_A4Ad_p1.indd 1 3/22/16 12:06 PM RANKINGS 2016 61 AMERICAS 112 New York Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation California Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 62 Argentina 113 114 California Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 63 Argentina Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 115 California Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 63 Argentina Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 115 California Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 64 Argentina Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 116 California Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 65 Brazil 66 Brazil Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 117 EUROPE 67 Brazil Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 118 Top 50 Europe Software Vendors 68 Brazil Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 119 Europe Best Venture Capital Funds 69 Brazil Best Law Firms - Media, Sports & Entertainment 120 Belgium 70 Brazil Best Law Firms - Technology & Digital Services Belgium Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 72 Canada 121 122 Belgium Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 73 Canada Best Investment Banks - TMT 123 Belgium Best Law Firms - TMT 74 Canada Venture Capital Funds List 124 Belgium Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 75 Canada Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 124 Belgium Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 76 Canada Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 126 France 77 Canada Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 78 Canada Best Law Firms - Trademark & Copyright Litigation 127 France Best Investment Banks - TMT (Large Cap) 79 Canada Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 127 France Best Investment Banks - TMT (Small & Mid Cap) France Best Investment Banks - Health & Pharma (Large Cap) 80 Chile 128 128 France Best Investment Banks - Health & Pharma (Small & Mid Cap) 81 Chile Best Law Firms - General IP 129 France Best Venture Capital Funds 81 Chile Best Law Firms - Technology & Digital Services 130 France Best Software Editors 2015 82 Mexico 131 France Best Law Firms - Telecoms 132 France Best Law Firms - IT & Software 83 Mexico Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 134 France Best Law Firms - Internet 84 Mexico Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 136 France Best Law Firms - Data Protection 85 Mexico Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 138 France Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 86 Mexico Best Law Firms - TMT 142 France Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 87 Mexico Best Law Firms - Data Protection 145 France Best Patent Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 88 Peru 146 France Best Trademark Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 89 Peru Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 149 Germany 90 Peru Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 150 Germany Venture Capital Funds List 90 Peru Best Law Firms - Enforcement & Anti-piracy Actions 151 Germany Best Investment Banks - TMT 91 Peru Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 152 Germany Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 92 Peru Best Law Firms - Data Protection 153 Germany Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 94 USA 154 Germany Best Firms - Trademark Prosecution Germany Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 95 USA Best Investment Banks - TMT 155 Germany Best Law Firms - IT 96 USA Best Investment Banks - Health & Pharma 156 97 Venture Capital’s Finest 158 Italy 101 USA Best Venture Capital Funds 159 Italy Best Investment Banks - TMT 102 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 160 Italy Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 103 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 161 Italy Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 105 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 162 Italy Best Law Firms - General IP Litigation 106 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 164 Italy Best Law Firms - Media 107 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - Life Sciences 165 Italy Best Law Firms - Information Technology 108 USA Nationwide Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 109 New York Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 166 Luxembourg 110 New York Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 167 Luxembourg Best IP Attorneys - IP Prosecution 111 New York Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution 168 Luxembourg Best Law Firms - IP Litigation 111 New York Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 169 Luxembourg Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

170 Netherlands 209 ASIA 171 Netherlands Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 211 China 172 Netherlands Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 212 China Top Private Equity Firms 173 Netherlands Best Law Firms - General IP Litigation 214 China Best Domestic Law Firms - Patent Litigation 174 Netherlands Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 215 China Best Domestic Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 175 Portugal 216 China Best Domestic IP Firms - Patent Prosecution 217 China Best Domestic IP Firms - Trademark Prosecution 176 Portugal Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 176 Portugal Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 218 India 177 Portugal Best Law Firms - General IP Litigation 219 India Best Investment Banks - TMT 178 Portugal Best Law Firms - TMT 220 India Best Domestic IP Firms - Patent Prosecution / Litigation 180 Russia 221 India Best Domestic IP Firms - Trademark Prosecution / Litigation 181 Russia Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 222 Japan 181 Russia Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 223 Japan Best Law Firms - Patent Prosecution 182 Russia Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 223 Japan Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 182 Russia Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 224 Japan Best Law Firms - Trademark Prosecution / Litigation 184 Spain 224 Japan Best Foreign Law Firms - General IP Litigation 185 Spain Best Investment Banks - TMT 186 Spain Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 186 Spain Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 187 Spain Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 187 Spain Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 188 Spain Best Law Firms - TMT 190 Switzerland 191 Switzerland Best Investment Banks - TMT 192 Switzerland Venture Capital Funds List 193 Switzerland Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 194 Switzerland Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 195 Switzerland Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 196 Switzerland Best Law Firms - Trademark & Copyright Litigation 197 Switzerland Best Law Firms - IT & Outsourcing 198 Turkey 199 Turkey Best IP Firms - Patent Prosecution 199 Turkey Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 200 Turkey Best IP Firms - Trademark Prosecution 201 Turkey Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation 202 United Kingdom 203 United Kingdom Best Investment Banks - TMT (Large Cap) 203 United Kingdom Best Investment Banks - TMT (Small & Mid-Cap) 204 United Kingdom Best Investment Banks - Health & Pharma 205 United Kingdom Best IP Attorneys - Patent Prosecution 206 United Kingdom Best Law Firms - Patent Litigation 207 United Kingdom Best IP Attorneys - Trademark Prosecution 208 United Kingdom Best Law Firms - Trademark Litigation

60 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE AMERICAS

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 61 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

ARGENTINA

62 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE ARGENTINA BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING G Breuer Jorge Otamendi , Alejandro Breuer-Moreno, Pedro Breuer-Moreno Marval o'Farrell & Mairal Martín Bensadón, Iván Poli, Ignacio Sánchez Echagüe EXCELLENT Berken IP Pedro Berkenwald, Alicia Alvarez Berkenwald Noetinger & Armando Miguel Armando, Matias Noetinger Richelet & Richelet Gastón Richelet, Ricardo Richelet HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Berton Moreno & Asociados Alberto R. Berton Moreno (h.) Hausheer Belgrano & Fernandez Graciela Perez Mitrani Caballero Ojam & Ruiz Moreno Juan Carlos Ojam, Mercedes Bullrich Obligado & Cía Federico Aulmann, Juan Martin Aulmann RECOMMENDED Baker & McKenzie Bernard W. Malone Brons & Salas Ricardo Amigo, Maria Jose Rodriguez Clarke, Modet & Compañía Carlos Magnanini Estudio Chaloupka Claudia Serritelli Moeller IP Advisors Gabriela Hanak Sena & Berton Moreno Gustavo Sena

ARGENTINA BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING G Breuer Alejandro Breuer-Moreno, Agustina Martinez Marval o'Farrell & Mairal Martín G. Chajchir, Sergio M. Ellmann, Juan M. López Mañán EXCELLENT Hausheer Belgrano & Fernandez Graciela Perez Mitrani Caballero Ojam & Ruiz Moreno Juan Carlos Ojam Noetinger & Armando Miguel Armando, Matias Noetinger Richelet & Richelet Ricardo Richelet HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Berton Moreno & Asociados Alberto R. Berton Moreno (h.), Juan Berton Moreno Ferrer Reyes, Tellechea & Bouche Santiago Ferrer Reyes, Julia Elena Tellechea Obligado & Cía Ana Maria Aulmann, Federico Aulmann, Juan Martin Aulmann Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martínez de Hoz (h) Damaso Pardo Sena & Berton Moreno Gustavo Sena RECOMMENDED Allende & Brea Pablo Andrés Palazzi Baker & McKenzie Bernard W. Malone Brons & Salas Ricardo Amigo, Maria Jose Rodriguez Clarke, Modet & Compañía Carlos Magnanini Estudio Chaloupka Paula Galvan, Olga Maidana Moeller IP Advisors Victoria de Lasa Andrés O'Connor Power Santiago Ricardo O'Conor

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 63 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

ARGENTINA BEST LAW FIRMS IP Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

G Breuer Jorge Otamendi , Alejandro Breuer-Moreno, Gonzalo Cabrera Castilla

Marval o'Farrell & Mairal Martín Bensadón, Gustavo Giay

EXCELLENT

Hausheer Belgrano & Fernandez Graciela Perez , Marina O. Fernández

Noetinger & Armando Fernando Noetinger, Miguel Armando, Matias Noetinger

Obligado & Cía Federico Aulmann, Juan Martin Aulmann

Richelet & Richelet Ricardo Richelet , Gastón Richelet

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Baker & McKenzie Bernard W. Malone

Berken IP Pedro Berkenwald, Alicia Alvarez Berkenwald

Berton Moreno & Asociados Alberto Berton-Moreno, Alberto R. Berton Moreno (h.)

Ferrer Reyes, Tellechea & Bouche Laura de Achaval

Mitrani Caballero Ojam & Ruiz Moreno Juan Carlos Ojam

Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martínez de Hoz (h) Damaso Pardo, Fernando Alonso

Sena & Berton Moreno Alfredo Marcelo Sena

RECOMMENDED

Allende & Brea Pablo Andrés Palazzi

Brons & Salas Ricardo Amigo, Maria Jose Rodriguez

Clarke, Modet & Compañía Carlos Magnanini

Estudio Chaloupka Claudia Serritelli

Moeller IP Advisors Mariano Municoy

64 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE BRAZIL

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 65 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

BRAZIL BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Dannemann Siemsen Advogados José Antonio Faria Correa, Luiz Henrique O. do Amaral EXCELLENT David do Nascimento Advogados Associados Marcello do Nascimento

Di Blasi, Parente & Associados Paulo Parente

Gusmão & Labrunie Laetitia d'Hanens, José Roberto Gusmão

Kasznar Leonardos Filipe da Cunha Leonardos

Montaury Pimenta, Machado & Vieira de Mello Eduardo Magalhães Machado HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Ariboni, Fabbri & Schmidt Sociedade de Advogados Hélio Fabbri Jr.

BMA Advogados Antonella Carminatti, Claudia Christina Schulz

Daniel Advogados Isabella de Amorim Cardozo

Luiz Leonardos & Advogados Marcelo de Oliveira Müller, Ana Paula Pitta de Moura

Soerensen Garcia Advogados Associados Mario Augusto Soerensen Garcia, Renata Corrêa Cardozo Pereira Carneiro

Veirano Advogados Valdir Rocha

Zancaner Costa, Bastos & Spiewak Advogados Benny Spiewak RECOMMENDED Araripe & Associados Luiz de Alencar Araripe Jr.

Bhering Advogados Pedro Bhering

Demarest Advogados Tatiana Campello

Guerra IP Cristina Guerra, Diego Vieira, Patricia Lusoli

Müller Mazzonetto Karina Haidar Müller

Murta Goyanes Marcelo Goyanes

Ouro Preto Advogados Rodrigo A. de Ouro Preto Santos, Samantha Bancroft Vianna Braga

Peduti Sociedade de Advogados Cesar Peduti

Pinheiro Palmer Advogados Walter Palmer, Cristina Pinheiro-Palmer

Siqueira Castro Advogados Eduardo Ribeiro Augusto

Tinoco Soares Sociedade de Advogados José Carlos Tinoco Soares Jr.

TozziniFreire Advogados Andreia Gomes, Marcela Ejnisman Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados Flávia Maria Vasconcelos Pereira

DI BLASI, PARENTE & ASSOCIADOS: A DYNAMIC IP BOUTIQUE

Leaders: Track record: Di Blasi Parente offers a full range Team & differentiation: The team has grown Gabriel Di Blasi of IP Services and is the preferred advisor to a substantially since the inception of the firm Paulo Parente number of prominent international companies. nearly thirty years ago. It is now composed of Established: 1987 The firm specializes in complex IP issues with 74 professionals, experts in their fields and in a particular strength in Trademark and Patent assisting their clients from diverse industries related matters. Both Gabriel Di Blasi and such as aerospace, biotechnology, chemistry, Paulo Parente have built a solid reputation consumer goods, electronics, food and beve- in their respective practices. Throughout the rage, sports and entertainment, telecommu- Paulo Parente years, they have proven their capacity to set nications, and others. up, organize and defend their clients’ IP assets in an efficient and innovative way.

66 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE BRAZIL BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Dannemann Siemsen Advogados Gustavo de Freitas Morais, Markus Michael Wolff, Eduardo Camara Junior

EXCELLENT

Gusmão & Labrunie Ana Paula Celidonio, Jacques Labrunie

Kasznar Leonardos João Luis Vianna

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Daniel Advogados Rana Gosain, André Bastos Venturini

David do Nascimento Advogados Associados Marcello do Nascimento

Di Blasi, Parente & Associados Gabriel Di Blasi

Luiz Leonardos & Advogados Ana Paula Jardim, Marcelo de Oliveira Müller

Montaury Pimenta, Machado & Vieira de Mello Roberto P. Vieira de Mello

RECOMMENDED

Clarke, Modet & Co Orlando de Souza

Guerra IP Alberto Guerra, Flavio Leonardos, Rosane Tavares

Magellan IP Leonor Magalhães Galvão

Siqueira Castro Advogados Eduardo Ribeiro Augusto

Tinoco Soares Sociedade de Advogados José Carlos Tinoco Soares Jr.

Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados Flávia Maria Vasconcelos Pereira

METHODOLOGY

Rankings are established with the following tools:

The criteria are: • Submission form procedure: We send questionnaires & submission forms to the structure • Recognition & reputation of the firm in its market already included in Leaders League rankings and to others likely to be included. They are, in particular, invited to provide • Team size, seniority of partners (or executive officers, information on their organization, their client bases, their track managing directors, etc.), managing director, chief executive…, record and their market. education & training level of the associates (or consultants, investment managers, etc.) • Qualitative procedure: To supplement the questionnaires, Leaders League teams • Volume, nature and quality of the cases dealt by the firm conduct a large number of interviews, which enable us not • Prestige, diversity and internationalization of the firm’s only to learn more about the firm included in our listings, but client base also to assess the dynamism of the market. Analysts and market researchers also have meetings with a large number of • Team expansion and revenue generated by the activity companies’ executives (private companies, funds, banks) who considered in the ranking have the opportunity to comment and provide fresh intelligence on the market and on the advisors they are soliciting.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 67 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

BRAZIL BEST LAW FIRMS IP Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Dannemann Siemsen Advogados Peter Siemsen, Luiz Henrique O. do Amaral, Gustavo de Freitas Morais EXCELLENT 1 Gusmão & Labrunie Fernando Eid Philipp, João Vieira da Cunha, José Roberto Gusmão, Jacques Labrunie

Kasznar Leonardos Elisabeth Kasznar, Gabriel Leonardos, Rafael Lacaz Amaral

Licks Attorneys Otto Licks, Carlos Aboim, Rodrigo Souto Maior

2 Ariboni, Fabbri & Schmidt Sociedade de Advogados Lélio Denicoli Schmidt

Daniel Advogados André Oliveira, Rafael Marques Rocha

Di Blasi, Parente & Associados Gabriel Di Blasi, Paulo Parente

Montaury Pimenta, Machado & Vieira de Mello Luiz Edgard Montaury Pimenta HIGHLY RECOMMENDED David do Nascimento Advogados Associados Ricardo do Nascimento

Guerra IP Ricardo Pinho

Luiz Leonardos & Advogados Rodrigo Bonan de Aguiar

Pinheiro Neto Advogados André Zonaro Giacchetta, José Mauro Decoussau Machado

Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados Marcela Trigo de Souza RECOMMENDED Araripe & Associados Luiz de Alencar Araripe Jr.

Bhering Advogados Pedro Bhering

BMA Advogados Antonella Carminatti, Claudia Christina Schulz

Demarest Advogados Tatiana Campello, Marcelo Inglez de Souza

Murta Goyanes Marcelo Goyanes, Antonio Murta

Ouro Preto Advogados Rodrigo A. de Ouro Preto Santos

Siqueira Castro Advogados Márcio Costa de Menezes e Gonçalves

Soerensen Garcia Advogados Associados Mario Augusto Soerensen Garcia

Tinoco Soares Sociedade de Advogados José Carlos Tinoco Soares Jr.

TozziniFreire Advogados Patrícia Helena Marta

Veirano Advogados Valdir Rocha, Fábio Pereira

LICKS ATTORNEYS: HIGH-STAKES LITIGATION FIRM WITH EMPHASIS ON PATENTS

Leader: Track record: Licks is regularly involved in Team & differentiation: The team is composed Otto Licks headlines cases, especially in the techno- of a balanced mix of young and more expe- Established: logical patents and pharma patents fields. rienced practitioners. With 7 partners, a total 2011 The team is known for its unique go-getter of 31 lawyers and offices in Rio, São Paulo, attitude that often leads them to tackling and Tokyo, Licks Attorneys has reached a unprecedented situations. The firm handles critical size. all Uber’s strategic Litigation cases, and has The most recent addition to the team is the for- extensive experience in advising Internet mer Director of the IP and Competition Policy Otto Licks related businesses and Mobile Apps. Market Division of the World Intellectual Property feedback also underlines Licks’ expertise in Organization (WIPO), Nuno Carvalho. The sea- Food and Drug Law cases. soned IP and Competition Law expert joined the firm as a Partner in early 2016.

68 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE BRAZIL BEST LAW FIRMS Media, Sports & Entertainment The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Bitelli Advogados Marcos Alberto Sant’Anna Bitelli

Cesnik, Quintino & Salinas Advogados Fábio Cesnik

EXCELLENT

Bichara & Motta Advogados Marcos Motta

Dannemann Siemsen Advogados Attilio Gorini, Rodrigo Carneiro, Peter Siemsen

Koury Lopes Advogados Tania Liberman

Levy & Salomão Advogados Simone Lahorgue Nunes

Machado Meyer Sendacz Opice Ivandro Maciel Sanchez Junior, Guilherme Anders

Murta Goyanes Marcelo Goyanes

Schivartche Advogados André Schivartche

Veirano Advogados Valdir Rocha, Fábio Pereira

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

ASBZ Advogados Alfredo Zucca

Chediak Advogados Julian Chediak

Demarest Advogados Renato Poltronieri, Marcelo Inglez de Souza, Claudio Mattos

Kasznar Leonardos Rafael Lacaz Amaral

Lilla, Huck, Otranto, Camargo Advogados Maurício Vedovato

Lins de Vasconcelos Advogados Associados Cláudio Lins de Vasconcelos

Pinheiro Neto Advogados André Giacchetta

RECOMMENDED

CSMV Advogados André Sica

Machado Alves Advogados Tarsila Machado Alves

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 69 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

BRAZIL BEST LAW FIRMS Technology & Digital Services The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS EXCELLENT

BKBG - Barretto Ferreira e Brancher Sociedade de Advogados Paulo Marcos Rodrigues Brancher, Ricardo Barretto Ferreira da Silva

Opice Blum, Bruno, Abrusio e Vainzof Advogados Associados Renato Opice Blum

Pinheiro Neto Advogados Esther Donio Bellegarde Nunes

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Cortez Rizzi & Miranda Advogados Maria Cristina Cortez, Heitor Carmássio Miranda

Dannemann Siemsen Advogados Cândida Caffé

Licks Attorneys Rodrigo Souto Maior, Carlos Aboim

Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados Fábio Ferreira Kujawski

Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados Esther Miriam Flesch, Flávia Rebello Pereira

Veirano Advogados Fábio Pereira

RECOMMENDED

Demarest Advogados Tatiana Campello

Kasznar Leonardos Gustavo José Ferreira Barbosa, Claudio Roberto Barbosa

Machado Meyer Sendacz Opice Elton Minasse

PPP Advogados Patricia Peck

Siqueira Castro Advogados Márcio Costa de Menezes e Gonçalves, Daniel Pitanga

Souza, Cescon, Barrieu & Flesch Advogados Luiz Felipe Di Sessa

TozziniFreire Advogados Marcela Ejnisman, Fernando Cinci

70 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Congress of Intellectual Property - ABPI XXXVI Congresso Internacional da Propriedade Intelectual - ABPI

AUGUST 28th - 30th | HOTEL SHERATON WTC | SÃO PAULO

More Information: www.abpi.org.br

SÓCIOS INSTITUCIONAIS / INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS

PLATINUM OURO / GOLDEN

PRATA / SILVER BRONZE

ASSOCIAÇÃO NACIONAL years DE DEFESA VEGETAL INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CANADA

72 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE CANADA BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS TEAM LED BY LEADING

BMO Capital Markets Darryl White (CEO)

RBC Capital Makets Alex Graham (Managing Director, Head of Communications, Media & Technology)

EXCELLENT

CIBC Benoit Lauzé

Scotiabank N/A

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Canaccord Genuity Sanjiv Samant

Goldman Sachs George Lee (Partner, global co-Head of TMT)

Morgan Stanley N/A

RECOMMENDED

Cantor Fitzgerald Laurence Rose (President & CEO)

Deutsche Bank Don Birchenough (Americas Head of Media and Telecom M&A)

JP Morgan N/A

Macquarie Group Darren Keogh (Global head of TMT)

National Bank Financial Brian Davis

METHODOLOGY

Rankings are established with the following tools:

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 73 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CANADA VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS LIST Funds are listed alphabetically

FUNDS INDUSTRY

32 Degrees Capital Oil & Gas AIP Private Capital N/A Alternative Capital Group CleanTech, Consumer & Retail, Forestry, IT & Services, Industrial & Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Oil & Gas Annapolis Capital Oil & Gas ArcTern Ventures CleanTech, Industrial & Manufacturing AVAC CleanTech, Forestry, IT & Services Avrio Ventures Management Group CleanTech, Food, Beverages & Agribusiness BDC Caputal CleanTech, IT & Services, Industrial & Manufacturing, Life Sciences Bioentreprise Capital Ventures Food, Beverages & Agribusiness Celtic House Venture Partners IT & Services Chrysalix EVC CleanTech, Energy & Power Covington Capital Corporation CleanTech, Consumer & Retail, IT & Services, Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Other CTI LifeScience Fund Life Sciences Cycle Capital Management Automotive & Transportation, CleanTech, Industrial & Manufacturing Discovery Capital Management CleanTech, IT & Services EnerTech Capital N/A Espresso Capital Partners CleanTech, Energy & Power, Oil & Gas Eventi Capital Partners CleanTech, Consumer & Retail, IT & Services, Life Sciences, Mining & Resources Fondaction IT & Services, Life Sciences Automotive & Transportation, CleanTech, Consumer & Retail, Financial, IT & Services, Industrial Fonds de solidarité (FTQ) & Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Real Estate Genesys Capital Management Life Sciences Georgian Partners N/A Golden Venture Partners IT & Services Highland West Capital N/A iGan Partners IT & Services, Industrial & Manufacturing, Life Sciences Impression Ventures IT & Services Innovacorp CleanTech, IT & Services, Life Sciences, Other inova Capital IT & Services Investeco Capital CleanTech, Industrial & Manufacturing Lightspeed Venture Partners N/A Lumira Capital Life Sciences LX Ventures / Oak Mason Investments Financial, Food, Beverages & Agribusiness, IT & Services, Life Sciences, Real Estate McRock Capital IT & Services, Industrial & Manufacturing, Oil & Gas New Brunswick innocation Foundation IT & Services, Industrial & Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Mining & Resources Automotive & Transportation, CleanTech, Consumer & Retail, Financial, IT & Services, Industrial NexusCrowd & Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Real Estate Northwater Capital Management N/A Nova Scotia Business Venture Capital CleanTech, IT & Services, Industrial & Manufacturing, Life Sciences OMERS Ventures N/A Automotive & Transportation, CleanTech, Electronic & Semiconductor, Energy & Power, Industrial Pangaea Ventures & Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Mining & Resources Persistence Capital Partners N/A Pycap Venture Partners IT & Services Quorum Asia Group N/A Real Ventures IT & Services Relay Ventures N/A Rho Capital Ventures CleanTech, IT & Services Roadmap Capital CleanTech, IT & Services, Industrial & Manufacturing, Life Sciences Ryerson Futures Consumer & Retail, Financial, IT & Services, Infrastructure, Life Sciences Summerhill Venture Partners Digital Media, IT & Services, Mobile & Telecom, Other Tandem Expansion Fund CleanTech, IT & Services, Life Sciences, Mobile & Telecom Tech Capital Partners Digital Media, Electronic & Semiconductor, IT & Services, eCommerce Technology Venture CoporationTop Renergy IT & Services, Life Sciences, Other Trellis Capital CleanTech, IT & Services, Life Sciences TVM Life Science Management Life Sciences Vanedge Capital Partners Digital Media, IT & Services, Mobile & Telecom, Other, eCommerce Version One Ventures IT & Services Westcap N/A XPV Capital N/A Yaletown Venture Partners N/A

Source : Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association

74 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE CANADA BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Borden Ladner Gervais Jason Howg

Gowling WLG Grant W. C. Tisdall

Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh Yoon Kang, David Schwartz, Matthew Zischka EXCELLENT Bereskin & Parr Philip C. Mendes da Costa, Micheline Gravelle

Osler Bradley J. White HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Bennett Jones Martin P.J. Kratz

Blake Cassels & Graydon Anthony Prenol

Deeth Williams Wall Gervas Wall

Marks & Clerk Ian Clark

McCarthy Tétrault Alfred Macchione

Norton Rose Fulbrigth Paul J. Field, Sébastien Clark

Ridout & Maybeee Mitchell B. Charness

Sim McBurney Michael I. Stewart, David Ruston RECOMMENDED Cassan Maclean Lynn S. Cassan, Scott P. Maclean

Dimock Stratton Bruce W. Stratton, Jenna Wilson

Fasken Martineau Armand M. Benitah, Richard Y. Cheung

Goudreau Gage Dubuc Alain M. Leclerc

Kirby Eades Gale Baker Trevor Mee

McMillan Keith Bird

Moffat & Co Macera & Jarzyna John S. Macera

Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala Bruce M. Green

PCK Robert Stratton

Riches McKenzie & Herbert Paul L. Herbert

Robic Adam Mizera

Torys Conor D. M. McCourt, Eileen M. McMahon

SMART & BIGGAR FETHERSTONHAUGH: PREFERRED CHOICE FOR FORTUNE 500

Leaders: Track record: The firm has an impressive list of Team & differentiation: Smart & Biggar / François Guay, Mark Evans clients, including hundreds of Fortune 500 com- Fetherstonhaugh is Canada’s largest practice Established: panies and a host of Canadian business leaders. devoted exclusively to IP and technology law. 1890 It specializes in agricultural sciences, cleantech, The firm has more than 95 professionals on energy, IP crime among other industries. Some of board with solid scientific backgrounds. Fran- the mid to large-size corporations and associa- çois Guay is among the top-five most expe- tions represented by Smart & Biggar in the past rienced intellectual property litigators in Canada, are INTA, Nike, Microsoft, Harley Davidson, Air and has appeared before the Courts of Quebec François Guay Canada and The Cheesecake Factory. and the Federal Court of Canada.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 75 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CANADA BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING 1 Gowling WLG Anthony G. Creber, Hélène Dorio

Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh Francois Guay, Steven Garland, Gunars Gaikis

2 Dimock Stratton Ronald E. Dimock, Bruce W. Stratton, Alan Macek

Goodmans Andrew Brodkin, Harry Radomski EXCELLENT Aitken Klee David Aitken, Marcus Klee

Bereskin & Parr Robert MacFarlane

Borden Ladner Gervais Christine Pallota

Osler J. Bradley White

Robic François M. Grenier, Adam Mizera

Torys Andrew M. Shaughnessy, Andrew Bernstein HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Belmore Neidrauer Lindsay Neidrauer

Bennett Jones Martin P.J. Kratz

Deeth Williams Wall Douglas N. Deeth, Gervas W. Wall

Fasken Martineau Julie Desrosiers

McCarthy Tétrault Andrew J. Reddon, Steven Mason

Norton Rose Fulbrigth Paul J. Field, Judith Robinson RECOMMENDED Blake Cassels & Graydon Anthony Prenol, Francis Rouleau

Drapeaulex Daniel Drapeau

Gilbert’s Tim Gilbert, Sana Halwani

Goudreau Gage Dubuc Alain M. Leclerc

Joli-cœur Lacasse Greg Moore

McMillan Davied W. Kent

Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP Bruce M. Green, Craig A. Ash, David McGruder

Ridout & Maybee Mitchell B. Charness

Stikeman Eliott Jonathan N. Auerbach, Justine M. Whitehead

TORYS: INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM WITH PROVEN PHARMACEUTICAL SUCCESS

Leaders: Track record: Torys’ intellectual property lawy- Accupril, and for other generic copies allege- Andrew M. Shaughnessy, ers, patent and trademark agents, and tech- dly made by its competitors. Andrew Bernstein Eileen McMohan, nical consultants serve clients in a range of Conor McCourt sectors, from life sciences and consumer pro- Team & differentiation: The firm houses over Established: ducts to environment and government. It has 330 lawyers. Eileen McMahon co-chairs the 1941 represented Pfizer Canada on multiple occa- IP practice and is called upon for her exper- sions, including patent infringement procee- tise in food and drug regulatory law, while the dings against Apotex Inc. before the Federal other co-chair Conor McCourt holds extensive Andrew M. Shaughnessy Court of Canada, concerning its patents for experience in handling patents and trademarks Quinapril, the active ingredient in its drug in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.

76 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE CANADA BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Bereskin & Parr Cynthia Rowden

Gowling WLG Kelly A. Gill

Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh Keltie Luft, Phillip Lapin, Christian Bolduc EXCELLENT Borden Ladner Gervais Mary Jane Lemenchick

Norton Rose Fulbrigth Jean-François Drolet

Ridout & Maybee Timothy C. Bourne

Robic Laurent Carrière HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Blake Cassels & Graydon Anthony Prenol

Cassels Brock & Blackwell Shane Hardy

Deeth Williams Wall Douglas N. Deeth

Dimock Stratton Ronald E. Dimock, Henry Lue

Marks & Clerk Coleen Morrison

McMillan Keith Bird

Moffat & Co Macera & Jarzyna John S. Macera

Riches McKenzie & Herbert Michael Adams

Sim & McBurney / Sim Lowman Ashton & McKay Kenneth D. McKay RECOMMENDED Bennett Jones Martin P. J. Katz

Fasken Martineau Jean-Philippe Mikus

Goudreau Gage Dubuc Chantal Desjardins

McCarthy Tétrault Charles S. Morgan

Osler Bradley J. White

Shapiro Cohen Chantal Bertoša

Torys Conor D. M. McCourt, Eileen M. McMahon

BENNETT JONES: PROMOTING AN ATMOSPHERE OF EXCELLENCE IN THE CANADIAN LEGAL SECTOR

Leader: Track record: The IP team at Bennett Team & differentiation: The firm and affi- Martin P.J. Kratz Jones is highly regarded for its strength liated entities comprising Bennett Jones Established: in transactional IP matters and patent pro- have more than 19 partners and 6 other 1922 secution, especially related to oil sands. qualified lawyers on the IP team. Inter- It assists clients both in the USA and nationally recognized lawyer Martin P.J. Canada, and offers expertise in the fields Kratz leads the intellectual property prac- of pharmaceuticals and telecommunica- tice and specializes in cyber security and tions. Notable clients include ATCO, Statoil data protection. Martin P.J. Kratz Canada Ltd. and Marc Anthony Cosmetics.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 77 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CANADA BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark & Copyright Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING 1 Bereskin & Parr Donald M. Cameron, Cynthia Rowden

Gowling WLG Anthony G. Creber

Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh Mark Evans, Francois Guay, Steven Garland

2 Dimock Stratton Ronald E. Dimock, Henry Lue, Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy

EXCELLENT Borden Ladner Gervais Christine Pallota, Theresa Corneau

Norton Rose Fulbrigth Brian W. Gray

Robic François Grenier HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Aitken Klee Jonathan Stainsby

Belmore Neidrauer Mark Edward Davis

Blake Cassels & Graydon Sunny Handa, Anthony Prenol

Cassels Brock & Blackwell Shane Hardy

Deeth Williams Wall Gervas Wall

McMillan Keith Bird

Osler Bradley J. White

Sim & McBurney / Sim Lowman Ashton & McKay Timothy M. Lowman, Kenneth D. McKay RECOMMENDED

Bennett Jones Martin P. J. Katz

Dentons John Lee, Robert D. McDonald, Q.C.

Fasken Martineau Jean-Philippe Mikus

Goodmans Amalia Berg

McCarthy Tétrault Charles S. Morgan

Moffat & Co Macera & Jarzyna John S. Macera

Torys Andrew M. Shaughnessy, Andrew Bernstein

BERESKIN & PARR: EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE IN PROSECUTION

Leaders: Track record: Bereskin & Parr has grown to Team & differentiation: It has a strong IP Donald M. Cameron, be one of the largest intellectual property law team consisting of more than 70 lawyers and Daniel Bereskin, Philip C. Mendes da Costa firms in Canada. It serves both domestic and patent and trademark agents, 44 of whom are Established: international clients in various sectors and is partners and 28 associates. Name partner 1965 recognized for its patent and trademark pro- Daniel Bereskin is still considered to be one secution work in energy, manufacturing and of the best lawyers in the country. The firm has technology. Donald Cameron acted as senior four offices: Toronto, Mississauga, Waterloo trial counsel in Canada’s first DNA patent trial region and Montreal. Donald M. Cameron and appeal.

78 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE CANADA BEST LAW FIRMS IT & Outsourcing The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS EXCELLENT

Blake Cassels & Graydon Sunny Handa, Christine Ing

McCarthy Tétrault Charles S. Morgan

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Deeth Williams Wall Michael Erdle

Fasken Martineau John Beardwood

Osler Michael Fekete, Wendy Gross

RECOMMENDED

Bennett Jones Duncan Card, Martin Kratz

Borden Ladner Gervais Mark J. Fecenko

Dentons Michael Beairsto

McMillan Elisa Henry

Norton Rose Fulbright Robert Percival

Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh Sanjay Goorachurn, Matthew Zischka, Theodore Sum

Stikeman Eliott Wesley R. Ng

Torys Adam Armstrong, Joel Ramsey

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 79 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CHILE

80 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE CHILE BEST LAW FIRMS General IP The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS EXCELLENT Alessandri Abogados Rodrigo Velasco Alessandri, Rodrigo Velasco S. Carey Guillermo Carey, Francisco Carey Sargent & Krahn Juan Pablo Egaña, Juan Cristobal Gumucio HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Estudio Villaseca Max Villaseca , Eduardo Molina

Johansson & Langlois Max Montero, Christopher Doxrud

Porzio, Rios, Garcia & Asociados Marino Porzio, Cristobal Porzio, Marcelo Correa

Silva & Cia Juan Pablo Silva, Rodrigo Leon RECOMMENDED Albagli Zaliasnik Attorneys Rodrigo Albagli, Ariela Agosin

Baker & McKenzie Juan Francisco Reyes

Beuchat, Barros & Pfenniger, Abogados Andres Melossi, Santiago Ortuzar

Claro & Cía Felipe Claro

Covarrubias & Cia Arturo Covarrubias STRONG EXPERTISE Clarke Modet & Co Carolina Del Rio

Garay Guerrero Jorge Garay Perez , Felipe Garay Perez , Roberto Guerrero

García Magliona y Cía Abogados Claudio Magliona M.

Puga IP Juan Enrique Puga

Puga Ortiz Cristián Mir Balmaceda

CHILE BEST LAW FIRMS Technology & Digital Services The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS EXCELLENT Alessandri Abogados Rodrigo Velasco Alessandri Carey Guillermo Carey, Fernando Garcia Sargent & Krahn Rodrigo Lavados HIGHLY RECOMMENDED García Magliona y Cía Abogados Claudio Magliona M. Jijena & Cía Ltda Renato Jijena Leiva Valencia Reusser & Donoso Carlos Reusser Monsálvez RECOMMENDED Bordoli Doren Lopez Carla Bordoli Estudio Juridico Otero Macarena Lopez Palma & Palma Abogados Pablo Palma Calderón Silva & Cia Gonzalo Sanchez

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 81 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

MEXICO

82 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE MEXICO BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Olivares Alejandro Luna, Sergio Olivares

Uhthoff, Gómez Vega & Uhthoff Javier Uhthoff Orive EXCELLENT

Arochi & Lindner Jorge Mier y Concha

Basham, Ringe y Correa José Hinojosa, Claudio Ulloa

Becerril, Coca & Becerril Oscar Becerril, Hector Chagoya

Calderon & De La Sierra Ernesto Erreguerena

Clake Modet & Co Angelica Pardavell

Goodrich Riquelme & Asociados Enrique Diaz, Juan Suarez

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Avahlegal Tomas Arankowsky

Baker & McKenzie Sergio Legorreta

Bufete Soni Mariano Soni

CoreIP Jorge Gomez

Dumont Bergman Bider & Co Laura Collada, Armando Pinto

Panamericana de Patentes y Marcas Antonio Torres

RECOMMENDED Breakthrough Israel Jimenez

Gonzales Rossi Abogados Alejandro Gonzalez Rossi

Isla Del Campo Gloria Isla

Mendez + Cortez Jose Juan Mendez, Emanuel Cortez

Ortiz Monasterio Marcas y Patentes Fernanda Ortiz Monasterio

Santamarina y Steta José Pablo Pérez Zea

Tsuru, Morales Abogados Kiyoshi Tsuru

UHTHOFF: SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY

Leaders: Track record: Serving some of the most important Team & differentiation: As a traditional firm with Javier Uhthoff Orive, Mario clients with interests in Mexico and guiding more than 110 years of experience, Uhthoff Ponce, Saul Santoyo, Consuelo Gonzales, Erick local clients in protecting their IP rights abroad, can handle any IP protection issue from A to Castillo Orive Uhthoff clients’ roster is more than impressive. Z. Far from resting on their laurels, Uhthoff Established: We find names such as L’Oréal, Schell and Tetra has been adding new practice areas, such 1905 Pak have been trusting the firm for decades. as information technology, domain names, Other firms which have entrusted the firm with data protection and sports & entertainment, their IP issues are Bayer, Knorr, BBVA Bancomer, according to the evolution of their clients’ Javier Uhthoff Orive Michelin, and Xerox for patent matters. The needs. 11 partners and 60 associates patent team files more patents annually in compose the firm’s IP team. Mexico than any other.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 83 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

MEXICO BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Basham Martin Michaus, Eduardo Kleinberg, Jorge Vega, Adolfo Athié Olivares Antonio Belaunzarán, Alonso Camargo, Sergio Olivares, Uhthoff, Gómez Vega & Uhthoff Consuelo González Rodríguez , Manuel Soto Gutierrez, Eryck Castillo Orive EXCELLENT Arochi & Lindner Maria Teresa Eljure Bufete Soni Mariano Soni Calderon & De La Sierra Carlos Salazar Goodrich Riquelme & Asociados Enrique Diaz HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Avahlegal Pablo Carrillo Riva Palacio Baker & McKenzie Sergio Legorreta Dumont Bergman Bider & Co Laura Collada Hogan Lovells Bernardo Herrerias Ortiz Monasterio Marcas y Patentes Fernando Ortiz Monasterio Panamericana de Patentes y Marcas Miguel Esteva RECOMMENDED Clarke Modet & Co Leticia Natividad Core IP Nelia Amero, Carla Sanchez Gonzalez Rossi Alejandro Gonzalez Legarreta y Asociados Luis Legarreta Mendez + Cortez Jose Juan Mendez, Emanuel Cortez Müggenburg Gorches Peñalosa MGPS Jean Yves Peñalosa Noriega y Escobedo Abogados Alfredo Rangel VALUABLE EXPERTISE Breakthrough Alma Alvarez Easymark Oly Ayala Gonzalez Calvillo Pablo Hooper Iberbrand Gilberto Martinez Isla Del Campo Gloria Isla Lex Informatica Abogados Cynthia Solis Tsuru, Morales Abogados Kiyoshi Tsuru

BASHAM: THE MOST IMPORTANT IP TEAM IN A MEXICAN FULL-SERVICE LAW FIRM

Leaders: Track record: Basham’s IP team advises seve- Team & differentiation: With 6 partners and 20 Martin Michaus, Adolfo ral Fortune 500 and medium-sized compa- associates, the Basham’s IP practice is the Athié, Eduardo Kleinberg, José Hinojosa, Jorge Vega, nies from different sectors, such as energy, largest among Mexican full-service firms. In Claudio Ulloa luxury goods, fashion and retail. They are Mexico and abroad, Martin Michaus is consi- Established: active in litigation with around 15 professio- dered by clients and peers to be an expert in the 1912 nals dedicated to the field, but also excel in art, and the other 5 partners are also well-know. filing, prosecution and designing the intellec- Partner Claudio Ullo, a lawyer and an engineer, tual property protection strategies with their which allows the firm to be very active on the Martin Michaus clients. The firm has seen its domain name patent side. Recent developments of the prac- cases increase in the last year. tice include Privacy and Data Protection.

84 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE MEXICO BEST LAW FIRMS IP Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Arochi & Lindner Roberto Arochi, Hedwig Lindner

Basham Ringe y Correa Martin Michaus, Eduardo Kleinberg, José Hinojosa, Claudio Ulloa

Olivares Daniel Sanchez , Alejandro Luna

Uhthoff, Gómez Vega & Uhthoff Mario Ponce Walraven, Saúl Santoyo Orozco

EXCELLENT

Calderon & De La Sierra Carlos Pérez de la Sierra, Alberto Huerta Bleck

Goodrich Riquelme & Asociados Enrique Diaz, Guillermo Sosa

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Avahlegal Elias Rios, Tomás Arankowsky

Baker & McKenzie Sergio Legorreta, Fernando Robles

Becerril, Coca & Becerril Juan Carlos Amaro

Bufete Soni Mariano Soni, Miguel Ortiz

CoreIP Jorge Gomez, Carla Gavaldon

Dumont Bergman Bider & Co Laura Collada

Hogan Lovells Bernardo Herrerias

Solcargo Guillermo Solorzano

RECOMMENDED

Cuesta, Llaca y Esquivel Gaston Esquivel

Gonzalez Rossi Abogados Alejandro Gonzalez

Iberbrand Diego G. Rossi, Ana L. Vargas

Müggenburg Gorches Peñalosa Esteban Gorches

Noriega y Escobedo Abogados Alfredo Rangel

Panamericana de Patentes y Marcas Miguel Esteva

Santamarina y Steta Jose Pablo Perez Zea

Von Wobeser y Sierre Rupert Hüttler

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 85 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

MEXICO BEST LAW FIRMS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

1 BGBG Carlos Bello

2 Acedo Santamarina Andres Acedo

EXCELLENT

Olivares Luis Schmidt

Rios Ferrer, Guillén-Llarena, Treviño y Rivera Ricardo Rios Ferrer

RM Abogados Ivan Ruiz Moreno

Sesma, Sesma & McNeese Carlos M. Sesma

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Baker & McKenzie Sergio Legorreta, Carlos Valencia

Deschamps y Asociados Jaime Deschamps Gonzalez

Hogan Lovells Federico Hernández

Gonzalez Luna & Alvarez del Castillo Joaquin Alvarez del Castillo

Jones Day Luis Rubio Barnetche

Lexel Abogados Genaro Fernandez, Jesus Martinez

Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes Ricardo Maldonado, Patricio Trad

Ramirez de Arellano Abogados Rosa Ma. Ramírez de Arellano y Haro

Robles Miaja Abogados Rafael Robles

RECOMMENDED

Arochi & Lidner Roberto Arochi

Bufete Quijano Clara Luz Alvarez, Rebeca Servin

DLA Piper Gallastegui y Lozano Eduardo Gallástegui Armella

Jurídica en Telecomunicaciones Sandra Rodriguez Castro

Lopez Velarde, Heftye y Soria Gerardo Soria

MGO Legal & Finance Jorge Moreno

Nader, Hayaux y Goebel Julian Garza

Santamarina y Steta Jorge Leon-Orantes

86 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE MEXICO BEST LAW FIRMS Data Protection The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING BGBG Hector Guzman

Davara Abogados Isabel Davara

Laurant Abogados Cédric Laurant

Lex Informatica Consultores Joel Gomez EXCELLENT Basham Abogados Rosa Maria Franco, Adolfo Athié

Bufete Soni Mauricio Hernandez

Lex Informatica Abogados Alfredo Reyes, Cynthia Solis

Orenday Serratos Abogados Rodrigo Orenday

R1OS Abogados Agustin Rios Aguilar HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Baker & McKenzie Sergio Legorreta

Bufete Quijano Carmen Quijano

Calderon & De La Sierra Alberto Huerta

Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez Begoña Cancino

Olivares Abraham Diaz

Uhthoff, Gómez Vega & Uhthoff Eugenio Pérez, Carlos Trujillo, Ignacio Domínguez RECOMMENDED Data Proteccion Mario Gomez

Lexel Abogados Genaro Fernandez, Jesus Martinez

Platero, Galicia, Lemus & Asociados Luis Mario Lemus

ProDataMx Cristos Velasco

Sesma, Sesma & McNeese Carlos M. Sesma, Maria Rivero Del Paso

Tsuru Morales Kiyoshi Tsuru

Vera Abogados Ignacio Vera Estrada

BGBG: A FULL-SERVICE LAW FIRM LEADING IN TELECOM AND DATA PROTECTION

Leaders: Track record: BGBG’s clients list of the Data Team & differentiation: The seven partners of Hector Guzman, Carlos Protection and Privacy team is flourishing. BGBG are very specialized, each in a diffe- Bello, Lilia Aguilar They’ve advised companies from different rent domain. Three of them, Aguilar, Bello and sectors, such as financial and insurance Guzman, are in charge of IP, Telecom and services, telecommunications, digital ser- Data Protection & Privacy, respectively. The vices, laboratories, retail and hotels. As far Telecom practice is more than well-known, as Telecom is concerned, the team specia- showing sustained excellence over several lizes in clients from satellite and mobile indus- years. In the Data Protection & Privacy side, Hector Guzman tries. Film producers and others firms from a quite recent issue in Mexico, Guzman was a the cinema distribution world are clients for pioneer, bringing several years of experience media issues. from Spain, having become a leading lawyer in this field in the Mexican scene.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 87 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

PERU

88 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE PERU BEST LAW FIRMS IP Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING 1 Rodrigo Elias & Medrano Abogados María del Carmen Alvarado, Hector Alvarez

2 Estudio Echecopar - Baker McKenzie Luis Alonso García Muñoz-Nájar

EXCELLENT Barreda Moller Alfredo Barreda, Fernando Barreda

Francisco Espinosa Bellido Abogados Francisco Espinosa Bellido, Francisco Espinosa Reboa

Thorne, Echeandía & Lema Abogados Alvaro Echeandia Bustamente HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Allende & Garcia Abogados Jorge Allende, Magali Garcia, Dafne Ramos

BARLAW Adriana Barrera, Maria Ines Herrera

BRDA Abogados José Barreda, Gonzalo Barreda

Estudio Colmenares María del Carmen Arana

Muñiz Ramirez Pérez-Taiman & Olaya Marta Fernandez Pepper

Osterling Abogados Arturo Tello

Valencia Law Office Jubre Valencia RECOMMENDED Barrios Fuentes Abogados (IP Office) Enrique Berckholtz

Clarke Modet & Co Ana Teresa Barreta, Ana Belen Martell

Estudio Olaechea Mónica Germany

Fernandez, Heraud & Sanchez Gustavo Heraud Perez

Grau Abogados Maria Delia Oxley

Hernandez & Cia Enrique Cavero Safra

Kresalja IP Baldo Kresalja, Rosa María Kresalja

Pacon & Schiantarelli Juan Pablo Schiantarelli

Perez-Albela & Asociados Jorge Pérez-Albela B.

BRDA: A YOUNG IP BOUTIQUE WITH TAILOR-MADE SERVICES

Leaders: Track record: The firm has extensive expe- Team & differentiation: BRDA was born as a spin- Jose Barreda, Gonzalo rience in managing national and internatio- off of Barreda Moller, one of the oldest IP law firms Barreda, Gisella Barreda nal clients from several sectors. Some of the in Peru. The three partners have managed to Established: 2012 clients who entrust the firm with their IP issues combine the dynamism and flexibility of their own are Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corporacion Rey, boutique with their know-how and experience Acava Limited, Reprind, and Rutas de Lima. acquired in the previous firm. José and Gonzalo The team has ample experience in the entire are lawyers, and Gisella is an engineer. This IP protection chain from filing and prose- combination of profiles allows them to provide an Jose Barreda cution, to strategic IP litigation procedures, efficient and tailor-made service for their clients including oppositions. They are also involved in all kinds of IP matters, including trademarks, in elaborating creative legal strategies. patents, utility models and industrial design.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 89 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

PERU BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Barreda Moller Alfredo Barreda, Fernando Barreda

EXCELLENT Estudio Colmenares María del Carmen Arana

Fernandez-Davila & Bueno Carlos Fernandez-Davila

Francisco Espinosa Bellido Abogados Francisco Espinosa Bellido, Francisco Espinosa Reboa

Valencia Law Office Alfredo Valencia HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Clarke Modet & Co Ana Teresa Barreto, Stephany Soto

Estudio Echecopar - Baker McKenzie Luis Alonso García Muñoz-Nájar RECOMMENDED Allende & Garcia Dafne Ramos

Barlaw Adriana Barreda

BRDA Abogados José Barreda, Gonzalo Barreda, Gisella Barreda

Durand Abogados Juan Carlos Durand Grahammer

Osterling Abogados Arturo Tello

Rodrigo Elias & Medrano Abogados María del Carmen Alvarado , Hector Alvarez

PERU BEST LAW FIRMS Enforcement & Anti-piracy Actions The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Barlaw Adriana Barrera

EXCELLENT

Barreda Moller Alfredo Barreda, Fernando Barreda

Casahierro Abogados Javier Duany Garcia

Estudio Colmenares Maria del Carmen Arana

Muñiz Ramirez Pérez-Taiman & Olaya Marta Fernández Pepper

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Estudio Delion Lilie C. Delion., Alain Delion

Ugarteche & Di Censo Ruben Ugarteche, Maria Di Censo

90 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE PERU BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Barreda Moller Micaela Mujica, Alfredo Barreda

EXCELLENT Estudio Colmenares María del Carmen Arana

Francisco Espinosa Bellido Abogados Francisco Espinosa Bellido, Francisco Espinosa Reboa HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Allende & Garcia Abogados Magali Garcia

BARLAW Adriana Barrera, Maria Ines Herrera

BRDA Abogados José Barreda, Gonzalo Barreda

Clarke Modet & Co Ana Teresa Barreta, Ana Belen Martell

Durand Abogados Juan Carlos Durand Grahammer

Estudio Echecopar - Baker McKenzie Luis Alonso García Muñoz-Nájar

Osterling Abogados Arturo Tello

Rodrigo Elias & Medrano Abogados María del Carmen Alvarado , Hector Alvarez

Valencia Law Office Alfredo Valencia RECOMMENDED Estudio Olaechea Mónica Germany

Fernandez-Davila & Bueno Carlos Fernandez-Davila

Grau Abogados Maria Delia Oxley

Hernandez & Cia Enrique Cavero Safra

Kresalja IP Baldo Kresalja, Rosa María Kresalja

Muñiz Ramirez Pérez-Taiman & Olaya Marta Fernandez P., Juli Gutierrez Z., Maritza Reátegui V.

Pacon & Schiantarelli Juan Pablo Schiantarelli

Perez-Albela & Asociados Jorge Pérez-Albela B.

Pierola & Asociados José de Pierola , Christel Canthal de Pierola

Thorne, Echeandía & Lema Abogados Alvaro Echeandia Bustamente

BARLAW : LITIGATION, ENFORCEMENT, ANTIPIRACY AND MUCH MORE

Leaders: Track record: 18 years of experience have Team & differentiation: After being an IP Adriana Barrera, enabled the partners to conquer and retain partner in the well-known Peruvian firm Maria Ines Herrera diverse and important companies as their Miranda & Amado, Adriana Barrera decided Established: 2011 clients. Their roster includes names such as together with Maria Inés Herrera to found R&R Apparel Company, LLC, TOUS. S.L, Black- BARLAW. The firm built its reputation on its berry Limited, Chanel , PVH Corp (Tommy Hilfi- enforcement and antipiracy expertise. 5 ger) and TELEVISA S.A. DE C.V. The team has years after inception, with a team of around helped Adidas AG on several matters, such as 25 members divided among lawyers, parale- Adriana Barrera the registration of THREE STRIPES trademark gals and assistants, BARLAW handles a very based on the secondary meaning doctrine. large trademark portfolio and is quite active in They’ve also helped both Procter & Gamble the litigation side, having participated in some and Jean Cassegrain (Longchamp) in actions of the most important cases in Peru. against counterfeit products.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 91 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

PERU BEST LAW FIRMS Data Protection The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Montezuma & Porto Oscar Montezuma

EXCELLENT

Estudio Echecopar - Baker McKenzie Teresa Tovar

Hernandez & Cia Enrique Cavero

Muñiz Ramirez Pérez-Taiman & Olaya Luis Diez Canseco Nuñez

Rodrigo Elias & Medrano Abogados María del Carmen Alvarado

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Allende & Garcia Jorge Allende

Iriarte & Asociados Erick Iriarte

Osterling Abogados Arturo Tello Pacon & Schiantarelli Juan Pablo Schiantarelli, Rosalina Susano* THE LARGEST PRIVATE EQUITY Zegarra & Schipper Abogados Diego Zegarra & RESTRUCTURING SUMMIT IN EUROPE * Senior associate MONTEZUMA & PORTO: THE FIRST TELECOM & TECHNOLOGY PERUVIAN BOUTIQUE 15th EDITION Leaders: Track record: The firm has extensive expe- Team & differentiation: Both partners have Oscar Montezuma Panez, rience advising national and international been in house counsels in Telecom Com- José Miguel Porto Urrutia clients mainly in telecoms, IT and digital panies, Montezuma at Telefonica and Porto Established: December 8, 2016 • Paris 2012 business issues. UTEC (Engineering and at Nextel. Passionate about technology, Technology University in Peru) is on their top they understand their client’s business and clients’ list. They are also involved in advising speak their “language”. It is the only firm in start-up companies and in the elaboration of the Peruvian market combining both techno- creative and customized legal strategies. As logy, regulatory and transactional expertise. Oscar Montezuma Panez far as data protection is concerned the firm Another key point that differentiates them is has done many compliance audits with, at the the intense use of technology to make things Among 2015 speakers end of the day, legal and tech turnkey solu- easier for clients, helping to bridge the gap tions for the clients. between lawyers and modern entrepreneurs. Conni Jonsson Jobst Klemme Peter Taylor Michel Paris Chairman of the Board Director Managing Director Chief Executive Officer EQT Partners Abbott Capital Duke Street & Chief Investment Officer METHODOLOGY Management PAI Partners

Rankings are established with the following tools:

The criteria are: • Submission form procedure: We send questionnaires & submission forms to the structure David Hirschmann Olivier Breittmayer Georges Sampeur Richard Simonin • Recognition & reputation of the firm in its market already included in Leaders League rankings and to others Head of Private Credit Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer likely to be included. They are, in particular, invited to provide Permira Exclusive Group Hotel B&B Vivarte • Team size, seniority of partners (or executive officers, information on their organization, their client bases, their track managing directors, etc.), managing director, chief executive…, record and their market. education & training level of the associates (or consultants, investment managers, etc.) • Qualitative procedure: To supplement the questionnaires, Leaders League teams • Volume, nature and quality of the cases dealt by the firm conduct a large number of interviews, which enable us not • Prestige, diversity and internationalization of the firm’s only to learn more about the firm included in our listings, but client base also to assess the dynamism of the market. Analysts and CONFERENCES • ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS • AWARDS CEREMONY market researchers also have meetings with a large number of • Team expansion and revenue generated by the activity companies’ executives (private companies, funds, banks) who considered in the ranking have the opportunity to comment and provide fresh intelligence on the market and on the advisors they are soliciting. PARTNERS

92 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE THE LARGEST PRIVATE EQUITY & RESTRUCTURING SUMMIT IN EUROPE

15th EDITION December 8, 2016 • Paris

Among 2015 speakers

Conni Jonsson Jobst Klemme Peter Taylor Michel Paris Chairman of the Board Director Managing Director Chief Executive Officer EQT Partners Abbott Capital Duke Street & Chief Investment Officer Management PAI Partners

David Hirschmann Olivier Breittmayer Georges Sampeur Richard Simonin Head of Private Credit Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Permira Exclusive Group Hotel B&B Vivarte

CONFERENCES • ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS • AWARDS CEREMONY

PARTNERS INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

USA

94 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE USA BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Anwar Zakkour, Chet Bozdog, Bill Frauenhofer

Citigroup Mark Shafir, Peter Tague

Goldman Sachs Daniel Dees

J.P. Morgan Jennifer Naso

Morgan Stanley Michael Grimes

EXCELLENT

Barclays Capital Richard Hardegree, Greg Dalvito

Credit Suisse Chris Gaertner

Deutsche Bank Don Birchenough

Evercore Slava Brin

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Jefferies Gregg Sabol

Lazard Paul Haigney, Eric Medow

RBC Capital Markets Blair Flemming

SG CIB Thierry D'argent

Stifel Brad Raymond

UBS Investment Bank Samuel Powers, Janine Shelffo

MORGAN STANLEY: GOLDMAN SACHS: AN ELITE PLAYER IN TMT M&A A CHAMPION IN ADVISING TECH COMPANIES

Track record: Morgan Stanley has played a Track record: Goldman Sachs co-acted as part in almost every major deal: it acted as lead financial advisors to Charter Com- lead financial advisor to EMC and provided a munications in connection with the Time fairness opinion to EMC’s Board of Directors Warner Cable transaction to become the in its record-setting $67 billion combination second-largest cable operator in the USA. with Dell, and also co-advised Time Warner This prestigious investment bank has ser- Cable in its $67 billion merger with Charter ved almost all the big names in tech, inclu- Communications. ding Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, © New York Times © York New Ebay and Alibaba. Michael Grimes Daniel Dees Team & differentiation: Morgan Stanley main- Leader: tains its reputation as a prominent player in Leader: Team & differentiation: In 2015, Goldman Michael Grimes the TMT M&A field, not only in North Ame- Daniel Dees Sachs advised in 63 high-tech related deals Established: rica but also worldwide, notably in Europe. Established: with a total value of $249.7 billion, surpas- 1935 Managing Director and Co-Head of Global 1869 sing any of its rivals. Head of Tech, Media & Technology Investment Banking, Michael Telecom Investment Banking, Daniel Dees Grimes, has been responsible for hundreds leads this tech banking A-Team in M&A of technology financing and M&A transac- services such as sell-side advice, raid and tions aggregating over $500 billion in value. activism defenses, and special committee assignments.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 95 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

USA BEST INVESTMENT BANKS Health & Pharma The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Goldman Sachs Marshall Smith

J.P. Morgan Jeff Stute

Morgan Stanley Clinton G. Gartin

EXCELLENT

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Thomas Sheehan

Citigroup Chris Hite

Greenhill & Co Rubert Hill

UBS Investment Bank Robert DiGia

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Barclays Capital Paul Birley

Credit Suisse Stuart Smith

Deutsche Bank Pete Meyers, Michael Cohen

Evercore Mark Schoenebaum

Lazard Stephen Sands

Lincoln International Shahab Fatheazam, Dale Raine

Sagent Advisors Joe Mooney

SG CIB Axel-Sven Malkomes

J.P. MORGAN: BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH: LEAD ADVISOR IN HEALTHCARE STRONG PRESENCE IN HEALTHCARE & PHARMA

Track record: Together with Morgan Stan- Track record: BofA Merrill Lynch acted as ley, J.P.Morgan served as Allergan’s financial advisor to AmerisourceBergen in financial advisor for its $160 billion mer- its acquisition of MWI Veterinary Supply, the ger with Pfizer, which could have created leading animal health distribution company the world’s largest pharmaceutical giant, in the United States, for $2.5 billion. It also although the deal was called off in April advised a Sino-American consortium in the 2016 because of changes in U.S. tax $3.3 billion combination of WuXi Pharma- rules. In 2015, $1.19 trillion in revenue was Tech with New WuXi Life Science and its recorded in J.P. Morgan’s M&A advisory subsidiary WuXi Merger Ltd. Jeffrey Stute Thomas Sheehan sector, ranked No.3 worldwide. Leader: Leader: Team & differentiation: In 2015, the Ame- Jeff Stute Team & differentiation: J.P. Morgan’s Thomas Sheehan ricas team was reinforced with the arrival Established: healthcare investment banking team offers Established: of Credit Suisse’s healthcare investment 1823 premium M&A expertise to clients of all 2009 banking co-head Charlie Newton. Morgan size across healthcare services, pharma- Stanley’s Joe Modisett is also joining BoA ceuticals, biotechnology & specialty phar- as head of global life sciences. Thomas maceuticals, as well as medical devices & Sheehan continues to oversee the Global life science tools. Jeff Stute leads the North Healthcare Investment Banking depart- American Healthcare Coverage Group. ment.

96 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Venture Capital’s Finest

As over the past several years, Forbes’ 2016 Midas List unveils the relatively stable landscape of global venture capitalists while newcomers attempt to crack down, especially the rising Chinese VCs.

Big names dominate 500 Startups (Credit Karma) and Jeff Cla- ting to the increasing relevance of the country This year, Jim Goetz of Sequioa Capital conti- vier of SoftTech VC (Fitbit). to the VC and tech industries, along with the nues to reign atop the list for third year in a This continued trend of fewer newcomers in continuing globalization of tech itself. row, thanks to his once-in-a-lifetime bet on the club reflects a persistence of returns and WhatsApp, turning $60M into $3B and re- increasing concentration of capital and deal Women overshadowed in the back- ceiving a six times over return. After solely flow within the best-performing, most repu- ground handling all three of the startup’s funding table VC firms. Besides Meeker, the list includes four other rounds before Facebook’s acquisition for women: Jenny Lee of GGV Capital, Rebecca $19B, his story has become a legacy. China roars on its way Lynn of Canvas Ventures, Theresia Gouw of The one-man show is gaining importance, as In spite of the list’s domination by western Aspect Ventures and Beth Seidenberg of Klei- this is the case of Steve Anderson of Baseline investors (86 US citizens), one Asian country ner Perkins. Forbes is not to blame, since its Ventures, ranked #2 this year, up from 51st has a pretty major presence – China. Eleven list is data-driving and reflects the reality. To five years ago. The first investor in Instagram, Chinese or Hong Kong citizens make the list, put this paucity in perspective, a 2014 Bab- Anderson’s track record spans a wide range of including Neil Shen of Sequoia Capital Chi- son College study shows that women partners industries from enterprise (Heroku), finance na (ranked #7) and his colleagues Kui Zhou represent 6% at VC firms – down from 10% (Social Finance), gaming (Machine Zone and and Stephen Ji, Hans Tung and Jenny Lee of in 1999. OMGPOP) to fashion (Stitch Fix). GGV Capital, and JP Gan of Qiming Venture Anyway, if women VC investors believe they Billionaire Chris Sacca returns at #3 mostly Partners. Twelve other non-Chinese investors are not well represented, they can do worse due to his early investment in Uber: his $8M are also focused on their investment in China, than thinking of minority investors with 0 first fund is now worth nearly $2B at the start- representing a dynamic Chinese VC scene. representatives on the list. Obviously the VC up’s recent $62.5B valuation. Early commit- Moreover, almost half of the top 10 compa- investment community still has a long way to ments in Twitter also helped Sacca and #4 list nies driving the list came from China, poin- go in terms of diversity. member, Peter Fenton, of Benchmark. METHODOLOGY At #5, Mary Meeker is the list’s highest- ever ranking woman. A former Wall Street analyst, Meeker bets relatively late, but usually gets it right. Under her leadership, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ digital growth team has be- The methodology evolved little since 2011, when Forbes partnered with TrueBridge Capital Partners. come one of the strongest in the Valley, with Sourcing and analysis processes remain the same: data is collected from publicly available sources as investments in Facebook, Chinese e-com- well as through direct submissions from the firms themselves, providing a five-year look-back at qualifying deals with at least a $200M exit (IPOs or mergers & acquisitions) or rounds that value a company above merce site JD.com, Airbnb and Spotify. $400M. The majority of the ranked investors are The big drivers of ranking consist in number and size of exits, change in most recent post-money already present in the list. Over last five valuation (including public performance of VC-backed IPOs), as well as a firm’s ownership percentage in years, 41 VC firms have repeatedly appeared the deal. Earlier, bigger bets that return high multiples on an investor’s initial money are put a premium in the calculation, although a string of later successes still count. on the list, including Sequioa Capital Chi- na (showing up 38 times), Accel Partners (34 times), Benchmark Capital and KPCB Top 10 companies driving the list (20 times each). Unsurprisingly, the top individuals on the list come from the same VC firms: during the same period, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners and founder of Alibaba / China / Public / Facebook / USA / Public / Uber / USA / Private / JD.com / China/ Public / Breyer Capital and Jim Goetz of Sequoia Value at IPO $176B Value at IPO $104B Valued at $62.5B Value at IPO $26B Capital dominated the champion position. Another repeat investor is Marc Andreessen, who made the Midas list for the past five years and kept the number two position until 2015.

New comers break through slowly Xiaomi / China / Private / WhatsApp / USA / Airbnb / USA / Private / Twitter / USA / Public / Valued at $46B Acquired by Facebook for $19B Valued at $25.5B Value at IPO $14B Only 11 new names have appeared on the list, falling from 19 in 2014 and 15 last year. These rising stars include Allen Zhu of GSR

Ventures (Didi Kuaidi), Bill Trenchard of First Palantir / USA / Private / China Internet Plus / China / Round Capital (Uber), Dave McClure of Valued at $20B Private / Valued at $16B Source: Forbes Source:

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 97 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

THE MIDAS LIST 2016: TOP 100 TECH INVESTORS

Rank Name Firm Notable Deal

#1 Jim Goetz Sequoia Capital WhatsApp #2 Steve Anderson Baseline Ventures Instagram #3 Chris Sacca Lowercase Capital Twitter #4 Peter Fenton Benchmark Twitter #5 Mary Meeker Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Facebook #6 Josh Kopelman First Round Capital LinkedIn #7 Neil Shen Sequoia Capital China Alibaba #8 Bill Gurley Benchmark Uber #9 Douglas Leone Sequoia Capital FireEye #10 Peter Thiel Founders Fund Palantir #11 Jim Breyer Breyer Capital Facebook #12 Paul Madera Meritech Capital Partners Facebook #13 Sameer Gandhi Accel Partners Flipkart #14 Scott Sandell New Enterprise Associates Tableau Software #15 Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz Facebook #16 Robert Nelsen ARCH Venture Partners Juno Therapeutics #17 Yuri Milner Digital Sky Technologies Twitter #18 Reid Hoffman LinkedIn Airbnb #19 Mike Maples, Jr. Floodgate Twitter #20 Carl Gordon OrbiMed Acerta Pharma #21 Hans Tung GGV Capital Xiaomi #22 John Doerr Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Uber #23 Jeremy Levine Bessemer Venture Partners Pinterest #24 Danny Rimer Index Ventures King Digital #25 Neeraj Agrawal Battery Ventures Wayfair #26 Jeff Jordan Andreessen Horowitz Airbnb #27 Rob Hayes First Round Capital Uber #28 Michael Moritz Sequoia Capital Stripe #29 Fred Wilson Union Square Ventures Twitter #30 Kui Zhou Sequoia Capital China Boyaa Interactive International #31 David Sze Greylock Partners Facebook #32 Xiaojun Li IDG Capital Partners Xiaomi #33 Gaurav Garg Wing Venture Capital Jasper Technologies #34 Aneel Bhusri Workday Pure Storage #35 Roelof Botha Sequoia Capital Square #36 Brian Singerman Founders Fund Stemcentrx #37 Joel Cutler General Catalyst Partners Kayak #38 JP Gan Qiming Venture Partners China Internet Plus #39 Todd Chaffee IVP Twitter #40 Jenny Lee GGV Capital YY #41 Ben Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz Twitter #42 Rich Wong Accel Partners Atlassian #43 Aydin Senkut Felicis Ventures Shopify #44 Quan Zhou IDG Accel Baidu #45 Alfred Lin Sequoia Capital Airbnb #46 Matt Cohler Benchmark Instagram #47 Navin Chaddha Mayfield Fund Lyft

98 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE #48 Bryan Roberts Venrock Ikaria #49 Ryan Sweeney Accel Partners Qualtrics #50 Hurst Lin DCM Tuniu #51 George Zachary CRV Twitter #52 Promod Haque Norwest Venture Partners Health Catalyst #53 Salil Deshpande Bain Capital Ventures Lending Club #54 Jim Tananbaum Foresite Capital Intarcia #55 Lee Fixel Tiger Global Management Flipkart #56 Eric Paley Founder Collective Uber #57 Asheem Chandna Greylock Partners Palo Alto Networks #58 Andrew Braccia Accel Partners Slack Technologies #59 Mitch Lasky Benchmark Snapchat #60 Bill Trenchard First Round Capital Uber #61 David Chao DCM SoFi #62 Steven Ji Sequoia Capital China Ganji #63 Jonathan Silverstein OrbiMed Glaukos #64 Ping Li Accel Partners Cloudera #65 Allen Zhu GSR Ventures Didi Kuaidi #66 Bijan Sabet Spark Capital Twitter #67 Rebecca Lynn Canvas Ventures Lending Club #68 Scott Shleifer Tiger Global Management JD.com #69 Deven Parekh Insight Venture Partners Twitter #70 Ron Conway SV Angel Airbnb #71 Jeff Crowe Norwest Venture Partners Lending Club #72 Sandy Miller IVP Supercell #73 Jeremy Liew Lightspeed Venture Partners Snapchat #74 David Weiden Khosla Ventures Ring Central #75 Bryan Schreier Sequoia Capital Dropbox #76 Mamoon Hamid Social Capital Box #77 Jeff Clavier SoftTech VC Fitbit #78 Charles Moldow Foundation Capital Lending Club #79 Kevin Efrusy Accel Partners Facebook #80 Ted Schlein Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Mandiant #81 Ken Howery Founders Fund ZocDoc #82 Ben Holmes Index Ventures Just Eat #83 Peter Levine Andreessen Horowitz GitHub #84 Anton Levy General Atlantic Alibaba #85 Forest Baskett New Enterprise Associates Tableau Software #86 Shervin Pishevar Sherpa Ventures Uber #87 Izhar Armony CRV RPX Corp. #88 Jeffrey Lieberman Insight Venture Partners Delivery Hero #89 Ben Nye Bain Capital Ventures LinkedIn #90 Richard Liu Morningside Ventures Xiaomi #91 James Topper Frazier Healthcare Partners Acerta Pharma B.V. #92 Theresia Gouw Aspect Ventures Imperva #93 Satish Dharmaraj Redpoint Ventures Sonos #94 Bob Xu Zhen Fund Jumei.com #95 Harry Weller New Enterprise Associates MongoDB #96 Dave McClure 500 Startups Credit Karma #97 Stephen Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson SpaceX #98 Beth Seidenberg Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Flexus Biosciences #99 Michael Dearing Harrison Metal MoPub #100 Joe Lonsdale 8VC Oculus VR Source: Forbes Source:

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 99 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

Some of the Best VCs

JIM GOETZ: STEVE ANDERSON: THE HISTORY CREATOR THE VALLEY’S BEST ONE-MAN SHOW

Track record: Jim Goetz’s visionary invest- Track record: An ex-junior partner at Kleiner ment on WhatsApp has become a legacy Perkins Caufield & Byers, Anderson got in venture capital history: a deal that trans- trained at Starbucks and Microsoft before formed around $60M over three rounds into creating his own one-man band Baseline more than $3B, returning Sequoia’s $434M in 2006, with the support of angel investor 2010 fund six times over in one deal. Will the Ron Conway. Thanks to the lean operation, heat continue? Goetz still sits on the board of this former DJ and electronic dance music all five of his billion-plus public companies, enthusiast moves quick and by rule of thumb, and is looking to keep the hits coming with but his early bets on Instagram (acquired Jim Goetz Steve Anderson Yik Yak, Carbon3D and GitHub, Sequoia’s by Facebook for $1B), Heroku (bought by Age: latest big bet. . Age: Salesforce, about $250M), OMGPOP (sold 50 years 47 years to Zynga, $180M) turned out to be hot. Position: Position: Partner, Sequoia Capital Founder and Partner, Baseline Ventures

MARY MEEKER: NEIL SHEN: THE HIGHEST-RANKING WOMAN EVER THE CHINESE LEGEND

Track record: As the first woman on the Track record: Founding managing partner Midas list to be ranked in 21st position, of Sequoia Capital China since 2005, Neil Mary Meeker has broken into the top 10 this Shen introduced LinkedIn and Airbnb to year thanks to shrewd bets on Facebook, the country and led his firm’s investment JD.com, Airbnb and Spotify. A former star in drone powerhouse DJI. Last year, he analyst at Morgan Stanley, she currently played an essential role in the $15B merger leads Kleiner’s digital growth equity team, of two portfolio companies, Meituan.com focusing on surging Internet companies. and Dianping, China’s two largest Internet Other investments include LegalZoom, Twit- startups. Vipshop, Qihoo 360, JD.com, and Mary Meeker Neil Shen ter, Instacart, Houzz, Slack and even a sock Home Inns Group are a few examples of Age: company, Stance. Age: companies in his portfolio that have suc- 56 years 46 years cessfully gone public. Position: Position: General Partner, Kleiner Founding Managing Perkins Caufield & Byers Partner, Sequoia Capital China

JOE LONSDALE: ROBERT NELSEN: MIDAS’S YOUNGEST A PASSION FOR BIOTECH

Track record: Joe Lonsdale debuts on the Track record: A firm believer in biotech inves- Midas list as this year’s youngest member ting, Robert Nelsen is the initial investor in at 33, but his track record already attracts both Illumina, the $23B giant that popula- attention. Co-founder of Palantir, which has rized DNA sequencing, and Aviron, creator now reached a valuation of at least $20B, he of the nose spray flu vaccine. Recent wins also founded investment management tech- include Kythera, which made a drug to treat nology company Addepar and then 8VC. double chins, sold to Allergan for $2.1B, and As an early investor in Oculus VR, Lonsdale Juno Therapeutics, whose efforts to train scored big when Facebook bought this VR white blood cells to treat cancer reached a Joe Lonsdale Robert Nelsen startup in 2014 for $2B. The deal resulted in $4B market cap. He is betting ARCH’s big- Age: returns of over $100M for 8VC.. Age: gest investment in Grail, an Illumina spinout 33 years 52 years planning to create a single blood test for Position: Position: most types of cancer. Partner, 8 VC Partner, ARCH Venture Partners

100 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE USA BEST VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

NUMBER OF PARTNERS FUNDS LEADING PARTNERS ON MIDAS LIST LEADING Accel Partners Sameer Gandhi, Richard Wong, Ryan Sweeney 6 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Mary Meeker, John Doerr, Michael Abbott 3 Sequoia Capital Jim Goetz, Douglas Leone, Michael Moritz 7 EXCELLENT Andreessen Horowitz Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen 3 Benchmark Peter Fenton, Bob Kagle 3 Greylock Partners David Sze, Asheem Chandna 2 Meritech Capital Partners Rob Ward, Paul Madera 1 New Enterprise Associates Scott Sandell, Forest Baskett 3 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Bain Capital Ventures J. Benjamin Nye 2 Baseline Ventures Steve Anderson 1 Bessemer Venture Partners Bob Goodman, Jeremy Levine 1 DCM Dixon Doll 2 Draper Fisher Jurvetson Timothy Draper 1 First Round Capital Howard Morgan, Josh Kopelman 3 Founders Fund Peter Thiel, Brian Singerman 3 GGV Capital Scott Bonham 2 Index Ventures Neil Rimer 2 RECOMMENDED Aspect Ventures Theresia Gouw 1 Battery Ventures Michael Brown 1 Charles River Ventures Izhar Armony 0 Floodgate Ann Miura-Ko 1 General Catalyst Partners Scott Griffith 1 Insight Venture Partners Aso O. Tavitian 2 Institutional Venture Partners Stephen Harrick 2 Lightspeed Venture Partners Chris Schaepe 1 Lowercase Capital Chris Sacca 1 Norwest Venture Partners Thomas C. Simpson 2 Oak Investment Partners Edward F. Glassmeyer 0 OrbiMed Carl L. Gordon 2 Redpoint Ventures Satish Dharmaraj 1 Sherpa Capital Shervin Pishevar 1 Spark Capital Todd Dagres 1 Tiger Global Management Charles P. Coleman III 2 VALUABLE EXPERTISE Digital Sky Technologies Yuri Milner 1 Emergence Capital Partners Gordon Ritter 0 Felicis Ventures Aydin Senkut 1 Khosla Ventures Vinod Khosla 1 Lakestar Klaus Hommels 0 Maveron Dan Levitan 0 Mayfield Fund Rajeev Batra 1 Menlo Ventures Henry DuBose Montgomery 0 Polaris Partners Steve Arnold 0 Social Capital Chamath Palihapitiya 0 Summit Partners Peter Y. Chung 0 SV Angel Topher Conway 1 Union Square Ventures Brad Burnham 1 Venrock Bryan Roberts 1 Wing Venture Capital James P. Wagner 1

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 101 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

USA NATIONWIDE BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner Barbara Clarke McCurdy, Robert C. Stanley, Christopher P. Foley Fish & Richardson Hans R. Troesch, G. Roger Lee, Mark S. Ellinger Knobbe Martens Steven Nataupsky, Joseph Reisman, David Weiss EXCELLENT 1 Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto Scott K.Reed, Elizabeth F. Holowacz, Jonathan Berschadsky Foley & Lardner Pavan K. Agarwal, Benjamin Berkowitz, Richard J. McKenna Kenyon & Kenyon Patrick J. Birde, Shawn W. O'Dowd, Daniel G. Shanley Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Charles Calkins, Steven Gardner, Darin Gibby Oblon McClelland Maier & Neustadt Richard L. Treanor, Bradley D. Lytle, Philippe Signore Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox Michael B. Ray, Carla Ji-Eun Kim, Michael V. Messinger

2 Banner & Witcoff Gary D. Fedorochko Brinks Gilson & Lione John F. Nethery Leydig Voit & Mayer Eley O. Thompson McDermott Will & Emery Mark J. Itri Morrison & Foerster Gladys H. Monroy HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Birch Stewart Kolasch Birch Craig Zalk Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman Jacob T. Aikin Cantor Colburn Michael Cantor, Philmore Colburn Harness Dickey & Pierce John Castellano Merchant & Gould Robert A. Kalinsky Perkins Coie Aaron Poledna Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman William P. Atkins Ropes & Gray Edward G. Black Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner Robin A. Chadwick Sughrue Mion Michael R. Dzwonczyk ,Alan J. Kasper, Peter Park RECOMMENDED Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Matthew Schneider Choate Hall & Stewart Brenda Jarrell Covington & Burling Andrea G. Reister Fenwick & West John T. McNelis Greenberg Traurig Jonathan D. Ball Jones Day Pete Thurlow Ladas & Parry Malcolm J. Macdonald Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg Gregory Nelson Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck Robert B. Murray White & Case Dimitrios T. Drivas WilmerHale Donald R. Steinberg VALUABLE EXPERTISE Alston & Bird Jason P. Cooper ,Guy R. Gosnell, W. Murray Spruill Baker Botts David Schlitz Cooley Michael Tucsan, Bill Galliani DLA Piper Peter M. Astiz Husch Blackwell Samuel Digirolamo Norton Rose Fulbright Richard J Groos Oliff James Oliff Proskauer Rose James H Shalek, Steven M Bauer Sheridan Ross Bruce A Kugler

102 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE USA NATIONWIDE BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner James B. Monroe, Cortney S. Alexander, J. Michael Jakes Fish & Richardson Kurt L. Glitzenstein, Michael J. McKeon, Juanita Brooks Kirkland & Ellis William A. Streff, Dale Cendali Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Edward J. DeFranco, David A. Nelson WilmerHale Donald R. Steinberg, William F. Lee EXCELLENT 1 Cravath, Swaine & Moore Evan R. Chesler, David R. Marriott, Keith R. Hummel Desmarais John M. Desmarais, Paul A Bondor Irell & Manella Morgan Chu, Andrei Iancu, David Nimmer Morrison & Foerster Eric M. Acker, Charles S. Barquist, G. Brian Busey 2 Cooley Thomas J. Friel, Jr., Jim Brogan Covington & Burling Gary M. Rubman McKool Smith Benjamin Levi, Samuel Baxter Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe Neel Chatterjee, Alex V. Chachkes Sidley Austin Thomas H. Beck HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Scott K. Reed Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Josh Krevitt Goodwin Procter Douglas J. Kline Jones Day Anthony M. Insogna Keker & Van Nest Robert A. Van Nest Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Steve Gardner, Jamie L. Graham Knobbe Martens William Zimmerman, John Sganga Latham & Watkins Kenneth G. Schuler, Matthew John Moore, Douglas E. Lumish Leydig Voit & Mayer Bruce M. Gagala McDermott Will & Emery Sarah Chapin Columbia Ropes & Gray Richard T. McCaulley Jr. Susman Godfrey Stephen D. Susman Weil, Gotshal & Manges Jared Bobrow, Brian E. Ferguson RECOMMENDED Alston & Bird Keith E. Broyles, Michael J. Newton Arnold & Porter Matthew M. Wolf Baker Botts David Schlitz Brinks Gilson & Lione James P. Naughton, Gary M. Ropski DLA Piper John Allcock, Mark D. Fowler Foley & Lardner Matthew B. Lowrie Greenberg Traurig Jonathan D. Ball, Scott J. Bornstein Hogan Lovells Eric J. Lobenfeld K&L Gates Tara C. Clancy Kenyon & Kenyon Edward T. Colbert O'Melveny & Myers Darin Snyder, Brett J. Williamson , Mark Samuels Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler William F. Cavanaugh Paul Hastings Joseph O'Malley Perkins Coie Amy E. Simpson Robins Kaplan Ronald J. Schutz Steptoe & Johnson John Caracappa White & Case Dimitrios T. Drivas Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Vern Norviel, Michael B. Levin Winston & Strawn Michael L. Brody, George C. Lombardi, David P. Enzminger VALUABLE EXPERTISE Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Karol Kepchar, Cono A. Carrano Banner & Witcoff Joseph Potenza Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Philip L. Hirschhorn Debevoise & Plimpton David H. Bernstein Drinker Biddle & Reath Patrick J. Kelleher Farella Braun + Martel Stephanie P. Skaff Fenwick & West Michael J. Sacksteder Jenner & Block Terrence J. Truax, Bradford P. Lyerla, Harry J. Roper Kaye Scholer Aaron Stiefel King & Spalding Holmes J. Hawkins III Mayer Brown Alan Grimaldi Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Mark Scarsi Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Nicholas P. Groombridge Shook, Hardy & Bacon B. Trent Webb Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom David W. Hansen Steptoe & Johnson Michael J. Allan

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 103 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

Some of the Best Law Firms: Patents

COVINGTON & BURLING: QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN: STRENGTH IN LITIGATION, DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF POLICIES TOP-RANKED LITIGATOR

Track record: Covington & Burling is Track record: With its six offices nationwide, Quinn renowned for its governmental and regu- Emanuel has set up exceptionally strong patent latory affairs practices. It has an especially litigation expertise. It has formerly represented strong reputation as a top firm practicing some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in before the International Trade Commission. the world. Some of the companies that frequently Recently, it represented Janssen Pharma- visit the firm for their contentious patent issues ceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & John- are IBM, Samsung, Motorola, GlaxoSmithKline, son in a litigation case. Other notable clients Google and DreamWorks Studios. include Samsung, Microsoft, Hewlett-Pac- Gary Rurbman Edward Defranco kard and Merck. Team & differentiation: The firm houses more Leader: Leaders: than 250 experienced IP litigators, out of which Gary M. Rubman Team & differentiation: The firm’s patent liti- Edward J. DeFranco, more than 130 are scientists or engineers, with Established: gation practice consists of more than 120 David A. Nelson degrees and/or professional backgrounds 1919 attorneys. Gary Rubman is an experienced Established: in disciplines such as physics, chemistry, partner based at the firm’s Washington, DC 1986 software and various types of engineering. office and vice-chairman of the Patent Litiga- Edward DeFranco, Co-Chair of Quinn Ema- tion practice. Lawyers at Covington & Burling nuel’s National Intellectual Property Litigation have litigated in excess of 500 patent cases Practice, is recognized as one of the leading covering a wide range of technologies. patent litigators in the U.S.

FINNEGAN HENDERSON FARABOW GARRETT & DUNNER: KIRKLAND & ELLIS: AN AMERICAN IP POWERHOUSE TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, ADVANCED IP EXPERIENCE

Track record: With more than 50 years of pre- Track record: The firm’s diverse list of natio- sence in the market and 9 offices, Finnegan is nal and international clients, along with the one of the best known IP outfits in the US. The sheer number of cases it handles every year, firm is especially renowned in the field of Abbre- has turned it into one of the most respected viated New Drug Application (ANDA) Litigation. and highly- regarded law practices in the Recently, it successfully represented SAP AG country. It recently represented Porsche in a post-grant review of a covered business in a patent defense case against Vehicle method patent. Some notable clients include Operations Technology. Some representa- AOL, Caterpillar, LG, Sony and Toshiba. tive clients of Kirkland & Ellis include Nike, James Monroe William Streff Motorola, The Carlyle Group and IBM. Leaders: Team & differentiation: Approximately 230 of Leaders: James B. Monroe, the firm’s professionals are licensed to prac- William Streff, Dale Cendali Team & differentiation: With more than 240 IP Cortney S. Alexander, tice before the USPTO; 320 hold advanced Established: attorneys based in the US, one-third of whom J. Michael Jakes degrees in scientific disciplines, including 75 1925 are technically trained engineers and scien- Established: with PhDs; and 45 are former patent exami- tists, Kirkland & Ellis has managed to make 1965 ners. Managing Partner James Monroe has a name for itself as an industry leader in all extensive litigation experience involving the IP-related matters. Ken Adamo is a partner at Hatch-Waxman Act governing the approval Kirkland’s Chicago and NY offices, and has of pharmaceutical products. appeared in 40 appeals to date.

WILMERHALE: ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE: ADVISING THE LEADING TECH COMPANIES PERFECT MIX BETWEEN TRADITION & INNOVATION

Track record: WilmerHale has had quite Track record: With a 150-year reputation the experience of litigating for high-profile of delivering quality legal services, Orrick tech companies, like Apple in its patent trial has been able to reach global audiences, against Samsung, both in District Court and particularly in the technology, energy and the ITC, drawing a lot of public attention. financial sectors. The firm has represented Other clients include major players in the some of the biggest names in the industry, telecom and computing industries like Intel, like Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Google and Cisco Systems. NVIDIA, Panasonic and Nintendo. Donald Steinberg Alex Chachkes Team & differentiation: WilmerHale’s IP practice Team & differentiation: Orrick’s IP prac- Leaders: has grown in popularity owing to its team’s Leaders: tice is primarily based in its Menlo Park Donald R. Steinberg, repeated success in high-stakes, complex Neel Chatterjee, office, under the leadership of one of the William (Bill) F. Lee litigation cases. With an IP team consisting Alex V. Chachkes most widely recognized IP litigators in the Established: of more than 160 lawyers spread over its 7 Established: nation, Neel Chatterjee. With 16 dedicated 1918 domestic offices in the US, this boutique is 1863 IP partners whose contentious abilities highly regarded for its abilities to address are regularly sought after from all corners, the challenges of companies of all sizes and Orrick’s IP team has managed to come out needs. Respected IP litigator, Trevor Cook on top using innovative strategies to help its recently joined the firm from Bird & Bird. clients win.

104 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE USA NATIONWIDE BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner Douglas A. Rettew, Julia Anne Matheson Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu Susan Upton Douglass, Allison Strickland Ricketts Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Theodore H. Davis Jr. EXCELLENT Arent Fox Ricardo Fischer Cowan Liebowitz & Latman Arlana S. Cohen, Deborah K. Squiers Fish & Richardson Cynthia Johnson Walden, Keith A. Barritt Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto Timothy J. Kelly K&L Gates Michael J. Abernathy Kenyon & Kenyon James E. Rosini Knobbe Martens Catherine Holland, Art Rose Oblon Eric W. Schweibenz Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson Joseph N. Welch II HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Brinks Gilson & Lione Christopher M. Dolan Cooley Peter Willsey Davis Wright Tremaine G. Roxanne Elings Fenwick & West Sally M. Abel Foley & Lardner Jeffrey H. Greene Greenberg Traurig Susan L. Heller Haynes and Boone Purvi Patel Albers, Jeffrey M. Becker Ladas & Parry Matthew Asbell, Dennis S. Prahl Loeb & Loeb Jonathan Zavin Merchant & Gould Scott W, Johnston Pirkey Barber Louis Pirkey Sughrue Mion Gary Krugman RECOMMENDED Abelman Frayne & Schwab Lawrence E. Abelman Alston & Bird Nadya Sand Barnes & Thornburg Julia Spoor Gard Dechert Glenn A. Gundersen DLA Piper Ann K.Ford Dorsey & Whitney Lee R. Osman Duane Morris Joseph A. Powers Hogan Lovells Raymond A. Kurz Katten Muchin Rosenman Karen Artz Ash, Floyd Mandell Kaye Scholer Robert W. Unikel Leydig Voit & Mayer David M. Airan McDermott Will & Emery John J. Dabney Perkins Coie Grace Han Stanton Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Bobby Ghajar Venable Frank M. Gasparo

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 105 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

USA NATIONWIDE BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Debevoise & Plimpton David H. Bernstein, Jeremy Feigelson

Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner Danny M. Awdeh, Douglas A. Rettew

Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu Roger L. Zissu, Barbara A. Solomon

EXCELLENT

Brinks Gilson & Lione David S. Fleming, Mary M. Squyres

Cooley Peter Willsey

Cowan Liebowitz & Latman Christopher J. Jensen

Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto Timothy J. Kelly

Kenyon & Kenyon James E. Rosini

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton William H. Brewster, Theodore H. Davis Jr.

Kirkland & Ellis Dale M. Cendali

McDermott Will & Emery John J. Dabney, Jennifer M. Mikulina

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Cravath, Swaine & Moore Evan R. Chesler, Richard W. Clary

Fish & Richardson John B. Pegram

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe I. Neel Chatterjee

Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson Jonathan S. Jennings

Proskauer Rose Brendan J O'Rourke

Sughrue Mion Jody Haller Drake

RECOMMENDED

Arnold & Porter Ronald L. Johnston

Jones Day Susan M. Kayser

Kelly IP David M. Kelly

Knobbe Martens Steven Nataupsky

Morrison & Foerster Michael R. Ward

Norton Rose Fulbright Timothy M. Kenny

106 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE USA NATIONWIDE BEST LAW FIRMS Life Sciences The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Cooley Barbara Kosacz, Ivor R. Elrifi, Robert L. Jones

Covington & Burling John A. Hurvitz, Emily I. Leonard, James C. Snipes

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner Charles E. Lipsey, Leslie A. McDonell, Sanya Sukduang

Knobbe Martens Mark R. Benedict, Salima A. Merani, Daniel Hart

WilmerHale Belinda M. Juran, Stuart M. Falber, Stuart M. Falber EXCELLENT 1 Arnold & Porter David R. Marsh

Fish & Richardson Jonathan Singer

Goodwin Procter Kingsley Taft

Kirkland & Ellis Leora Ben-Ami

Ropes & Gray Steven A. Wilcox, Marc A. Rubenstein

2 Dechert George G. Gordon, David E. Schulman

Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto William E. Solander

Kaye Scholer William Hoffman, Pamela J. Yates

Latham & Watkins Alan Mendelson

Morrison & Foerster Michael A. Jacobs

Sidley Austin Scott Bass

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Kenneth A. Clark HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Fenwick & West Michael J. Shuster, Stephen M. Graham

Hogan Lovells Asher Rubin

McDermott Will & Emery Byron S. Kalogerou

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Stephen Paul Mahinka

Paul Hastings Gerald J. Flattmann, Jr., Bruce M. Wexler

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman John R. Wetherell, Steven L. Meltzer

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Joseph M. Paunovich

Reed Smith Carol Colborn Loepere, Scot T. Hasselman

RMMS (Rakoczy Molino Mazzochi Siwik) William A. Rakoczy

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Jorge A. Goldstein RECOMMENDED Alston & Bird Michelle A. Williams

Baker Botts Earl B. Austin

Cravath, Swaine & Moore Evan R. Chesler

DLA Piper John Caleb Dougherty, Lisa A. Haile

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Globsky & Popeo Jeffrey M. Wiesen

O'Melveny & Myers Lisa B. Pensabene Perkins Coie Michael J. Wise

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 107 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

USA NATIONWIDE BEST LAW FIRMS IT & Outsourcing The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Gibson, Dunn, Crutcher Daniel Mummery, William Peters, Stephen D. Nordahl Mayer Brown Daniel A. Masur, Brad L. Peterson, Paul J. N. Roy Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Aaron M. Oser, Glenn S. Richards, Robert E. Zahler EXCELLENT Baker & McKenzie Michael S. Mensik K&L Gates John E. Howell Kirkland & Ellis Neil Hirshman, Gregg Kirchhoefer Latham & Watkins JD Marple Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Barbara Murphy Melby, Michael L. Pillion Morrison & Foerster John Delaney HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Baker Botts John W. Martin Dentons Ross Docksey DLA Piper Vincent (Vinny) A. Sanchez Hunton & Williams Randall S. Parks Loeb & Loeb Akiba Stern Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Stuart Levi White & Case Trevor W. Nagel RECOMMENDED Alston & Bird James Harvey Arent Fox William A. Tanenbaum Arnold & Porter Susan E. Hendrickson Greenberg Traurig Alan Sutin Kaye Scholer Paul C. Llewellyn Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton James R. Paine Jr., James Steinberg McDermott Will & Emery Jason D. Krieser, David Guedry Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Peter Quittmeyer Weil, Gotshal & Manges Jeffrey D. Osterman WilmerHale Steven D. Barrett, Belinda M. Juran

GIBSON, DUNN, CRUTCHER: PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN: AT THE FOREFRONT OF COMPLEX TECH TRANSACTIONS STRONG NEGOTIATION EXPERTISE FOR TMT CLIENTS

Track record: The Strategic Sourcing and Track record: The firm advises everything Commercial Transactions Practice Group from focused point solutions to multi-billion at Gibson Dunn works in areas such as IT, dollar global transformation programs, for Business Processes and CRM, and han- clients in media, retail, financial services, dles complex technology and commercial energy and real estate. In the telecom sector, transactions in e-commerce, data protec- major carriers like AT&T, Bell Canada, Sprint, tion and other related fields. Some recently T-Mobile and Verizon have trusted the firm. represented clients include General Electric Capital Corporation, Marriott International, Team & differentiation: Pillsbury Global Sour- Daniel Mummery Glenn Richards Johnson & Johnson and Heineken. cing has architected over 1,000 strategic Leaders: Leaders: outsourcing and technology transactions Daniel Mummery, Team & differentiation: Dan Mummery is Aaron M. Oser, worth more than half a trillion dollars. Was- William Peters, co-chair of this practice group and works from Glenn S. Richards, hington-based partner Glenn Richards leads Stephen D. Nordahl the firm’s Palo Alto office. He specializes in Robert E. Zahler the firm’s Communications practice, and his Established: complex on-shore, near-shore and off-shore Established: practice focuses on the negotiation of global 1890 information technology matters. His team is 1868 telecom service contracts on behalf of large well-known for developing strategies and pro- corporations. ject plans tailored to individual clients, and delivering high-quality work time and again.

108 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE NEW YORK BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Fish & Richardson Samuel Borodach, Jack Brennan

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Anthony M. Zupcic, Raymond R. Mandra

EXCELLENT

Kenyon & Kenyon Patrick J. Birde, Deborah A. Somerville

Ladas & Parry Janet I. Cord, Clifford J. Mass

Ropes & Gray Joseph M. Guiliano, Anita Varma

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Greenberg Traurig Alan N. Sutin

White & Case Dimitrios T. Drivas

RECOMMENDED

BakerHostetler Michael D. Stein

Cooley Matthew E. Langer

Jones Day Adriane M. Antler

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton John S. Pratt*

Proskauer Rose Joseph A. Capraro Jr.

Winston & Strawn Allan Fanucci

*Of Counsel, based in Atlanta

FISH & RICHARDSON: KENYON & KENYON: EXPERTISE IN ELECTRONICS & LIFE SCIENCES ONE OF THE MOST ELITE IP FIRMS

Track record: With a solid record in electro- Track record: The team has successfully nics and life sciences cases, Fish & Richard- taken charge for Toyota against Ameri- son maintains strong ties with the USPTO. can Vehicular Sciences, as well as The Filing 103 petitions for petitioners at the Jewelry Channel before the Patent Trial Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the practice and Appeal Board. AkzoNobel and Cel- is a leader in New York, counting Biomedical lectis back the firm’s prowess for patent Enterprises, Honda Motor and Novozymes prosecution cases. amongst its clients. Team & differentiation: Particularly known Samuel Borodach Patrick Birde Team & differentiation: A real IP powe- for litigating high-stakes patent cases, Leaders: rhouse, with 220+ patent attorneys and Leaders: Kenyon & Kenyon is equally strong in patent Samuel Borodach, agents, boasting over 65 PhDs in relevant Patrick J. Birde, prosecution and has secured patent protec- Jack Brennan technical areas, Fish & Richardson uses Deborah A. Somerville tion for over 37,500 complex technologies Established: specialized technology to guarantee effi- Established: and innovations. Chair of the Life Science/ 1878 cient access to USPTO correspondence 1879 Chemical Patent Prosecution practice, and clients’ files from anywhere in the world. Patrick J. Birde leads the team, providing Principal Samuel Borodach is specialized specialized knowledge on foreign patent in patent prosecution, strategic counseling practice as a result of practicing in Ger- and due diligence. many for several years.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 109 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

NEW YORK BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto William E. Solander, Scott K. Reed, Dominick A. Conde, Michael P. Sandonato Kirkland & Ellis Gregory S. Arovas, Leora Ben-Ami, Steven Cherny WilmerHale William F. Lee, Robert J. Gunther, Jr. EXCELLENT 1 Cravath Swaine & Moore David Kappos, David Marriott, Evan Chesler, Keith Hummel Desmarais John M. Desmarais, Paul A. Bondor Fish & Richardson Edmond R. Bannon, Peter Ludwig Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Peter J. Armenio, Sandra A. Bresnick 2 Kenyon & Kenyon Elizabeth J. Holland, Michael J. Lennon Ropes & Gray Jesse J. Jenner, Christopher J. Harnett HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Christopher A. Hughes Goodwin Procter David M. Hashmall, Douglas J. Kline Kaye Scholer Aaron Stiefel King & Spalding Robert F. Perry Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Joseph A. Calvaruso, Richard L. DeLucia Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler Saul B. Shapiro, Lewis V. Popovski Paul Hastings Joseph M. O’Malley, Jr. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom P. Anthony Sammi White & Case Dimitrios T. Drivas, Jeffrey J. Oelke RECOMMENDED Baker Botts Robert C. Scheinfeld Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Philip L. Hirschhorn Cohen & Gresser Karen H. Bromberg Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Jeffrey I.D. Lewis Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Josh A. Krevitt Jones Day John J. Normile McKool Smith Robert A. Cote, Brett E. Cooper Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Errol B. Taylor, Lawrence T. Kass Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Nicholas P. Groombridge Sidley Austin Thomas H. Beck Weil, Gotshal & Manges Robert S. Berezin Winston & Strawn Aldo A. Badini VALUABLE EXPERTISE Cooley Stephen R. Smith* Day Pitney Richard H. Brown Hughes Hubbard James W. Dabney, Stephen S. Rabinowitz Latham & Watkins Daniel G. Brown Shearman & Sterling Mark A. Hanneman Willkie Farr & Gallagher Thomas J. Meloro Wilson Elser Adam R. Bialek *Based in Washington DESMARAIS: CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE: A LITIGATION BOUTIQUE WITH EXTRAORDINARY COMPETENCE A FORCE IN THE NEW YORK MARKETPLACE

Track record: The boutique acts for numerous Track record: Cravath, Swaine & Moore is technology and life science companies, well known for its long-standing expertise in focusing on high-profile cases. It recently patent litigation, besides its leading practice represented Intellectual Ventures and won in corporate and financial fields. It recently a jury verdict that Canon’s digital cameras defended IBM in a patent infringement case infringed the plaintiff’s patents. Other brought by SCO Group regarding the UNIX notable clients include Cisco Systems, operating system, and won a district court IBM, MetroPCS, Boston Scientific and triumph for Mylan in an appeal brought by GlaxoSmithKline. Teva Pharmaceuticals. John Desmarais Evan Chesler

Leaders: Team & differentiation: Desmarais’s 36-lawyer Leaders: Team & differentiation: The firm’s New York John M. Desmarais, office is located in New York City, but its David Kappos, David team includes significant patent leader Paul A. Bondor lawyers tackled some of the most significant Marriott, Evan Chesler, David Kappos, former Under Secretary Established: intellectual property cases worldwide. The Keith Hummel of Commerce and Director of the USPTO, 2010 firm’s efficient practice coupled with an Established: as well as Chairman Evan Chesler, a well- innovative fee structure allows it to stand out 1820 respected trial lawyer widely recognized among others. Star litigator John Desmarais for his expertise in patent infringement is one of the biggest names in the New York cases in pharmaceuticals and life IP circle. sciences.

110 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE NEW YORK BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Abelman Frayne & Schwab Gregory S. Shatan, Marie Anne Mastrovito Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu Allison Strickland Ricketts, Susan Upton Douglass Kenyon & Kenyon James E. Rosini, Jonathan D. Reichman EXCELLENT Cowan Liebowitz & Latman Kieran G. Doyle Fish & Richardson Kristen McCallion Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto Timothy J. Kelly Foley & Lardner Mark J. Diliberti Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Barry M. Benjamin HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Cooley Janet Cullum Davis Wright Tremaine Alexandra Nicholson Greenberg Traurig Masahiro Noda Ladas & Parry Bharati Bakshani Leason Ellis Peter S. Sloane Winston & Strawn Paul D. McGrady* RECOMMENDED Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein Holly Pekowsky Arent Fox Ricardo Fischer** Cohen & Gresser Karen H. Bromberg Dorsey & Whitney Sandra Edelman Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel Peter A. Abruzzese Proskauer Rose Joseph A. Capraro Jr. Ropes & Gray Joseph M. Giuliano Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Bruce J. Goldner *Based in Chicago **Based in Washington

NEW YORK BEST LAW FIRMS IT & Outsourcing The firms are listed alphabetically within each band FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Weil, Gotshal & Manges Michael A. Epstein, Charan J. Sandhu EXCELLENT Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman Vipul N. Nishawala Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Stuart D. Levi HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Baker & McKenzie Michael S. Mensik* Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Stephen D. Nordahl Greenberg Traurig Alan N. Sutin, Scott J. Bornstein Kaye Scholer Paul C. Llewellyn Loeb & Loeb Kenneth A. Adler Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Barbara Murphy Melby**, Edward Hansen Proskauer Rose Jeffrey D. Neuburger WilmerHale Steven D. Barrett, Belinda M. Juran RECOMMENDED Arent Fox William A. Tanenbaum Covington & Burling Nigel L. Howard Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Michael P. Sandonato Hogan Lovells Eric J. Lobenfeld Moses & Singer Eric P. Bergner Polsinelli Dov H. Scherzer Venable William T. Russell***, James E. Nelson White & Case Adam Chernichaw

*Based in Chicago **Based in Philadelphia ***Based in Washington

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 111 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

NEW YORK BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Timothy J. Kelly, Edmund J. Haughey, Nina Shreve Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu Roger L Zissu, Richard Z. Lehv, James D. Weinberger EXCELLENT Cowan Liebowitz & Latman Kieran G. Doyle Debevoise & Plimpton David H. Bernstein, Jeremy Feigelson Kenyon & Kenyon James E. Rosini Kirkland & Ellis Dale Cendali, Claudia Ray HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Arnold & Porter Louis S. Ederer Cooley Janet Cullum Cravath, Swaine & Moore Darin McAtee Davis Wright Tremaine Lance Koonce, Robert D. Balin Fish & Richardson R. David Hosp, Kristen McCallion Kaye Scholer Paul C. Llewellyn Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Lisa Pearson, Joseph Petersen Loeb & Loeb Barry I. Slotnick Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe Peter D. Vogl, Lisa T. Simpson Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler Robert P. LoBue Proskauer Rose Brendan J. O'Rourke, Lawrence Weinstein Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Robert L. Raskopf Weil, Gotshal & Manges Randi W. Singer, R. Bruce Rich RECOMMENDED Abelman Frayne & Schwab Jennifer R. Waitman Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein Daniel S. Ebenstein BakerHostetler Robert B.G. Horowitz Cohen & Gresser Karen H. Bromberg Dorsey & Whitney Sandra Edelman Goodwin Procter Ira J. Levy Ladas & Parry Ralph H. Cathcart Manatt Phelps & Phillips Mark I. Peroff Ropes & Gray Edward G. Black Wilson Elser Adam R. Bialek

FITZPATRICK, CELLA, HARPER & SCINTO: FROSS ZELNICK LEHRMAN & ZISSU: FIRST-CLASS IP EXPERT TRADEMARK & COPYRIGHT LEADER

Track record: This respected New York firm Track record: The firm has strength and depth offers first-class services in the technology, of experience in the music, publishing, life sciences and the pharmaceutical indus- cosmetics, consumer products, leisure and try, representing giants such as Canon, pharmaceutical industries. DC Comics have Garmin and Novartis Pharmaceuticals. It repeatedly put their trust in the Trademark successfully obtained a dismissal of com- team, most recently regarding a dispute over plaint brought by Ralph Lauren alleging the sale of “Batmobile” conversion kits for breach of a trademark litigation settlement automobiles. Chanel and Jack Wolfskin also agreement for Arvind. choose Fross for their trademark cases. Timothy Kelly Roger Zissu

Leaders: Team & differentiation: Over 95% of Fitzpa- Leaders: Team & differentiation: Partner Roger L. Timothy J. Kelly, Edmund J. trick’s attorneys hold scientific or technical Roger L Zissu, Richard Z. Zissu has a strong record in trademark and Haughey, Nina Shreve degrees, and the firm stays abreast of poten- Lehv, James D. Weinberger copyright issues across a wide spectrum Established: tial trademark issues with diligence, thanks Established: of media fields, including movies, literary 1971 to its ties with USPTO and online monitoring. 1969 works, television programming and music. Timothy J. Kelly chairs the practice, leading Richard Lehv and James Weinberger bring by example with his extensive experience in expertise to trademark law and litigation for all aspects of trademark law. the firm.

112 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE CALIFORNIA BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Irell & Manella Andrei Iancu, Morgan Chu, David I. Gindler, Benjamin W. Hattenbach Morrison & Foerster Michael A. Jacobs, Rachel Krevans, David C. Doyle, Vincent J. Belusko Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Charles K. Verhoeven, Claude M. Stern, Jennifer A. Kash EXCELLENT 1 Cooley Thomas Friel, Jim Brogan, Heidi Keefe Covington & Burling Robert T. Haslam, Michael K. Plimack, Robert D. Fram Durie Tangri Michael H. Page, Daralyn J. Durie, Mark A. Lemley Fish & Richardson Kathi Vidal (Lutton), Juanita Brooks Keker & Van Nest Jeffrey R. Chanin, Robert A. Van Nest 2 Fenwick & West Michael J. Sacksteder K&L Gates Britt L. Anderson Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Susan M. Spaeth Kirkland & Ellis Michael W. De Vries, Adam R. Alper Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe I. Neel Chatterjee HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Alston & Bird Michael S. Conno, David M. Stein Arnold & Porter Ronald L. Johnston Baker Botts Bryant C. Boren, Jr. Foley & Lardner Shawn E. McDonald Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Wayne Barsky Knobbe Martens John Sganga, Joseph Re Latham & Watkins Douglas E. Lumish Morgan Lewis & Bockuis Richard de Bodo Sidley Austin Jeffrey M. Olson Weil, Gotshal & Manges Jared Bobrow, Edward Reines WilmerHale Mark D. Selwyn, James W. Hill RECOMMENDED DLA Piper John Allcock, Mark D. Fowler Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner Robert F. McCauley III Jones Day Anthony M. Isogna Manatt, Phelps & Phillips Robert Becker McDermott Will & Emery David Henry Dolkas Perkins Coie Amy E. Simpson Ropes & Gray James R. Batchelder Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton Daniel N. Yannuzzi Tensegrity Law Group Matthew Powers Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Edward G. Poplawski Winston & Strawn David P. Enzminge

IRELL & MANELLA: COOLEY: A FORMIDABLE LEADER IN PATENT LITIGATION RENOWNED IP FIRM IN THE VALLEY

Track record: Highly recommended by Track record: After successfully defending its clients as having deep understanding Facebook in a patent infringement case of the statutes, Irell & Manella actively against Rembrandt Social Media regarding represents both plaintiffs and defen- its “Like” button feature, Cooley continues dants. David Gindler recently represented to justify its reputation in the Valley. The firm Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in a dispute puts significant emphasis on technology, against Ablexis and Merus relating to life sciences and other high growth indus- genetically modified mice. The firm’s tries, and represents major IT firms such as notable clients include Apple, Microsoft, HTC, LinkedIn, Google and Nintendo. Andrei Iancu Thomas Friel Sony and Tessera. Leaders: Leaders: Team & differentiation: Headquartered in Andrei Iancu, Morgan Chu, Team & differentiation: Staffed with 95 lawy- Thomas Friel, Jim Brogan, Palo Alto, Cooley has 4 offices in Califor- David I. Gindler, Benjamin ers and 45 partners, Irell & Manella has Heidi Keefe nia. Its IP Practice Chair Jim Brogan has W. Hattenbach offices in Los Angeles and New Port Beach. Established: served as lead trial counsel for various Established: Besides star litigator Morgan Chu, mana- 1920 technology and life sciences compa- 1941 ging partner Andrei Iancu represents clients nies, and Head of national and Bay Area across the technology spectrum, and Ben- IP Litigation practice, Thomas Friel, is a jamin Hattenbach puts particular emphasis seasoned expert handling a wide range on the trial of patent infringement matters. of IP disputes.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 113 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CALIFORNIA BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Fish & Richardson Hans R. Troesch, William E. Hunter

Knobbe Martens Ned Israelsen, Salima A. Merani, Joseph M. Reisman

Morrison & Foerster Michael R. Ward, Peter J. Yim, Mehran Arjomand

EXCELLENT

Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman Jacob T. Aikin

Fenwick & West Rajiv P. Patel

Foley & Lardner Antoinette F. Konski

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Craig C. Largent

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner M. Paul Barker

Greenberg Traurig Jeff Joyner

Jones Day Dale L. Rieger

McDermott Will & Emery Mark J. Itri

Perkins Coie Jordan M. Becker

RECOMMENDED

Arnold & Porter Ginger R. Dreger

Davis Wright Tremaine Philip H. Albert

DLA Piper Mark F. Radcliffe

Ladas & Parry Mavis S. Gallenson

Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner Stephen C. Durant

Snell & Wilmer Grant T. Langton

Troutman Sanders Kimberley Chen Nobles

KNOBBE MARTENS: A WELL-ROUNDED IP SPECIALIST

Leaders: Track record: Notable for patent prosecution, Team & differentiation: Staffed with 270 Ned Israelsen, strategy and counseling, Knobbe Martens lawyers, including 154 partners, Knobbe Salima A. Merani, Joseph M. Reisman has played an instrumental role in securing Martens is one of the largest IP law firms Established: patent protection for AMP Research’s BED in the U.S., with 7 branches nationwide, 1962 X-TENDER, successfully prosecuted a wor- and is highly-noted for its strong technical ld-wide patent portfolio for Avanir Pharma- expertise in life sciences. Lawyers and ceuticals and helped obtain the first patent scientists in the firm work in cross-function granted for the work which led to Professor teams and actively participate in Patent Ned Israelsen Yamanaka’s Nobel Prize. Office pilot programs.

114 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE CALIFORNIA BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Cooley Anne H. Peck, Scott Dailard, Peter Burns Knobbe Martens Jonathan A. Hyman, Catherine J. Holland, Susan M. Natland EXCELLENT Fenwick & West Sally M. Abel Foley & Lardner Marc T. Morley Greenberg Traurig Susan L. Heller Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Anthony J. Malutta HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Baker Hostetler Miriam C. Beezy Fish & Richardson Lisa Greenwald-Swire Loeb & Loeb David W. Grace McDermott Will & Emery Mark J. Itri, Lynne Boisineau Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp Evan M. Kent RECOMMENDED Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman Lori N. Boatright Morrison & Foerster Jennifer Lee Taylor Reed Smith Katherine M. Basile Snell & Wilmer Dax Alvarez

CALIFORNIA BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Cooley Anne H. Peck, John W. Crittenden Loeb & Loeb David W. Grace, David Grossman EXCELLENT Arnold & Porter John C. Ulin Keker & Van Nest James R. Slaughter, Michael S. Kwun Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Theodore H. Davis Jr. Kirkland & Ellis Diana Torres Knobbe Martens John Sganga, Gregory B. Phillips Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Charles K. Verhoeven HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Fenwick & West Sally M. Abel Latham & Watkins Perry J. Viscounty Manatt, Phelps & Phillips Shari M. Wollman McDermott Will & Emery David Henry Dolkas Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp Karin Pagnanelli Morrison & Foerster Jennifer Lee Taylor Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe I. Neel Chatterjee RECOMMENDED Davis Wright Tremaine Thomas R. Burke Fish & Richardson Lisa Greenwald-Swire Greenberg Traurig Ian C. Ballon Irell & Manella Andrei Iancu Venable Susan E. Hollander Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Aaron D. Hendelman Winston & Strawn David P. Enzminge

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 115 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CALIFORNIA BEST LAW FIRMS IT & Outsourcing The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Morrison & Foerster Paul E. Jahn Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Selwyn B. Goldberg, Michael J. Murphy EXCELLENT Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Daniel R. Mummery Keker & Van Nest Robert Van Nest Kirkland & Ellis John Lynn HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Cooley Carolyn L. Craig, Diane Wilkins Savage

Fenwick & West David L. Hayes

Goodwin Procter Karen A Spindler

Jones Day Greg Lanier

Latham & Watkins Anthony R. Klein

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Neel I. Chatterjee

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman David A. Jakopin

Weil Gotshal & Manges John Brockland, Karen N. Ballack

White & Case Bijal V. Vakil RECOMMENDED Arnold & Porter Matthew F. Maccoby

Covington & Burling Robert D. Fram

Foley & Lardner Michael R. Overly

Greenberg Traurig Daniel H. Black

Hogan Lovells Jason D. Lohr

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Mehrnaz Boroumand Smith

MORRISON & FOERSTER: KEKER & VAN NEST: INNOVATIVE LEGAL EXPERT IN IP TRANSACTIONS LITIGATION SPECIALIST IN TECH, COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA

Track record: Well-appreciated for providing Track record: A litigation boutique firm stable and accurate IP counseling services, equipped with sharp lawyers, Keker & Van Morrison & Foerster is particularly active Nest acquired numerous celebrated clients in advising electronic, semiconductor, and earned distinction in California’s IP mar- software, and communication technology ket across software, semiconductor and life companies. Its clientele includes Celgene, science fields. It gained a groundbreaking Oracle America, Palo Alto Networks and patent victory for Netflix in a United States Verizon Communications. International Trade Commission (USITC) complaint, and is representing HTC in the Paul E. Jahn Robert Van Nest Team & differentiation: The firm was the ongoing smartphone wars. Other clients Leader: first to institutionalize a specialized inter- Leader: include Twitter, Intel, and SanDisk. Paul E. Jahn nal group to focus on investor-side IP due Robert Van Nest Established: diligence and identify the legal issues sur- Established: Team & differentiation: The firm has about 1883 rounding life sciences and academia-ori- 1979 65 lawyers, whose sophisticated and ginated technology. San Francisco-based strategic skillset allows it to maintain its partner Paul Jahn specializes in transac- high quality of service. Robert Van Nest tions involving the development, licensing, frequently handles high-stakes cases for and transfer of complex technology and clients such as Intel, Google, Medtronic intellectual property. and Broadcom.

116 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE EUROPE

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 117 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

TOP 50 EUROPE SOFTWARE VENDORS

Country of HQ Software + services Rank Company Total revenues 2014 (M€) R&D staff 2014 location revenues 2014 (M€) 1 SAP 17 243.9 17 560.0 18 908 2 Dassault Systemes 2 078.6 2 346.7 5 562 3 Sage 1 539.5 1 620.5 1 169 4 Hexagon 1 442.3 2 622.4 3 430 5 Wincor Nixdorf 1 367.0 2 471.0 750 6 Asseco Group 1 193.3 1 487.6 3 696 7 Software AG 835.6 857.8 968 8 DATEV 790.7 843.5 1 355 9 Wolters Kluwer 740.2 3 660.0 2 222 10 Misys 639.5 639.5 1 100 11 Micro Focus 627.9 627.9 897 12 SWIFT 596.8 628.0 493 13 Unit4 516.0 516.0 1 380 14 Visma 464.7 851.7 730 15 Cegedim 460.6 911.5 959 16 Sopra Steria 445.4 3 370.0 800 17 Qlik 418.9 418.9 358 18 Avaloq 411.6 411.6 300 19 Swisslog 411.4 551.3 146 20 Northgate Information Solutions 373.7 826.0 600 21 Fiducia & GAD 369.3 458.4 220 22 Compugroup Holding 368.8 515.1 1 426 23 Murex 368.0 368.0 386 24 Temenos 352.6 352.6 441 25 Fidessa 341.0 341.0 437 26 Gemalto 333.9 2 465.0 1 105 27 IFS 333.4 333.4 333 28 ESET 328.8 328.8 382 29 Zucchetti 310.3 358.0 900 30 Schneider Electric 304.1 1 713.0 565 31 Reply 287.0 632.2 390 32 Sophos 285.0 285.0 608 33 AVG Technologies 281.5 281.5 482 34 Centric 275.2 494.5 146 35 Axway 261.6 261.6 650 36 AVEVA Group 258.8 258.8 562 37 Cegid 243.0 266.6 546 38 Civica 242.5 272.8 236 39 SimCorp 241.1 241.1 448 40 Kofax (now part of Lexmark) 222.0 222.0 413 41 Nemetschek Group 218.3 218.5 605 42 Advanced Computer Software 217.0 273.4 238 43 Comarch 191.5 247.9 502 44 Exact 188.1 188.1 454 45 Avast Software 163.3 163.3 230 46 PSI 158.1 175.4 264 47 Linedata Services 158.0 158.0 408 48 Haufe Group 154.5 278.7 260 49 F-Secure Corp. 153.8 153.8 134 50 SDL International 142.1 322.9 255 Source: Truffle 100 Truffle Source:

118 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE EUROPE BEST VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FUNDS ESTABLISHED TEAM LED BY LOCATIONS LEADING

Abingworth 1973 Stephen Bunting London/Cambridge

Accel Partners 1983 Jim Breyer, Kevin Comolli Geneva/London/Jersey

Index Ventures 1996 Neil Rimer, Giuseppe Zocco London/USA

LSP (Life Science Partners) 1998 Martin Kleijwegt Munich/Amsterdam/Boston

Sofinnova Partners 1972 Denis Lucquin Paris

Frank Böhnke, Bart Markus, Rolf C. Dienst, Christian Reitberger, Wellington Partners 1998 London/Munich Eric Archambeau EXCELLENT

360 Capital Partners 1997 Fausto Boni Luxembourg/Milan/Paris

Amadeus Capital Partners 1997 Anne Glover London/Cambridge

Early Bird 1994 Christian Nagel, Hendrik Brandis Hamburg/Munich

Idinvest Partners 1997 Christophe Bavière Paris

Partech Ventures 1982 Omri Benayoun, Philippe Collombel, R. Lavault, J. M. Patouillaud Paris/San Francisco/Berlin

TVM 1983 M. Schühsler Montreal/Munich/Boston

Truffle Capital 2001 Henri Moulard Paris/USA

Ventech 1998 Alain Caffi Paris

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Balderton Capital 2000 Barry Maloney, Bernard Liautaud, Daniel Waterhouse London

DFJ Esprit 2006 Simon Cook London/Cambridge

Gimv 1980 Koen Dejonckheere Belgium/Netherlands/France/Germany

HealthCap 2001 Peter Fredrikson, Björn Odlander Sweden/Switzerland

Mangrove Capital Partners 2004 Mark Tluszcz, Hans-Jürgen Schmitz Luxembourg

NeoMed Management 1996 Erik Amble Norway/Switzerland

Northzone Ventures 1994 Bjorn Stray, Tellef Thorleifsson Stockholm/Oslo/Copenhagen

SEP (Scottish Equity Partners) 2003 Calum Paterson Glasgow/London

Seventure Partners 1997 Isabelle de Cremoux Paris

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 119 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

BELGIUM

120 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE BELGIUM BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Altius Paul Maeyaert, Christophe Ronse

Bird & Bird Jean-Christophe Troussel, Bruno Vandermeulen

Crowell & Moring Kristof Roox

Hoyng Rokh Monegier Carl De Meyer, Benoît Strowel, Liesebeth Weynants

EXCELLENT

Allen & Overy Geert Glas

Field Fisher Waterhouse Stijn Debaene

NautaDutilh Philippe Peters, Florence Verhoestraete

Simont Braun Eric De Gryse, Fernand de Visscher

Stibbe Ignace Vernimme

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Janson Baugniet Mireille Buydens

Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick Etienne Kairis

Linklaters Pieter Van Den Broecke

LMBD Prioux Louis Puts

Olswang Michael Burdon

RECOMMENDED

DLA Piper Nicolas Becker

Lydian Annick Mottet Haugaard

Philippe & Partners Alexandre Cruquenaire

Van Bael & Bellis Peter L'Ecluse

Van Innis & Delarue Dieter Delarue

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 121 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

BELGIUM BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Altius Paul Maeyaert, Christophe Ronse, Olivier Vrins

Hoyng Rokh Monegier Carl De Meyer, Carina Gommers

NautaDutilh Philippe Peters, Florence Verhoestraete

Simont Braun Emmanuel Cornu, Eric De Gryse

EXCELLENT

Bird & Bird Jean-Christophe Troussel, Benoit Van Asbroeck, Bruno Vandermeulen

CMS DeBacker Tom Heremans, Reanud Dupont

Crowell & Moring Flip Petillion

Lydian Annick Mottet Haugaard

Stibbe Ignace Vernimme

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Allen & Overy Geert Glas

Baker & McKenzie Koen De Winter

Field Fisher Waterhouse Stijn Debaene

Janson Baugniet Mireille Buydens

Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick Etienne Kairis, Jules Stuyck

Linklaters Pieter Van Den Broecke

LMBD Prioux Louis Puts

Olswang Christine De Keersmaeker

Van Innis & Delarue Thierry Van Innis

RECOMMENDED

Ambos NBGO Bart Vandereeckt

Monard d'Hulst Daan De Jaeger

Time.lex Frederic Debusseré

Van Bael & Bellis Peter L'Ecluse

122 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE BELGIUM BEST LAW FIRMS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Altius Gerrit Vandendriessche

Crowell & Moring Flip Petillion, Thomas De Meese

DLA Piper Kristof De Vulder, Patrick Van Eecke EXCELLENT Allen & Overy Filip Van Elsen

Astrea Steven De Schrijver

Baker & McKenzie Daniel Fesler

Bird & Bird Catherine Erkelens, Benoit Van Asbroeck

Field Fisher Waterhouse Stijn Debaene, Tim Van Canneyt

Hoyng Rokh Monegier Fabienne Brison, Benoit Michaux

Koan Lorenz Jan Decorte, Agnès Maqua

NautaDutilh Philippe Peters

Olswang Dirk Van Liedekerk, Christine De Keersmaeker

Philippe & Partners Jean-François Henrotte

Simont Braun Emmanuel Cornu, Benjamin Docquir

Stibbe Erik Valgaeren

Time.lex Frédéric Debusseré, Jos Dumortier, Geert Somers HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Ambos NBGO Bart Vandereeckt

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Maurits Dolmans, Thomas Graf

CMS DeBacker Tom Heremans

Cresco David Dessers

& De Bandt Law Firm Jeff Keustermans

Janson Baugniet Mireille Buydens

IP Porta Karen Ongena

Laurius Avocats Karen Vermaere

Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick Etienne Kairis

LMBD Prioux Louis Puts

Marx Van Ranst Vermeersch & Partners Peter Marx, Herman Croux

McGuireWoods Paul Van den Bulck

Monard d'Hulst Ben Hermans

Ulys Etienne Wery, Cathy-Rosalie Joly, Thierry Léonard

Verhaegen Walravens Emmanuel Szafran

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 123 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

BELGIUM BEST IP ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING De Clercq & Partners Ann de Clercq

Gevers Ludivine Coulon, Jos Van Reet

Pronovem - Office Van Malderen Joëlle Van Malderen, Eric Van Malderen EXCELLENT Arnold & Siedsma Erik Bartelds, Nele D’Halleweyn, Arjen Hooiveld, Addick Land, Petri Van Someren

Denk Davy Wauters, Kris Hertoghe

IP Lodge Michaël A. T. Beck, William Bird,

Kirkpatrick Gérard Bloch HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Cabinet Bede Philippe Overath

BiiP Marnix Moens

Brantsandpatents Johan Brants

Icosa Europe Claire Verschelde

IP Hills Axel Plas

M.F.J Bockstael Dirk Caluwaerts

NLO Denis Canet

V.O. Marco Molling, Johannes Van Melle

BELGIUM BEST IP ATTORNEYS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Gevers Benjamin Gevers, Dominique Marloye, Andries Quataert

Marks & Clerk Martin Gutwillinger EXCELLENT Novagraaf Ingrid Mennens

Pronovem - Office Van Malderen Nicole Desmet, Dominique Rifon, Marianne Stanislaus

V.O. Michiel Haegens, Denys Bertels, Noëlle Wolfs HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Brantsandpatents Christophe Bourgeois

Cabinet Bede Laurent Overath

Kirkpatrick Antonietta Arcuri

NLO Marlous Stal-Hilders

124 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Our analysis

ALTIUS: LYDIAN: DATA PROTECTION AT THE CORE OF THE BUSINESS INNOVATIVE LEGAL APPROACH

Track record: The ICT and data protection Track record: The IP team has outstanding team, headed by Gerrit Vandendriessche, experience on anti-counterfeiting issues, assists and conducts litigation for a wide and offers clients strategic operational variety of prestigious clients, such as advice on these matters. Acting for a large hardware manufacturers, software deve- variety of industries, the team is able to lopers, system integrators, and e-com- offer prestigious international and local merce players, and also specializes in clients tailor-made advice covering a wide outsourcing and software copyright law. range of IP law. Gerrit Vandendriessche Annick Mottet Haugaard Team & differentiation: Most regularly dis- Team & differentiation: Annick Mottet Hau- Leader: tinguishing itself as a high-caliber team, Leader: gaard, head the IP department, works Gerrit Vandendriessche Altius’ lawyers act equally for interna- Annick Mottet Haugaard with a team of 7 lawyers entirely focused Established: tional and local clients. Gerrit Vanden- Established: on IP matters, and has solid experience 2002 driessche is also a freelance researcher 2001 in litigation and negotiation. Very active at and lecturer at the Free University of the institutional level, between 2012 and Brussels (VUB) and a certified Data Pro- 2014 Annick was President of the Euro- tection Officer. pean Communities Trade Mark Associa- tion (ECTA).

CROWELL & MORING: GEVERS: FIRST CLASS TRADEMARK PRACTICE EUROPEAN IP FIRM

Track record: Acting for corporate clients, Track record: The firm acts for the pro- hardware and software developers, film tection, management and exploitation producers and distributors, advertising of intellectual property along the full agencies, architects, authors, performers life-cycle of assets, totally aligned with and financial institutions, the firm’s tra- clients’ business strategies. The Patent demark department has also developed team operates on the European, US and a strong reputation in the field of TLDs & Chinese scenes for a long list of inter- Domain Names. The team represents a national and Belgian clients in various long list of top multinational brand holders. industries. Flip Petillion Ludivine Coulon

Leader: Team & differentiation: With more than 25 Leader: Team & differentiation: Thanks to more Flip Petillion years of experience Flip Petillion has a Ludivine Coulon than 200 attorneys and 8 offices spread Established: strong reputation in the market as litiga- Established: around Belgium, France and Switzerland, 1991 tor and arbitrator in IP disputes with the 1898 Gevers can consider itself as European World Intellectual Property Organization leader in the sector. Ludivine Coulon, (WIPO). He is also an arbitrator with the Head of the Patent Department, is spe- Belgian Arbitration and Mediation Center cialized in chemistry, biotechnology, (Cepina) and an official Belgian mediator. pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

METHODOLOGY

Rankings are established with the following tools:

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 125 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

FRANCE

126 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE FRANCE BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT (Large Cap) The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Lazard Matthieu Pigasse, Amélie Négrier, Vincent Le Stradic EXCELLENT J.P. Morgan Xavier Bindel Morgan Stanley Jean Abergel, Enrique Pérez-Hernandez Qatalyst Partners Jean Tardy-Joubert HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BNP Paribas Thierry Varène BofA Merrill Lynch Stéphane Courbon, Antoine Lepagnot Crédit Agricole C.I.B. Benoît Fosseprez Crédit Suisse Laurence Hainault DC Advisory Eric Hamou Deutsche Bank Julien Fabre, Emmanuel Hasbanian Goldman Sachs Pierre Hudry Natixis Partners (Leonardo & Co) Bruno Stern, Patrick Maurel Nomura Jean-Baptiste Natali, Guillaume d'Hauteville, Roy Kabla, Virginie Banet Société Générale C.I.B. Johanna Campion RECOMMENDED Citigroup Team of managing directors Goetzpartners Guillaume Piette, Hugues Archambault Perella Weinberg Partners Arnaud Dassy, Paulo Pereira Rothschild & Cie Christophe Desprez UBS Grégoire Haemmerlé

FRANCE BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT (Small & Mid Cap) The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Bryan Garnier & Co Thibaut de Smedt, Grégoire Revenu EXCELLENT Aelios Finance Eric Félix-Faure, Thibaut de Monclin Aforge Degroof Finance Lawrence Giesen, Damien Bachelot, Cyril Kammoun Capitalmind Michel Degryck, Jean-Pierre Brice Deloitte Finance Charles Bédier Financière Cambon Morgann Lesné, David Salabi, Michael Azencot Ohana & Co Karine Ohana, Ariel Ohana Transaction R (Rothschild) Pierpaolo Carpinelli, Virginie Lazes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Acetis Finance Frédéric Bos, Julien Moréel Adna Partners Jacques Benhamou AxeMedia Olivier Faguer Build Up Patrick Azzopardi Canaccord Genuity Simon Bridges CM-CIC Corporate Advisory François Messager, Michaël Chicheportiche Financière de Courcelles Étienne Demailly Invest Securities Ghislain de Murard

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 127 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

FRANCE BEST INVESTMENT BANKS Health & Pharma (Large Cap) The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Goldman Sachs Marshall Smith

Lazard Matthieu Pigasse

Rothschild & Cie Cyrille Harfouche, Olivier Pécoux EXCELLENT BNP Paribas Thierry Paulhac

BofA Merrill Lynch Stéphane Courbon, Laurent Vieillevigne

Evercore Partners François Maisonrouge

Morgan Stanley Alban de La Sablière HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Crédit Agricole Corporate Finance Stéphane Ducroizet

Crédit Suisse Martin Henrichs

Deutsche Bank Emmanuel Hasbanian

J.P. Morgan Kyril Courboin

Société Générale C.I.B. Stephen McGarry

Zaoui & Associés Yoël Zaoui, Michel Zaoui

FRANCE BEST INVESTMENT BANKS Health & Pharma (Small & Mid Cap) The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Bryan Garnier Cédric Moreau

Deloitte Finance Yves Jarlaud, Charles Bédier

Natixis Partners (Leonardo & Co) François Rivalland, Patrick Maurel

Transaction R (Rothschild) Cyrille Harfouche, Olivier Pécoux, Laurent Buiatti, Dominic Hollamby EXCELLENT Capital Mind Michel Degryck, Jean-Pierre Brice

Easton Corporate Finance Philippe Croppi, Philippe Guézenec

Eumedix Alain Lostis

PwC Noël Albertus, Gad Azuelos HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AEC Partners Lionel Delaporte Canaccord Genuity Julian Feneley CMC Consulting Benjamin Chambon Financière de Courcelles Olivier Matteoli Invest Securities Raphaël Rosselo Lincoln International François Rispoli

128 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE FRANCE BEST VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FUNDS ESTABLISHED TEAM LED BY INDUSTRY LEADING 1 Idinvest Partners 1997 Christophe Bavière, Benoist Grossmann Generalist Partech Ventures 1982 O. Benayoun, P. Collombel, R. Lavault, J.-M. Patouillaud Generalist Sofinnova Partners 1972 Denis Lucquin Biotech, Life sciences

2 Alven Capital 2002 Charles Letourneur, Guillaume Aubin Internet, Media Auriga Partners 1998 Philippe Peltier, Patrick Bamas, Jacques Chatain, Bernard Daugeras Generalist iSource 1999 Jean-Philippe Zoghbi Life sciences, ICT EXCELLENT 1 Elaia Partners 2002 Philippe Gire, Samantha Jérusalmy, Xavier Lazarus, Marc Rougier Software Innovacom 1989 Jérôme Faul, Jérôme Lecoeur, Denis Champenois Telecom, Internet Omnes Capital 2001 Fabien Prévost Generalist OTC Agregator 1989 Guillaume-Olivier Doré Life sciences Serena Capital 2008 Philippe Hayat, Marc Fournier, Xavier Lorphelin ICT Seventure Partners 1997 Isabelle de Cremoux ICT, Life sciences Truffle Capital 2001 Henri Moulard Spin-off, Life sciences, Energy, ICT Ventech 1998 Alain Caffi Life sciences, ICT

2 360 Capital Partners 1997 Fausto Boni Internet, ICT, Cleantech, Medtech Banexi Ventures Partners 1980 Philippe Herbert, Michel Dahan, Philippe Mere, Sophie Pierrin-Lepinard Internet, Medtech, Electronics Demeter Partners 2005 Olivier Dupont, Stéphane Villecroze Environnement, Energy Gimv 1980 Koen Dejonckheere, Benoît Raillard Cleantech, Life sciences ISAI 2000 Christophe Raynaud, Jean-David Chamboredon Generalist Iris Capital 1986 Antoine Garrigues, Pierre de Fouquet Media, Telecom Siparex 2004 Benoît Metais, Bertrand Rambaud Generalist HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Aloe PE 2004 Jean-Pascal Tranié, Vivek Tandon Generalist Ardian 1998 Dominique Senequier, Laurent Foata Generalist Edrip-BioDiscovery 1986 Gilles Nobécourt, Raphaël Wisniewski, Olivier Litzka Life sciences, Biotech Jaïna Capital 2003 Marc Simoncini Internet, Tech Robolution Capital 2014 Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Bruno Bonell, Dominique Rencurel RoboICTs Turenne Capital 1999 François Lombard, Olivier Motte Generalist Xange Private Equity 2003 Xavier Girre, Hervé Schricke, François Cavalié Internet, Software RECOMMENDED 123 Venture 2001 Olivier Goy, Xavier Anthonioz Generalist

Breega 2012 Maximilien Bacot, Benoît Marrel, François Paulus Internet, Media, ICT

CM-CIC Capital Privé 2001 Hélène Mareschal IT, Internet, Telecom

Dotcorp Asset Management 2006 Steve Rosenblum, Jean-Emile Rosenblum Generalist

Hi Innov 2010 Valérie Gombart, Pierre-Henri Dentressangle ICT

Innobio 2010 Laurent Arthaud Biotech

Newfund 2008 Charles-Antoine Morand, François Véron, Patrick Malka Internet

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 129 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

FRANCE BEST SOFTWARE EDITORS 2015

France Software Turnover France Software Turnover Rank Company Total Turnover 2014 (M€) Staff 2014 2014 (M€) 2013 (M€) 1 SAP 962 17 560 538 74 406 2 Oracle 954 31 470 855 120 000 3 Microsoft 948 71 397 2 700 99 000 4 IBM Software Group 613 2 0912 550 431 000 5 Sopra Steria Group 445.4 3 370.1 169 (Sopra) 16 290 6 Dassault Systèmes 439.1 2 294.3 460.1 10 685 7 Cegedim 409.6 493.5 514 7 992 8 ADP 311 9 866.8 304 60 000 9 Sage 283 1 604 303 12 700 10 Murex 253.6 368 11.5 1 700 11 Cegid 246.8 266.6 242.4 2 077 12 Salesforce 200 4 415.4 NC 16 227 13 HP Services & Soft. 189 91 641 NC 317 500 14 Infor 120 2 270.8 111 12 400 15 Berger Levrault 118.6 122.8 107.9 1 084 16 Axway Software 103.4 261.6 82.5 1 783 17 Pharmagest 95.1 114.6 93 793 18 GFI Informatique 89.5 804 77 10 036 19 Isagri 85.2 140 81 1 400 20 SAS Institute SAS 82 2 554 103.5 13 741 21 Septeo 63 65 62 489 22 Fiducial Informatique 61.9 61.9 60 489 23 Linedata Services 59.5 158 69.8 975 24 Cogeser 45 45 44 250 25 Cassiopae 44.5 55.5 44.1 415 26 Talentia Software 43.9 54.3 43.9 430 27 Visiativ 43.5 49.8 43 330 28 DL Software 43.3 44.6 42 443 29 Sab 39.8 49.7 22 500 30 Generix Group 36.5 49.4 51 453 31 Cegi 30.2 30.2 91.9 365 32 EBP Informatique 29.4 32.6 30 380 33 Tessi Document SCES 28.5 247.1 25 3 450 34 Bodet Software 28.4 37 25.7 235 35 JVS Groupe 26.3 26.3 25 260 36 Cylande 25.6 31.5 24.7 328 37 Proginov 25 25 23.5 163 38 Softway Medical 24.8 24.8 15.9 236 39 Solware 24 24 22 230 40 Groupe Sigma 21.5 73 20.3 799 41 Harvest 21.5 21.5 20.2 180 42 Dimo Software 20.6 28.6 28.5 270 43 META4 20.4 54 17.7 800 44 Hardis Groupe 20 62.1 18.3 630 45 Infovista 20 61 11 250 46 Aareon France 19.7 19.7 19.3 153 47 ACA 19 19 19.5 110 48 Mismo Informatique 18.4 18.4 18.2 151 49 Ivalua 18 18 13 110 50 Missler Software 17.7 27.9 17.6 214 Source : Livre d’Or d’Ipresse 2015 d’Ipresse d’Or Livre : Source

130 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE FRANCE BEST LAW FIRMS Telecoms The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Baker & McKenzie Emmanuel Guillaume, Christian Blomet, Laurent Szuskin Dunaud Clarenc Combles & Associés Christophe Clarenc Franklin Bradley Joslove, Julie Catala-Marty Fréget Tasso de Panafieu Olivier Fréget, Charlotte Tasso de Panafieu Hogan Lovells Winston Maxwell EXCELLENT 1 Bersay & Associés Emmanuel Schulte, Claire Bernier, Martine Georges-Naïm Bird & Bird Frédérique Dupuis-Toubol, Michel Matas Chemarin & Limbour Alexandre Limbour Gide Olivier Cousi Norton Rose Fulbright Marc d'Haultfoeuille Yves Coursin Yves Coursin

2 Alain Bensoussan Avocats Alain Bensoussan, Frédéric Forster Allen & Overy Ahmed Baladi August & Debouzy Florence Chafiol, Mahasti Razavi Bredin Prat Hugues Calvet, Robert Saint-Esteben Cabinet de La taille Benoît de la Taille DLA Piper Florence Guthfreund-Roland, Bruce Mee, Grégory Tulquois DS Avocats Bertrand Potot, Jérôme Richardot Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier Igor Simic, Didier Théophile Jones Day Rémy Fekete Latham & Watkins Jean-Luc Juhan Latournerie Wolfrom & Associés Marie-Hélène Tonnellier, Térence Cabot Magenta Sylvain Justier, Vincent Jaunet Pinsent Masons Diane Mullenex Vogel & Vogel Joseph Vogel, Louis Vogel Watson Farley & Williams Lucien Rapp HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Bilalian Avocats Lara Morel, Marguerite Bilalian Carreras Barsikian Robertson & Associés Pierre-Olivier Chartier, Alain Barsikian, Judith Vuillez Feral-Schuhl/Sainte-Marie Olivier de Courcel, Etienne Papin, Olivia Luzi Granrut Avocats Anne Cousin Jacob Avocats Julie Jacob Lexcase Hubert Mortemard de Boisse Orrick Rambaud Martel Saam Golshani Osborne Clarke Béatrice Delmas-Linel White & Case Jean-Paul Tran Thiet, Eric Laplante Wilhelm & Associés Pascal Wilhelm RECOMMENDED BCE Avocats Alexandre Espenel Brunswick Société d'Avocats Nicolas Moreau Clifford Chance Dessislava Savova, Thibault Dallès De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés Frédéric Destal, Thierry Granturco Fieldfisher Bruno Ducoulombier Foley Hoag Catherine Muyl ISGE François Illouz Kahn & Associés Fabrice Perbost, Sabine Lipovetsky Laude Esquier Champey Olivier Laude Lavoix Avocats Cyrille Amar, Antonin Staub Lawways Gilles Rouvier Lexington Avocats Laurent Lévy, Arnaud Demont Linklaters Pauline Debré Olswang Sylvie Rousseau, Guillaume Kessler SB Avocats Sacha Benichou Staub & Associés Sylvain Staub, Thomas Beaugrand, Dominique Isel Stephenson Harwood Olivier de Chazeaux Taylor Wessing Valérie Aumage

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 131 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

FRANCE BEST LAW FIRMS IT & Software The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING 1 Alain Bensoussan Avocats Alain Bensoussan, Eric Barbry, Jean-François Forgeron, Benoît de Roquefeuil, Frédéric Forster Baker & McKenzie Laurent Szuskin, Denise Lebeau-Marianna, Rémy Bricard, Christian Blomet DLA Piper Stéphane Lemarchand, Carol Umhoefer, Jeanne Bossi

2 August & Debouzy Florence Chafiol, Mahasti Razavi Bird & Bird Alexandre Vuchot, Marion Barbier, Marc Schuler, Stéphane Leriche, Ariane Mole De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés J. Horn, F. Valentin, G. Courtois, T. Granturco, J-M. Job, C. Théard-Jallu, L. de Gaulle Derriennic & Associés Pierre-Yves Margnoux, François-Pierre Lani, Georges Jenselme Feral-Schuhl/Sainte-Marie Bruno Grégoire Sainte-Marie, Olivier de Courcel, Christiane Féral-Schuhl, Etienne Papin, Olivia Luzi Staub & Associés Sylvain Staub, Thomas Beaugrand, Dominique Isel EXCELLENT Cabinet Bismuth & Associés Yves Bismuth, Mathieu Martin DS Avocats Arnaud Tessalonikos, Clothilde Delbecq Franklin Bradley Joslove Harlay Avocats Fabrice Perbost, Sabine Lipovetsky Iteanu Société d'Avocats Olivier Iteanu Latham & Watkins Myria Saarinen, Jean-Luc Juhan Norton Rose Fulbright Marc d'Haultfoeuille, Laure Joncour, Marta Giner Asins Osborne Clarke Béatrice Delmas-Linel, Eléonore Varet Taylor Wessing Philippe Glaser, Valérie Aumage, Christian Valsamidis HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Aramis Benjamin May Altana Pierre Lubet Caprioli & Associés Eric Caprioli, Pascal Agosti, Ilène Choukri Dentons David Masson Deprez Guignot & Associés Pierre Deprez, Jean-Michel Bruguière, Vincent Fauchoux, Frédéric Dumont Fidal Isabelle Gavanon, Philippe Debry Fieldfisher Bruno Ducoulombier Gide Thierry Dor Granrut Avocats Anne Cousin, Jean Castelain, Richard Milchior Haas Société d'avocats Gérard Haas Herbert Smith Freehills Alexandra Neri Hoche Avocats Régis Carral, Patrick Amouzou Hogan Lovells David Taylor, Mikael Salmela Isabelle Renard Avocats Isabelle Renard IT Law Avocats Claudia Weber Latournerie Wolfrom & Associés Marie-Hélène Tonnellier Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés Xavier Pican Sea Avocats Hervé Gabadou Watson Farley & Williams Lucien Rapp

132 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE RECOMMENDED 1 ATM Avocats André Meillassoux Allen & Overy Ahmed Baladi Atipic François Coupez, David-Irving Tayer BMH Avocats Martin Hauser, Detlev Kühner BRM Avocats Martine Ricouart-Maillet, Nicole Bondois Bersay & Associés Claire Bernier, Emmanuel Schulte, Delphine Touboul Blum Legal - Brandi Partners Marina Blum CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Anne-Laure Villedieu Cohen & Gresser Guillaume Seligmann Cornet Vincent Segurel Thomas Deschryver, Jérôme Wiehn, Florent Lucas, François Herpe Courtois Lebel Cédric Frenel Duclos, Thorne, Mollet-Viéville & Associés Arnaud Vanbremeersch, Éléonore Gaspar Gilles Vercken Avocats Florence Gaullier, Gilles Vercken Guillemin Flichy Alexis Guillemin KGA Avocats Matthieu Bourgeois, Patrick Boiron, François Ponthieu Lavoix Grégoire Goussu, Antonin Staub, Cyrille Amar Lawways Gilles Rouvier Lerins Jobard Chemla Avocats Mathilde Croze, Cécile Dupas Nexo Avocats Yann Breban Nomos Eric Lauvaux, Héléna Delabarre Olswang Sylvie Rousseau Pinsent Masons Annabelle Richard, Emmanuel Gougé Poggi Avocats Anne-Sophie Poggi Stehlin & Associés Frédéric Lecomte Ydès Avocats Cyril Fabre 2 Astine Christine Borfiga, Claire Bertheux-Scotté BG2V Xavier Carbasse Benoît Louvet Avocats Benoît Louvet Bernard Hertz Bejot Alexander Blumrosen, Michel Béjot Bignon Lebray Avocats Benjamin Mourot, Denis Lequai Bilalian Avocats Marguerite Bilalian Brunswick Société d'avocats Nicolas Moreau Clevery Avocats Henri Larmaraud Clifford Chance Yves Wehrli Coblence & Associes Jean-Marc Coblence, Aurélie Klein, Claire Cambernon, Mélanie Erber Crossen & Borowsky Sophie Borowsky Danièle Véret - cabinet d'avocats Danièle Véret Eversheds Gaëtan Cordier Hughes Hubbard & Reed Stefan Naumann Idea Avocats Julie Ruelle, Nathalie Metallinos ISGE & Associés François Illouz J. P. Karsenty & Associes Jean-Philippe Arroyo Jacob Avocats Julie Jacob Jacobacci Avocats Olympe Vanner, Jean-Mathieu Bertho K&L Gates Etienne Drouard La Motte Rouge Avocat Henri de la Motte Rouge Le Stanc Avocats Christian Le Stanc Lext Anne Bourdu, Gaëlle Leroy, Pierre-Lucas Thirion Linklaters Pauline Debré PDGB Avocats Benjamin Jacob, Hélène Lebon Reinhart Marville Torre Marc Susini SB Avocats Sacha Benichou Tessonnière Sardain Chevé Guillaume Tessonnière, Laurence Chevé Valérie Sédallian Valérie Sédallian Passa Varet Avocats Vincent Varet VALUABLE EXPERTISE A Turquoise Société D'Avocats Franklin Brousse Aklea Hugot Avocats Atem Avocats Jeantet Armand Associés Jurisexpert BCTG Avocats LMT Avocats Bamboo&Bees Lamy Lexel Cabinet Benech Lexvia Cabinet Granger Orrick Rambaud Martel DBC Avocats Pechenard & Associés Dauzier & Associes Simmons & Simmons EY Société d'Avocats Watrin Brault & Associés Elkrief Avocats Winston & Strawn FTPA Woog & Associés

BIRD & BIRD: A CONSTANTLY EVOLVING INTERNATIONAL LEGAL GIANT

Leader: Track record: Present at the heart of the most Team & differentiation: At the forefront of major Marc Schuler strategic issues, Bird & Bird has an impres- mandates in IP/IT on the European scene for Established: sive client portfolio. Its new technology years, Bird & Bird does not want to stop there. 2000 experts assist start-ups in digital as well as Evolution of the tech sector is closely followed industrial giants undergoing digital transfor- by the firm, so that it can be one step ahead mation. The exchange of personal data is for the next technological shift. The firm also treated with utmost rigor and pragmatism in has a decisive advantage over its competitors the interest of demanding customers. thanks to its vast international network. Marc Schuler

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 133 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

FRANCE BEST LAW FIRMS Internet The firms are listed alphabetically within each band FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING 1 Alain Bensoussan Avocats Eric Barbry, Alain Bensoussan Baker & McKenzie Laurent Szuskin, Denise Lebeau-Marianna, Rémy Bricard, Christian Blomet De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés Julien Horn, Frank Valentin, Georgie Courtois, Jean-Marie Job, Cécile Théard-Jallu, Louis de Gaulle Herbert Smith Freehills Alexandra Neri 2 August & Debouzy Florence Chafiol, Mahasti Razavi Bird & Bird Alexandre Vuchot, Marion Barbier, Marc Schuler, Stéphane Leriche, Ariane Mole DLA Piper Gregory Tulquois, Stéphane Lemarchand, Carol Umhoefer, Fabienne Panneau, Jonathan Rofé Feral-Schuhl/Sainte-Marie Bruno Grégoire Sainte-Marie, Christiane Féral-Schuhl, Etienne Papin, Olivia Luzi Iteanu Société d'Avocats Olivier Iteanu EXCELLENT 1 Dentons David Masson Franklin Bradley Joslove Harlay Avocats Fabrice Perbost, Sabine Lipovetsky Hogan Lovells David Taylor, Winston Maxwell, Christine Gateau Latournerie Wolfrom & Associés Marie-Hélène Tonnellier Nomos Héléna Delabarre, Emmanuelle Voisset, Christophe Pecnard, Éric Lauvaux Osborne Clarke Claire Bouchenard, Béatrice Delmas-Linel, Éléonore Varet Pinsent Masons Annabelle Richard, Emmanuel Gougé Staub & Associés Sylvain Staub, Thomas Beaugrand Ydés Avocats Cyril Fabre 2 Deprez Guignot & Associés Pierre Deprez, Jean-Michel Bruguière, Vincent Fauchoux, Frédéric Dumont Cohen & Gresser Guillaume Seligmann Derriennic & Associés François-Pierre Lani Haas Société d'avocats Gérard Haas Jacob Avocats Julie Jacob Teissonière Sardain Chevé Frédéric Sardain, Guillaume Teissonnière HIGHLY RECOMMENDED 1 Candé Blanchard Ducamp Julien Blanchard, Patrice de Candé, Claire Ducamp De Baecque Avocats Olivier de Baecque, Stéphane Bellec Dunaud Clarenc Combles & Associés Patrick Dunaud Field Fisher Waterhouse Nathalie Hadjadj-Cazier, Bruno Ducoulombier, Christopher Mesnooh Gide Thierry Dor, Olivier Cousi Gilles Vercken Avocats Gilles Vercken, Florence Gaullier Granrut Avocats Jean Castelain, Richard Milchior, Anne Cousin K&L gates Etienne Drouard, Claude-Etienne Armingaud 2 Altana Pierre Lubet Atem Isabelle Camus, Aurélie Buisson A Turquoise Anne-Marie Pecoraro Atipic François Coupez, David-Irving Tayer BCTG Avocats Gaëlle Bloret-Pucci Bersay & Associés Emmanuel Shulte Cabinet Christophe Caron Christophe Caron Caprioli & Associés Éric Caprioli Chemarin & Limbour Alexandre Limbour Cornet Vincent Segurel Thomas Deschryver, Jérôme Wiehn, Florent Lucas, François Herpe Crossen & Borowsky Sophie Borowsky DBK Avocats Thomas Debiesse, Jérôme Buscail, Christian Kim DS Avocats Arnaud Tessalonikos, Clothilde Delbecq Elkrief Avocat Danielle Elkrief Fidal Isabelle Gavanon, Philippe Boutron, Philippe Debry, Frédéric Bourget Hoche Société d'Avocats Patrick Amouzou Hughes Hubbard & Reed Stefan Naumann Latham & Watkins Muria Saarinen, Jean-Luc Juhan Laude Esquier Champey Olivier Laude, Victor Champey, Sophie Havard Duclos Lawways Gilles Rouvier Lerins Jobard Chemla Mathilde Croze Lext Anne Bourdu, Gaëlle Leroy, Pierre-Lucas Thirion Norton Rose Fulbright Marc d'Haultfoeuille Oria Media Mathieu Davy Anne Sophie Poggi Avocats It Anna-Sophie Poggi Stelhin & Associés Frédéric Lecomte Taylor Wessing Valérie Aumage Watrin Brault & Associés Nicolas Brault Watson Farley & Williams Lucien Rapp

134 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE RECOMMENDED ATM Avocats André Meillassoux Aramis Benjamin May Aston Avocats Carine Piccio Bilalian Avocats Lara Morel, Marguerite Bilalian Blum Legal - Brandi Partners Marina Blum Brunswick Société d'Avocats Nicolas Moreau CMG & Associés Paraskevi Georganta, Stéphane Coulaux Bismuth Société d'avocats Yves Bismuth, Mathieu Martin Cabinet Pierrat Julien Fournier, Emmanuel Pierrat, Sophie Viaris de Lesegno Carreras Barsikian Robertson & Associés Pierre-Olivier Chartier, Alain Barsikian, Judith Vuillez Clairmont Avocats Laurent Barissat, Sandra Cabanne-Desgranges, alex Coblence & Associes Jean-Marc Coblence, Mélanie Erber Courtois Lebel Cédric Frenel Danièle Véret Cabinet D'Avocats Danièle Véret Dauzier & Associes Olivier Chappuis Duclos Thorne Mollet Viéville & Associés - Dtmv Pascal Lefort, Thierry Mollet-Viéville, Éléonore Gaspar, Thomas Cuche Erber Avocats Mélanie Erber Eversheds LLP Gaëtan Cordier Gramond & Associés Xavier Gramond Hugot Avocats Jean-Philippe Hugot, Olivier Hugot Idea Avocats Julie Ruelle, Nathalie Métallinos Isabelle Renard Avocats Isabelle Renard Karsenty & Associes Jean-Philippe Arroyo Jacobacci Avocats Olympe Vanner Kga Avocats Matthieu Bourgeois, Patrick Boiron, François Ponthieu La Motte Rouge Avocat Henri de la Motte Rouge Lavoix Grégoire Goussu, Antonin Staub Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés Xavier Pican Lexington Avocats Laurent Lévy PDGB Benjamin Jacob Pechenard & Associes Fabien Honorat, Gauthier Moreuil, Eric Andrieu Pons & Carrère Caroline Henry Redlink Emmanuelle Behr, Frédéric Fournier Sb Avocats Sacha Benichou Twelve Philippe Allaeys Veber Associés Philippe Veber Passa Varet Avocats Vincent Varet Valérie Sédaillan Valérie Sédaillan Wize Avocats Jean-Baptiste Benvenuti VALUABLE EXPERTISE Aklea Jurisexpert Arnaud Dimeglio Lamy Lexel Brm Avocats Grall & Associes Bamboo&Bees Magenta Bignon Lebray Avocats Nataf Fajgenbaum & Associes CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Olswang Cabinet Bouchara Avocats Osmose Avocats Corus Reinhart Marville Torre Ftpa Simmons & Simmons ISGE & Associés Wilhelm et Associés IT Law Avocats

JACOB AVOCATS: EXCELLING IN INTERNET, ENTERTAINMENT & MEDIA

Leader: Track record: A firm that concentrates primarily Team & differentiation: Jacob Avocats’ IP team Julie Jacob on IP matters catering to the fields of enter- of 6 is spearheaded by the dynamic Julie Established: tainment and digital technologies, Jacob Avo- Jacob. 2015 saw an expansion of the team, 2012 cats has made a name for itself in France. It with the arrival of Charlotte Galibet, to rein- has expertise in the fields of TV/Radio, media, force the IP litigation practice. The fact that e-commerce, online gaming, communication, the firm focuses completely on digital tech- networks and telecommunication. Recent nology and entertainment sets it apart from clients include a car-sharing company, a the other IP firms in the market. Julie Jacob fashion brand and a sports retailer.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 135 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

FRANCE BEST LAW FIRMS Data Protection The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Alain Bensoussan Avocats Alain Bensoussan Baker & McKenzie Laurent Szuskin, Rémy Bricard, Denise Lebeau-Marianna, Christian Blomet, Yann Padova, Nathalie Marchand Bird & Bird Ariane Mole Ernst & Young Fabrice Naftalski, Sophie Revol Hogan Lovells David Taylor, Winston Maxwell EXCELLENT August & Debouzy Florence Chafiol DLA Piper Stéphane Lemarchand, Carol Umhoefer, Jeanne Bossi, Grégory Tulquois, Jonathan Rofé De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés Frédéric Destal, Jean-Marie Job, Louis De Gaulle Feral-Schuhl/Sainte-Marie Christiane Féral-Schuhl, Etienne Papin, Olivia Luzi HIGHLY RECOMMENDED 1 Beslay Avocats Nathalie Beslay Courtois Lebel Cédric Frenel Derriennic & Associés Pierre-Yves Margnoux, Georges Jenselme, François-Pierre Lani DS Avocats Arnaud Tessalonikos, Jean-Christophe Guerrini Dunaud Clarenc Combles & Associés Christophe Clarenc, Merav Griguer, Dominique de Combles de Nayves, Patrick Dunaud Fidal Isabelle Gavanon, Philippe Debry, Frédéric Bourget FieldFisher Bruno Ducoulombier, Mesnoon Christopher, Olivier Proust Gide Thierry Dor Harlay Avocats Fabrice Perbost, Sabine Lipovetsky Herbert Smith Freehills Alexandra Neri Hoche Société d’Avocats Régis Carral, Patrick Amouzou Latham & Watkins Myria Saarinen Nomos Héléna Delabarre Osborne Clarke Béatrice Delmas-Linel, Claire Bouchenard Pinsent Masons Emmanuel Gougé, Annabelle Richard

2 Allen & Overy Ahmed Baladi, Emmanuelle Bartoli Altana Pierre Lubet BCTG Avocats Gaëlle Bloret-Pucci BRM Avocats Martine Ricouart-Maillet, Nicole Bondois Bersay & Associés Emmanuel Schulte Clairmont Avocats Sandra Cabanne-Desgranges Cohen & Gresser Guillaume Seligmann Eversheds Gaëtan Cordier Foley Hoag Catherine Muyl Haas Société d'avocats Gérard Haas K&L gates Etienne Drouard Lawways Gilles Rouvier Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés Xavier Pican Redlink Emmanuelle Behr, Frédéric Fournier Sea Avocats Hervé Gabadou Stelhin & Associés Frédéric Lecomte Taylor Wessing Philippe Glaser, Valérie Aumage Ydés Avocats (Alister) Cyril Fabre

136 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE RECOMMENDED Atem Legal Isabelle Camus A Turquoise Anne-Marie Pecoraro Aramis Benjamin May Astine Legal Christine Borfiga ATM Avocats André Meillassoux Bamboo&Bees Marc Lipskier Benoît Louvet. Benoït Louvet Blum Legal - Brandi Partners Marina Blum, Thierry Peliks Brunswick Société d'Avocats Nicolas Moreau CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Anne-Laure Villedieu Caprioli & Associés Jean-Marc Caprioli Coblence Jean-Marc Coblence, Mélanie Erber, Claire Cambernon, Aurélie Klein Cornet Vincent Segurel Thomas Deschryver, Jérôme Wiehn, Florent Lucas, François Herpe Crossen & Borowsky Sophie Borowsky De Pardieu Brocas Maffei Barbara Levy Dentons David Masson Deprez Guignot & Associés Vincent Fauchoux Franklin Bradley Joslove FTPA Philippe Pochet Granrut Avocats Richard Milchior, Anne Cousin Heenan Anne-Sylvie Vassenaix-Paxton Idea Avocats Julie Ruelle, Nathalie Métallinos Isabelle Renard Avocats Isabelle Renard Iteanu Olivier Iteanu IT Law Avocats Claudia Weber J.P. Karsenty & Associés Jean-Philippe Arroyo Jacobacci Avocats Olympe Vanner Latournerie Wolfrom & Associés Marie-Hélène Tonnellier Laude Esquier Champey Sophie Havard Duclos Lavoix Avocats Antonin Staub Lerins Jobard Chemla Avocats Mathilde Croze, Cécile Dupas Lext Anne Bourdu, Gaëlle Leroy, Pierre-Lucas Thirion Linklaters Pauline Debré Norton Rose Fulbright Marc d'Haultfoeuille Olswang Sylvie Rousseau, Guillaume Kessler PDGB Avocats Hélène Lebon Staub & Associés Sylvain Staub, Thomas Beaugrand Watson Farley Lucien Rapp

DE GAULLE FLEURANCE & ASSOCIÉS: THE FULL-SERVICE REFERENCE FRENCH LAW FIRM

Leader: Track record: The team led by Louis de Gaulle Team & differentiation: De Gaulle Fleurance & Louis de Gaulle appears in the most important IP cases. They Associés is a true reference in the full-service Established: are involved in the management of trademark French law firms’ market, possessing all the 2001 portfolios, designs and patent matters. With benefits of a large firm. A network of specia- strong expertise in the pharmaceutical sec- lized correspondents work on the internatio- tor, the firm also assists clients in the media nal cases, complementing the firm’s offerings. sector - such as Paramount in a sensitive The quick mobilization of teams in project copyright litigation - and in the ready-to-wear mode is another of the firm’s major assets. Louis de Gaulle sector.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 137 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

FRANCE BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

1 Veron & Associes Amandine Métier, Thomas Bouvet, Isabelle Romet, Pierre Véron, Sabine Agé

2 August & Debouzy Grégoire Desrousseaux, François Pochart

Bird & Bird Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan, Yves Bizollon

Duclos Thorne Mollet Viéville & Associés Pascal Lefort, Thierry Mollet-Viéville, Éléonore Gaspar, Thomas Cuche

Gide Loyrette Nouel Emmanuel Larere, Arnaud Michel, Grégoire Triet, Raphaëlle Dequiré-Portier

Hoyng Rokh Monegier Marie Georges-Picot, Sophie Micallef, Denis Monégier du Sorbier, Benoît Strowel

EXCELLENT

1 Allen & Overy Laëtitia Bénard, Pierre Lenoir, David Por

Armengaud Guerlain Stéphane Guerlain, Catherine Mateu

Cousin & Associés Myriam Moatty, Pierre Cousin, Jean-Martin Chevalier, Sandrine Bouvier-Ravon

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associes J. Horn, F. Valentin, J-M. Job, F. Le Péchon-Joubert, C. Théard-Jallu, L. de Gaulle, G. Courtois

De Marcellus & Disser Juliette Disser, Emmanuel de Marcellus

Dechert Marianne Schaffner, Romain Viret

Dentons Gérard Delile, David Masson, Isabelle Leroux

Hogan Lovells Stanislas Roux-Vaillard

Linklaters Pauline Debré

Loyer & Abello Michel Abello, Jérôme Tassi

2 Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geis Julien Fréneaux

Cande Blanchard Ducamp Julien Blanchard, Patrice de Candé, Claire Herissay-Ducamp

Casalonga Arnaud Casalonga, Mariane Gabriel, Caroline Casalonga, Floriane Codevelle

Guillot De Haas Avocats Jean-François Guillot, Charles de Haas

Lavoix Cyrille Amar, Grégoire Goussu, Antonin Staub

Legrand Lesage Catel Gaultier Michèle Lesage-Catel, Stéphanie Legrand, Philippe Gaultier, Olivier Legrand

Olswang Clara Steinitz, Jean-Frédéric Gaultier

Pinsent Masons Emmanuel Gougé

Reed Smith François Jonquères, Marina Cousté

Schertenleib Avocats Denis Schertenleib

Szleper Henry Avocats Dariusz Szleper, Guillaume Henry

138 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Aramis Benjamin May

Armfelt Patricia Ghozland

Cabinet Benech Alexandre Jacquet, Frédéric Benech, Virginie Lehoux

DLA Piper Jean-Christophe Tristant

DS Avocats Jean-Christophe Guerrini

Damien Régnier Damien Régnier

Deprez Guignot Associes Pierre Deprez, Frédéric Dumont

Cabinet Escande Michel-Paul Escande

Fidal Laurence Dreyfuss-Bechmann, Isabelle Gavanon, Bastien Masson, Frédéric Bourguet

Jones Day Emmanuel Baud

Karsenty & Associes Béatrice Moreau-Margotin, Jean-Philippe Arroyo, Martine Karsenty-Ricard

Le Stanc Avocats Christian Le Stanc

RECOMMENDED

Adamas Barbara Bertholet, Jean-Marie Tocchio, Jean-Baptiste Chanial

Bmh Avocats Martin Hauser

Cléry Avocats Alain Cléry

Cornet Vincent Ségurel & Associés François Herpe, Jérôme Wiehn, Florent Lucas, Thomas Deschryver

Eversheds Gaëtan Cordier

Guilbot Avocats Florent Guilbot

Foley Hoag Catherine Muyl

Hirsch & Associes Marc-Roger Hirsch

Hollier-Larousse & Associés Christian Hollier-Larousse, Annette Sion

Hughes Hubbard & Reed Stefan Naumann

Jacobacci Avocats Jean-Mathieu Bertho

Kern & Weyl Tania Kern

Lefevre Pelletier & Associes Xavier Pican

Lerins Jobard Chemla Cécile Dupas

Nataf Fajgenbaum & Associes Fabienne Fajgenbaum

Promark Elisabeth Berthet

Taylor Wessing Dominique Mallo-Saint Jalmes

Watson Farley Pascal Roux, Lucien Rapp

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 139 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

Our analysis

LAZAREFF LE BARS: LAUDE ESQUIER CHAMPEY: IMPRESSIVE IP LITIGATION TRACK RECORD THE FIGHTING SPIRIT IN THE SERVICE OF HIGH-END CLIENTS

Track record: The firm recently advised a Track record: The firm provides services leading French distributor of electronic pro- covering all the aspects of intellectual ducts in a patent infringement claim before property. From negotiation to high-stakes French and Belgian courts. It also assisted litigation passing through contract draf- a major French pharmaceutical laboratory ting, the team was very visible in major in its invalidity proceedings concerning the cases this year, in particular in trademark. French portion of a European patent belon- Its loyal clients count leading companies ging to an Italian company, in connection in energy, food, luxury and hotel industry. with the launch of a generic drug in France. Simon Christiaën Sophie Havard Duclos Team & differentiation: Sophie Havard Team & differentiation: Offering both advisory Leader: Leader: Duclos leads the specialized IP team. Her Simon Christiaën and litigation services, the firm has deve- Sophie Havard Duclos various experiences in different renowned loped a highly-regarded IP practice, parti- Established: Established: organizations allows for the combination 2009 cularly in the area of patents. Its expertise 2008 of a taste for in-depth analysis and tho- includes mechanical engineering, electro- rough customer service. In addition, inter- nics, IT and biotechnology. Simon Christiaën national mandates arrive in droves thanks is an expert in patent litigation (infringement, to her fluent English and regular contacts revocation and validity). with Germany.

LOYER & ABELLO: PROMARK: AT THE FOREFRONT OF JURISTIC THEORY PARTNER OF CHOICE FOR A GLOBAL GROWTH

Track record: Well-known and recognized Track record: Focusing on trademark prose- in the sectors of industry, energy, tele- cution and counseling, the firm’s strength coms and mechanics, the firm increa- lies in both its long-established experience singly deploys its expertise on patents and the excellence of its team. Patent and in pharmaceuticals. From counseling to trademark litigation are also one of Promark’s litigation, not to mention prosecution, the core practices, mostly advising pharmaceu- team works along the whole lifecycle of tical companies, as well as firms in the food, innovation, and its lawyers strengthened cosmetic, and luxury industries. their reputation in defense of a world lea- Michel Abello Alain Berthet ding generic company. Team & differentiation: With a strong inter- Leader: national network, the firm has developed a Leader: clientele beyond the French borders. Pro- Michel Abello Team & differentiation: At the crossroads Alain Berthet mark’s team prioritizes their clients’ best Established: of scientific knowledge and legal exper- Established: 2003 tise, the firm unites engineers and lawy- 1991 interests and often favors an alternative ers, some of whom are also dual qualified. strategy to litigation. The team also has The trademark department has also been robust competence in litigation, whenever growing since 2012, and it is noteworthy it is necessary. that these professionals have written two reference works on IP, published in 2015.

BIRD & BIRD: VÉRON & ASSOCIÉS: ALREADY IN PLACE FOR THE UNIFIED PATENT COURT (UPC) 100 % PATENT LITIGATION

Track record: The firm’s activity is spread Track record: This year Pierre Véron has fairly between patent litigation and soft IP. become the firm’s Of Counsel and thus At the forefront of the UPC’s issues, the team keeps a sharp eye on many files. Very counts big names in pharmaceuticals and visible in the field of life sciences, the the food industry as clients. In trademarks, team acted for large laboratories, such as designs and models, its lawyers propose the French subsidiary of US group Lilly. integrated and complete services, ranging It also advised Airbus Helicopters in an from prosecution, contract management to anti-counterfeiting action against Bell. litigation. Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan Pierre Véron Team & differentiation: As shown by its Leader: Team & differentiation: In each area of spe- Leader: motto “100% patent litigation”, the team is Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan cialization, the team’s size and its wealth of Pierre Véron dedicated to litigation of invention patents Established: technical experts is remarkable, allowing for Established: by studying all the facets of cases: judi- 2000 in-depth analysis of every case. In electro- 2001 cial litigation, strategic consulting, nego- nics, the exchanges with the technology and tiation, arbitration and mediation. The communication specialists have enriched firm is also well-equipped to meet the the team’s grasp of the industry. In 2015, high demands of international compa- Géraldine Arbant and her team from Lyon nies, which now make up the majority of joined the practice. its clientele.

140 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE BARDEHLE PAGENBERG ESCANDE: STRENGTHENS ITS ACTIVITY IN LITIGATION A HISTORICAL IP FIRM WITH CUTTING-EDGE PERFORMANCE

Track record: Bardehle Pagenberg is one Track record: The team led by Michel-Paul of the most important intellectual property Escande essentially focuses on industrial agencies in Europe. Its expertise covers all clients, notably in the automobile sector. domains of IP, and most of its cases are inter- However, its clients are very diversified - national. The Paris team is active in various French as well as international – in sectors industrial sectors including electronics, tele- ranging from services, art to the food coms, software, medical devices, health pro- industry, including an IP protection case for ducts and automotives. AOC-AOPs (French certification granted to certain products). Escande is a true niche Julien Fréneaux Michel-Paul Escande Team & differentiation: The team’s litigation firm covering all areas of IP. Leader: proficiency was strengthened with the arrival Leader: Julien Fréneaux of a new partner, trademark litigation expert Michel-Paul Escande Team & differentiation: The firm operates mainly Established: Rebecca Delorey. The firm is distinguished Established: in civil and criminal litigation, but also provides 1992 by the quality of its international network, 1971 management and monitoring services of particularly consisting of top-tier specialized portfolios of trademarks, designs and models. lawyers and patent engineers in Europe, the Strategic alliances with international IP US, as well as Asia. specialists, as well as the firm Candé Blanchard Ducamp, allow Escande to provide specific expertise in sophisticated technical areas.

CANDÉ BLANCHARD DUCAMP: THE REFERENCE FOR DESIGNS & MODELS

Leader: Track record: A traditional ally of luxury Team & differentiation: The nomination of Patrice de Candé brands in the IP field, the firm mainly Patrice de Candé as an editor at Jurisclas- Established: acts in litigation in trademarks, designs seur underlines the market’s recognition of 2013 and models, and increasingly patents the firm in design & model litigation. Claire and appellations of origin. In fashion, Ducamp brings her expertise in customs banking, perfumery and retailing, its lawy- procedures, and is one of the few lawyers ers actively act for major clients in France mandated by right-holders to intervene as well as abroad. directly with customs on their behalf. Patrice de Candé

METHODOLOGY

Rankings are established with the following tools:

FRANCE BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING 1 Armengaud-Guerlain Stéphane Guerlain, Catherine Mateu Dentons David Masson, Isabelle Leroux, Gérard Delile Duclos, Thorne, Mollet-Viéville & Associés Pascal Lefort, Thierry Mollet-Viéville, Éléonore Gaspar, Thomas Cuche Escande Michel-Paul Escande, Ghyslaine Rajot, Hélène Huet, Diane de Valbray, Benjamin Fabre Gide Loyrette Nouel Emmanuel Larere, Arnaud Michel, Grégoire Triet, Raphaëlle Dequiré-Portier 2 Candé Blanchard Ducamp Julien Blanchard, Patrice de Candé, Claire Ducamp Bird & Bird Géraldine Arbant, Marc Schuler, Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan, Yves Bizollon Cousin & Associés Pierre Cousin, Sandrine Bouvier-Ravon, Myriam Moatty, Jean-Martin Chevalier De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés J. Horn, F. Valentin, F. Le Péchon-Joubert, C-Ed. Renault, L. de Gaulle, G. Courtois, S. Lederman, R. Killy Hogan Lovells Marie-Aimée de Dampierre, David Taylor Hoyng Rokh Monegier Marie Georges-Picot, Sophie Micallef, Denis Monégier du Sorbier Marchais & Associés Emmanuelle Limouzy, Guillaume Marchais Nataf Fajgenbaum & Associés Fabienne Fajgenbaum EXCELLENT 1 August & Debouzy Grégoire Desrousseaux, François Pochart, Kami Haeri, Véronique Dahan BCTG Avocats Gaëlle Bloret-Pucci Cabinet Hoffman Ingrid Zafrani, Serge Hoffman, Pierre Hoffman, Emmanuelle Hoffman Cabinet Legrand Lesage-Catel Gaultier Stéphanie Legrand, Philippe Gaultier, Olivier Legrand, Michèle Lesage-Catel Casalonga Avocats Arnaud Casalonga, Karina Dimidjan-Lecomte, Caroline Casalonga, Marianne Gabriel, Floriane Cotevelle Cléry Avocats Alain Cléry, Coralie Devarnay Deprez Guignot & Associés Pierre Deprez, Vincent Fauchoux, Frédéric Dumont, Jean-Michel Bruguière Dunaud Clarenc Combles & Associés Patrick Dunaud, Natacha Levine, Bénédicte Michel Herbert Smith Freehills Alexandra Neri Jacobacci Jean-Mathieu Bertho, Olympe Vanner J.P. Karsenty & Associés Béatrice Moreau-Margotin, Martine Karsenty-Ricard, Jean-Philippe Arroyo, Jean-Pierre Karsenty Laude Esquier Champey Sophie Havard Duclos 2 @Mark Christophe Degrave, Jean-Marie Algoud, Gilbert Piat, Charles-Antoine Joly AL Avocats Muriel Antoine-Lalance Anne Lakits Josse Anne Lakits Josse Bardehle Pagenberg Julien Fréneaux, Rebecca Delorey Benoliel Avocats Sylvie Benoliel-Claux Cabinet Bouchara Vanessa Bouchara Cabinet Greffe Pierre Greffe, François Greffe Damien Régnier Damien Régnier Dechert Marianne Schaffner, Romain Viret De Marcellus & Disser Juliette Disser, Emmanuel de Marcellus DLA Piper Laurence Julien-Raes DS Avocats Bertrand Potot, Catherine Verneret, Clothilde Delbecq, Jean-Christophe Guerrini, Arnaud Tessalonikos Gilbey Legal Richard Gilbey, Jehan-Philippe Jacquey, Joanne Quirin Guillot De Haas Avocats Jean-François Guillot, Charles de Haas HW&H Christophe Chapoullié Hirsch & Associés Marc-Roger Hirsch Jones Day Emmanuel Baud Le Stanc Avocats Christian Le Stanc Reed Smith Marina Cousté, François Jonquères, Charlotte Portmann Schmidt, Brunet & Litzler Delphine Brunet-Stoclet, Maria Luisa Arce-Torrecilla HIGHLY RECOMMENDED 1 Alain Bensoussan Avocats Virginie Brunot, Laurence Tellier-Loniewski, Anne-Sophie Cantreau, Claudine Salomon BMH Avocats Martin Hauser Cabinet Arenaire Pierre Massot, Thibault Lentini-Moniot Cabinet Benech Frédéric Benech, Virginie Lehoux, Alexandre Jacquet Cabinet Bertrand André Bertrand Cabinet Christophe Caron Christophe Caron, Clotilde Fouquet Clairmont Avocats Laurent Barissat, Sandra Cabanne-Desgranges, Alexandre Nappey DBK Thomas Debiesse, Christian Kim, Jérôme Buscail De Pardieu Brocas Maffei Barbara Levy Fidal G. Michel, L. Dreyfuss-Bechmann, I. Gavanon, B. Masson, P. Boutron, P. Debry, F. Bourget Fieldfisher Franck Veisse, Nathalie Hadjadj-Cazier, Bruno Ducoulombier FTPA Antoine Gautier-Sauvagnac, Philippe Pochet, Fabrice Lorvo, Boriana Guimberteau Guillemin Flichy Alexis Guillemin Harlay Avocats Fabrice Perbost, Sabine Lipovetsky Hollier-Larousse & Associés Christian Hollier-Larousse, Annette Sion Jacob Avocats Julie Jacob Kern & Weyl Tania Kern, Claire Weyl Linklaters Pauline Debré Loyer & Abello Michel Abello, Delphine Rudloff, Jérôme Tassi Mandel Pariente Associés Lauren Pariente, Isabelle Marcus Mandel Noésis Avocats Marie Fabregat, Caroline Hiltgen-Lebouvier Nomos Héléna Delabarre, Eric Lauvaux Osborne Clarke Claire Bouchenard, Béatrice Delmas-Linel Passa Varet Avocats Vincent Varet, Jérôme Passa Promark Bénédicte Devevey, Elisabeth Berthet-Maillols, Alain Berthet Szleper Henry Avocats Dariusz Szleper, Guillaume Henry Valérie Perrichon Avocats Valérie Perrichon

142 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 2 Allen & Overy Laétitia Bénard Altana Pierre Lubet Atem Avocats Isabelle Camus, Aurélie Buisson Atlan & Boksenbaum Alexandra Atlan-Elhaïk, Nathalie Boksenbaum Baker & McKenzie Virginie Ulmann Bersay & Associés Emmanuel Schulte Brunswick Société d'Avocats Nicolas Moreau Courtois Lebel Cédric Frenel De Baecque Avocats Olivier de Baecque Derriennic & Associés Pierre-Yves Margnoux, François-Pierre Lani, Georges Jenselme Elkrief Avocat Danielle Elkrief Eversheds Gaëtan Cordier Foley Hoag Catherine Muyl Granrut Avocats Richard Milchior Haas Avocats Gérard Haas Hughes Hubbard and Reed Stefan Naumann ISGE & Associés François Illouz Lavoix Avocats Cyrille Amar, Grégoire Goussu Lext Anne Bourdu, Gaëlle Leroy, Pierre-Lucas Thirion Norton Rose Fulbright Marc d'Haultfoeuille PDGB Avocats Benjamin Jacob Pinsent Masons Diane Mullenex, Emmanuel Gougé Simmons & Simmons Sarah Bailey, Alexandre Regniault, Frédéric Potin Taylor Wessing Valérie Aumage, Dominique Mallo-Saint Jalmes, Dominique Mallo Watrin Brault & Associés Nicolas Brault, Florence Watrin RECOMMENDED 1 A Turquoise Société D'Avocats Anne-Marie Pecoraro Aston Avocats Carine Piccio Baldassari Avocats Charlotte Baldassari Bilalian Avocats David Alexandre, Lara Morel, Marguerite Bilalian Cabinet Mateljan Avocats Christel Mateljan Delafaye Carbonnier Lamaze Rasle & Associés Corinne Thiérache, Michel Rasle Demoly Avocats Pascale Demoly Hoche Société d'Avocats Régis Carral, Patrick Amouzou Jouclard Avocats Alexandra Jouclard Latham & Watkins Diego de Lammerville Lefevre Pelletier & Associes Xavier Pican Llc Avocats Jérôme Lefort, Romain Waïss-Moreau LMT Avocats Olivier Samyn, Christophe Héry Olswang France Clara Steinitz, Jean-Frédéric Gaultier Oria Media Mathieu Davy Pechenard & Associes Fabien Honorat, Gauthier Moreuil, Eric Andrieu Plasseraud Avocats Gilles Ringeisen Redlink Emmanuelle Behr, Frédéric Fournier Staub & Associés Sylvain Staub, Thomas Beaugrand, Dominique Isel Tahar & Associés Edmond Tahar Veber Associés Philippe Veber Versus & Versus Yaël Wolmark Wilhelm et Associés Pascal Wilhem Ydes Avocats (Alister) Cyril Fabre 2 28 Octobre - Société D'Avocats David Koubbi, Sandrine Petoin Aklea Bénédicte de Carlan Astine Legal Christine Borfiga , Claire Bertheux-Scotté, Rachel Ashley, Thomas Cassagne Bismuth Société d'avocats Yves Bismuth, Mathieu Martin Brm Avocats Martine Ricouart-Maillet, Nicole Bondois Coblence & Associes Jean-Marc Coblence, Mélanie Erber Crossen & Borowsky Sophie Borowsky IT Law Avocats Claudia Weber La Motte Rouge Avocat Henri de la Motte Rouge Latournerie Wolform Marie-Hélène Tonnellier LMBE Avocats Sandra Strittmatter, Raphaël Dana Osmose Avocats Alexis Vichnievsky, Antoine Gendreau, Alexandra Le Corroncq Reinhart Marville Torre Marc Susini Stehlin & Associés Frédéric Lecomte Teissonnière Sardain Chève Guillaume Teissonnière Wize Avocats Jean-Baptiste Benvenuti VALUABLE EXPERTISE Aramis CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Bignon Lebray Avocats Dauzier & Associes Cabinet Granger Erber Avocats Cabinet Poulain & Associes Franklin Cabinet Singh Lamy & Associés Clevery Avocats

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 143 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

Our analysis

@MARK: BISMUTH: A FIGHTER AND A DEFENDER OF IP THE PRIORITY TO NEGOTIATION

Track record: @mark assists, advises and Track record: In 2015, the firm has represents companies of all sizes and in significantly grown its trademark port- various sectors: fashion, cosmetics, food folio management for clients in inter- processing, IT, etc. Besides providing consul- national development. It remains a tation, @mark recently reinforced its practice specialist in drafting and negotiating in litigation. Cases related to the defense and Internet contracts, a practice that now valuation of trademark portfolios constitute extends to the connected objects, data one of the firm’s strengths. and Internet exchanges. The E- health sector is particularly targeted. Charles-Antoine Joly Yves Bismuth Team & differentiation: The team believes that Leader: each intellectual property right (trademark, Leader: Team & differentiation: For Yves Bismuth’s Charles-Antoine Joly model, patent ...) represents a weapon, both Yves Bismuth team, "all litigation is a failure of negotia- Established: offensive and defensive, and that its intelli- Established: tion attempts." Each case under pre-li- 2000 gent handling is a critical factor for success. 1971 tigation situation is therefore subject The firm tailors its advice according to the to intense mediation in order to find an size and stakes of each case, in France and upstream agreement between the two worldwide, thanks to a wide network of inter- parties. The firm increasingly accompa- national partners. nies its clients to ensure the long-term follow-up of projects.

CLÉRY AVOCATS: HIRSCH & ASSOCIÉS: CREATIVE ANSWERS TO COMPLICATED CASES THE DOUBLE APPROACH TO SUCCESS

Track record: The firm has recently assisted Track record: Hirsch & Associés’ practice is the jewelry specialist Repossi on intellec- highly international, and the clients include tual property matters within the framework a considerable amount of multinational com- of its alliance with LVMH. Cléry works with a panies. The firm manages various large IP variety of industries from start-ups to large portfolios, especially in patent matters, companies, providing strong expertise in while also actively representing clients in both national and European jurisdictions. courtrooms with regard to trademarks and designs, as well as domain names, copy- Team & differentiation: The team operates right and unfair competition. Alain Cléry Marc-Roger Hirsch both in counseling and litigation. The expe- Leader: rience and reputation of Alain Cléry, as well Leader: Team & differentiation: Hirsch & Associés Alain Cléry as the firm’s ability to give highly-innovative Marc-Roger Hirsch actively practices litigation as well as legal Established: responses to sensitive issues, make it a Established: counseling, a double approach that enables 1987 sought after law firm. Cléry is also regularly 1968 comprehensive understanding of the most solicited by major law firms requiring strong complicated cases. This approach, which support in IP law. benefits from the strong support of scientific colleagues, anneals the law firm’s success in patent protection, and offers major synergies besides.

MARCHAIS & ASSOCIÉS: VALÉRIE PERRICHON AVOCATS: THE SPECIALIST IN WINE BRANDS A YOUNG FIRM WITH EXPERTISE TO SHOW FOR

Track record: The firm enjoys dual activity in Track record: Having started her own law firm the complementary fields of trademark pro- in May 2014, Valérie Perrichon has already secution and counseling, and has acted in advised large global enterprises including trademark disputes for Quick and Reckitt. Nestlé, Jet Tours and Parrot along with some The team is also very active in judicial mana- SMEs. She is actively involved in quite a few gement of portfolio, customs, and UDRP industries, such as fashion, accessories, litigation related to domain names and jewelry, new technologies, transport, food cybersquatting. industry, and banking and insurance. Guillaume Marchais Valérie Perrichon Team & differentiation: A true expert in wine Team & differentiation: In spite of its small Leader: law, the firm counts wine brands as a criti- Leader: team, the firm is involved in providing one- Guillaume Marchais cal component of its activity. It relies on the Valérie Perrichon stop full service at every stage of IP-related Established: strong skills of Guillaume Marchais, lecturer Established: matters, from counseling, protection to 1997 in the Law on Vine and Wine at graduate 2014 litigation. In particular, it specializes in tra- schools, to develop a highly-specialized demarks, designs and models. Its long-es- know-how in this sector. tablished network with excellent international attorneys and lawyers adds value to Valérie Perrichon Avocats.

144 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE FRANCE BEST PATENT ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Cabinet Beau De Lomenie Pierre Balesta, Philippe Hubert, François Delumeau, Didier Intès, Pierre-Louis Désormière Eric Burbaud, Albert Hassine, Marielle Chateau, Raphaël Fleurance, Francis Berogin, Geoffroy Cousin, Cabinet Plasseraud Bertrand Loisel, Frédéric Niemann, Cyra Nargolwalla, Didier Boulinguiez, Catherine Touati , Ina Schreiber Gérard Dossmann, Axel Casalonga, Olivier Delprat, Francis Zapalowicz, Virginie Martin-Charbonneau, Casalonga & Associés Véronique Crest, Jean-Baptiste Lecoeur, Julien Thon, Gwennhaël Le Roy, Jurgen Neugebauer Lavoix Alain Colombet, Gérard Myon, Etienne Habasque, Claude Jacobson, Bertrand Domenego, Philippe Blot Jérôme Collin, Christian Texier, Barbara Casadewall, Marie Audren, Emmanuelle Levy, Jean-Robert Callon de Regimbeau Lamarck, Anne Bogard Boutaric, Stéphanie Célaire, Francis Ahner, Frédérique Faivre-Petit Santarelli F. Lepelletier-Beaufond, L. Santarelli, H. Stankoff, G. de Trémiolles, T. Caen, B. Quantin EXCELLENT Brevalex Philippe Ahner, Éric Augarde, Philippe Audier, Pascal Moutard, Thomas Moisand Cabinet Netter Gabriel de Kernier, Jean-Yves Plaçais, Alexis Renard, Jérémie Palacci Dejade & Biset Raphaël Louiset, Xavier Demulsant Egyp Julia Andral-Ziurys, Carol Almond-Martin, Anne Desaix, Carole Sellin Germain & Maureau Nicolas Delorme, Philippe Verriest, Renaud Chevalier, Stéphane Agasse, Frédéric Gaillarde IP Trust Pierre Breesé Icosa Caroline de Mareüil-Villette, Claire Verschelde Ipsilon Sylvie Hervouet-Malbec, Valérie Godineau, Valérie Feray, Wilfried Peguet, Laurence Lenne, Jean-Loup Laget Marks & Clerk J-M. Bréda, I. Dudouit, A. Collet, S. Esselin, M-P. Henriot, L. Lucas, G. Brunelli, C. Nguyen-Van-Yen, E. Priori Novagraaf Technologies Marie-Pierre de Lambilly, Marc Bethenod, Eric Enderlin, Fabien Gauchet HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Boettcher Benjamin Parzy, Bruno Lavialle Cabinet Didier Martin Didier Martin, Jean-François Weber Cabinet Flechner Olivier Eidelsberg Cabinet Vidon Patrice Vidon, Ludovic Bioret Camus Lebkiri Olivier Camus, Alexandre Lebkiri Coralis & Harle Phelip Vincent Chauvin, Alain Catherine, Jean-Michel Le Bihan, Fabienne Orsini Gevers & Orès Jean-Christophe Rolland, Boris Welzer, Bernard Hauer, Sonia Dias, Michel Bolinches, Béatrice Orès Hirsch & Associes Christophe Andral, Marc-Roger Hirsch Ixas Conseil Martin Schmidt LLR Guillaume de la Bigne, Vincent Remy, Clémence Vallée-Thiollier, Emmanuel Potdevin Lynde & Associés Christian Riege, Pierre Kohler, Stéphane Lynde Ipside J-C. Hamann, C. Schmit, S. Deschamps, E. Fourcade, M. Majerowicz, D. Maupilier, G. Mortreux, A. Ribeiro Dias Pontet Allano Claire Mouget Goniot, Nurhak Akdogan, Alain Kingolo, Olivier Legrand, Bernard Pontet RECOMMENDED Argyma Raynald Bornier, Jean-Christophe Dordain, Guillaume Milcent Be Leader Innovation Xavier Rataboul Becker & Associés Marion Chajmowicz, Valérie Gallois, Philippe Becker, Béatrice Tézier Herman, Anne-Caroline Starck-Loudes Cabinet Degret Jacques Degret Cabinet Hammond William Hammond Cabinet Hautier Jean-Pascal Decobert, Nicolas Hautier Cabinet Malemont Frank Sauvestre Cabinet Marconnet Sébastien Marconnet Cabinet Moutard Xavier Mazabraud Cabinet Tripoz Inès Tripoz Cabinet Wagret Muriel Aupetit, Frédéric Wagret Jacobacci Avocats Samuel Le Cacheux Jurispatent Claude Guiu Nony François Tanty, Pascale le Coupanec Strato Ip Julien Sayettat Weinstein Michel Thinat, Helmut Berger, Hartmut Bergemann

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 145 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

FRANCE BEST TRADEMARK ATTORNEYS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Cabinet Beau De Lomenie Aurélia Marie Cabinet Plasseraud Patrick Boyle, Isabelle Meunier-Coeur, Guylène Kiesel Le Cosquer, Bérénice Dejardins Germain & Maureau Bertrand Geoffray, Georges Bernard, Julien Fialletout, William Lobelson, Hugues Pouzet Novagraaf Bérengère Egasse-Michaille, Olivier Boland, Anne-Catherine Schihin, Pierre de Boisse, Carole Roger Regimbeau Olivier Prats, Isabelle Thill, Martine Bloch-Weill, Evelyne Roux, Marc Levieils Santarelli Eric Le Bihan, Hélène Le Cornu, Nathalie Rey, Sophie Marc Tmark Valérie Dorey, François Deschamps, Olivier Thrierr, Nadine Royer EXCELLENT Casalonga & Associés Axel Casalonga, Marie Pusel Dreyfus & Associes Emmanuel Harrar, Nathalie Dreyfus Egyp Benjamin Fontaine, Virginie Zancan, Martine Dehaut, Christophe Pelèse, Nathalie Pacaud Inlex IP Expertise Franck Soutoul, Eric Schahl Lambert & Associés Pascale Lambert, Stève Félix Lavoix Catherine Levalet, Philippe Lods, David Millet, Béatrice Daubin, Valérie Samson, Cyrille Mazeline Markplus International Tom Palmisano, Caroline Geffroy-Redon, Corinne Allard-Dornaletche, Paul-Eric Allard HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Ab Initio Frédérique Haefele, Annick Pairault Cabinet Vidon Soazig Thémoin, Patrice Vidon Desbarres & Staeffen Thierry Desbarres, Julien Delucenay, Véronique Staeffen Hirsch & Associes Karine Maucoeur, Sarah Rocher-Matias, Charline Di Luca Inscripta Manuel Roche, Agnès Doyen Ipside Guillaume Mortreux, Bérénice Aubert, Julie Haller, Stéphane Meunier Ipsilon Valérie Godineau, Jean-Loup Laget, Florence Briec-Le Goas Lynde & Associés Deborah Vincze, Stéphane Lynde, Antoine Heckel Partenaires PI Mélissa Cassanet, Malaurie Pantalacci, Gaëlle Loinger-Benamran RECOMMENDED 1 Boettcher Stéphane Lemaire, Bruno Lavialle, Pierre Vergnaud Brevalex Jean-Baptiste Duranton Cabinet Bruno Lhermet Bruno Lhermet Cabinet Degret Bruno Raibaut, Manuel Degret, Jacques Degret, Magali Clair-Mouly, Fabrice Bircker Cabinet Flechner David Bilquey Cabinet Hautier Jean-Pascal Decobert, Nicolas Hautier Cabinet Netter Jean-Yves Plaçais , Gabriel de Kernier, Émilie Grangiens Camus Lebkiri Aurore Simon Druon, Olivier Camus, Alexandre Lebkiri Coralis & Harle Phelip Vincent Chauvin, Stéphanie Weibel, Alain Michelet, Fabienne Orsini Cormier Reiss & Associés Françoise Cormier Gevers & Orès Ingrid Corviole-Parent, Nathalie Rousset, Fabrice Pigeaux, Elisabeth Fossot, Marine Beacco LLR Gilles Escudier, Kristell Erout Nuss Jacques Vigneron, Michèle Dietrich-Schnell, Olivier Girard, Laurent Nuss, Marie Lüttge, Damien Quelier Strato-IP Sébastien Hautière, Amith Mudun Weinstein Dominique François, Christian Frick

2 Aaronson Naomi Aaronson-Runquist Avoxa CPI Benoît Lebreton Aéropage Isabelle Poujade-Auriol, Florence Jalabert Brandstorming Valérie Dellinger Cabinet Beaumont Laurent Thibon Cabinet Hammond William Hammond Cabinet Malemont Marc Chauchard, Philippe Picard Cabinet Wagret Frédéric Wagret Chaillot Denis Chaillot Ixas Conseil Martin P. Schmidt, Vanessa Darbouret Jacobacci Avocats Séverine Redon Jurispatent Guiu Sandrine Guiu, Dorian Guiu, Claude Guiu Legimark Anne-Karine Bogillot-Sawra, Belynda Chauvet, Dominique Richeux, Marcel Botton Marks And Clerk Marie-Pierre Henriot, Martine Adamoff Mottet & Associés Pascale Mottet Pontet Allano & Associés Denis Baldensperger, Denis Lesire Sodema Conseils Lionel Lapeyre, Catherine Delaud

146 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Our analysis

AB INITIO: CABINET FLECHNER: A BOUTIQUE WITH GREAT EXPERIENCE A SYNERGY OF SKILLS IN THE HAUTE COUTURE AND TEXTIL SECTORS

Track record: Ab Initio provides legal service Track record: Well known for its trademark to startups as well as multinationals. Owning practice, Cabinet Flechner assists large an acclaimed reputation in the industry, the companies, for instance in the haute cou- firm shows its expertise on trademarks, ture and textile sectors. Oriented towards designs and models. It also assists clients the international arena, it also accompanies in the protection of appellations of origin, German clients in the automotive industry copyrights, domain names and unfair com- and electronic appliances. Patents, trade- petition cases. marks, copyrights and domain names are its areas of expertise. Annick Pairault Olivier Eidelsberg Team & differentiation: The firm works directly Leader: with the INPI, OHIM and WIPO through its Leader: Team & differentiation: Thanks to the board Annick Pairault large network of French and international Olivier Eidelsberg expertise of its attorneys, the team is able Established: correspondents specialized in intellectual Established: to practice all aspects of IP. Patent portfolio 2007 property. A former trainer for INPI, Annick 1919 management specialist, Olivier Eidelsberg, Pairault also focuses on providing occasio- and David Bilquey, dedicated to trademarks nal training for company staff and raising and domain names, lead the team. For inter- their awareness on intellectual property national matters, the firm relies on a network issues. of foreign correspondents who have formed a long and close relationship with Flechner.

IXAS CONSEIL: LAMBERT & ASSOCIÉS: EXPERIENCE IN IP THE CHAMPION OF TAILORED SERVICE

Track record: Counting the nuclear energy Track record: The firm works closely with GC research center CEA Grenoble as a repre- and CFOs on the valuation and protection sentative client, IXAS works with large indus- of trademarks and patents. Thanks to a trial groups in chemistry, materials sciences, thorough study of the particular contexts of life sciences, mechanics and industrial pro- each client, the team designs customized cesses. The firm recently advised a food strategies for giants in e-commerce, energy, company in disputes concerning retailers’ motorsport and the wine industry. brands. Team & differentiation: Lambert’s team Martin Schmidt Pascale Lambert Team & differentiation: Head of the team of 8 remains human-sized to converse its great Leader: IP personnel, Managing Partner Martin Sch- Leader: reactivity and adaptability. The well-trained Martin Schmidt midt had extensive experience, largely due Pascale Lambert staff guarantees an excellent quality of tech- Established: to his 20 years spent in R&D and IP manage- Established: nical work and satisfies the most demanding 1989 ment at companies such as Total, Pechiney 1985 clients. Over 50% of the firm’s activity is inter- and Alcan. This allows the firm to combine its national, especially in China, Japan and Viet- expertise on industrial matters and juridical nam, as well as Europe. rigor. Thanks to a Franco-German team, the firm also assists clients in Germany.

PARTENAIRE PI: TMARK: A HUMAN-SIZED BOUTIQUE WITH STRATEGIC VISION EXCELLENT IP SERVICES IN FRANCE AND GLOBALLY

Track record: Established in 2006, this bou- Track record: Tmark advises its clients on all tique’s partners have combined their skills IP matters ranging from patents and trade- to assist clients in defining and implemen- marks to copyrights and designs. Though ting IP strategies. They advise, assist and the firm is renowned for its prosecution represent clients in obtaining, maintaining, work, it is also involved in advising clients defending and valuating their IP and related on contentious IP matters. It works closely rights in France and abroad, before the INPI, with a worldwide network of IP firms, both in WIPO and OHIM (now EUPIO) via an exten- France and internationally. sive network of foreign associates. Mélissa Cassanet François Deschamps Team & differentiation: In addition to its 3 Leader: Team & differentiation: The firm’s specificity Leader: existing partners, François Deschamps, Mélissa Cassanet lies in combining IP expertise and persona- François Deschamps Valérie Dorey and Nadine Royer, the firm Established: lized assistance for its clients based on their Established: recently hired Olivier Thrierr to strengthen 2006 needs, objectives and budgetary require- 1993 its IP practice. The firm also has a 25 ments. Its human size and innovative struc- member-strong support team consisting of ture further allow a responsive exchange 4 trademark attorneys. with clients. All of the 3 partners are Euro- pean trademark attorneys (OAMI).

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 147 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

Our analysis

ICOSA: PLASSERAUD: A SOLID LIFE SCIENCES EXPERT IN EUROPE 110 YEARS OF INNOVATION

Track record: Working closely with large Track record: If the firm was once historically laboratories, startups and universities, Icosa composed of engineers, the legal depart- offers established technical proficiency ment in charge of trademark work has not across a full spectrum of IP matters, from stopped growing. 2015 was a busy year, patent prosecution, portfolio management, marked by the opening of the Bordeaux IP strategy, audit, due diligence to defense office. Plasseraud is able to offer its services of IP rights. The firm actively operates in both on the litigation and prosecution sides, Europe, Asia and the US. and LVMH, Essilor, Total and LG Electronics trust the firm as clients. Caroline de Mareüil-Villette Didier Boulinguiez Team & differentiation: With 2 partners and Leaders: 11 other attorneys, the firm has built a solid Leader: Team & differentiation: One of the strengths of Caroline de Mareüil- reputation distinguished by its dual compe- Didier Boulinguiez this centenarian IP firm is its large network, Villette, Claire Verschelde tencies in life sciences and IP. In 2015, its Established: thanks to a strong local and international Established: Brussels office led by Anne Savoye further 1906 presence, with offices in Prague and Shan- 2009 strengthened its practice by welcoming new ghai. The firm has developed a wide range arrivals. Co-founder Caroline de Mareüil-Vil- of project such as Fivalor (IP value-creation) lette works with emerging companies and and Contratak (anti-counterfeiting). academic institutions to build value through their IP portfolio.

CABINET TRIPOZ: CABINET BOETTCHER: PROVIDING IP SERVICES FOR STARTUPS A HIGHLY TECHNICAL TEAM

Track record: The team at Cabinet Tripoz is Track record: Boettcher represents a diverse regularly involved in patent litigation (coun- clientele ranging from individuals to multi- terfeits, invalidity actions, oppositions, etc.), nationals. It acts particularly on IP cases in notably for clients in cosmetics and generic the fields of aeronautics and equipment, medicines. Its multilingual team of technical covering patents, trademarks, designs and experts works particularly with chemical and models. In addition to strategic issues and pharmaceutical enterprises. advice, Boettcher also assists its clients in litigation. Team & differentiation: The firm is known for Inès Tripoz Bruno Lavialle its specialization in litigation and support for Team & differentiation: Led by Bruno Lavialle Leader: start-ups in France and abroad. Its human- Leader: and Benjamin Parzy, the team counts a Inès Tripoz sized team currently consists of 1 partner, Bruno Lavialle considerable number of patent attorneys. Established: 4 engineers and 1 other lawyer, and provides Established: With its advanced technical expertise, it 2009 the same technical excellence and rigor as 1876 consults clients in issues such as strategy large international law firms, with a strong of IP protection, exploitation and defense of commitment to quality and innovation. their IP rights, and represents them before various competent authorities, both nationally and internationally.

METHODOLOGY

Rankings are established with the following tools:

148 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE GERMANY

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 149 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

GERMANY VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS LIST Funds are listed alphabetically

FUNDS INDUSTRY

Acton CapitalPartners High-tech

Bayern Kapital High-tech

B-to-v IT, TMT

Capnamic Ventures E-commerce, gaming, payment, advertising or software-as-a-service

Cipio Partners IT, TMT

Earlybird VC IT, TMT, gaming, e-commerce, real estate

German Startups Group High-tech

Global Founders Capital High-tech, consumer good, E-commerce

Grazia Equity High-tech

Hasso Plattner Ventures IT

Heilemann Venture Digital

High-Tech Gruenderfonds High-tech, TMT, Life sciences, Energy

Holtzbrinck Digital

IBB-bet.de Life sciences, ICT

Lakestar Digital

Neuhaus Partners IT

Paua Ventures all industries

Point Nine Capital Software as a service

Project A Ventures E-commerce, data and software, Infrastructures

RI Digital Ventures Digital

Shortcut Ventures Data, IT, TMT

Target Partners High-tech

Team Europe Ventures Digital

Venista Ventures Mobile

WesTech Ventures High-tech

150 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE GERMANY BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS TEAM LED BY LEADING

Deutsche Bank Mark Keene, Gavin Deane

Goldman Sachs Dan Dees (global head TMT)

JPMorgan Joachim Sonne (Managing Director, Co-Head of EMEA TMT)

EXCELLENT

Credit Suisse Ihsan Essaid, Mark Simonian, David Wah

Morgan Stanley Jean Abergel

UBS Investment Bank Christian Lesueur (Head of EMEA, TMT)

UniCredit Group Alexander Arauner, Andreas Kölsch

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Barclays Laurence Goldberg

Citigroup Trip Wolfe (Managing Director, Global TMT)

Corporate Finance Partners Andreas Thuemmler, Daniel Schenk (managing directors)

Goetzpartners Henrietta Schmidt-Wilke (managing director)

Houlihan Lokey Asgar Zwick (managing director)

Nomura Holdings Roy Kabla

Rothschild Dirk Pahlke (head of M&A Germany)

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 151 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

GERMANY BEST IP ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Boehmert & Boehmert Heinz Goddard, Jan Krauss Grünecker Heike Vogelsang-Wenke, Hans Hilgers Hoffmann Eitle Matthias Kindler EXCELLENT Bardehle Pagenberg Johannes Heselberger, Peter Hess Lorenz Seidler Gossel Dieter Laufhütte, Michael Thoma Meissner Bolte & Partner Eugen Popp Prinz & Partners Wernar Sulzbach Vossius & Partner Hans-Rainer Jaenichen Wuestoff & Wuestoff Bernhard Thum, Andreas Beyer HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Eisenführ Speiser Uwe Stilkenböhmer Dennemeyer Malte Köllner Dreiss Thomas Knapp Gulde & Partner Jürgen Hengelhaupt Isenbruck Bösl Hörschler Raphael Bösl Kraus & Weisert Hans-Joerg Banzer, Claus Beckmann Lederer & Keller Günter Keller Maiwald Regina Neuefeind, Volker Hamm Manitz Finsterwald & Partner Gerhart Manitz, Manfred Finsterwald, James Morgan Michalski Hüttermann & Partner Stefan Andreas Michalski, Aloys Hüttermann RECOMMENDED König Szynka Tilmann von Renesse Georg König, Wilhelm Tilmann MERH IP Bruno M. Matias, Tobias Erny Rau Schneck & Hübner Gerd Hübner Ter Meer Steinmeister & Partner Christian Hollatz Viering Jentschura & Partner Adam Bogsch von Kreisler Selting Werner Hans-Peter Jönsson Witte, Weller & Partner Michael Lindner

HOFFMANN EITLE: PRINZ AND PARTNER: FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY DEVOTED TO IP COMMERCIAL AND CREATIVE IP FIRM

Track record: Hoffmann Eitle is a major player Track record: Prinz & Partner create inno- in the market with more than 100 patent vative IP solutions that help clients achieve attorneys and attorney-at-laws devoted to strategic objectives. The firm advises IP issues, doing both prosecution and liti- both SMEs and international corporations, gation work. The firm has a highly-interna- and has an outstanding client base which tional client list, acting for IKEA, Mitsubishi, includes: Areva, ArvinMeritor, Becton Dickin- De Longhi Braun, Soni Ericsson and Nikon son, BMW, The European Central Bank, Nike, Corporation. Orange, Samsung, Shimano, Texas Instru- ments, Thales, and Volvo. Matthias Kindler Werner Sulzbach Team & differentiation: Internationally reco- Leaders: gnized for its patent work, the firm has a Leader: Team & differentiation: Based in Munich, this Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, strong trademark group, which develops Werner Sulzbach IP boutique offers its clients the specializa- Matthias Kindler, Wedig tailor-made national and international filing Established: tion of 6 partners and 16 patent attorneys. All von der OstenSacken, strategies with respect to management 1928 attorneys are members of the German Patent Michaela Ring portfolio design law and unfair competition Bar Association and can represent clients Established: 1892 litigation. The firm has offices in Munich, before the European Patent Office and the Dusseldorf, Hamburg and London. Office for Harmonization in the Internal Mar- ket in Alicante.

152 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE GERMANY BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Bird & Bird Christian Harmsen, Oliver Jüngst

Hogan Lovells Andreas von Falck

Preu Bohlig & Partner Christian Donle, Alexander Harguth, Stephan Gruber

Quinn Emanuel Johannes W Bukow, Marcus Grosch

EXCELLENT

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Frank-Erich Hufnagel, Peter Chrocziel

Gleiss Lutz Matthias Sonntag, Andreas Wehlau

Klaka Rechtsanwälte Michael Nieder

Krieger Mes & Graf von der Groeben Christoph Graf v. der Groeben, Axel Verhauwen

Hoyng Rokh Monegier T. W. Reimann, C. Osterrieth, M. Köhler, K. Haft, C. Kanz

Rospatt Osten Pross Stephan von Petersdorff-Campen, Max von Rospatt

Taylor Wessing Christoph de Coster, Sabine Rojahn

Wildanger Kehrwald Graf v. Schwerin & Partner Roland Kehrwald, Wolf Graf von Schwerin

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Arnold Ruess Cordula Tellmann-Schumacher, Bernhard Arnold

Bardehle Pagenberg Johannes Heselberger

Hengeler Mueller Wolfgang Kellenter

Kather Augenstein Rechtsanwälte Peter Kather, Christof Augenstein RECOMMENDED

Anwaltskanzlei Schultz-Süchting Rolf Schultz-Süchting

Frohwitter Bernhard Frohwitter

Grünecker Bernd Allekotte

Hoffmann Eitle Thorsten Bausch, Peter Klusmann

QUINN EMANUEL: A TERRIFIC TEAM

Leaders: Track record: The firm’s expertise in patent liti- Team & differentiation: With 3 offices in Marcus Grosch, gation covers clients and patents of various Munich, Hamburg and Mannheim, and more Johannes Bukow industries (high-tech, medical devices, than twenty lawyers entirely dedicated to IP, Established: 2010 (Germany) pharma/biotechnology), and involves the the US litigation firm is already a leader in this coordination of lawsuits in multiple jurisdic- very competitive market. Managing Partner tions. Partners are familiar in the technology Marcus Grosch is a highly-regarded litigator sector and are able to handle with antitrust with specific experience in the interface of issues and nullity proceedings. patents and antitrust law. Marcus Grosch

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 153 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

GERMANY BEST FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Harmsen Utescher Till Lampel

Hoffmann Eitle Wedig von der Osten-Sacken

Grünecker Martin Aufenager

EXCELLENT

Bardehle Pagenberg Johannes Heselberger

Boehmert & Boehmert Wilhelm Stahlberg

CMS Hasche Sigle Gordian Hasselblatt

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Andrea Lensing-Kramer

Hogan Lovells Matthias Koch, Andreas Bothe

Jonas Martin Viefhues

Lorenz Seidler Gossel Siegfried Jackermeier

Prinz & Partner Wernar Sulzbach, Alexander Gonzalez, Markus Bagh

Wuestoff & Wuestoff Andreas Beyer

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Isenbruck Bösl Hörschler Fritz Lahrtz

Klaka Oliver Rauscher

Maiwald Matthias Gottschalk

Viering Jentschura & Partner Wolfgang Festl-Wietek

Vossious & Partner Mathias Kleespies

154 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE GERMANY BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Bird & Bird Christian Harmsen, Joseph Fesenmair Hogan Lovells Hogan Lovells EXCELLENT Bardehle Pagenberg Claus Eckhartt CMS Hasche Sigle Alexander von Bossel, Thomas Manderla Gleiss Lutz Stefan Voelker, Matthias Sonntag Harmsen Utescher Matthias Wolter, Rainer Kaase Klaka Rechtsanwälte Andreas Schulz, Oliver Rauscher Lorenz Seidler Gossel Reinhard E. Ingerl Preu Bohlig & Partner Astrid Gérard, Detlef von Schultz, Stephan Gruber HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Arnold Ruess Peter Ruess Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Klaus Beucher, Andrea Lensing-Kramer Grünecker Maximilian Kinkeldey Harte-Bavendamm Rechtsanwälte Henning Harte-Bavendamm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek Thorsten Wieland Hoffmann Eitle Michaela Ring, Wedig von der Osten-Sacken Jonas Martin Viefhues Legerlotz Laschet Rechtsanwälte Markus Bagh Lichtenstein Körner & Partners Thomas Sambuc Loschelder Rechtsanwälte Michael Loschelder, Thomas Schulte-Beckhausen Lubberger Lehment Andreas Lubberger, Cornelis Lehment Siebeke Lange Wilbert Paul Lange Taylor Wessing Olaf Gillert RECOMMENDED Beiten Burkhardt Angelica von der Decken FPS Rechtsanwälte & Notare Oliver Wolff-Rojczyk Hoyng Rokh Monegier Christian Osterrieth, Thomas H. Schmitz Menold Bezler Andreas Schabenberger Noerr Georg Jahn Rospatt Osten Pross Rüdiger Pansch SKW Schwarz Magnus Hirsh, Dorothee Altenburg White & Case Martin Munz

ARNOLD RUESS RECHTSANWAELTE: GERMAN IP BOUTIQUE SPECIALISED IN THE ENTIRE FIELD OF IP

Leaders: Track record: This prominent IP boutique Team & differentiation: Founding partner Peter Ruess, based in Dusseldorf represents prestigious Peter Ruess is recognized in the market for Bernhard Arnold clients such as Sony Computer Entertainment his expertise in trademark and unfair com- Established: 2010 Europe, Sisvel International and Subaru Ger- petition law. Bernhard Arnold focuses on many. The firm acts in copyright infringement patent litigation and copyright while Cordula cases as well as in trademark, design, patent Tellmann-Schumacher specializes in pharma- and unfair competition cases. ceutical advertising law.

Peter Ruess

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 155 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS AIPPI World Congress September 16-20, 2016

GERMANY BEST LAW FIRMS AIPPI, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, IT was founded in 1897 and is dedicated to the development, improvement, and The firms are listed alphabetically within each band legal protection of intellectual property. AIPPI is a non-affiliated, non-profit FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS organization headquartered in Switzerland, having approximately 9,000 mem- LEADING bers representing over 100 countries. The members of AIPPI include lawyers, at- CMS Hasche Sigle Axel Funk, Malte Grützmacher torneys, and agents working across all fields of intellectual property in corporate and private practice throughout the world, as well as academics, judges, Noerr Peter Bräutigam government officials and other persons interested in intellectual property. AIPPI EXCELLENT is organized into 66 National and Regional Groups.

Baker & McKenzie Matthias Scholz, Michael Schmidl The objective of AIPPI is to improve and promote the protection of intellectu- Bird & Bird Alexander Duisberg, Jörg-Alexander Paul al property at both national and international levels. It does this by studying and comparing existing and proposed laws and policies relating to intellectual Gleiss Lutz Stefan Weidert property, and working with both government and non-government organisations SKW Schwarz Matthias Nordmann, Martin Schweinoch, Oliver Hornung for the development, expansion and improvement of international and regional treaties and agreements, and national laws. SSW Schneider Schiffer Weihermüller Jochen Schneider

Taylor Wessing Christian Frank, Axel Frhr. von dem Bussche Don’t miss the opportunity to be at the AIPPI World Congress in Milan HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and register for the early bird fee by June 14, 2016. Avocado Jan Peter Voß More information at aippi.org. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Norbert Nolte, Jochen Dieselhorst The programme boasts a vast range of topics covering the entire field of intellectual property: Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek Stephan Witteler PANEL SESSIONS Heymann & Partners Thomas Heymann Pharma Day Copyright/Trademark

Hogan Lovells Stefan Schuppert, Tim Wybitul, Marcus Schreibauer • “In(gene)ious but not patentable? • Unwrapping the European Trademark Reform Package Patentable subject matter” • An indication of developments in GIs JBB Rechtsanwälte Till Jaeger • Biosimilars – similar but different? • Speaking freely about parody

Oppenhoff & Partner Michael Abels, Marc Hilber • Skinny Labels – Wide Impact • Antitrust and Pharma – Seeking a Balance General IP Osborne Clarke Ulrich Bäumer • Top IP tips: the TPP and the TTIP • IP & Fashion von Boetticher Anselm Brandi-Dohrn High Technology • Computer implemented technologies: patentable? • Buon appetito! IP & Food RECOMMENDED • No frontiers: the European Digital Single Market FPS Fritze Wicke Seelig Bettina Komarnicki, Oliver Wolff-Rojczyk Lunch Sessions 1 • Judges’ Panel – Expert Evidence and the Role of Experts Görg Florian Schmitz, Axel Czarnetzki Patent • Infringers without borders – Heussen Hermann Waldhauser current issues in contributory infringement Lunch Sessions 2 • The EPO – setting the pace for the 21st Century Luther Wulff-Axel Schmidt, Michael Rath • Prioritising priority rights • UPC Mock Trial McDermott Will & Emery Ralf Weisser PLENARY SESSIONS Reed Smith Alexander Klett • Security Interests over Intellectual Property

TCI Rechtsanwälte Thomas Stögmüller, Andreas Stadler, Michael Karger • Linking and making available on the Internet • Requirements for protection of designs Waldeck Thomas Fischer • Added matter: the standard for determining adequate support for amendments

156 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE

Leaders League.indd 1 21/04/2016 11:09:36 AIPPI World Congress September 16-20, 2016

AIPPI, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, was founded in 1897 and is dedicated to the development, improvement, and legal protection of intellectual property. AIPPI is a non-affiliated, non-profit organization headquartered in Switzerland, having approximately 9,000 members representing over 100 countries. The members of AIPPI include lawyers, attorneys, and agents working across all fields of intellectual property in corporate and private practice throughout the world, as well as academics, judges, government officials and other persons interested in intellectual property. AIPPI is organized into 66 National and Regional Groups.

The objective of AIPPI is to improve and promote the protection of intellectual property at both national and international levels. It does this by studying and comparing existing and proposed laws and policies relating to intellectual property, and working with both government and non-government organisations for the development, expansion and improvement of international and regional treaties and agreements, and national laws.

Don’t miss the opportunity to be at the AIPPI World Congress in Milan and register for the early bird fee by June 14, 2016. More information at aippi.org.

The programme boasts a vast range of topics covering the entire field of intellectual property: PANEL SESSIONS Pharma Day Copyright/Trademark • “In(gene)ious but not patentable? • Unwrapping the European Trademark Reform Package Patentable subject matter” • An indication of developments in GIs • Biosimilars – similar but different? • Speaking freely about parody • Skinny Labels – Wide Impact • Antitrust and Pharma – Seeking a Balance General IP • Top IP tips: the TPP and the TTIP High Technology • IP & Fashion • Computer implemented technologies: patentable? • Buon appetito! IP & Food • No frontiers: the European Digital Single Market Lunch Sessions 1 Patent • Judges’ Panel – Expert Evidence and the Role of Experts • Infringers without borders – current issues in contributory infringement Lunch Sessions 2 • Prioritising priority rights • The EPO – setting the pace for the 21st Century • UPC Mock Trial PLENARY SESSIONS • Security Interests over Intellectual Property • Linking and making available on the Internet • Requirements for protection of designs • Added matter: the standard for determining adequate support for amendments

Leaders League.indd 1 21/04/2016 11:09:36 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

ITALY

158 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE ITALY BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Credit Suisse Giuseppe Monarchi (managing director, head of M&A EMEA )

Lazard Marco Samaja

Morgan Stanley Domenico Siniscalco

EXCELLENT

Banca IMI/Intesa Sanpaolo Andrea Mayr

Mediobanca Maurizio Cereda

UniCredit Group Gianandrea Perco

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Citigroup Ketan Mehta

Deutsche Bank Leopoldo Attolico

Goldman Sachs Anthony Noto

JPMorgan Herman Cristerna

UBS Investment Bank Riccardo Mulone

Vitale & Associati Daniele Sottile

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 159 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

ITALY BEST IP ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Buzzi, Notaro & Antonielli d'Oulx F. Buzzi, G. Notaro, Luciano Bosotti

Jacobacci & Partners Giuseppe Quinterno

SIB Societa Italiana brevetti Stefano Borrini

Studio Torta Luigi Boggio

EXCELLENT

Barzanò & Zanardo Alfredo Zanardo

Modiano & Partners Micaela N. Modiano

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Bianchetti Bracco Minoja Giuseppe Bianchetti, Fabrizio Minoja

Botti & Ferrari Mario Botti, Barbara Ferrari

Dragotti & Associati Gianfranco Dragotti, Roberto Pistolesi

GLP Gilberto L. Petraz

Porta Checcacci & Associati Giorgio Checcacci

Rapisardi intellectual Property Mariacristina Rapisardi, Ugo Trojsi

RECOMMENDED

Giambrocono & C Fabio Giambrocono

Gregorj Ferruccio Postiglione

Luppi Crugnola & Partners Pietro Crugnola

Manzella & Associati Giovanni Manzella

Marchi & Partners Stefano Colombo

Notarbartolo & Gervasi Diego Pallini Gervasi, Andreina Pallini Gervasi

PGA Marco Ponzellini, Alessandro Galassi

Racheli Aldo Petruzziello

STUDIO TORTA: CONSOLIDATES ITS LEADERSHIP IN THE ITALIAN MARKET

Leader: Track record: This long-established prose- Team & differentiation: Thanks to its offices Luigi Boggio cution firm is one of the leading players in located in Torino, Milano, Bologna, Treviso, Established: the Italian market, praised for client-care Rimini and Rome, the prosecution firm is 1879 as well as its team made up of qualified able to cover the different innovation hubs engineers and Italian and European attor- present in the Italian territories. Simone Bon- neys. Studio Torta’s approach is extremely giovanni and Mauro Eccetto are key contacts. business-oriented and flexible in order to Currently, the firm counts 40 partners with a meet clients’ expectations. strong scientific background. Luigi Boggio

160 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE ITALY BEST IP ATTORNEYS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Jacobacci & Partners Carlo Alberto Demichelis

SIB Societa Italiana brevetti Fabrizio De Benedetti

EXCELLENT

Barzanò & Zanardo Alfredo Zanardo, Alessandra Tedesco

Buzzi, Notaro & Antonielli d'Oulx F. Buzzi, G. Notaro, E. Antonielli d'Oulx

Modiano & Partners Micaela N. Modiano

Studio Torta Maria Cristina Baldini, Raffaella Barbuto

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Bugnion Donatella Pradin

Giambrocono & C Fabio Giambrocono

GLP Gilberto L. Petraz

Notarbartolo & Gervasi Diego Pallini Gervasi, Andreina Pallini Gervasi

Porta Checcacci & Associati Roberto Porta, Luca M. Geoni

Racheli Aldo Petruzziello

Rapisardi intellectual Property Mariacristina Rapisardi, Ugo Trojsi

RECOMMENDED

Botti & Ferrari Caterina Spera

Dragotti & Associati Gianfranco Dragotti

Gregorj Ferruccio Postiglione

Luppi Crugnola & Partners Pietro Crugnola

Manzella & Associati Giovanni Manzella

Marchi & Partners Dino Citelli

PGA Riccardo Gioia

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 161 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

ITALY BEST LAW FIRMS General IP Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Bird & Bird Giovanni Galimberti, Massimiliano Mostardini

Hogan Lovells Luigi Mansani, Giovanni Ghirardi

Avvocati Associati Franzosi Dal Negro Setti Mario Franzosi

Studio Vanzetti e Associati Adriano Vanzetti, Giulio Sironi EXCELLENT 1 IP Law Galli Cesare Galli

Orsingher Ortu Matteo Orsingher, Fabrizio Sanna

Trevisan & Cuonzo Avvocati Luca Trevisan , Gabriel Cuonzo

2 BonelliErede Giovanni Guglielmetti

DLA Piper Gualtiero Dragotti, Roberto Valenti

LGV Luigi Goglia, Simona Lavagnini

NCTM Lorenzo Attolico, Paolo Lazzarino

SIB Legal Pier Luigi Roncaglia HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Chiomenti Paolo Bertoni

Clifford Chance Monica Riva

De Simone & Partners Domenico De Simone

Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners Nino Di Bella

LCA Gianluca De Cristofaro

Legance Paolo Marzano

Lombardi Molinari Segni Renato Bocca

Maschietto Maggiore Besseghini Massimo Maggiore

Milalegal - Mina Lanfranconi & Associati Elisabetta Mina, Marina Lanfranconi

Mondini-Rusconi Studio Legale Giorgio Mondini

Pavia e Ansaldo Gian Paolo Di Santo

Simmons & Simmons Laura Orlando

Studio Legale Jacobacci & Associati Fabrizio Jacobacci

Studio legale Sena e Tarchini Paola Tarchini, Giuseppe Sena RECOMMENDED Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners Licia Garotti

Martini Manna Avvocati Luigi Manna, Elena Martini

Portolano Cavallo Micael Montinari, Ernesto Apa

Rapisardi & Ginevra Alfio Rapisardi, Carlo Ginevra

Scarpellini Naj-Oleari & Associati Marella Naj-Oleari

Studio Legale De Berti Jacchia Franchini Forlani Roberto Jacchia, Maria Cristina Franchini

Tornato Prado Carlo Maria Prado, Alberto Tornato Withers Ida Palombelli

162 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Our analysis

SIB LEGAL: LGV: A REFERENCE IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY A WINNING CHOICE FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Track record: The firm handles all matters Track record: LGV deals with patents in every relating to trademarks and distinctive sector of technology, from the traditional areas signs, domain names, denominations of of mechanics to modern technologies. The firm origin, geographical indications, patents, also has a strong focus on copyright, design, tra- designs and models, copyright, fashion demark and IT law. LGV advises and represents law, antitrust law, privacy, counterfeiting international and local clients operating in many and data protection. It has prestigious different industries.Recently LGV professionals clients, especially in the fashion industry successfully advised Avela Inc. in a trademark and TMT sector. infringement case that made the headlines. Pier Luigi Roncaglia Luigi Goglia

Leader: Team & differentiation: The team of 8 Leaders: Team & differentiation: The team of 16 lawy- Pier Luigi Roncaglia partners and 14 associates is recognized Luigi Goglia, ers, who are entirely dedicated to IP and in the market for its specialization in the Simona Lavagnini commercial issues, is one of the largest in the fields of intellectual and industrial pro- Established: Italian market. LGV is a dynamic firm that has perty. With offices in Florence, Milan and 2003 acquired international relevance by its corpo- Rome, and a liaison office in New York, rate department specifically focused on the Studio Legale SIB provides judicial and Korean market and the business desk of the extra-judicial assistance in Italy and the firm dealing exclusively with Germany and other European Community. German-speaking countries. The team has also extensive experience in the management of cross-border litigation.

CHIOMENTI: ORSINGHER ORTU AVVOCATI ASSOCIATI: THE GIANT DEVELOPS ITS IP PRACTICE DEVOTED TO IP AND TMT

Track record: The firm represents first- Track record: The firm’s clients include such class Italian and foreign companies in big names as Twentieth Century Fox, Yahoo!, the telecommunications sector, and Netflix and Ferrari. The team of four expe- has developed in-depth expertise in the rienced partners is able to handle both entertainment industry, advising on the domestic and international litigation cases, regulatory aspects related to television and working in collaboration with leading Euro- film production. On the pure IP side, the team pean and US firms. The firm assists clients in is able to ensure support across the wide the whole range of IP law and beyond, such range of IP law, including, design, models, as internet, e-commerce and TMT issues. Paolo Bertoni Matteo Orsingher know-how and unfair competition. Leader: Leaders: Team & differentiation: While Matteo Orsin- Paolo Bertoni Team & differentiation: Previously in the Matteo Orsingher, Fabrizio gher and Fabrizio Sanna are in charge of IP IP department of Freshfields, Paolo Ber- Sanna, Domenico Colella, law, Domenico Colella and Marco Consonni toni joined the firm in 2015 to develop Marco Consonni focus on TMT and outsourcing-related the the IP practice. He is member of the Established: issues. The firm has recently grown with Licensing Executives Society (LES), the 2007 the arrival of 2 new partners, Pierfrancesco International Association for Intellectual Giustiniani, who joins the corporate team, Property Protection (AIPPI) and the Inter- and Sacha D’Ecclesiis, former Hogan national Trademark Association (INTA). Lovells’s partner in charge of antitrust, focusing on competition and trade. METHODOLOGY

The following criteria are used: LOMBARDI MOLINARI SEGNI: • Name and reputation of the firm on its market A FIRM DEDICATED TO LIFE SCIENCE WITH GREAT PROMISE • Team size, seniority of partners (or executive officers, managing directors, etc.), training of associates (or consultants, investment Track record: The team is particularly strong managers, etc.) in the life science field, advising San Raffaele hospital in an important project involving • Number and nature of cases dealt with by the firm gene therapy related to cancer research. • Prestige, diversity and internationalization of the firm’s client base The firm advises mainly on with litigation • Team expansion and revenue generated by the activity considered related to the protection of patents, trade- in the ranking marks, confidential information, design rights, copyrights and unfair competition. Our rankings are drawn up using the following methods: Renato Bocca We send questionnaires to firms already included in our rankings and to others Team & differentiation: Well known in the mar- likely to be included. They are, in particular, invited to provide information on Leader: ket for its talented litigators in the financial their organization, their client base and their market. Renato Bocca sector, the firm executes its IP practice with To supplement these questionnaires, the Leaders League teams conduct a Established: a team of 2 partners and 7 associates dedi- large number of interviews, which enable us not only to learn more about the 2004 cated to the wide range of IP law. Head of the firms included in our listings, but also to assess the dynamic of which they are department Renato Bocca taught IP law at a part. the Parma and at the Bocconi Universities, We also have meetings with a large number of enterprises to show them our and has also developed significant expe- rankings, giving them the opportunity to comment and provide fresh intelligence rience in handling arbitration. on the market and on their market advice.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 163 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

ITALY BEST LAW FIRMS Media The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

DLA Piper Giangiacomo Olivi

Orsingher Ortu Domenico Colella, Matteo Orsingher, Fabrizio Sanna, Marco Consonni

Portolano Cavallo Francesco Portolano, Ernesto Apa

R&P Legal Francesca Lodigiani, Pierluigi De Palma

EXCELLENT

Bird & Bird Arturo Leone

Chiomenti Stefania Bariatti

Milalegal - Mina Lanfranconi & Associati Elisabetta Mina, Marina Lanfranconi, Mariangela Liuzzi

Mondini Rusconi Studio Legale Giorgio Mondini, Silvia Mondini Vitiello

Tavella Studio di Avvocati Massimo Tavella

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Baker & McKenzie Lorenzo de Martinis

Carnelutti Luca Arnaboldi, Roberta Mollica

Cugia Cuomo & Associati Fabrizio Cugia Di Sant’Orsola

Dike Legal Maria Francesca Quattrone

E-Lex Belisario Scorza Riccio & Partners Giovanni Maria Riccio

Gallavotti Bernardini & Partners Antonio Bernardini

Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners Licia Garotti

Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners Luca Rinaldi

M&R Europe Stephanie Rotelli

Munari Cavani Alessandro Munari

Studio Associato Amiconi Marzia Amiconi

Studio Legale de Vergottini Giovanni de Vergottini

Withers Ida Palombella

MILALEGAL - MINA LANFRANCONI & ASSOCIATI: DYNAMIQUE IP AND MEDIA BOUTIQUE

Leaders: Track record: The firm focuses its activity on Team & differentiation: Elisabetta Mina has a Elisabetta Mina, traditional IP issues as well as cinema, adver- strong academic background, holding courses Marina Lanfranconi tising, digital media, e-commerce, music, for the Masters of Fashion at Bocconi University, Established: 2012 image rights, television, and social networks whileis also a member of several international and communication. The boutique repre- associations. Marina Lanfranconi has presents Gucci in a large spectrum of matters, viously worked for leading international firms including their advertising and communica- both in Italy and abroad. In addition, previous tion campaign and is also very active in the IP legal counsel at EXPO, Gilberto Cavagna di Marina Lanfranconi gaming sector for other clients. Guadana, has joined the firm.

164 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE ITALY BEST LAW FIRMS Information Technology The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS EXCELLENT Baker & McKenzie Lorenzo de Martinis

DLA Piper Giangiacomo Olivi

Hogan Lovells Marco Berliri

LGV Simona Lavagnini

Orsingher Ortu Marco Consonni, Domenico Colella HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BonelliErede Alessandro Musella

Dike Legal Maria Francesca Quattrone

Freshfields Luca Ulissi

Maschietto Maggiore Besseghini Massimo Maggiore

NCTM Studio Legale Associato Vittorio Noseda, Carlo Grignani, Rocco Panetta

Portolano Cavallo Laura Liguori, Francesco Portolano

Simmons & Simmons Giorgio Mariani

Scorza Riccio & partners Guido Scorza, Dario Reccia

Tavella Studio di Avvocati Massimo Tavella RECOMMENDED E-Lex Belisario Scorza Riccio & Partners Guido Scorza

Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partner Licia Garotti

LCA De Cristofaro, Gian Paolo Coppola

Lipani Catricalà & Partners Roberto Ferraresi, Luigi Mazzoncini

Martini Manna Elena Martini, Luigi Manna

Milalegal - Mina Lanfranconi & Associati Elisabetta Mina, Marina Lanfranconi

Mondini Rusconi Studio Legale Silvia Mondini e Giacomo Bonelli

Prosperetti & Associati Eugenio Prosperetti

Valli & Associati Andrea Valli

Withers Ida Palombella

MASCHIETTO MAGGIORE BESSEGHINI: A FIRM FOCUSED ON COMPLEX IT ISSUES

Leader: Track record: The firm has developed speci- Team & differentiation: Massimo Maggiore, Massimo Maggiore fic expertise in the digital economy sector, the firm’s co-founder, has developed reco- Established: specifically with regard to platform and sof- gnized expertise in sophisticated IP and 2007 tware services in cloud computing, repre- IT matters. He is the author of a number of senting leading players in the field. The team publications regarding IT law, copyright, also offers its support in the data protection open source, cloud computing and enfor- sector, especially in the transfer of personal cement of completion law. He collaborates data, both intercompany and between inde- with Bocconi Universty as adjunct professor Massimo Maggiore pendent entities. of marketing law.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 165 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

LUXEMBOURG

166 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE LUXEMBOURG BEST IP ATTORNEYS IP Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

1 Dennemeyer Robert Fichter, Olivier Lombardo, Manuel Schockmel, Stéphane Speich

Office Freylinger Pierre Kihn, Henri Kihn, Romain Lambert, Olivier Laidebeur

2 Marks & Clerk (Luxembourg) Luca Polverari, Peer Watterson

EXCELLENT

Lecomte & Partners Didier Lecomte, Jean-Paul Wagner, Edith Malhiere

Pronovem Armand Schmitt, Mathis Bruck, Caroline Guerin

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Distinctive Dominique Charlotte Crassaerts

Patent 42 Valérie Mellet

OFFICE FREYLINGER: DENNEMEYER: IMPRESSIVE IP PROSECUTION WORK ACROSS EUROPE TOP-TIER PROSECUTION SPECIALIST

Track record: The firm represented the Track record: Dennemeyer has been a partner European Commission to file a semi-figu- of ABB since 1985 to manage its patent rative Community trademark application annuity payments across the globe, and was before the OHIM on behalf of the Euro- entrusted with building a strategic IP mana- pean Space Agency, and successfully gement plan during the reorganization of Ger- defended it against the opposition filed by man electricity group RWE. The firm was also Galileo International Technology. It also chosen to take charge of IP recordals for a works for the EC in the field of patents multinational company. Other clients include throughout Europe. Porsche, Michelin and Vodafone. Pierre Khin Robert Fichter

Leaders: Team & differentiation: Composed of 13 Leaders: Team & differentiation: Headquartered in Pierre Kihn, Henri Kihn, attorneys and 10 paralegals, IP agency Robert Fichter, Olivier Lom- Luxembourg, Dennemeyer is one of the Romain Lambert, Olivier Office Freylinger is active directly in several bardo, Manuel Schockmel, world’s largest service providers addres- Laidebeur European countries, including Germany, Stéphane Speich sing the entire chain of IP management. The Established: Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, France and Established: firm counts about 20 international offices 1966 the UK. CEO Pierre Kihn has strategic and 1962 and currently handles over 2,200,000 IP sharp vision, Olivier Laidebeur leads the rights. Director of Dennemeyer & Asso- trademark team, whereas Henri Kihn is in ciates, Robert Fichter is in charge of Global charge of the patent department. IT Strategy.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 167 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

LUXEMBOURG BEST LAW FIRMS IP Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Allen & Overy Katia Manhaeve

Arendt & Medernach Héloïse Bock, Sophie Wagner-Chartier

Decker & Braun Nicolas Decker, Marianne Decker

EXCELLENT

Molitor Claire Léonelli

NautaDutilh Vincent Wellens

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Bonn Steichen & Partners Fabio Trevisan, Anne Morel

LG@vocats Stéphan Le Goueff

MNKS Katia Scheidecker

Thewes & Reuter Marc Thewes

Wildgen Emmanuelle Ragot

DECKER & BRAUN: UNDOUBTED IP LEADER

Leaders: Track record: Boutique firm Decker & Braun is Team & differentiation: With 2 partners Nicolas Decker, widely recognized as very active and visible and 1 associate, the IP team’s human size Marianne Decker in IP matters, while also strong in general liti- allows a personal and close follow-up of Established: 1977 gation. Its international and local clients come clients’ cases. Founding partner Nicho- from industries such as fashion, telecoms, las Decker remains active, and Marianne tobacco, food & drinks and pharmaceuticals. Decker has gradually gained an excellent Ongoing cases include acting for a French reputation and is very active in anti-coun- telecom company in a domain name dispute terfeiting issues. Marianne Decker and a major drink brand in trademark litigation.

168 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE LUXEMBOURG BEST LAW FIRMS IT & Outsourcing The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Allen & Overy Gary Cywie*

Cyril Pierre-Beausse Cyril Pierre-Beausse

EXCELLENT

Arendt & Medernach Héloïse Bock, Sophie Wagner-Chartier

DCL Avocats Dorothée Ciolino, Céline Lelièvre

LG@vocats Stéphan Le Goueff

Linklaters Olivier Reisch*

NautaDutilh Vincent Wellens

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

AMMC Law Christophe Maillard

Bonn & Schmitt Alain Grosjean

Bonn Steichen & Partners Fabio Trevisan, Anne Morel

Elvinger, Hoss & Prussen Patrick Santer, Linda Funck

MNKS Katia Scheidecker

Molitor Claire Léonelli

Wildgen Emmanuelle Ragot

*Counsel

DCL AVOCATS: THE BOUTIQUE ALTERNATIVE

Leaders: Track record: DCL Avocats is a Luxembourg Team & differentiation: With 2 partners and Dorothée Ciolino, boutique firm where entrepreneurs as well as 2 associates, DCL Avocats offers clients Céline Lelièvre large companies can seek tailor-made advice. operational advice, where partners work side- Established: 2009 Clients are essentially from the financial and by-side with clients. Partner Dorothée Ciolino, IT industries, and the firm recently advised who leads the new technologies practice, a clearing house and a leading IT services acts primarily for clients, such as international provider. Fintech is also a rising practice. banking institutions and software companies, and has expertise in negotiating and drafting Dorothée Ciolino software license agreements.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 169 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

NETHERLANDS

170 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE NETHERLANDS BEST IP ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

De Vries & Metman Kajo Metman, Arnt Reinier Aalbers, Ferry van Looijengoed

NLO David Bot, Bart Swinkels

V.O. Koen Bijvank, Cees Jansen

EXCELLENT

AOMB T.H. Wittop Koning

Arnold & Siedsma Addick Land, Arjen Hooiveld, Petri van Someren

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

EP & C Johan Volmer, Hendrik Jan Brookhuis

Los & Stigter Jacques van Breda, Leon Vogels

Patentwerk Hein van den Heuvel

Vriesendorp & Gaade Franklin Geurts, Bas Peters

DE VRIES &METMAN: LOCAL PLAYER WITH UNIQUE EXPERTISE

Leader: Track record: De Vries & Metman is a top- Team & differentiation: Founded in 1995, the Kajo Metman tier local player representing chemistry, firm comprised of both patent and trademark Established: biotechnology, IT &TMT engineering attorneys has over 30 employees highly- 1995 companies on their intellectual property specialized in chemistry, biotechnology, ICT, issues. Most of the staff is empowered to mechanical engineering and physics. With apply for patents both in the Netherlands offices located in Amsterdam, Aenhem and and throughout Europe. The firm’s clients are Oss, the firm offers good coverage of the mostly mid-cap companies, as well as some Dutch market. Kajo Metman international firms.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 171 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

NETHERLANDS BEST IP ATTORNEYS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Gevers Andries Quataert

NLO Marlous Stal-Hilders

Novagraaf Alexander Hagen, Gerard van Hulst EXCELLENT AOMB Anne Laarman

Chiever Alice Slabbaert

Kirkpatrick Antonietta Arcuri

Knijff & Partners Trix Ockeloen-Kruit, Daan Teeuwissen, Ria van der Lee

Pronovem Group Nicole Desmet, Dominique Rifon HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Arnold & Siedsma Joop Elzas

Cabinet Bede Laurent Overath

De Merkplaats Alphons Geerlings, Albert Lestrade

Dennemeyer & Associates Maryse Heirend

Los & Stigter Jacques van Breda

NautaDutilh Boudewijn van Vondelen

V.O. Michiel Haegens*

Vriesendorp & Gaade Franklin Geurts

* Senior associate

METHODOLOGY

The following criteria are used: NOVAGRAAF: • Name and reputation of the firm on its market LEADING DUTCH IP FIRM WITH EUROPEAN REACH • Team size, seniority of partners (or executive officers, managing directors, etc.), training of associates (or consultants, investment Track record: The firm has prestigious clients managers, etc.) in different industries including: fashion, sports, arts, culture, pharmaceuticals, • Number and nature of cases dealt with by the firm physics, IT, and entertainment with acute • Prestige, diversity and internationalization of the firm’s client base IP strategies and management. Their role • Team expansion and revenue generated by the activity considered ranges from protecting new brands to in the ranking assisting on the management of clients’ patent portfolios, and on innovative design on a global scale. Our rankings are drawn up using the following methods: Alexander Hagen We send questionnaires to firms already included in our rankings and to others likely to be included. They are, in particular, invited to provide information on Leader: Team & differentiation: Founded more than their organization, their client base and their market. Alexander Hagen a century ago in Amsterdam, Novagraaf To supplement these questionnaires, the Leaders League teams conduct a Established: is a leading IP consultancy firm in the large number of interviews, which enable us not only to learn more about the 1888 Netherlands and Belgium. Novagraaf firms included in our listings, but also to assess the dynamic of which they are operates in more than 200 countries with a part. more than 400 employees. The firm has a We also have meetings with a large number of enterprises to show them our truly European reach with offices in France, rankings, giving them the opportunity to comment and provide fresh intelligence Belgium, the UK and Switzerland. on the market and on their market advice.

172 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE NETHERLANDS BEST LAW FIRMS General IP Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Brinkhof Jan Brinkhof, Kurt Stöpetie, Richard Ebbink, Ruprecht Hermans De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Koen Limperg, Gertjan Kuipers, Tobias Cohen Jehoram, Jan Pieter Hustinx Hoyng Rokh Monegier Willem Hoyng, Bart van den Broek, Simon Dack EXCELLENT Bird & Bird Armand Killan, Wouter Pors DLA Piper Niels Mulder Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Peter Hendrick, Rutger Kleemans Hogan Lovells Marc Wallheimer, Bert Oosting Klos Morel Vos & Schaap Sven Klos, Gregor Vos, Paul Reeskamp Simmons & Simmons Bas Berghuis van Woortman HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BarentsKrans Marleen Van den Horst Boekx Advocaten Marc de Boer Bureau Brandeis Christiaan A. Alberdingk Thijm Hofhuis Alkema Groen Adonna Alkema, Arnout Groen, Jesse Hofhuis Houthoff Buruma Thomas de Weerd Kennedy Van der Laan Alfred Meijboom, Maarten Schut NautaDutilh Charles Gielen SOLV Advocaten Marieke Neervoort Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten Marco R. Gerritsen Vondst Advocaten Tjeerd Overdijk, Otto Swens RECOMMENDED AKD Huib Berendschot, Peter Claassen, Martin Hemmer CMS Derks Star Busmann Willem Hoorneman Hoogenraad & Haak Maarten Haak Le Poole & Bekema Bas Le Poole Ploum Lodder Princen Willem Leppink Van Doorne Remco van Leeuwen Ventoux Advocaten Dick van Engelen, Menno Heerma van Voss

BRINKHOF: DE BRAUW BLACKSTONE WESTBROEK: TOP-NOTCH BOUTIQUE FOCUSING ON BOTH IP & TMT FUSING INTERNATIONAL REACH WITH CUSTOMIZED CLIENT CARE

Track record: Brinkhof’s recent cases involve Track record: This top-tier player advises and clients such as Cargill, Johnson & Johnson, litigates in all aspects of intellectual property Sandoz and Nutricia. The boutique assists and commercial issues on behalf of both its clients with the full range of IP issues, both international and domestic clients. Its exper- litigating and advising in patent, trademark, tise is particularly acclaimed in fast-track IP design and advertising. The full-on approach matters. Recent cases include prestigious has led the team to deal with a vast array of clients such as Biomet Europe, D.E Master industries, both in IP, IT and TMT. Blenders 1753 and Philips. Ruprecht Hermans Koen Limperg Team & differentiation: Brinkhof is a Team & differentiation: The Dutch boutique Leaders: domestic boutique with a strong reputation Leaders: has grown internationally, yet still pays a Ruprecht Hermans, in intellectual property, innovation and Koen Limperg, Tobias great deal of attention to its clients’ needs, Richard Ebbink TMT. The team assists large international Cohen Jehoram, Jan Pieter and delivers particularly tailor-made ser- Established: companies in litigation, and are renowned Hustinx, Gertjan Kuipers vices. Koen Limperg was previously 2005 as excellent patent litigators throughout Established: Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute the Netherlands. Their practice was lately 1871 for IP, Competition Law and Tax Law and his reinforced with the arrival of partner Gregor team benefits from his deep understanding Vos in early 2016. of the sector and its evolution.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 173 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

NETHERLANDS BEST LAW FIRMS IT & Outsourcing The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Allen & Overy Heral Jongen

Brinkhof Ruprecht Hermans, Quinten Kroes

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Bart van Reeken

Kennedy Van der Laan Joost Linnemann, Reinoud Westerdijk, Patrick Wit

Van Doorne Kees Stuurman EXCELLENT Bird & Bird Marjolein Geus, Roelien van Neck, Jereon van der Lee

Houthoff Buruma Thomas de Weerd

Hoyng Rokh Monegier Bart van den Broek

SOLV Advocaten Wanda van Kerkvoorden, Menno Weij

Vondst Advocaten Polo van der Putt HIGHLY RECOMMENDED NautaDutilh Piet Sippens Groenewegen

Project Moore Advocaten Jeroen Koëter, Christian van Seeters, Lieneke Viergever, Eva Visser

Stibbe Judica Krikke

Van Benthem & Keulen Robert Boekhorst

Ventoux Reinout Rinzema RECOMMENDED DLA Piper Joris Willems

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Peter Hendrick

Hogan Lovells Marc Wallheimer

Loyens & Loeff Serge Zwanen

VAN DOORNE: KENNEDY VAN DER LAAN: THE NETHERLANDS CUTTING-EDGE PLAYERS STRONG TEAM OF IT EXPERTS

Track record: Advising clients in contract Track record: The team successfully repre- and litigation phases, the team has strong sented Albert Life Sciences Computing expertise on complex ICT projects, and and has also represented Microsoft, Cap- works closely with ICT and other professio- gemini, EMC, Epic, ASML Netherlands and nals involved in ITC transactions, such as ABN AMRO. Kennedy Van der Laan’s team, finance and management. The team’s scope operating at the crossroads of technology, also entails e-commerce, open-source, pri- regulations for the IT and media sectors vacy, ICT-security and IT-governance. This and channels, among other areas, has an approach fosters understanding of clients impressive client portfolio ranging from Kees Stuurman Patrick Wit issues, and attracts clients from among multinationals to domestic leaders in their Leaders: major market players. Leaders: markets. Marjolijn Lips, Patrick Wit, Kees Stuurman Team & differentiation: Their IP and IT prac- Joost Linnemann, Team & differentiation: The team, led by Established: tices are closely integrated. Internationally Reinoud Westerdijk Patrick Wit, is able to deal with complex and 1930 recommended authority, Kees Stuurman is Established: technical issues in IT and BPO outsourcing also professor at Tilburg University, where 1992 projects. They benefit from an interesting he teaches ‘Standardization of Information perspective on the practice: while a law stu- Technology’ and is particularly concerned dent, partner Patrick Wit worked as a software with self-regulation matters such as codes designer, consultant and project manager at of conduct, standardization and certification. a global software engineering company.

174 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE PORTUGAL

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 175 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

PORTUGAL BEST IP ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING A.G. da Cunha Ferreira António João da Cunha Ferreira, Fernando Ferreira Magno, António Pissarra Machado

J.E. Dias Costa José De Sampaio, Isabel Carvalho Franco

J. Pereira da Cruz João Pereira da Cruz

Raul César Ferreira Jorge Faustino EXCELLENT Clarke Modet & Co Nuno Lourenço

Gastão da Cunha Ferreira Manuel Moniz Pereira HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ABBC Carmina Cardoso

Garrigues Mónica Arizti Acha*

PBBR & Associados César Bessa Monteiro

PLMJ Ana Teresa Pulido

* Based in Spain

PORTUGAL BEST IP ATTORNEYS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING A.G. da Cunha Ferreira Dina Pereira

J. Pereira da Cruz Nuno Cruz

Raul César Ferreira Pedro Alves Moreira EXCELLENT Gastão da Cunha Ferreira Manuel Moniz Pereira

J. E. Dias Costa Ana De Sampaio, Gonçalo Paiva e Sousa

PBBR César Bessa Monteiro

PLMJ Ana Teresa Pulido HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Clarke Modet & Co Laura Azevedo

EM-IP Elsa Marcelo

Garrigues Mónica Arizti Acha*

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Gonçalo Paiva e Sousa

* Based in Spain

176 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE PORTUGAL BEST LAW FIRMS General IP Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut José Luis Arnaut

Garrigues João Paulo Miranda de Sousa

PBBR César Bessa Monteiro, Ricardo Henriques

PLMJ Daniel Reis, Manuel Lopes Rocha

Yolanda Busse, Oehen Mendes & Associados Manuel Oehen Mendes

EXCELLENT

Anselmo Vaz, Afra & Associados Teresa Anselmo Vaz, Ana Rita Painho

BMA - Baptista Monteverde & Associados Filipe Teixeira Baptista, Paulo Monteverde

Linklaters Carlos Pinto Correia

Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados António Pinto Leite, Tomás Vaz Pinto

Vieira de Almeida & Associados António de Magalhães Cardoso, António Andrade

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

ABBC João Costa Quinta

Abreu Advogados Armando Martins Ferreira, João Veiga Gomes

Caiado Guerreiro & Associados Ricardo Costa Macedo

Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira Leonor Chastre

Sérvulo & Associados Rui Cardona Ferreira

SRS Advogados Octávio Castelo Paulo, Gonçalo Moreira Rato*

RECOMMENDED

CCA Ontier Martim Menezes

EM-IP Elsa Marcelo

FCB - F. Castelo Branco & Associados Nuno Cadima Oliveira

Serra Lopes, Cortes Martins & Associados Inês Pinheiro

SGCR - Simões Garcia Corte-Real & Associados João Luís Garcia

Uria Menéndez - Proença de Carvalho Francisco Brito e Abreu

*Counsel

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 177 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

PORTUGAL BEST LAW FIRMS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut José Luis Arnaut

Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados António Pinto Leite, Tomás Vaz Pinto

PBBR César Bessa Monteiro, Ricardo Henriques

PLMJ Manuel Lopes Rocha

Vieira de Almeida & Associados António de Magalhães Cardoso

EXCELLENT

ABBC João Costa Quinta

Abreu Advogados Armando Martins Ferreira, João Veiga Gomes

Anselmo Vaz, Afra & Associados Teresa Anselmo Vaz, Ana Rita Painho

BMA - Baptista Monteverde & Associados Filipe Teixeira Baptista, Paulo Monteverde

Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira Leonor Chastre

Garrigues João Paulo Miranda de Sousa

SRS Advogados Octávio Castelo Paulo, Luís Neto Galvão

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Sérvulo & Associados Rui Cardona Ferreira

Uria Menendez Francisco Brito e Abreu

Yolanda Busse, Oehen Mendes & Associados Manuel Oehen Mendes, Rosário Marques

RECOMMENDED

Albuquerque & Associados Rita Delgado

Alves Pereira & Teixeira de Sousa Belén Granados

Caiado Guerreiro & Associados Ricardo Costa Macedo

CCA Ontier Martim Menezes

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Gonçalo Paiva e Sousa

João Ferreira Pinto Advogados João Ferreira Pinto

Macedo Vitorino & Associados João de Macedo Vitorino

178 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Our analysis

PBBR & ASSOCIADOS: PLMJ: A DOMESTIC FIRM WITH A GLOBAL REACH AN EFFICIENT INTEGRATED IP-TMT APPROACH

Track record: The firm assisted prestigious Track record: Representing clients in various IP clients such as Estée Lauder, Hewlett Pac- areas such as patent, trademark and copyright, kard, Twitter, Cisco, Sony Europe, Google, PLMJ’s team earned an excellent reputation in General Motors and the cement producer the market. The firm represents prestigious Por- Secil. The team is best known for its industrial tuguese and international clients, such as Galp property work, especially in the areas of tra- Energia and Autodesk, notably in trademark demarks (prosecution and litigation, including and software. They also have a good number anti-counterfeiting work) and unfair competi- of patent cases in the pharmaceutical sector, tion. The firm also has a strong reputation in particularly regulated in Portugal. César Bessa Monteiro Manuel Lopes Rocha data protection, media, advertising and copy- Leaders: right, models, designs and patent law. Leaders: Team & differentiation: PLMJ’s highly-skilled IP César Bessa Monteiro, Daniel Reis, & TMT teams work in synergy and benefit from Ricardo Henriques Team & differentiation: The IP department of this Manuel Lopes Rocha the firm’s international legal network. Manuel Established: independent firm can handle a wide variety of Established: Lopes Rocha also co-heads the intellectual 2010 topics, and beyond its core practices is also 1967 property journal “Propiedades intelectuais”, active in telecoms, life sciences and patent. and also regularly intervenes in international The team has grown rapidly, and Ricardo Hen- conferences. He recently wrote a book “Inven- riques is now a key partner, specializing in new ções e Patentes” (Inventions and Patents) technologies, marketing and advertising issues. published by the IAPMEI.

CMS RUI PENA & ARNAUT: VIEIRA DE ALMEIDA & ASSOCIADOS: THE HIGH-FLYER IP LAWYERS FOCUS ON LIFE SCIENCES

Track record: One of the only truly interna- Track record: Vieira de Almeida’s team is par- tional law firms in Portugal, the team led ticularly recognized for its intellectual property by José Luis Arnaut has the upper hand practice, with a particular focus on pharmaceu- in most IP cases. They regularly represent tical patent litigation. They have represented foreign multinationals in pharmaceutical research-based pharmaceutical companies arbitration and counterfeiting cases. The before the Portuguese courts where the clash firm’s clients include big American names with generic companies has given rise to a num- in media, internet, and the food & beve- ber of related cases. Big names such as Novar- rage industries. tis, Boehringer Ingelheim and AstraZeneca are José Luis Arnaut António de Magalhães Cardoso all part of their portfolio. Leader: Team & differentiation: The team has broad Leader: José Luis Arnaut expertise on various intellectual property António de Magalhães Team & differentiation: Following the expansion Established: rights issues. José Luis Arnaut, a former Cardoso of some of its Portuguese clients, along with the 1964 member of the Portuguese parliament, Established: diversity of their clients’ portfolio, the boutique is particularly active in the international 1976 is now focused on expanding its international scene, and in various international IP presence. The ‘VdAcademy’, an initiative on the events such as AIPPI and ECTA. He also legal and managerial education of their profes- sits on various boards of national and inter- sionals, certainly contributes to the emergence of national entities. talents within the team, such as António Andrade.

METHODOLOGY

Rankings are established with the following tools:

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 179 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

RUSSIA

180 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE RUSSIA BEST IP ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Euromarkpat Maxim Visselitsky, Marina Gorineva Gorodissky & Partners Valery Medvedev, Yury Kuznetsov, Vladimir Trey EXCELLENT ARS-Patent & Trademark Mikhail Khmara, Vladimir Rybakov Innotec Svetlana Viktorovna Astrakhantseva Sojuzpatent Svetlana B. Felitsyna HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Ivanov Makarov & Partners Dmitry Makarov, Olga Tikhonina Kvashnin Sapelnikov & Partners Valery Kvashnin Liapunov & Co Veronica Liapunova Papula-Nevinpat Helino Timo Patent & Law Firm Yus Sergey Lovtsov, Oleysa Zakharova Squire Patton Boggs Olga Bezrukova

RUSSIA BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Baker & McKenzie Eugene Arievich EXCELLENT Gorodissky & Partners Vladimir Birilium, Evgeny Aleksandrov Gowling WLG David Aylen, Alexander Christophoroff Hogan Lovells Natalia Gulyaeva Sojuzpatent Aleksey Zalesov, Svetlana Felitsina HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ARS-Patent & Trademark Vladimir Rybakov Dentons Elena Bedareva Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Pavel Sadovsky Liapunov & Co Veronica Liapunova Pepeliaev Group Yuri Yahin, Valentina Orlova RECOMMENDED Alrud Irina Anyukhina Ermakova Stoliarova & Partners Elena Ermakova Goltsblat BLP Elena Trusova Ivanov Makarov & Partners Dmitry Makarov KIAP Konstantin Suvorov, Daria Chernysh Noerr Natalya Babenkova, Viktor Gorbutov Vakhnina & Partners Tatiana Alexeevna Vakhnina Vegas Lex Alexandra Vasyukhnova, Yuriy Bortnikov

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 181 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

RUSSIA BEST IP ATTORNEYS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Baker & McKenzie Eugene Arievich

Dentons Denis Voevodin EXCELLENT Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Pavel Sadovsky

Gorodissky & Partners Valery Medvedev

Gowling WLG Anastassia Sinitsyana, Julianna Tabastajeva

Hogan Lovells Natalia Gulyaeva

Zuykov & Partners Sergey Zuykov HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Goltsblat Elena Trusova

Liapunov & Co Ilya Liapunov

Papula-Nevinpat Helino Timo

RUSSIA BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Baker & McKenzie Eugene Arievich, Denis Khabarov EXCELLENT Dentons Denis Voevodin, Victor Naumov

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Pavel Sadovsky

Euromarkpat Marina Aleksandrovna Grineva

Gorodissky & Partners Valery Medvedev, Vladimir Trey

Gowling WLG David Aylen, Julianna Tabastajewa HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Hogan Lovells Natalia Gulyaeva

Pepeliaev Group Yuri Yahin, Valentina Orlova

Zuykov & Partners Sergey Zuykov RECOMMENDED Alrud Irina Anyukhina

Goltsblat BLP Elena Trusova

Grebneva & Partners Irina Grebneva

KIAP Konstantin Suvorov

Noerr Natalya Babenkova

182 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Patent

GORODISSKY & PARTNERS: SOJUZPATENT: A FORMIDABLE LEADER IN IP PROSECUTION STRONG EXPERTISE IN PATENT

Track record: Gorodissky & Partners is the Track record: The firm is highly regarded for largest firm in Russia entirely dedicated to patent registration and protection instruc- IP with an impressive volume of filings and tions, including administrative disputes, prosecution work. The firm’s expertise also litigation and prosecution, notably in the covers domain name disputes and techno- pharmaceutical sector. It represents a wide logy transfers. Its clients include Schlumber- range of domestic and foreign corporations, ger, Airbus, Philips, Aeroflot and Merck, and individual investors, and governments of the team provided patenting support of a major industrial countries. Russian aircraft manufacturer abroad. Yury Kuznetsov Svetlana Felitsyna Team & differentiation: As the oldest IP law Leaders: Team & differentiation: The firm has offices in Leader: firm in the country, Sojuzpatent numbers Valery Medvedev, 7 Russian regions and a strong team of 150 Svetlana Felitsyna about 170 qualified specialists, including Yury Kuznetsov, patent attorneys and lawyers. Yury Kuznet- Established: over 50 registered Russian and Eurasian Vladimir Trey sov, Head of Patent Practice, plays a com- 1922 patent attorneys and litigation lawyers. Established: petitive role in patent-related work in various They work closely together to obtain a high 1959 domains varying from computer equipment, quality of prosecution work: the success rate electricity distribution to aircraft/spacecraft in defending patents obtained by the firm manufacturing. amounts to 97%, compared to the market average of below 70%.

Trademark

BAKER & MCKENZIE (CIS): DENTONS (CIS): LEADER IN IP LITIGATION EXCEPTIONAL CONTENTIOUS WORK

Track record: With offices in Moscow and St. Track record: This international law firm has a Petersburg, the team offers clients full-ser- leadership position in the Russian IP market vice assistance in IP matters, including a for its excellent contentious work. Counting specialized IP litigation group. It recently major global media, technology and auto- represented Doosan in litigation concerning motive companies as its clients, the team an alleged software-related infringement recently represented VKontakte in court and breach of contract valued at $50M. in disputes involving IP and protection of business reputation. Team & differentiation: Baker & McKenzie is Eugene Arievich Denis Voevodin one of the largest international firms present Team & differentiation: Head of the European Leaders: in the Russian market with over 110 lawyers, Leaders: Trademark/IP Practice, Denis Voevodin, has Eugene Arievich, and the IP department counts 4 partners and Denis Voevodin, nearly 25 years’ experience in IP litigation as Denis Khabarov 24 other qualified lawyers. Eugene Arievich, Victor Naumov well as anti-counterfeit activity. Victor Nau- Established: Head of the IP practice group, is well noted Established: mov, Head of the Russian IP, IT and Tele- 1989 for his experience in complex IP litigation 2012 (formerly Salans) coms Practice, specializes in IP protection cases and in-depth knowledge of trademark and management of intangible assets, Inter- issues. Denis Khabarov heads the IP litiga- net, data security and regulation of the mass tion and enforcement subgroup. media and telecoms.

METHODOLOGY

Rankings are established with the following tools:

INTERNATIONALINTERNATIONAL REPORT REPORT & & DIRECTORY DIRECTORY SERIES SERIE 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 183 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

SPAIN

184 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE SPAIN BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Banco Espirito Santo de Investimento Angus Macpherson(head of Investment Banking)

Morgan Stanley Luis Isasi(managing director, head of Investment Banking Division Spain)

EXCELLENT

Barclays Matthew Ponsonby (co-head of M&A EMEA)

BNP Paribas Jonathan Warburton (Head of Banking for EMEA, Corporate Finance)

Lazard Pedro Pasquin (managing director in Spain, chief executive officer of Lazard Asesores Financieros )

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

BofA Merrill Lynch Joaquín Arenas (head of corporate and investment banking for Spain and Portugal)

Crédit agricole CIB Juan Fabregas (senior officer in Spain Investment Banking)

Credit suisse Giuseppe Monarchi (managing director, head of the EMEA M&A Group)

Goetzpartners Dr. Henrietta Schmidt-Wilke (managing director Corporate Finance)

Goldman Sachs Anthony Noto (partner, co-head of the TMT group)

HSBC Alain Renaud (global head of M&A)

KPMG Ignacio Faus (head of TS) , Jorge Rioperez Orta (head of COF)

Mediobanca Maurizio Cereda (head of the Corporate Finance)

PricewaterhouseCoopers Manuel Martín Espada (partner in charge of Telecommunications, Technology and Media)

Société Générale CIB Bruno Bibas, Luis Zubillaga (managing directors, co-head of M&A in Spain and Portugal)

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 185 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

SPAIN BEST IP ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING ABG Patentes Francisco Bernardo, Juan Arias ZBG Patents & Trademarks Anna Barlocci, Bernabé Zea, Mathieu de Rooij EXCELLENT Balder IP Law Olof Fickert, Magnus Stiebe Elzaburu Francisco Javier Saez, Pedro Saturio Herrero & Asociados Jesús González, Íñigo Pradera HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Clarke Modet & Co Carmen Sanchez-Puelles Curell Suñol Mireia Curell Aguilà Pons Patricia Ramos RECOMMENDED Bardehle Pagenberg Dario Mohammadian Santander Duran-Corretjer Luis-Alfonso Duran Jacobacci & Partners Ignacio Martinez, Pedro M. Castiñeira Oficina Ponti Adelaide Ponti Yecora Angéles Yecora Gallastegui

SPAIN BEST IP ATTORNEYS Trademarks Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Elzaburu Alberto Elzaburu, Antonio Tavira

Herrero & Asociados Mario Carpintero EXCELLENT Balder IP Law Olof Fickert, Carlos Pires Curell Suñol Mireia Curell Durán-Corretjer Luis-Alfonso Durán Hoyng Rokh Monegier Luis Fernández-Novoa PONS Aberto Rabadán, Isabel Cortés HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Carlos Polo & Asociados Carlos Polo Clarke Modet & Co José Manuel Marhuenda Jacobacci & Partners Eleonora Carrillo RECOMMENDED Oficina Ponti Ricardo Guerras Sugrañes Elia Sugrañes Ungria Javier Ungria

186 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE SPAIN BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Bird & Bird Manuel Lobato Clifford Chance Miquel Montañá Gomez-Acebo & Pombo Gonzalo Ulloa y Suelves, Jesús Muñoz-Delgado Mérida Grau & Angulo Alejandro Angulo, Jorge Grau EXCELLENT Amat & Vidal-Quadras Miguel Vidal-Quadras Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira Jorge Llévat Elzaburu Antonio Castán Hoyng Rokh Monegier Luis Fernández-Novoa Uria Menendez Agustín González, José Massaguer HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Abril Abogados Ignacio Temiño Ceniceros Baker & McKenzie José Maria Méndez Balder IP Law Patricia Koch Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo Antonio Selas Garrigues João Paulo Miranda de Sousa Herrero & Asociados Jésus Gonzales RECOMMENDED Baylos Abogados María Baylos, Pedro Merino Baylos Eversheds Nicea Abogados Vicente Arias Màiz Hogan Lovells Burkhart Goebel

SPAIN BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Bird & Bird Manuel Lobato, Antonio Cueto Gomez-Acebo & Pombo Gonzalo Ulloa y Suelves Grau & Angulo Alejandro Angulo, Jorge Grau, Maite Ferrandiz Uria Menendez Agustín González, José Massaguer EXCELLENT Baker & McKenzie José María Méndez, Ignacio Marqués Clifford Chance Montserrat Lopez-Bellosta, Miguel Montaña Cuatrecasas Gonçalvez Pereira Jorge llevat Elzaburu Enrique Armijo Chavarri Sol Muntañola & Asociados Mario A. Sol Muntañola, Marita Dargallo Nieto HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Abril Abogados Ignacio Temiño, Carlos González Valdés Balder IP Law Miguel Aznar, Óscar Garcia Bercovitz & Carvajal Abogados Rodrigo Bercovitz Rodríguez-Cano Ecija Abogados Juan Salmerón Estudio Juridicos Baylos José Mariano Cruz, Kiko Carrión Garrigues João Paulo Miranda de Sousa Herrero & Asociados Juan Casulà Hogan Lovells Burkhart Goebel Pinto Ruiz & del Valle Javier del Valle

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 187 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

SPAIN BEST LAW FIRMS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Bird & Bird Javier Fernández-Samaniego

Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira Jorge Llevat, Albert Agustinoy

Ecija Abogados Hugo Écija, Alonso Hurtado, Juan Salmerón Artero

Uria Menendez José Pérez Santos, Pablo González-Espejo

EXCELLENT

Baker & McKenzie Maite Diez, José María Méndez

Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo Javier Cremades

Garrigues José Ramón Morales

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Abril Abogados Ignacio Temiño Ceniceros, Salvador Diaz Prades

Gomez-Acebo & Pombo Almudena Arpón de Mendívil

Hogan Lovells Gonzalo F Gallego

Rousaud Costas Duran (RCD) Ignasi Costas

RECOMMENDED

Baylos Abogados María Baylos, David Gómez

Bercovitz & Carvajal Abogados Javier de Torres Fueyo, Alfonso González Gozalo

Hoyng Rokh Monegier José Antonio Sanmartín

Jausas Josep Carbonell

Osborne Clarke Rafael García del Poyo, David Miranda

Pedro Aleman Abogados Pedro Aleman Lain

Pinto Ruiz & del Valle Jordi López Batet, Yago Vázquez

Sol Muntañola & Asociados Mario A. Sol Muntañola

188 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Our analysis

GRAU & ANGULO: ZBM PATENTS & TRADEMARKS: NICHE SPANISH BOUTIQUE CONCENTRATED ON IP LITIGATION FOCUSED ON PROVIDING QUALITY PATENT PROSECUTION

Track record: Grau & Angulo advises mul- Track record: As a leading firm in patent pro- tinational pharmaceutical companies on secution, ZBM Patents & Trademarks has a regular basis. The team has acted on set the benchmark for quality patent work behalf of Giorgio Armani, Cointreau, Dun- in Spain. It operates out of 3 offices, two in lop, Prada, Schindler, Actavis, Apotex and Barcelona and one in Madrid. It has also set Vileda. Lately, the firm has been involved up a tradition of promoting patent awareness in defending Teva in an opposition patent by organizing seminars throughout Spain, in infringement action against the client’s sale association with the European Patent Office. of a generic drug called Escitalopram. Jorge Grau Anna Barlocci Team & differentiation: The team consists of Leaders: Team & differentiation: With its three Leaders: more than 25 highly trained patent professio- Jorge Grau, offices located in Barcelona, Madrid and Anna Barlocci, nals including specialists from biotechnology to Alejandro Angulo Las Palmas and a team of more than 30 Mathieu de Rooij electronics and from mechanics to pharmacy. Established: specialized lawyers, the firm has built up Established: European, Spanish and US patent drafting 2003 a reputation as a leader in the Spanish IP 2003 as well as patent prosecution and post-grant litigation scene. Name partner and co-foun- proceeding related activities are carried out der, Jorge Grau is known for his broad IP by the ZBM’s IP team. Founding Partner Anna expertise, and especially for his recent Barlocci is appreciated for her commitment to activity in the food industry. clients and overall technical understanding.

CUATRECASAS, GONÇALVES PEREIRA: ELZABURU: LEADERS IN THE MARKET SPANISH IP LEADER FOR OVER 150 YEARS

Track record: The firm advises on all areas of Track record: One of the oldest IP firms in business law, including 18 practice areas and Spain, Elzaburu is very active in the phar- 15 industry-specific knowledge groups from maceutical sector and advices both national its 25 offices spread across Europe, America, and multinational companies in patent mat- Asia and Africa. Cuatrecasas is very involved in ters. The firm is best known for its trademark the gambling/gaming industry, and has actively prosecution work and its long list of clients, defended national and international clients like including HP, IKEA, Red Cross, Calvin Klein, Bose, Codorniu, P&G and Gamesys. IBM, Sony, Adidas and Renault. Albert Agustinoy Antonio Tavira Team & differentiation: Cuatrecasas houses Team & differentiation: The trademark team 3 partners and 11 other lawyers in its Intel- Leaders: Leaders: at Elzaburu consists of 22 highly-skilled tra- Albert Agustinoy, lectual Property, Media and Data Protection Antonio Tavira, demark attorneys working out of the firm’s Jorge Llevat department, with Albert Agustinoy at the Antonio Castan 3 offices in Alicante, Madrid and Valencia. Established: helm. Jorge Llevat is recommended for his Established: The team works across various industries 1917 skills both as a standalone litigator and in tran- 1865 and sectors, such as real estate, media & sactional IP law. The team works closely with entertainment and new technologies. On the the firm’s lawyers from their Litigation prac- litigation side, Antonio Castan is renowned tice, thus giving them additional experience for being an expert owing to his 30+ years to deal with complex disputes. of experience in the field.

METHODOLOGY

Rankings are established with the following tools:

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 189 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

SWITZERLAND

190 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE SWITZERLAND BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Crédit Suisse Giuseppe Monarchi (Global co-head of TMT)

Lazard Philippe Leuenberger (Director)

EXCELLENT

Bank of America Merill Lynch Birger Berendes (Head of M&A for Germany, Austria & Switzerland)

Deutsche Bank Marco Bizzozero (CEO)

Goldman Sachs Gilberto Pozzi (Co-head M&A)

Nomura Securities Charles Pitts-Tucker (Head of Investment Banking, EMEA)

UBS Investment Bank Christian Lesueur (Head of TMT, EMEA)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Altium Capital Alexander Grünwald (Managing Director)

Bank Vontobel Herbert J. Scheidt (Chaiman)

Banque J. Safra Sarasin Edmond Michaan (CEO)

EY Ronald Sauser (Senior Partner)

Goetz Partners Herbert Werle (Managing Director, corporate finance)

KPMG James Carter (Director)

Quadrum Partners Christopher Klemm (CEO)

Rothschild & Cie Konstantin Nikiteas (Head northern europe)

The Corporate Finance Group Urs Huber (Partner)

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 191 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

SWITZERLAND VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS LIST The funds are listed alphabetically

FUNDS INDUSTRY

Aquarius Water Holding Cleantech

Auris Medical Biotech

Balluun IT

Cequr Medtech

Coresystems IT

Covagen Biotech

Delenex Therapeutics Biotech

GetyourGuide IT

Finox Biotech

Mind-NRG Biotech

Numbrs IT

Obseva Biotech

Oncoethix Biotech

ROMO Wind Cleantech

Sensimed Medtech

Telormedix Biotech

TVP Solar Cleantech

Wisekey IT

192 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE SWITZERLAND BEST IP ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

E. Blum & Co Kurt Sutter, Regula Rüedi

Hepp Wenger Ryffel Dieter Hepp, Christoph Müller

Isler & Pedrazzini Michael Liebetanz, Natalia Clerc, Tobias Bremi

Rentsch Partners Alfred Köpf, Louis Lagler

EXCELLENT

Bohest IP Detlef Heinen

Keller & Partner Philipp Rüfenacht

Troesch Scheidegger Werner Adrian Rappold

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Bovard Tarik Kapi

Braunpat Braun Eder André Braun

Schaad Balass Menzl & Partner Peter Steinegger, Cornelia Hoffmann

RECOMMENDED

Bugnion Constantin Kiliaridis

Kasche & Partner André Kasche

Katzarov Alexandra Manola

Kirker & Cie Jean-François Léger

Frei Patentanwaltsbüro Alexandra Frei, Werner Bruderer

Micheli & Cie Bertrand F. Micheli

Schmauder & Partner Peter Felder

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 193 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

SWITZERLAND BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Fuhrer Marbach Eugen Marbach, Peter Widmer

Homburger Andri Hess

Lenz & Staehelin Thierry Calame EXCELLENT Kasser Schlosser Ralph Schlosser

Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Michael Ritscher, Simon Holzer

Pestalozzi Lorenza Ferrari Hofer, Thomas Legler

Rentsch Partners Christian Hilti

Schellenberg Wittmer Andrea Mondini, Philippe Ducor, Philipp Groz

Troller Hitz Troller Patrick Troller HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Junod Muhlstein Levy & Puder Michel Muhlstein

ThomannFischer Fabian Leimgruber, Daniel Plüss

Walder Wyss Markus Frick RECOMMENDED

Bär & Karrer Markus Wang

CMS von Erlach Poncet Robert G. Briner

Niederer Kraft & Frey Nicolas Birkhäuser

Python & Peter Felix Locher*

Schaad Balass Menzl & Partner Peter Steinegger, Cornelia Hoffmann, Christoph Fraefel

Staiger, Schwald & Partner Christoph Gasser

Streichenberg Christoph Willi

Times Attorneys Michael Noth

Vischer Stefan Kohler

*Counsel

MEYERLUSTENBERGER LACHENAL: TOP-NOTCH IP LAWYERS

Leader: Track record: The team, led by Michael Team & differentiation: Meyerlustenberger Michael Ritscher Ritscher, is among the strongest in Switzer- Lachenal has one of the largest IP groups in Established: land, having advised clients both on patent the market. With 5 offices in Switzerland and 1975 litigation and trademark (prosecution & litiga- one in Brussels, the firm advises its clients tion), as well as copyright. With strong exper- both on a domestic and international scale. tise in the pharma sector, the team handles The prominent partners Simon Holzer and two of the largest contentious disputes in the Peter Schramm are also registered at the country for Bayer and AstraZeneca. German bar. Michael Ritscher

194 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE SWITZERLAND BEST IP ATTORNEYS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING E. Blum & Co Brendan B. Bolli, Mathias Meyer

Isler & Pedrazzini Michael Degkwitz

Troller Hitz Troller Ursula In-Albon, Patrick Troller EXCELLENT

Bovard Paul Henri Pittet

Bugnion Dominique Skrebers-Zaïontz

Fuhrer Machbach & Partner Peter Widmer, Bernard Volken

Lenz & Staehlin Jürg Simon

Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Michael Ritscher, Simon Holzer

Rentsch Partners Alfred Köpf, Louis Lagler

Weimann Zimmerli Adrian Zimmerli

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

AW Metz & Co Hans-Peter Rüfli, Dominique Lusuardi

BMG Avocats Sylvie Gurry-Veit

Bohest IP Esther M. Jost

Braunpat Braun Eder André Braun

Katzarov Alexandra Manola, Milana Pantelic

Kirker & Cie Jean-François Léger

Meisser & Partner David Meisser

Python & Peter Felix Locher*

Walder Wyss Markus Frick, Magda Streuli-Youssef

Wild Schnyder Peter E. Wild, Donald N. Schnyder, Barbara K. Müller

*Counsel

E. BLUM & CO: LANDMARK IP ATTORNEYS

Leaders: Track record: The centenary IP firm, Team & differentiation: The 55 professio- Mathias Meyer, equally renowned for patent and trade- nals, located in a single office in Zurich, Brendan Bolli mark, is a landmark in the Swiss market. offer a high level of specialization in the Established: 1878 Also acclaimed in design, copyright and intellectual property sector. The team is domain names, the firm has a vast portfolio committed to offering the best services of clients. The team handles IP issues in possible to its clients, in line with the firm’s each and every sector, with an impressive historic reputation. technicality. Mathias Meyer

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 195 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

SWITZERLAND LAW FIRMS Trademark & Copyright Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Fuhrer Marbach & Partners Eugen Marbach, Philippe Probst

Homburger Georg Rauber, Gregor Bühler

Lenz & Staehelin Jürg Simon, Lara Dorigo

Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Michael Ritscher, Simon Holzer

Troller Hitz Troller & Partners Ursula In-Albon, Patrick Troller, Gallus Joller

Walder Wyss Markus Frick, Magda Streuli-Youssef

EXCELLENT

Froriep Roger Staub

Pestalozzi Lorenza Ferrari Hofer, Thomas Legler, Clara-Ann Gordon

Rentsch Partners Matthias Städeli

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Baker & McKenzie Michael Treis

BMG Avocats Sylvie Gurry-Veit

Schellenberg Wittmer Andrea Mondini

Schmauder & Partner Peter Felder, Andreas Thierstein

RECOMMENDED

Bär & Karrer Markus Wang

Kasser Schlosser Ralph Schlosser

Prager Dreifuss Ralph Butz

Python & Peter Felix Locher

ThomannFischer Daniel Plüss

Times Attorneys Markus Kaiser

WerderViganò Kai-Peter Uhlig

LENZ & STAEHELIN: THE 360° APPROACH TO IP

Leaders: Track record: Acting from counsel to litiga- Team & differentiation: Split between Jürg Simon, tion and enforcement, Lenz & Staehelin’s Zurich and Geneva, the team of 15 repre- Thierry Calame IP team prides itself on a very compre- sents clients before all Swiss courts. Lenz Established: 1991 hensive approach to intellectual property. & Staehelin’s prominent IP team is com- Dealing either with trademark, patent, posed of multidisciplinary professionals: unfair competition or design, the team Thierry Calame is also a chemist, and Jürg works for big names such as Merck, Pfizer Simon, an economist. and Apple. Jürg Simon

196 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE SWITZERLAND BEST LAW FIRMS IT & Outsourcing The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Homburger Georg Rauber, David Rosenthal

Lenz & Staehelin Lukas Morscher, Jürg Simon

Schellenberg Wittmer Roland Mathys

Walder Wyss Didier Sangiorgio, Mark A. Reutter

EXCELLENT

Niederer Kraft & Frey András Gurovits

Pestalozzi Clara-Ann Gordon, Lorenza Ferrari-Hofer

Vischer Rolf Auf der Mauer

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Baker & McKenzie Nicolas Passadelis

Bär & Karrer Michele Bernasconi

Id est avocats Michel Jaccard

Wenger Plattner Peter Mosiman

RECOMMENDED

CMS von Erlach Poncet Robert G. Briner

Epartners Urs Egli

Froriep Nicola Benz

Gianni Fröhlich-Bleuler Attorney-at-Law Gianni Fröhlich-Bleuler

Laux Lawyers Christian Laux

MME Martin Eckert

Probst Julia Bhend

Python & Peter Pierre-Yves Gunter

Times Attorneys Markus Kaiser

Thouvenin David Känzig

PESTALOZZI: ADDING STRENGTH TO THE INTEGRATED IP AND IT TEAM

Leaders: Track record: Microsoft, McDonald’s, British Team & differentiation: The clients benefit from Lorenza Ferrari Hofer, American Tobacco, Johnson & Johnson the team’s good relations with the regulatory Clara-Ann Gordon, are all part of the firm’s impressive portfolio. authorities and particularly appreciate the Thomas Legler The team deals with all ranges of IP issues: fully-integrated approach between IP and from product development, its enforcement, IT. Thomas Legler, recently strengthened the to the regulatory issues to IP related litigation team in Geneva with his expertise in litigation and arbitration. Lorenza Ferrari-Hofer’s team and arbitration. He also acts as an arbitrator. essentially deals with patents, trademarks and Lorenza Ferrari Hofer copyright in a wide variety of sectors.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 197 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

TURKEY

198 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE TURKEY BEST IP FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS EXCELLENT Ankara Patent Bureau Ekin Dericioglu Kurt Deris Patents & Trademarks Agency Nazli Korkut Istanbul Patent & Trademark Consultancy Erkan Sevinç Stock Industrial Property Services Kazim Dundar HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Aze Marka Patent Zehra Gurzumar Yildirim Gün + Partners Mehmet Gün Paragon Hulya Cayli TriTech Patent Trademark Consultancy Inc Zeliha Özsoy Yalçiner Consulting and Foreign Trade Uğur G. Yalçiner RECOMMENDED ABA IP Services Melis Abacioglu, Nurettin Abacioglu Alfa Patent Selda Arkan Destek Patent Inc Ersin Dereligil Erdem Kaya Partners Erdem Kaya, Sertel Şiraci Optimum Patent Office Yucel Yilmaz, Murat Yesilyurt Ortan & Ortan Law Office Necip Ortan, Rana Ortan Stan Advoka Baris Atalay

TURKEY BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Deriş Attorneys At Law Partnership Aydın Deriş Gün + Partners Mehmet Gün EXCELLENT Arihan & Arihan Taylan Arihan Cahit Suluk Intellectual Property Law Firm Cahit Suluk Eyuboglu Law Firm Samiye Eyuboğlu Moroğlu Arseven Işık Özdoğa NSN Law Firm Selma Ünlü Tellioglu Kaslioglu İhsan Tellioglu, Evrim Kaslioglu HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Kenaroglu Yasemin Kenaroglu Ortan & Ortan Law Office Necip Ortan, Rana Ortan Stock Industrial Property Services Kazim Dundar Yasaman Zeynep Yasaman Kökçü

GÜN + PARTNERS: FULL-SERVICE INSTITUTIONAL LAW FIRM WITH AN INTERNATIONAL VISION

Leaders: Track record: One of the oldest and largest law Team & differentiation: The firm has 6 partners Uğur Aktekin, Mehmet firms in Turkey and internationally recognized as and 27 additional lawyers in its IP team. In Gün, Barış Kalaycı, Hande Hancer a top-tier legal service provider, Gün + Partners Turkey, no other firms’ lawyers enjoy quite the Established: is present in almost all industry sectors when it same reputation as those belonging to Gün 1986 comes to IP matters. The firm has represented + Partners. Seasoned litigator and name multinational clients like Apple, 3M, Cisco, partner, Mehmut Gün, leads the firm by taking Blackberry, Sony, Deutche Telecom, Hewlett a stand despite of the relatively underdeve- Packard, Honeywell, Fox International Channels, loped nature of the Turkish market. Uğur Aktekin MTV, Viacom, Disney, Playboy and CBS.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 199 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

TURKEY BEST IP FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Ankara Patent Bureau Ekin Dericioglu Kurt

Deris Patents & Trademarks Agency Berrin Kalenderli

Istanbul Patent & Trademark Consultancy Güven Çalik

Stock Industrial Property Services Kazim Dundar, Omer Dundar

EXCELLENT

Alfa Patent Selda Arkan

Destek Patent Ersin Dereligil

Grup Ofis Marka Patent Nihan Ozdemir Saman

Gün + Partners Uğur Aktekin, Hande Hancer

Moroğlu Arseven Işık Özdoğan

NSN Law Firm Selma Ünlü

YükselKarkınKüçük Attorney Partnership Emre Durgun, Gökhan Gökçe

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

ABA IP Services Melis Abaciouglu

Cahit Suluk Intellectual Property Law Firm Cahit Suluk

Erdem Kaya Patent Ahu Güneyli

Esin Attorney Partnership (Baker & McKenzie) Mine Guner

Gür Law Firm Ahmet Akgüloglu

June Intellectual Property Services Inc Dilek Ustun

Kenaroğlu Yasemin Kenaroğlu

Optimum Patent Office Yucel Yilmaz

Pekin & Pekin Kemal Serdengeçti

Tellioglu Kaslioglu İhsan Tellioğlu

Yalçiner Consulting and Foreign Trade Ugur G. Yalçiner

200 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE TURKEY BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Deris Attorneys At Law Partnership Serra Coral Gün + Partners Uğur Aktekin, Mehmet Gün, Barış Kalaycı, Hande Hancer EXCELLENT Ankara Patent Bureau Ekin Dericioglu Kurt Istambul Patent & Trademark Consultancy Güven Çalik Kenaroğlu Yasemin Kenaroglu Moroğlu Arseven Işık Özdoğan NSN Law Firm Selma Ünlü Stock Industrial Property Services Kazim Dundar Tellioglu Kaslioglu İhsan Tellioğlu HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Alacayir Esref Alacayir Cahit Suluk Intellectual Property Law Firm Cahit Suluk Destek Patent Ersin Dereligil Esin Attorney Partnership (Baker & McKenzie) Mine Guner Gür Law Firm Ahmet Akguloglu Kahveci Law Office Vehbi Kahveci Oktar & Oktar Ayla Oktar Ortan & Ortan Law Office Necip Ortan, Rana Ortan Özdirekcan Dündar Şenocak Esra Dündar-Loiseau Turunç Kerem Turunç YükselKarkınKüçük Attorney Partnership Gökhan Gökçe, Emre Durgun RECOMMENDED Abacioglu Akici Guven Merve Bihter Akici Çaga & Çaga Erdem Degerli Cagirgan Law Firm & IP Services Riza Ferhan Cagirgan Dış Patent Hakan Akdag ELIG, Attorneys-at-Law Gönenç Gürkaynak Erdem Kaya Patent Ahu Güneyli IctemLegal Serkan Ictem June Intellectual Property Services Dilek Ustun Yasaman Law Firm Zeynep Yasaman Kökçü

DERIS : MORE THAN A CENTURY OF IP EXPERTISE

Leaders: Track record: Deris has been at the apex of the Team & differentiation: Deris started as a law Aydın Deris, Serra Coral, trademark scene in Turkey for over a century. firm in 1912 and is one of the first to have an Okan Can, Kerim Yardimci, Banu Barbur, Berrin Some important names on their client roster are independent structure for prosecution issues. Kalenderli, Nazli Korkut Pepsico, Bayer and Dystar. The «BigThree» of The quadrilingual Aydın Deris is an institution Established: automobile manufacturers: General Motors, by himself, having acted in litigations for both 1912 Ford Motor Company and Fiat Chrysler Auto- national and international clients. The team’s mobiles US, have also trusted the firm with their work is particularly meticulous and they are dee- IP issues. On the litigation side, over the last ply concerned with each client’s issues. Having Aydın Deris 5 years the firm has seen an explosion in the both the law firm and the agency, Deris can help number of patent litigation cases. The firm is clients at every stage of the IP protection process, also active in the entertainment/media fields, offering the most relevant, individually-tailored entrusted by Warner Brothers and Conde Nast. strategies. The IP firm is expanding its focus into Many firms will require help to comply with the overlapping areas, such as IT Law, media, tech- newwly-approved Data Protection Law, , and the nology and telecommunications. Yardimci and team is already prepared. Barbur are experts in those practices.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 201 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

UNITED KINGDOM

202 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE UNITED KINGDOM BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT (Large Cap) The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Goldman Sachs Mark Sorrell

Morgan Stanley Laurence Hopkins

UBS Investment Bank Andrea Orcel EXCELLENT Barclays Capital Jack Callaway

Citigroup Wilhelm Schulz

Credit Suisse Giuseppe Monarchi

Deutsche Bank Alasdair Warren

Lazard Alexander F. Stern

Rothschild Jeremy Boardman HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BNP Paribas Nicolas Sudre

Bryan Garnier Thibaut de Smedt

HSBC Bank Robert-Eduard Koenig

JPMorgan Markus Boser

Nomura Charles Pitts-Tucker

Société Générale CIB Daniel Weisslinger

UNITED KINGDOM BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT (Small & Mid-Cap) The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING PwC Jass Sarai

EXCELLENT Deloitte Ed Shedd

Jefferies Jonathan Wilcox

KPMG Adam Joy HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BDO Peter Hemington

EY Jean-Benoit Berty

Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Chris West

Lincoln International Mark Barrow

Smith & Williamson Tim Adams

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 203 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

UNITED KINGDOM BEST INVESTMENT BANKS Health & Pharma The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Barclays Pier Luigi Colizzi

Goldman Sachs Ben Thorpe

EXCELLENT

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Gordon Butterworth

Deutsche Bank Darren Campili

JPMorgan Dwayne Lysaght

Lazard Alexander F. Stern

Morgan Stanley Laurence Hopkins

Rothschild Richard Murley

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Blackstone John Studzinski

Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Mark Naughton

Investec Gary Clarence

KPMG Mark Britnell

PwC Issy Corbett

METHODOLOGY

Rankings are established with the following tools:

204 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE UNITED KINGDOM BEST IP ATTORNEYS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING 1 Carpmaels & Ransford Richard Jackson, Susan Kirsch, Hugh Goodfellow, Gary Small D Young & Co David Horner, Anthony Albutt, Jonathan Jackson, Charles Harding Gill Jennings & Every Peter Finnie, Arnie Clarke, Stephen Haley

2 Boult Wade Tennant Adrian Hayes, Claire Baldock, Nick McLeish, Tessa Bucks Dehns Alexander Piésold, Michael Butler, Christopher Davies Kilburn & Strode Gwilym Roberts, Peter Hale, Kristina Cornish EXCELLENT EIP Jerome Spaargaren, Heather McCan J A Kemp Mike Nicholls, Mark Roberts Marks & Clerk Bob Naismith, Campbell Newell Mathys & Squire Peter Garratt, Harvey Adams, Ilya Kazi Mewburn Ellis Simon Kremer, Stephen Gill, Robert Watson, Simon Kiddle Potter Clarkson Richard Bassett, Ian Stevens Reddie & Grose Patrick Lloyd, Neil Thornton, Phil Bates Venner Shipley Tim Jump, Jan Walaski, Ian Grey, Sian Gill Withers & Rogers Dave Croston, Nick Wallin, Adrian Tombling, Andrew Thompson HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Abel & Imray Julian Bardo, Paul Brady Elkington & Fife Richard Gillard, Nick Ertl Forresters Jon Gowshall HGF Kate Taylor, Harry Hutchinson, Gary Wilson, Chris Moore Murgitroyd James Brown, Craig Thomson RGC Jenkins & Co Hugh C. Dunlop, James Cross RECOMMENDED Barker Brettell Priscilla Makovski, John Lawrence Beck Greener John Raynor, Peter Smart Cleveland Adrian Bradley Keltie Devanand Crease, Shakeel Ahmad, Sean Cummings Slingsby Partners Philip Slingsby Wilson Gunn Mark Goodwin, David Slattery

CARPMAELS & RANSFORD: BRINGING CLARITY THROUGH D YOUNG & CO: THE APPLICATION OF INTELLECTUAL RIGOR PREMIER FIRM WITH A HIGH LEVEL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE

Track record: As one of the oldest and most Track record: D Young & Co serves various esteemed players in the market, Carpmaels & industry sectors including automobiles Ransford has an exceptionally strong patent and components, consumer durables and prosecution, opposition and portfolio manage- apparel, media and entertainment, retail and ment practice. It specializes in sectors such as FMCG, household and personal products, life sciences, chemistry, IT & engineering and and health care and pharmaceuticals. some notable clients include Johnson & John- Some notable clients include ExxonMobil, son, Mars, Xeros, Cristal and Invista. Sunseeker, Pfizer and Qualcomm. Richard Jackson Jonathan Jackson Team & differentiation: With 18 in-house Team & differentiation: The firm’s 36-attorney Leader: partners, the firm is among the prosecution Leaders: team has gained a lot of notoriety thanks to its Richard Jackson specialists who are now starting to get into David Horner, Anthony attention to detail and deep understanding Established: the IP Litigation space. Its dispute resolution Albutt, Jonathan Jackson, of the key features of an invention. With 1776 practice has been considerably strengthe- Charles Harding experienced personnel like Anthony Albutt, ned lately due to an influx of IP stars from Established: with years of experience in IT consulting, and Arnold & Porter. The Life Sciences Group 2010 Jonathan Jackson, an expert on emerging has an especially noteworthy reputation, technologies like wearables, the team is with the senior members having worked in definitely one to be reckoned with. the field since the EPO first opened its doors.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 205 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

UNITED KINGDOM BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Bird & Bird Morag Macdonald, Katharine Stephens, Robert Williams Bristows Edward Nodder, Myles Jelf, Sally Field, James Boon EXCELLENT 1 Gowling WLG Gordon Harris, David Barron, Paul Inman, Alexandra Brodie Herbert Smith Freehills Mark Shillito, Sophie Rich Powell Gilbert Tim Powell, Penny Gilbert, Simon Ayrton, Zoë Butler Simmons & Simmons Marc Döring, Marjan Noor

2 Allen & Overy Nicola Dagg, Neville Cordell Hogan Lovells Stephen Bennett Marks & Clerk Mike Gilbert, William Cook Taylor Wessing Malcolm Bates, Simon Cohen, Matt Royle HIGHLY RECOMMENDED EIP Legal Gary Moss Olswang Michael Burdon Redd Solicitors Anna Carboni, Sara Ashby RECOMMENDED Arnold & Porter Christopher Stothers Carpmaels & Ransford Ian Kirby CMS Cameron Mckenna Tom Scourfield Covington & Burling Morag Peberdy D Young & Co Richard Willoughby, Ian Starr DLA Piper UK Ruth Hoy, Bonella Ramsay Fieldfisher Nick Rose Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Justin Watts, Peter Hendrick King & Wood Mallesons David Rose Linklaters Ian Karet, Nigel Jones Osborne Clarke Lorna Brazell Pinsent Masons Clare Tunstall Rouse Legal Diana Sternfeld RPC Jeremy Drew

BIRD & BIRD: A RENOWNED INTERNATIONAL PLAYER GOWLING WLG: PROVIDING COMMERCIAL VALUE WITH AN ACUTE GRASP OF STRATEGIC ISSUES ALONGSIDE OUTSTANDING LEGAL ADVICE

Track record: Bird & Bird has a long-standing Track record: Gowling WLG has in-depth reputation in intellectual property litigation sector expertise in a number of key areas matters, especially patent issues across including telecommunications and IT, life technology, telecom and pharmaceuticals. sciences, advertising and marketing, auto- The firm has advised a number of high-pro- motive and aviation engineering. The firm file clients such as Philip Morris, Nokia, has acted on high-profile matters for AstraZe- Velocys and Merck KGaA on a range of IP neca, Dyson, Hasbro, InterDigital, Unilever, matters. Kingspan Group plc and H. Lundbeck A/S. Following the merger the firm’s jurisdiction Katharine Stephens Gordon Harris Team & differentiation: Made up of 17 has expanded to Canada and Russia. Leaders: partners, two of-counsel, four trademark Leaders: Morag Macdonald, attorneys and 38 associate lawyers, the Gordon Harris, David Team & differentiation: Made up of 17 partners Katharine Stephens, London-based IP team has a veritable Barron, Paul Inman, and 43 other lawyers, the qualified IP team Robert Williams constellation of stars. Jointly led by the IP Alexandra Brodie is co-headed by Gordon Harris. The team is Established: Lawyer’ Katharine Stephens, and Robert Wil- Established: increasingly involved in high-value, interna- 1846 2016 (Merger between liams, Bird & Bird has differentiated itself by Wragge Lawrence & Co. tional and complex arbitrations. These have consistently holding on to its position in the and Gowlings) involved household-name litigants in the ‘Leading’ tier for contentious IP work. electronics and aerospace sectors.

206 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE UNITED KINGDOM BEST IP ATTORNEYS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING 1 Boult Wade Tennant John Wallace, Tony Pluckrose, Catherine Wolfe, Emma Pitcher D Young & Co Jeremy Pennant, Helen Cawley 2 Marks & Clerk Matthew Sammon, Campbell Newell EXCELLENT Capmaels & Ransford Jonathan Day Dehns Joseph Letang, Elaine Deyes Gill Jennings & Every Alasdair MacQuarrie, Rowena Price, Mark Devaney HGF Claire Hutchinson Kilburn & Strode Nigel Jennings, Carrollanne Lindley Potter Clarkson Sanjay Kapur, John Peacock Reddie & Grose Alice Findlay, Helen Wakerley, Jan Vleck Rouse Mark Foreman, Jeremy Newman Withers & Rogers Fiona McBride, Tania Clark HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Baker & Mckenzie Jessica Le Gros Barker Brettell Sarah Lait, Tracy Arch Cleveland Imogen Wiseman, Jonathan Clegg, Lorna Hobbs J A Kemp James Fish RGC Jenkins & Co Stephen James Sipara Robert Furneaux Urquhart-Dykes & Lord Mark Green, Alison Simpson Venner Shipley David Birchall Wilson Gunn Mark Goodwin, James Robey RECOMMENDED AA Thornton & Co Ian Gill Beck Greener Ian Bartlett, John Raynor, Rowland Buehrlen Berwin Leighton Paisner Ian Gruselle Bristows Paul Walsh Fieldfisher Leighton Cassidy Forresters Matthew Shaw, Steven Wake Keltie Alistair Gay, Rosemary Cardas Locke Lord Edwards John Olsen Mathys & Squire Gary Johnston Mewburn Ellis Sofia Arenal Murgitroyd Emma Hodson Novagraaf Tom Farrand Nucleus IP Jandan Aliss Stobbs IP Julius Stobbs Wildbore & Gibbons Janella Barr

HGF: ONE OF THE MOST NOTABLE FILERS OF COMMUNITY MARKS & CLERK: AN INTERNATIONAL ONE-STOP IP SHOP TRADEMARK APPLICATIONS IN EUROPE THAT CONTINUES TO LEAD IN THE UK

Track record: HGF provides filing and pro- Track record: As a leading IP agency for seve- secution services in sectors ranging from ral years, Marks & Clerk provides high-qua- automotive and healthcare to clean-tech lity prosecution, due diligence and strategy and graphene. With a total of 12 offices services. It remains one of the largest patent throughout Europe, it is one of the largest and trademark firms in the UK. The London firms of patent and trademark attorneys in office has a thriving domestic and internatio- Europe. Their clients range from major mul- nal list of valued clients including multi-natio- tinationals with immediately recognizable nal corporations and SMEs which are either names, brands and marks to UK SMEs. based in London or commute there for its Claire Hutchinson Campbell Newell specialist IP services. Leaders: Team & differentiation: As a full-service IP firm, Leaders: Claire Hutchinson, David it houses almost 100 patent and trademark Matthew Sammon, Team & differentiation: With a 26-member Potter attorneys, along with IP solicitors. David Potter Campbell Newell trademark team; Marks & Clerk has quite Established: leads the trademark team, and has conside- Established: the sizeable team with an illustrious history. 1995 rable experience before the European Commu- 1887 It was one of the first patent and trademark nity Trade Mark Office. Claire Hutchinson has attorney firms to hold ISO 9001 certification. extensive experience in all areas of trademark UK head of trademarks Matthew Sammon and design protection, particularly those rela- brings a large global portfolio of clients to ting to conflict issues and dispute resolution. the firm.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 207 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

UNITED KINGDOM BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Baker & McKenzie Paul Rawlinson, Michael Hart, Ben Allgrove, Hiroshi Sheraton Bird & Bird Morag Macdonald, Katharine Stephens, Robert Williams, Mark Holah Bristows Paul Walsh, Paul Jordan EXCELLENT Gowling WLG Gordon Harris, Alexandra Brodie Olswang Joel Barry, Paul Stevens Redd Solicitors Anna Carboni, Sara Ashby Rouse Legal Mark Foreman, Arty Rajendra Simmons & Simmons David Stone Taylor Wessing Niri Shanmuganathan, Charles Lloyd HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Allen & Overy Nicola Dagg, Neville Cordell CMS Cameron McKenna Tom Scourfield DLA Piper UK Ruth Hoy Fieldfisher Nick Rose, Leighton Cassidy Herbert Smith Freehills Mark Shillito, Joel Smith Hogan Lovells Charlie Winckworth King & Wood Mallesons David Rose Lewis Silkin Simon Chapman Nabarro Ian Lowe Stephenson Harwood Eifion Morris RECOMMENDED Bear & Wolf Simon Tracey, Mark Heritage Berwin Leighton Paisner Simon Clark, Ian Gruselle Burges Salmon Jeremy Dickerson Charles Russels Speechlys Mary Bagnall D Young & Co Ian Starr, Tamsin Holman Dentons John Linneker Fox Williams Simon Bennett Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Avril Martindale Marks & Clerk Solicitors Kirsten Gilbert Mishcon de Reya Jeremy Hertzog Osborne Clarke Nick Johnson Pinsent Masons Clare Tunstall, Iain Connor Powell Gilbert Simon Ayrton Reed Smith Emma Lenthall RPC Jeremy Drew

BAKER & MCKENZIE: BRISTOWS: VAST KNOWLEDGE OF TRADEMARKS A MULTINATIONAL LEADER WITH DEEP MARKET KNOWLEDGE AND EXEMPLARY LEVEL OF SERVICE

Track record: The London IP practice of Baker Track record: Bristows recently saw some big & McKenzie acts for some of the world’s victories both in the high court, and on social best-known IP owners and provides inno- media. Paul Walsh won the case for Thomas vative advice in both contentious as well Pink vs. Victoria’s Secrets and Paul Jordan’s as non-contentious situations, across the keen advertising and marketing skills helped spectrum of IP matters. Some notable clients clients, McDonalds, make a huge splash on include Pinterest, British-American Tobacco social media during the 2014 Brazil World and L’Oréal. Cup. Cadbury is another notable client for which Walsh has recently acted. Michael Hart Paul Jordan Team & differentiation: The UK team consists Leaders: of over 30 IP lawyers and was strengthened Leaders: Team & differentiation: As one of the leading Paul Rawlinson, Michael by the addition of renowned patent litigator Paul Walsh, Paul Jordan IP firms in the UK, Bristows has a very strong Hart, Ben Allgrove, Hiroshi Hiroshi Sheraton. Paul Rawlinson manages Established: reputation, especially when it comes to liti- Sheraton the London firm and is an established name 1837 gation. The diverse practice of the well-roun- Established: in the litigation and enforcement game. The ded Paul Jordan encompasses everything 1949 team stands out from the competition due to from trademark infringement to advertising its dedicated IP enforcement and anti-piracy regulation and licensing. Pharmaceutical service, as well as the presence of a globally litigation is also something for which the firm relevant network. is strongly recommended.

208 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE ASIA

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 209 C

CMY

K C

MY CY CHINA CMY

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 211 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CHINA TOP PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS*

RANK FIRM ESTABLISHED LEADERS MANAGED ASSETS MAIN INVESTMENT SECTORS

Shangzhi Wu, Zhen Healthcare, Financial, Energy, Services, Retail, 1 CDH Investments 2002 $16.5 billion Jiao Manufacturing

Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Consumer goods 2 New Horizon Capital 2005 Jianming Yu ¥20 billion+ RMB & services, Mid-and-high end manufacturing, Energy, Technology & Innovation

¥30 billion+ RMB Consumer goods, Services, Pharmaceuticals, 3 JD Capital 2007 Lei Cai and $300 million Agriculture, Materials, Equipment, Mining

Energy, Mining, Agriculture, Healthcare, China Science and Culture & Media, New energy, New materials, 4 Merchants Capital 2000 Xiangshuang Shan ¥80 billion RMB Construction materials, IT, Consumer goods, Management Advanced manufacturing

Consumer goods & Retail, Financial & CITIC Private Equity Business services, Technology & Internet, 5 2008 Lefei Liu ¥50 billion RMB Funds Management Healthcare, Environment & Infrastructure, Industry & Energy

Healthcare, Consumer goods, Equipment 6 Fosun Capital 2007 Bin Tang ¥60 billion+ RMB manufacturing, Services, Energy efficiency & Environment protection, TMT, Real estate

Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Press, Environment protection, Infrastructure, 7 CCB International 2004 N/A ¥30 billion+ RMB Consumer goods, Real estate, Manufacturing, Financial

GUOSEN H&S Venture Pharmaceuticals, Environment protection, 8 2008 Yong Long ¥5+ billion RMB Investment Hi-tech manufacturing

Healthcare, Consumer goods, Services, High 9 Hony Capital 2003 Linghuan Zhao ¥50+ billion RMB end manufacturing

Industry, Automobile, Media, Mining, Retail/ 10 Baring Private Equity Asia 1997 N/A ¥9 billion RMB Consumer goods, Environment protection, Education, Healthcare, Services

Food & Drinks, Manufacturing, Financial, $140 billion 11 Goldman Sachs 1993 Mingyin Xu Healthcare, Hi-tech, Consumer goods & (worldwide) services

Pingan Bright Fortune Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Food, TMT, 12 2008 Lihong Li ¥10 billion+ RMB Investment Management Education & Culture, Manufacturing

Financial services, Healthcare, Industry 13 Warburg Pincus 1996 Hui Li ¥60 billion RMB services, TMT, Energy, Consumer goods & Retail, Real estate

Pharmaceuticals, TMT, Retail & Consumer GF XINDE Investment 14 2008 Xuesheng Xiao ¥7 billion RMB goods, Environment protection, New energy, Management New materials, Advanced manufacturing

Shiyou Chen, Consumer goods, Healthcare, Energy 15 CICC PE 2006 Shenglan Zhang, ¥22 billion+ RMB efficiency & Environment protection, Financial, Lei Wang, Li Yang Real estate

$20 billion 16 Tiger Global Management 2001 Chase Coleman Internet, Education, Consumer goods (worldwide) Source: Data compiled from Forbes China Forbes compiled from Data Source:

212 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Xiangdong Yang, Ziming $193 billion Consumer goods, Retail, Healthcare, Financial 17 Carlyle 1987 Tang, Zencui Zu, (worldwide) services, TMT, Real estate Zhunhuan Li

$99.1 billion IT, Internet, TMT, Food & Drinks, Healthcare, 18 KKR 2005 Haifeng Liu (worldwide) Culture & Media, Chain stores, Retail

Financial, Manufacturing, Consumer Morgan Stanley Private 19 1993 Xuanqin Zhou $4 billion goods & services, Construction materials, Equity Asia Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals

Pharmaceuticals, Renewable energy, 20 CITIC Capital 2002 Yichen Zhang $4.6 billion Machinery, Agrobusiness

Internet & Media, Consumer goods & Retail, 21 Hillhouse Capital 2005 Lei Zhang $20 billion+ Healthcare, Financial services, B2B services, Advanced manufacturing

High end equipment manufacturing, New China Merchants materials, New energy, IT, Aerospace, 22 Xiangjiang Industrial 2008 Shenyuan Cai ¥3 billion+ RMB Culture, Agriculture, Services, Biotech & Investment Management Pharmaceuticals

Consumer goods & services, Healthcare Jinzhi Jiang, Hao 23 Greenwoods 2004 ¥50 billion+ RMB & Pharmaceuticals, TMT, Advanced Wang manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing, Energy efficiency ¥16.8 billion RMB & Environment protection, Biotech & 24 Bright Stone Investment 2009 Feng Gao and $2 billion Pharmaceuticals, Satellites/TMT, Tourism, Consumer goods, Healthcare, Agriculture

Hi-tech, High end manufacturing, High ¥5.4 billion RMB quality consumer goods & servicess, Culture, 25 ChinaEquity 1999 Chaoyong Wang and $1.3 billion Healthcare, Environment protection, New energy, New materials

Shenzhen Ping’an 26 Innovation Capital 1992 Jinshun Zhang ¥4 billion RMB Machinery, Energy, Real estate, Chemicals Investment

Internet, Healthcare, Consumer goods & 27 Trustbridge Partners 2006 Shujun Li $1.175 billion services, New energy, Environment protection

TMT, Internet, Consumer goods, Energy 28 Stone Capital 2008 Liqun Wang ¥5 billion RMB efficiency & Environment protection, Culture, Automobile Source: Data compiled from Forbes China Forbes compiled from Data Source:

Shanghai Yonghua Xiaojing Zheng, Software & cartoon animation, Outdoor media, 29 1994 ¥700 million RMB Investment Management Liang Jing Internet service, Pharmaceuticals

Energy efficiency & Environment protection, Haitong-Fortis Private Baoguo Li, Junyu 30 2004 ¥3 billion RMB Advanced manufacturing, New energy, New Equity Fund Management Zhang, Hong Gu materials, IT, Biotech, Hi-tech services

*Methodology: similar to Forbes’ Midas list, the firms were ranked based on their investment return and contribution to companies invested in over the past five years.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 213 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CHINA BEST DOMESTIC LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING China Patent Agent (HK) Ltd (CPA) Tina H. Tai, Yuhe Wu King & Wood Mallesons Yong Li, Yugong Qin, Mia M. Qu Liu Shen & Associates Perry W. Yang, Jianyang Yu EXCELLENT CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office Hao Ma, Chuanhong Long Fangda Partners Dixon H. Zhang, Gordon G. Gao, James B. Hu Kangxin Partners James P. Chen, David Y. Zhang, Shirley W. Dong Lifang & Partners Guanbin Xie, Xi Sun Zhongzi Law office Bonan Lin, Gesheng Huang, Xiaoguang Yang HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Chang Tsi & Partners Howard W. Hao, Martin R. Meng China Science Patent & Trademark Agent Liyan Zhang, Xinhua Wang, Xu Wang China Sinda Intellectual Property Gary B. Zhang Jeekai & Partners Robin R. Zhao JunHe James J. Zhu, Zoe Z. Wang LexField Law Offices Hongyi Jiang, Richard Y. Liu NTD Intellectual Property Attorneys Christopher W. Shao Unitalen Law Office Hao Zhang Wan Hui Da Law Firm Gang Bai, Xiaoling Duan Zhong Lun Law Firm Jihong Chen, Ping Gu, Helen F. Cheng ZY Partners Jingbing Li, Hui Zhang RECOMMENDED An, Tian, Zhang & Partners David X. Tian, Jerry L. Liu Anjie Law Firm Kefeng Zhao, Bing Cheng DEQI Interllectual Property Law Corporation Zhiqiang Song Guangzhou Scihead IP Group Xu Wen Hylands Law Firm Yunze Lian Panawell & Partners Yong Wang Peksung Intellectual Property Shouqi Zhong, Guangyu Zhang Shanghai Patent & Trademark Law Office Donghui Li, Ruizhong Feng Watson & Band George Q. Fu

KING & WOOD MALLESONS: JUNHE: A GLOBAL PLAYER WITH IN-DEPTH LOCAL KNOWLEDGE THRIVING IP PRACTICE WITH A COMPREHENSIVE WAY OF WORK

Track record: The renowned full-service Track record: In 2015, JunHe represented law firm King & Wood Mallesons conti- Sogou.com in a suit against Chinese Inter- nues to gain high appreciation for its net giant Baidu.com, involving 8 patent outstanding IP work, particularly in com- infringement litigations, before Shanghai plex litigation and infringement matters. High Court, Shanghai IP Court and Beijing The team recently represented Philips IP Court. These cases will bring about pro- in several patent infringement matters found influence on market competition in the against three competitors and success- IT & Internet sector in China. Representative fully defended its patents after five rounds clients include iRobot, Emerson and Cornell Yong Li James J. Zhu of invalidation proceedings. University. Leaders: Leaders: Yong Li, Yugong Qin, Team & differentiation: Composed of 10 James J. Zhu, Zoe Z. Wang Team & differentiation: Chinese leading Mia M. Qu partners and over 20 other qualified lawy- Established: full-service firm JunHe has an important IP Established: ers, the Chinese IP team of KWM is com- 1989 practice, led by 4 partners. With first-hand 1993 (King & Wood) mitted to protecting the value of its clients’ legal experience and in-depth understan- IP, thanks to its in-depth knowledge of local ding of technology, its IP attorneys and market coupled with a global outlook, and its lawyers are exposed to prosecution, due pursuit for excellence has owned the respect diligence and litigation before focusing on of its peers. one area, providing comprehensive work.

214 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE CHINA BEST DOMESTIC LAW FIRMS Trademark Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Chang Tsi & Partners Spring Y. Chang, Simon Y. Tsi, Frank J. Liu King & Wood Mallesons Zhongsheng Li, Yusheng Shi Wan Hui Da Law Firm Gang Bai, Haiyang Ren, Hui Huang EXCELLENT CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office Hao Ma China Patent Agent (HK) Ltd (CPA) Hong Luo, Johnson J. Li Kangxin Partners Gloria Q. Wu, Celia Y. Li LexField Law Offices Hongyi Jiang Liu Shen & Associates Zhanying Jia Unitalen Law Office Bradley Z. Yu, Robert Y. Li Zhongzi Law office Xuemin Chen HIGHLY RECOMMENDED An, Tian, Zhang & Partners David X. Tian China Science Patent & Trademark Agent Lei Xiong China Sinda Intellectual Property Xiang An Fangda Partners Dixon H. Zhang, Gordon G. Gao, James B. Hu Hylands Law Firm Yunze Lian Lifang & Partners Guanbin Xie NTD Intellectual Property Attorneys Christopher C. Shen Shanghai Patent & Trademark Law Office Donghui Li, Ruizhong Feng Watson & Band George Q. Fu ZY Partners Jingbing Li, Hong Ai RECOMMENDED Anjie Law Firm Kefeng Zhao, Bing Cheng China Trademark & Patent Law Office Gang Xiong Dacheng Law Offices Xinliang Tao GoldenGate Lawyers Tim T. Meng, Linda T. Zhao Jingcheng Tongda & Neal Decheng Li, Zhengzhong Pang JunHe Qiang Ma, Weining Zou Lawjay Partners James Z. Luo Zhong Lun Law Firm Jihong Chen, Ping Gu, Helen F. Cheng

CHANG TSI & PARTNERS: KANGXIN PARTNERS: AN IP LEADER-TO-BE THAT CONTINUES TO GROW A TOP-TIER IP PRACTITIONER WITH INTERNATIONAL AMBITION

Track record: Chang Tsi & Partners has Track record: Kangxin was recently gradually confirmed its leadership in the entrusted by a famous luxury brand to file Chinese IP field, and recent new clients are opposition against a squatter trademark some of the most prestigious names in tech, registration before the Trademark Office consumer goods and pharmaceuticals. It of The State Administration, and success- recently secured a final win for a big food fully secured the “well-known” status for company before the Supreme Court related the trademarks of an international acces- to trademark registration opposition after a sory manufacturer. 5-year trial, and also succeeded the strate- Chang Spring Gloria Wu gic planning of nationwide trademark pro- Team & differentiation: Led by strategist Leaders: tection for a leading hotel chain. Leaders: Samson Yu, the firm implements ISO 9001 Spring Y. Chang, Gloria Q. Wu, Celia Y. Li certification, a streamlined review system Simon Y. Tsi, Frank J. Liu Team & differentiation: The firm has Established: and state-of-the-art computer systems for Established: increased from 120 last year to 180 this 1994 quality control. The total staff of 390, inclu- 2002 year and expanded its presence to the US ding 15 partners and 108 associates, are with two partners to accompany clients highly regarded for their responsiveness more closely. Although well-reputed for to clients’ inquiries and business-oriented its trademark work, its patent practice is thinking and provide one-stop IP services growing rapidly. to clients of all size.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 215 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

CHINA BEST DOMESTIC IP FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office Hao Ma, Chuanhong Long China Patent Agent (HK) Ltd (CPA) Xiangling Zeng, Tina H. Tai King & Wood Mallesons Yong Li, Wenping Chen Liu Shen & Associates Perry W. Yang, Allen F. Tao EXCELLENT China Science Patent & Trademark Agent Liyan Zhang, Yunpu Luo, Bobo Wang, Xu Wang Kangxin Partners Samson G. Yu, James P. Chen, Shirley W. Dong, Gary G. Wu NTD Patent & Trademark Agency Wei Jian, Heather X. Lin, Christopher W. Shao Unitalen Attorneys at Law Hao Zhang, Deshan Li Zhongzi Law Office Bonan Lin, Gesheng Huang HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Chang Tsi & Partners Howard W. Hao, Martin R. Meng, Chenyan Wu China Sinda Intellectual Property Gary B. Zhang Peksung Intellectual Property Shouqi Zhong, Luoying Li, Jiancheng Jiang Shanghai Patent & Trademark Law Office Zhiyi Cui, Wenqing Chen, Hongxiang Wang Wan Hui Da Intellectual Property Agency Gang Bai, Xiaoling Duan RECOMMENDED Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Hui Li DEQI Intellectual Property Law Corporation Zhiqiang Song Dragon Intellectual Property Law Firm Jing Xu GoldenGate Lawyers Frank J. Chen Guangzhou Scihead IP Group Chuanxin He Hylands Law Firm Yungui Liu Jeekai & Partners Robin R. Zhao JunHe James J. Zhu, Zoe Z. Wang Lung Tin International Intellectual Property Agent Tai-Keung Cheng, Yong Xiang Panawell & Partners Shute S. Xu, Michael M. Cai Shangcheng & Partners Chun Long, Qi Yang

LIU SHEN & ASSOCIATES: CHINA PATENT AGENT (HK) LTD (CPA): A LONG-STANDING IP PROSECUTION SPECIALIST A TIME-HONORED, UNRELENTING MARKET LEADER

Track record: As the pioneer of China’s Track record: As one of the 3 pioneer private law firm partnership, Liu Shen & Chinese IP agencies, CPA excels in the Associates receives consistent recom- full spectrum of IP services for its clients in mendation for its expertise in IP prosecu- China and abroad, with particular expertise tion, enforcement, transaction & portfolio in application prosecution, litigation, media- management, especially in the field of tion, licensing, assignment and counseling. patents. It registered the world’s fastest It advised Evonik Degussa, a German spe- growing PCT filing practice in 2014, with a cialty chemicals company, in an adminis- 308% increase in application volume. Sie- trative matter related to invention patent Yang Wu Xiangling Zeng mens, France Telecom and Tyco Electro- application. Leaders: nics are a few big names that trust the firm. Leaders: Perry W. Yang, Allen F. Tao Xiangling Zeng, Tina H. Tai Team & differentiation: Its team of 570 staff Established: Team & differentiation: Led by President Established: includes 220 patent attorneys, 35 trade- 1993 Perry Yang, the firm has a sizable team 1984 mark attorneys and 68 lawyers. A mature of over 400 staff with approximately 186 and effective computerized daily operation patent attorneys and 50 patent engineers management system guarantees the outs- covering various technical areas, and 85 tanding quality of its work, and the corporate lawyers (most of whom are also patent structure distinguishes the firm from peers in attorneys). the Chinese market.

216 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE CHINA BEST DOMESTIC IP FIRMS Trademark Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING CCPIT Patent & Trademark Law Office Hao Ma, Zhongqi Zhou Wan Hui Da Intellectual Property Agency Gang Bai, Haiyang Ren EXCELLENT 1 Chang Tsi & Partners Spring Y. Chang, Simon Y. Tsi, David G. Lee, Kenneth L. Ng China Patent Agent (HK) Ltd (CPA) Hong Luo, Johnson J. Li Kangxin Partners Samson G. Yu, Gloria Q. Wu King & Wood Mallesons Fei Liao LexField Law Offices Jan Y. Liu Liu Shen & Associates Zhanying Jia, Lily Lei

2 NTD Patent & Trademark Agency Christopher C. Shen, Xiaohua Wang Unitalen Attorneys at Law Bradley Z. Yu, Danny Chen HIGHLY RECOMMENDED An, Tian, Zhang & Partners David X. Tian Beijing Janlea Trademark Agency Beihua Zhuge, Ning Cui China Science Patent & Trademark Agent Lei Xiong China Sinda Intellectual Property Xiang An China Trademark & Patent Law Office Gang Xiong Dragon Intellectual Property Law Firm Hui Lv Hylands Law Firm Yunze Lian Shanghai Patent & Trademark Law Office Zhenglong Jiang, Hong Guan Zhongzi Law Office Xuemin Chen RECOMMENDED 1 IntellecPro Qi Hu Jeekai & Partners Robin R. Zhao

2 Altius IP Law Services Chaoyang Wang Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency Mei Tian, Yajia Ma DEQI Intellectual Property Law Corporation Jiayan Xie HFG Intellectual Property Daisy Y. Yao

CCPIT PATENT & TRADEMARK LAW OFFICE: LEXFIELD LAW OFFICES: A RELIABLE, ILLUSTRIOUS NAME A BOUTIQUE IP FIRM SKILLED IN TRADEMARKS

Track record: As the oldest and one of the Track record: IP boutique LexField has built largest IP firms in China, CCPIT maintains its excellent reputation among many mul- its reputation as a top-tier player. The firm tinationals for trademark prosecution and successfully exempted Brooks Brothers enforcement issues throughout China, and from substantive infringement compensa- Google, Sun Microsystems and BP are just a tion by obtaining a favorable judgement few names that trust the firm. It successfully in the retrial case made by the Supreme represented Japanese cosmetics company People’s Court concerning the invalidation Shiseido in an opposition against a bad faith against trademark “Golden Fleece Logo”. registrant before the Trademark Review & Zhongqi Zhou Yuanyue Liu Adjudication Board. Leaders: Team & differentiation: The firm employs Leader: Hao Ma, Zhongqi Zhou in total 585 staff, including more than 250 Jan Y. Liu Team & differentiation: Founding partner Jan Established: patent and trademark attorneys, working Established: Liu is a foremost trademark specialist, and 1957 (CCPIT Trademark in its seven offices around the globe: 2009 served as ex-Director of the Trademark Sec- Agency) Beijing, New York, Tokyo, Munich, Hong tion at CCPIT and founding partner of King Kong, Shanghai and Guangzhou. It was & Wood’s IP Department. The team is also recently recognized as “Outstanding Tra- experienced in trademark clearance legal demark Agency 2015” by China Trade- opinion work, copyright and anti-unfair com- mark Association. petition law.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 217 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

INDIA

218 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE INDIA BEST INVESTMENT BANKS TMT The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING

Kotak Investment Banking S Ramesh

Morgan Stanley Aisha De Sequeira

EXCELLENT

Avendus Capital Ranu Vohra

Citi Pramit Jhaveri

Credit Suisse Mihir Doshi

Goldman Sachs Sudarshan Ramakrishnan

ICICI Securities Rishabh Mishra

J.P. Morgan Kaustubh Kulkarni

Rothschild & Cie Amitabh Malhotra

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Axis Capital S. Subramanian

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Raj Balakrishnan

Barclays Jaideep Khanna

Deutsche Bank Ravneet Gill

EY Kaushal Shah

Signal Hill Capital George Anthraper

RECOMMENDED

BMR Advisors - Translink Corporate Finance Vivek Gupta

BSR & Co (KPMG in India) Richard Rekhy

o3 Capital Advisors Ptv. Shyam Shenthar

Standard Chartered Bank Zarin Daruwala

KOTAK INVESTMENT BANKING: TOP TIER INVESTMENT BANK WITH A HOST OF MULTINATIONAL CLIENTS

Leader: Track record: As one of the most prominent Team & differentiation: With every possible S Ramesh investment banks in India, Kotak Investment investment banking related award in India Established: Banking has proven itself time and again by to show for it, the full-service investment 1991 advising on some of the largest and most com- bank has been successful in differentiating plex M&A transactions of every type. In 2015, itself from the market by creating strong rela- the firm advised Godrej Agrovet on acquisition tionships with some of the leading business of a controlling interest in Astec Lifesciences. houses in the country. Renowned investment Other former clients have included Vodafone, banker, S Ramesh, took over the role of MD & S Ramesh Toshiba and Bausch & Lomb Eyecare. CEO of the bank in 2015.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 219 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

INDIA BEST DOMESTIC IP FIRMS Patent Prosecution / Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Anand and Anand Pravin Anand, Archana Shanker K & S Partners Ravi Bhola Remfry & Sagar Ashwin Julka EXCELLENT Krishna & Saurastri Associates Manish Saurastri Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (L&S) Ramaswamy Parthasarathy Lall Lahiri & Salhotra (LLS) Anuradha Salhotra, Rahul Chaudhry, Ramesh Dhawan R. K. Dewan & Co Mohan Dewan, Niti Dewan S. Majumdar & Co Subhatosh Majumdar Singh & Singh Lall & Sethi Saya Choudhary Subramaniam & Associates Hari Subramaniam HIGHLY RECOMMENDED D. P. Ahuja & Co Sudhir D. Ahuja, Samaresh Chakraborty De Penning & De Penning R.P. Bhattacharya, David Solomon Inttl Advocare Hemant Singh, Vishal Tripathi Kan & Krishme Sharad Vadehra Khaitan & Co Jose Madan LexOrbis Intellectual Property Practice Manisha Singh Nair Obhan & Associates Essenese Obhan Saikrishna & Associates Saikrishna Rajagopal RECOMMENDED Aditya & Associates Vipul N. Bhuta ALMT Legal Rakesh Prabhu Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Nitin Masilamani Groser & Groser Francis Groser HK Acharya & Co Rajeshkumar Acharya Khurana & Khurana Meenakshi Khurana, Tarun Khurana Mohan Associates A. A. Mohan, Brinda Mohan Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Dev Robinson ZeusIP Advocates Gunjan Paharia

LAKSHMIKUMARAN & SRIDHARAN (L&S) : AN ALL-AROUND PLAYER WITH STRONG PATENT PRACTICE

Leader: Track record: Lakshmikumaran & Sridha- Team & differentiation: With almost 70 attor- Ramaswamy Parthasarathy ran recently represented Clyde Union neys in its IP team, L&S has one of the stron- Established: Limited and was successful in obtaining gest patent-related practices in the country 1985 an ex-parte interim injunction in this mat- due to the likes of M. Lakshmikumaran’s ter. The firm is also currently defending expertise in the life sciences sector and Onyx Therapeutics with regard to two key founding partner V. Lakshmikumaran’s spe- patents. Other notable clients include ciality in electronics. The firm is headed by Merck, BASF, HP, Ford Motor Co. and R. Parthasarathy, the man to contact for any Ramaswamy Parthasarathy Robert Bosch. patent litigation cases.

220 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE INDIA BEST DOMESTIC IP FIRMS Trademark Prosecution / Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Anand and Anand Pravin Anand, Safir Anand

Remfry & Sagar Ashwin Julka EXCELLENT Inttl Advocare Hemant Singh, Prietika Singh

K & S Partners Rajendra Kumar, Kenneth Benjamin

Krishna & Saurastri Associates Sunil Krishna, Manish Saurastri

Lall Lahiri & Salhotra (LLS) Anuradha Salhotra, Rahul Chaudhry

Saikrishna & Associates Saikrishna Rajagopal

Singh & Singh Lall & Sethi Chander Lall, Bitika Sharma HIGHLY RECOMMENDED De Penning & De Penning Malavika Vikram

Khaitan & Co Adheesh Nargolkar

Khurana & Khurana Vinod Khurana

K Law/Krishnamurthy & Co Nikhil Krishnamurthy

S. S. Rana & Co Vikrant Rana

W. S. Kane & Co Himanshu Kane RECOMMENDED Aditya & Associates Sonali V. Bhuta

Amarjit & Associates Amarjit Singh

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Ranjan Negi

D. P. Ahuja & Co Sumitra Chowdhury

Fidus Law Chambers Shwetasree Majumder

Kan & Krishme Sharad Vadehra

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (L&S) Ramaswamy Parthasarathy

Legasis Partners Mustafa Safiyuddin

Luthra & Luthra Law Offices Gayatri Roy

R. K. Dewan & Co Mohan Dewan, M. R. Nair

RNA IP Attorneys Ranjan Narula ZeusIP Advocates Gunjan Paharia

LALL LAHIRI & SALHOTRA (LLS): A TRUSTWORTHY IP PRACTICE WITH A STELLAR REPUTATION

Leaders: Track record: Owing to the deep sectoral Team & differentiation: The firm has a strong Rahul Chaudhry, expertise that LLS’ trademark team brings team, consisting of 5 partners and 55 other qua- Anuradha Salhotra to the table, the firm has developed quite lified lawyers. Under the leadership of Rahul Established: 1983 the reputation for being able to take on Chaudhry, LLS continues to move forward and complex and multi-faceted brand related differentiate itself with routine portfolio manage- cases for all kinds and sizes of business ment matters being handled with the same care entities. Notable clients include Exxon as multi-jurisdictional briefs. Anuradha Salhotra Mobil, Whirlpool, Walmart, Heinz, and is renowned for her expertise in IP transactions Rahul Chaudhry General Mills. as well as portfolio management.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 221 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

JAPAN

222 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE JAPAN BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Prosecution The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Nakamura & Partners Fumiaki Ohtsuka Yuasa & Hara Shinjiro Ono EXCELLENT Abe, Ikubo & Katayama Hiroshi Kobayashi Aoyama & Partners Keiichi Gonjou Seiwa Patent & Law Junichi Tsuruta, Tetsuji Koga, Tetsuro Shimada Soei Patent & Law Yoshiki Hasegawa TMI Associates Yoshiyuki Inaba HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Yasufumi Shiroyama

Kyowa Patent and Law Office Hirohito Kastunuma

Shiga International Patent Office Masatake Shiga, Yasuhiko Murayama

Sugimura Kazuyuki Tomita RECOMMENDED Fukami Patent Office Hisao Fukami

Ohno & Partners Seiji Ohno

STW & Partners Tomohisa Tabuchi

JAPAN BEST LAW FIRMS Patent Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Abe, Ikubo & Katayama Eiji Katayama

Nakamura & Partners Minoru Nakamura

TMI Associates Katsuro Tanaka EXCELLENT Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Kenichi Nakano

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Yoshifumi Onodera

STW & Partners Wataru Sueyoshi

Yuasa & Hara Kozo Yabe HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Ryoichi Mimura

Ohno & Partners Seiji Ohno RECOMMENDED Abe, Wada & Watanabe Nobuhiro Wada

Sonderhoff & Einsel (Law and Patent Office) Felix-Reinhard Einsel

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 223 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RANKINGS

JAPAN BEST LAW FIRMS Trademark Prosecution / Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Nakamura & Partners Hiroyuki Itaki, Daisaku Fujikura TMI Associates Yoshiyuki Inaba Yuasa & Hara Osamu Suzuki, Toshiyuki Fukai EXCELLENT Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Yoshikazu Iwase, Yasufumi Shiroyama Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Hiroki Saito Seiwa Patent & Law Atsushi Aoki Shiga International Patent Office Tadao Takashiba HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Abe, Ikubo & Katayama Hiroshi Kobayashi Kyowa Patent and Law Office Tomoki Imaoka Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Ryoichi Mimura STW & Partners Wataru Sueyoshi RECOMMENDED Abe, Wada & Watanabe Hiromi Watanabe Ohno & Partners Hitoshi Nakamura Sonderhoff & Einsel (Law and Patent Office) Felix-Reinhard Einsel Soei Patent & Law Firm Tomoya Kurogawa

JAPAN BEST FOREIGN LAW FIRMS General IP Litigation The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS LEADING Baker & McKenzie GJBJ Tokyo Kensaku Takase Hogan Lovells Horitsu Jimusho Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo Lloyd Parker Morrison & Foerster Yukihiro Terazawa, Stuart S. Beraha EXCELLENT Finnegan Naoki Yoshida Jones Day Shogo Asaji Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe David Evan Case HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Foley & Lardner Etsuo Doi Herbert Smith Freehills Peter Godwin Ropes & Gray Hiroyuki Hagiwara RECOMMENDED DLA Piper Tokyo Partnership Gaikokuho Kyodojigyo Horitsu Jimusho Hajime Iwaki Morgan Lewis & Bockius Chris Mizumoto Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Wayne Taichi Alexander Sughrue Mion Yoshinari Kishimoto White & Case Brian G. Strawn

224 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Our analysis

NAKAMURA & PARTNERS: YUASA & HARA : THE FIRST-TIER PLAYER IN IP PROSECUTION A HISTORICAL LEADER IN IP MARKET

Track record: The firm has profound expe- Track record: Yuasa & Hara has represented rience in patent prosecution matters as clients in fields ranging from food & beve- well as patent litigation, including Yoshio rage to computer science, in work varying Kumakura’s advising Calpis on obtaining a from application to post-grant procedures revocation of the JPO’s decision to refuse the and patent protecting matters, and clientele client’s patent application, which reached includes global companies such as Micro- Tokyo’s Intellectual Property High Court. soft. Mr. Ono, the leading partner of patent division, served in the Japan Patent Office Team & differentiation: Consisting of more and possesses strong knowledge in phar- Minoru Nakamura Shinjiro Ono than 70 patent attorneys and 20 lawyers, maceutical and polymer processing. Leader: Nakamura & Partners divides its service into Leader: Minoru Nakamura legal, trademark, and patent departments, Shinjiro Ono Team & differentiation: The firm dedicates Established: so that clients can receive comprehensive, Established: itself to building international alliances with 1914 one-stop legal consultation. In its prestigious 1902 overseas law firms, spanning more than patent department, the firm creates seve- 16,000 lawyers from over 100 countries. ral sub-sections including electronics& IT, The patent division has 56 patent attorneys mechanical& design, and chemical& bio- assisted by a technical staff of 19 in charge technology. of different sectors, including chemical, elec- tronical and mechanical.

ABE, IKUBO & KATAYAMA: TMI ASSOCIATES: THE ELITE TEAM IN LITIGATION A RAPID-GROWING FIRM WITH BROAD INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE

Track record: The firm’s strong, competitive Track record: Founded in 1990, TMI Asso- advantage lies in patent litigation, inclu- ciates is enjoying fast growth while ranking ding infringement action and invalidation. in the top-five law firms in Japan. IP practice The clientele ranges from pharmaceutical, has been a major pillar for the firm, while tra- semiconductors to life-science industries demark and brand protection act as its main such as Johnson & Johnson, Apple, Novar- fields of practice. The firm has a client list tis, Takeda, and Eli Lilly. in industries including global luxury goods, cosmetics as well as automotive. Team & differentiation: Abe, Ikubo & Kata- Eiji Katayama Yoshiyuki Inaba yama’s lawyers and patent attorneys have Team & differentiation: TMI associates Leader: outstanding experience in both acade- Leader: actively sets branch offices internationally Eiji Katayama mic and professional performance. The IP Yoshiyuki Inaba and forms alliances with foreign law firms Established: department consists of 17 associates, offe- Established: in Europe and America. The firm now has 1959 ring clients precise technical knowledge 1990 around 70 patent/trademark attorneys. and legal consultancy. Patent attorney Yoshiyuki Inaba is the leading IP partner, Mami Hino is known for her expertise in life- while Mitsuko Miyagawa is also known for science and pharmaceutical, Eiji Katayama her expertise in trademarks, and has repre- is also recognized as one of the best IP lawy- sented several fashion and luxury brands. ers in Japan.

HOGAN LOVELLS HORITSU JIMUSHO GAIKOKUHO KYODO JIGYO: BAKER & MCKENZIE GJBJ TOKYO: A TOP-NOTCH INTERNATIONAL IP PLAYER A GLOBAL ELITE FOCUSED ON AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

Track record: IP legal service has always Track record: Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho been a key strength of Hogan Lovells’s Joint Enterprise) represents numerous Tokyo office. Managing partner Lloyd Parker global and domestic companies in gene- is considered “client focused “and leads on ral IP matters and dispute settlement. The trademark matters for top automobile and firm has launched the Japan Automotive medical brands. He also continues to advise Industry Focus Group to address all of the KAO Group on its enforcement issues and issues faced by Japan’s automotive indus- global trademark portfolio management. try, making it one of the world’s largest law firms to provide legal services to automotive Lloyd Parker Kensaku Takase Team & differentiation: Staffed with 35 companies. Leader: lawyers, the Tokyo office keeps a close Leader: Lloyd Parker relation with 49 other international offices of Kensaku Takase Team & differentiation: Part of its global Established: Hogan Lovells in Europe, the Americas, the Established: network of 77 offices with a total staff of 1904 Middle East, Asia and Australia, to provide 1949 12,000, Baker & McKenzie’s Tokyo office has clients with one-stop service. Trademark 160 lawyers, and Kensaku Takase is known management expert and IP litigator for his vast knowledge in IP matters regar- Chikako Hashimoto recently joined the ding the Asia-Pacific region, in particular his firm, reinforcing its advantage in trademark legal consultancy to global fashion brands practice. on copyright and design.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 225 EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTORS 228 Connected objects in healthcare are very valuable IP Rights! By Caroline de Mareuil-Villette and Claire Verschelde, French, Belgian & European Patent Attorneys. ICOSA 230 Trademark package: harmonizing proceedings and strengthening rights By Delphine Rudloff and Anaïs Pallut, lawyers. Loyer & Abello 232 Distribution of regulated products – Avoid pitfalls in litigation By Lorenza Ferrari Hofer and Janine Demont. PESTALOZZI INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTORS

Connected objects in healthcare are very valuable IP Rights!

Innovation in the internet of things is amazing, especially in Medical Devices and Healthcare industry. Valuation of connected objects is a real issue. Which is the fair value or these assets? What are the keys to value the connected objects’ Intellectual Property?

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Caroline de Mareuil-Villette and Claire Verschelde, Ph.D., French, Belgian & European Patent Attorneys, are founding partners of ICOSA, an IP law firm in Medical Device, Life Science and Chemistry). In addition to its expertise in patents, ICOSA has developed skills in protection of software, database and copyright to meet its Client’s demand for protection of connected objects in Healthcare.

Caroline de Mareuil-Villette, Claire Verschelde, French, Belgian & European French, Belgian & European Patent Attorney Patent Attorney

onnected objects played a starring and little start-ups, building up the connec- draft patent applications on connected ob- C role in the huge 2015 CES Conven- ted objects of the future. Is valuation based jects, and the challenge is to show that the tion in Las Vegas, as more than 900 on human skills and extraordinary people, software solution integrated in the objects exhibitors presented connected objects. or more basically on the incredible Intellec- brings, together with the hardware and the For healthcare, a McKinsey report was tual Property (IP) underlying these connec- structure of the object, a significant contri- announcing in 2013 that the market ting objects? Probably both. For IP, valuation bution to the state of the art. would be $1.1 billion à $2.5 billion by relies on intangible assets: Utility patents, In Europe, a patent is a technical solution 2025, and that the strongest innovation Design patents, Databases, Software, Copy- to a technical issue. This solution can would be dedicated to treatment and rights and Trademarks. implement a software but cannot, as a remote monitoring of patients having whole, be a software. The number of pa- chronic diseases (such as diabetes, for Intellectual Property: the smart card tents filed with the European patent office example), implementing incredible sen- to play grows every day (+11% in 2015)! sors and software. Three years later, it Patenting a connected object is not that Anyway, patent rights are not the only In- sounds that this prediction was probably simple, and shall take into account the tellectual Property Rights at stake: there is underestimated. existing case laws, especially for the US. no connected objects without data collec- Our health is a major goal for the medical In the US, in the Alice Corp v. CLS Bank case tion. The Big Data subject is not a myth: industry involved in connected objects. law, the Supreme Court set a distinction owning databases on everything is a cur- From the connected watch to the health between patentable and non-patentable rently occurring race. Database IP Rights API on our smartphone, our smallest data invention. Abstract ideas are not eligible is an independent right, sui generis, and are registered: how fast and often we walk for patent protection: anytime a USPTO using it to valuate intellectual property is or run, what is our cardiac rhythm, and Examiner suspects an abstract idea, he/she an excellent idea. even how deep we sleep. Sometimes, we is supposed to further review the claims to Also, thinking of connected objects im- do not even realize that these data are auto- determine whether they amount to “signi- mediately refers to design: importance matically collected when our smartphone ficantly more” than an abstract idea. If the and value of Design Patent and Models is on. No doubt: connected objects will, by answer is positive, i.e. if the invention is grows every day. These are also very va- themselves, take a growing place in our li- found to provide a significant contribution lued in the anti-counterfeiting fight. ves and in healthcare management. much higher than the abstract idea in itself, In this technological revolution, valuating then the claims are determined to relate Know-How: how to valuate innovation is of huge importance. Every to patent-eligible subject matter. I know, Intellectual Property in a very active week in the news, we hear that big compa- it sounds very intellectual. It actually is. transactional market nies take participation or control of smart Meaning that it becomes a real headache to Being able to create an IP assets portfolio

228 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE By Caroline de Mareuil-Villette and Claire Verschelde, French, Belgian & European Patent Attorneys. ICOSA

KEY POINTS Connected medical devices has become a major issue The valuation of connected medical devices is closely linked to the strength of their Intellectual Property Rights Various protections shall be considered simultaneously: patents, software, databases, trademarks, copyright The most effective strategies are recognized by the major market players, who invest heavily to dominate this market with great potential

is a quality expected from the CEO of a jects, it is recommended to refer to compa- com players. For now, many competing technological start-up. The whole wealth rative market analysis, while in this case, systems exist. But with the development of the start-up relies on its IP assets and we tend to be cautious with regard to the of connected objects, network standardi- the CEO has to be in a position to capi- highest valuations. At the moment, the zation will become necessary, as was the talize them. Identifying what is valuable leading players of the market are in com- case for smartphones. Similar Industrial in the ideas and R&D results, understand petition on this market in high potential, Property matters may well arise. Some how the collection of data can be effi- which just begins to open, and the highest patents will become what is called SEP ciently used as a commercial resource, ask valuations reach sky high summits: Google (Standard Essential Patents), that is to say for development of user-friendly graphic acquired Nest for more than 3 billion dol- patents which claim an invention which interface, manage the copyrights, protect lars, Qualcom acquired CSR for more than is required to ensure compliance with the source codes, feel the need for new de- 2.5 billion dollars, and Cisco invested 1 applicable standards; the various com- signs, use commercial secret, have patent billion dollars in various start-ups and still panies will have to find the conditions applications filed: these are the strategic announces new purchases. This does not on which licenses can be granted : the works of the CEO. mean that all the start-ups of connected FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discri- Valuate an IP portfolio is a preliminary step objects will be able to develop at such high minatory) system may be called in again. of any acquisition or fund raising. This prices, but the number of transactions Who will select the standards for connec- exercise has to meet precise requirements: clearly shows that the market for mergers ted medical devices? Will it be each State, define valuation perimeter, distinguish es- / acquisitions startups of connected objects in a desire to combine telemedicine and sential assets from accessories, know about is extremely active. connected medical devices? Will European strengths and weaknesses of these assets, Union manage the standards, at the dawn mitigate development-associated risks, Standards : a major challenge of this major change of life and habits? The and keep time schedule on development Finally, it is almost certain that the proposals will certainly come from private consistent with the business plan. connected objects industry will pass companies, dominating the medical device When assessing value of connected ob- through the paths opened by the tele- sector. The stakes are incredibly high.

 THE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IS THE SECTOR TRIGGERING THE LARGEST NUMBER OF PATENT APPLICATIONS, WITH AN INCREASE OF 11 % IN 2015 COMPARED TO 2014.

MEDICAL DIGITAL COMPUTER ELECTRICAL MACHINERY TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY APPARATUS, ENERGY

12 474 10 762 10 549 10 198 7 802   +11%  +3,2%  +7,8%  -1,8% -1,6%

ORGANIC ENGINES, MEASUREMENT BIOTECHNOLOGY PHARMACEUTICALS FINE CHEMISTRY PUMPS, TURBINES

7 727 6 414 6 374 6 048 5 884 +8%  +2,1%  +17,9%  +5,1%  +9,6%  Source: Annual report 2015 – European Patent Office Patent – European reportAnnual 2015 Source:

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 229 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTORS

Trademark package: harmonizing proceedings and strengthening rights

The “Trademark Package”, combining a regulation and a directive, aims at simplifying and harmonizing the trademarks systems in Europe, as well as strengthening the rights conferred by the trademark. Except for some provisions, the regulation entered into force in March 23, 2016, and the provisions of the directive will have to be transposed in the national laws by January 14, 2019, at the latest.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Delphine Rudloff, Lawyer at the Paris Bar, is responsible of the Trademarks/ Designs Department of the law firm Loyer & Abello. A graduate from the International Studies Center of Intellectual Property (Strasbourg), she first worked in an IP Attorney firm for 10 years before joining Loyer & Abello in 2011. Anaïs Pallut, a graduate from the University Paris I and Lawyer at the Paris Bar, has worked for the Litigation Department since 2015. Delphine Rudloff, Anaïs Pallut, lawyer lawyer

he Trademark Package constitutes an Nice classification will be interpreted as the texts would not, for the moment, talk Timportant step in the harmonization including exclusively products or services about opening the protection to olfactory of proceedings and for the strengthening clearly covered by the literal meaning of or taste trademarks. of rights. The list of the amendments is the indication. For the EU trademarks, this amendment long. Here is a selection. Thirdly, for the EU trademarks designa- will enter into force on October 1, 2017. ting entire headings of Nice classification, registered before March 23, 2016 The pricing scale of trademarks applica- Changes of vocabulary and filed before June 22, 2012, the new tions and renewals is also harmonized. regulation gives the owners, within a The unique fee for the first three classes The community trademark becomes the Eu- 6-month transitional period – until Sep- is abolished and replaced by the pricing ropean Union trademark, and the acronym tember 24, 2016 (inclusive) –, the possi- scale of a fee per-class designated or re- OHIM (Office of the Harmonization in the bility to specify the scope of the protec- newed, in order to reduce the number of Internal Market) is replaced by EUIPO for tion sought. They can declare to EUIPO trademarks in the registers and to encou- European Union Intellectual Property Office. the goods or services included in the rage the applicants to limit the scope of alphabetical list of the class designated their trademarks to products and services at the filing date, which they wanted to of real utility. Harmonization of proceedings protect at this date by designating the Transposing the European Court of Jus- entire class headings. Finally, the range of administrative procee- tice (“ECJ”) case law1, the Trademark Pac- dings available to trademarks’ owners is kage first imposes to identify with suffi- The Trademark Package then abolishes broadened. All offices must provide for a cient clarity and precision the products the requirement of graphic representa- procedure for the transfer of trademarks and services for which the protection tion as a condition of the validity of the registered in the name of an agent or reis sought. filing. Transposing the ECJ case law,2 the presentative of the trademark owner, wi- texts specify that the trademark shall be thout its authorization, avoiding to apply Different significant practical conse- represented in a manner which enables for a declaration of invalidity. quences result from this transposition. the determination of clear and precise The directive also imposes that Member Firstly, trademarks offices will now refuse subject matter of the protection. This States provide for efficient and expedi- any application designating vague indica- amendment should foster the protec- tious administrative opposition and tions or terms. Secondly, if the trademark tion of non-traditional trademarks, such revocation procedures as well as proce- is challenged, the general headings of the as sounds or even holograms. However, dures for the declaration of invalidity,

230 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE By Delphine Rudloff and Anaïs Pallut, lawyers. Loyer & Abello

KEY POINTS The main amendments resulting from the Trademark Package are: Obligation to identify the products and services covered by the trademark with sufficient clarity and precision Removal of the requirement of graphic representation as validity requirement of a trademark Generalization of the one-class-per-fee pricing scale for the filing and renewal of a trademark Strengthening of trademarks owners’ rights (right to prevent the entry of infringing goods in transit, special protection of the trademarks having reputation...)

before their national offices. Currently, cing of the goods on the market in the the different form was subject to a sepa- in France, only the opposition procedure country of final destination. The burden rate registration.4 The ECJ finally accep- is possible before the French trademarks of proof is thus reversed and owners’ ted this in 2012,5 while pointing out that office (INPI). The procedures for the re- rights strengthened. it did not overturn its case law because vocation or declaration of invalidity fall the decision of 2007 was justified by the within the jurisdiction of judicial courts. To tackle counterfeiting, the texts also en- particular context of the case, namely a France will therefore have to reform the title trademarks owners to prevent pre- trademarks family. Intellectual Property Code on this point paratory acts involving the use of pac- The Trademark Package allows the proof before January 14, 2023. INPI never- kaging or other means (labels, tags...) on of serious use of a trademark under an theless intends to address this far before which an infringing trademark is affixed. amended form, even if the form used is this date. The administrative proceedings Practically, this provision aims at tackling registered, but says nothing on the excep- should be effective by January 2019. separated importations of products wit- tion created by the ECJ for trademarks hout trade mark and packaging or other families, which therefore seems to be supports (labels...) bearing an infringing excluded. The French Cour de cassation Strengthening of owners’ rights trademark, in order to assemble them which, in January 2016, strictly applied Under the ECJ influence,3 the Trade- once imported. the ECJ exception of trademarks family,6 mark Package recognizes the trademarks will have to adapt its position, in view of owners right to prevent the introduction The Trademark Package also specifies the the new European provisions. of counterfeit goods, even in transit, in requirements regarding the proof of the the country where the trademark is pro- serious use of a trademark in an amended The Trademark Package finally grants tected, even if the said country is not the form when the amended form is also re- specifically to trademarks having a final destination of the goods. However, gistered as a trademark. As a quick remin- reputation, the special protection the declarant or holder of the goods can der, in 2007 the ECJ refused trademarks that the ECJ has recognized them.7 This prevent their seizure by proving that the owners the right to rely on the use of their special protection allows the owner to owner is not entitled to prohibit the pla- trademark under a different form when apply for an opposition or a declaration of invalidity or to initiate infringement action against a trademark, identical or similar, for products or services The law firm LOYER & ABELLO is dedicated to intellectual property. identical or similar or dissimilar. It is characterized by the alliance of its lawyers’, european patents attorneys’ and engineers’ competences and expertise, enabling the firm to offer to its clients a

consultancy approach inspired by its litigation practice. LOYER & ABELLO assists 1 C-307/10, 19 June 2012, case IP Translator its clients in their acquisition of ip rights (patents, trademarks and designs), in 2 C-273/00, 12 Dec. 2002, case Sieckmann the valorization of their ip portfolios and negotiations of contracts, and represents 3 C-446/09 and C-495/09, 1st Dec. 2011, case Philips, Nokia and others them before french and european courts. In 2016 LOYER & ABELLO published 4 C-234/06, 13 Oct. 2007, case Brainbridge the “Guide des saisies-contrefaçons et des constats”, which deals in particular 5 C-553/11, 25 Oct. 2012, case Rintisch with the unified patent court. 6 Cass. Com., 19 Jan. 2016, n°14-18434 7 C-292/00, 9 Jan. 2003, case Davidoff; C-408/01, 23 Oct. 2003, case Adidas

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 231 INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTORS

Distribution of regulated products – Avoid pitfalls in litigation

When concluding a distribution agreement, manufacturer and distributor do not consider that their relationship may end up in a legal dispute. This is particularly true if regulated products, such as pharmaceuticals or medical devices, are involved, as their manufacture and distribution are strictly controlled. Careful negotiation and drafting of distribution agreements may help avoiding legal pitfalls in later disputes.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Lorenza Ferrari Hofer, Partner, is head of PESTALOZZI’s IP&TMT practice group. Her fields of expertise include trade and distribution of therapeutic, health and food products, including product liability matters. Lorenza Ferrari Hofer deals with both commercial and litigious matters.

Janine Demont, Associate, member of PESTALOZZI’s IP&TMT and Litigation&Arbitration practice groups, specializes in intellectual property rights as well as litigation and arbitration. Her main practice areas include distribution, life sciences and product liability. Lorenza Ferrari Hofer, Janine Demont, Partner Associate

Dispute Resolution Clause – putes. Reasons are, for instance, arbitral need to be transferred to the new distri- Tendency to Arbitrate tribunal’s possibility to decide a dispute ex butor. In the same context, regulatory Termination disputes are often time and aequo et bono if asked by the parties, i.e. authorities must be timely and correctly cost intensive. They also interfere with the in accordance with the requirements of informed about the transfer of distribu- activities of the new distributor, in particu- equity and justice, but without having to tion and market vigilance duties to the lar if the former distributor remains active take recourse to a specific law or certain new distributor. These aspects should on the market. Dispute resolution rules rules of law. Arbitrators are generally also be regulated in detail in the distribution should be well thought more insightful with re- agreement, as termination disputes often through before the dis- gard to distribution spe- involve ownership or use of the marketing “STRICT CONFIDENTIALITY pute arises, and ideally cific issues. For instance, authorization dossier or other distribution OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND contractually agreed. they tend to take into documents, to which former distributors A TIMELY REGULATION OF The decision to either THE DISPUTE THROUGH AN account the specific cir- or their agents may have relevantly contri- opt for a state court or an AGREED TIMETABLE SPEAK cumstances of long-term buted. Regulatory issues cannot be ruled arbitration proceeding IN FAVOR OF ARBITRATION” distribution contracts in civil or arbitration proceedings; the essentially depends on and the respective en- former distribution can only be obliged the circumstances of the hanced obligations of the to comply with its contractual obliga- single case. Arbitration proceedings are parties to act in good faith. Additionally, tions. Also, most regulatory authorities generally cost intensive. It may, thus, be strict confidentiality of the proceedings do not directly enforce arbitral awards, advisable to choose arbitration only if the and a timely regulation of the dispute but request a corresponding state court potential amount in dispute has a certain through an agreed timetable speak in favor decision. So far, and in particular where bearing. Our experience shows that Swiss of arbitration. arbitral proceedings are chosen, detailed state court judges are learned and expe- provisions about regulatory aspects are a rienced in general distribution disputes. If Marketing Authorizations must for any distribution agreement. the distributed products are, however, of a Pharmaceuticals are strictly regulated pro- certain technical complexity and the mar- ducts: They cannot be distributed if their Logistics ket is regulated as is, for instance, the case resale to the public is not authorized in A distinctive feature of regulated products with pharmaceuticals or medical devices, advance by regulatory authorities. Similar is that they have a limited (shelf) life and it may be preferable to have a judge with rules apply to other regulated products, that they must be stored under specific industry experience; arbitration could thus such as medical devices, chemicals and conditions. Distributors often rely on third be a preferable choice. Also our experience foodstuffs. Accordingly, in case of change parties to ensure that products are proper- shows a tendency to arbitrate such dis- in distributor, marketing authorizations ly stored and that only non-expired and

232 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE By Lorenza Ferrari Hofer and Janine Demont. PESTALOZZI

KEY POINTS Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as arbitration should be considered by the parties during contract negotiations Regulatory aspects related to the termination of a distribution relationship, including transfer of marketing authorizations, should be regulated in detail in the distribution agreement Warehousing and any other agreements concluded with third parties in support of the distribution activities shall be reviewed upon termination and if necessary transferred to the new distributor The manufacturer shall always dispose of updated and approved product and patient information at termination of the distribution agreement If intending to exclude termination compensation, do not provide for excessive control rights in manufacturer’s favor

traceable products are distributed on the Product and Patient Information facturer, the former distributor shall be market. In case these third parties are not Incorrect and no longer valid product and obliged to hand over this information, if a contractual party to the respective dis- patient information may entail product necessary by taking legal action. In this tribution agreement, they are not directly and contractual liability for both the ma- respect, it should be noted that regulated bound by any dispute resolution clause. nufacturer and the distributor. We often products cannot be relinquished on the Besides, regular and transparent informa- note that manuals, product information market; even if the distribution is stopped tion about the distribution chain being a and traceability documentation are not or suspended, the manufacturer conti- contractual obligation under any distri- regularly updated and correctly transfer- nues being liable for the already distribution agreement, the manufacturer shall red to the new distributor. The latter is buted products. make sure upon termination to be well then confronted with adverse cases he aware of all details of the product logistics is not aware of. It is a clear duty of the Termination compensation and able to contact any supplier of the for- manufacturer to put the new distributor Swiss statutory law does not explicitly mer distributor at any time; this in order to in the position to perform its distribution regulate distribution agreements and, ensure a proper transition of the distribu- activities and comply with the correspon- consequently, contains no information on tion activities to the new distributor (who ding regulatory obligations. Any product termination compensation. Swiss agency is often not aware of the market’s specific and patient document necessary for cor- law, which is often applied by analogy to needs, its over- or understocking) and so rect and safe further distribution of the distribution agreements, however provi- to limit its liability as manufacturer as well products shall be with the new distribu- des for mandatory termination compensa- as potential market disruptions. Eventual- tor as soon as possible so that he can start tion if certain prerequisites, in particular ly, warehousing and IT agreements need to its activities. In case such documentation a substantial expansion of the principal’s be transferred to the new distributor. is not already in possession of the manu- clientele, are fulfilled. Several guidelines on termination compensation in distribution agreements have been developed by case law. Precedents are, however, often unclear and whether or not a distributor is entitled to a compensation for clientele strongly depends on the circumstances of the specific case. Thereby, both, the wording of the parties’ agreement and the contractual relationship as it was effec- tively lived can be decisive. Accordingly, parties should carefully choose their agreement’s wording so that it will not be construed as principal-agent relationship. It might, for instance, help to emphasize the distributor’s independency from the supplier and its freedom to make its own decisions to prevent the analogous application of Swiss agency law to a (exclusive) distribution agreement.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 233 TOP ADVISORS DIRECTORY 2016

2016 EDITION INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS & REPORTS INNOVATION - TECHNOLOGY Litigation & International Arbitration & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HARDWARE • SOFTWARE • TELECOM • INTERNET • MEDIA • IP • LIFE SCIENCES Innovation - Technology & Intellectual Property Michelle K. Lee USPTO P. 32 Top 100 Law Firms Ronald Van Tuijl INTA P. 35 International Corporate Finance Sundar Pichai Google

P. 37

Alexander Karp Palantir

P. 49

Tao Wang DJI

P. 47

Hassan Safer-Tebbi Siemens Healthcare France

P. 52

Samer Salty Zouk Capital

P. 55

Josh Walden Intel

P. 38

Tony Elumelu The Tony Elumelu Foundation RANKINGS P. 54 AMERICAS P.61 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTORS REINING A WHIRLWIND: EUROPE P.117 EXPERT VIEWS P.228 CREATING (NEW) ORDER IN A ASIA P.209 Marc-Roger Hirsch TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE P.12 Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, DIRECTORY Hirsch & Associés Mexico, Peru, USA, Belgium, France, LEADERS Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, PATENT & TRADEMARK ATTORNEYS P.236 FINANCIAL ADVISORS P.247 P. 265 THE 50 PEOPLE OF THE YEAR Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, China, India, Japan VENTURE CAPITAL P.248 IN IP & IT P.32 LAW FIRMS P.249

To be present in this directory next year, or in another Intelligence reports, that will be soon released, please contact: Hélène Charneau - +33 (0)1 43 92 93 81 - [email protected] Jandira Salgado - +51 947 156 577 - [email protected] Thomas Di Benedetto - +55 21 3553 2639 - [email protected] Mila Galdo - +51 999 04 98 19 - [email protected] 236 PATENT & TRADEMARK ATTORNEYS 236 Ab initio...... +33(0)1 41 40 00 73 237 Cabinet Boettcher...... +33(0)1 44 69 27 50 238 Cabinet Flechner...... +33(0)1 43 59 66 67 239 Cabinet Lambert & Associés...... +33(0)1 55 35 93 33 240 Cabinet Tripoz...... +33 (0)4 78 72 26 36 241 INSCRIPTA...... +33(0)1 48 74 86 94 242 IXAS Conseil...... +33 (0)4 78 37 75 16 243 Marchais & Associés...... +33 (0)1 56 59 76 76 244 Partenaires PI...... +33 (0) 1 46 24 56 40 245 Tmark...... +33 (0)1 43 12 86 12 246 Uhthoff...... + 52 55 5533 5060

247 FINANCIAL ADVISORS 247 Bryan, Garnier & Co ...... +33 (0)1 56 68 75 00

248 VENTURE CAPITAL 248 Hi Inov...... +33(0)1 76 74 81 14

249 LAW FIRMS 249 @Mark...... +33 (0)1 48 24 40 40 250 Bardehle Pagenberg...... +33(0)1 53 05 15 00 251 Barlaw...... +511 713 9960 252 Basham, Ringe y Correa...... +(52 55) 5261 0400 253 Bird & Bird...... +33(0)1 42 68 60 00 254 Bismuth...... +33(0)4 72 60 53 93 255 BGBG...... +52 555 292 5232 256 BRDA Abogados...... +511 611-3600 257 Cabinet M-P. Escande...... +33(0)1 45 74 03 98 258 Candé Blanchard Ducamp...... +33(0)1 84 16 75 35 259 Chiomenti Studio Legale...... +39 02 7215 71 260 Cléry Avocats...... +33(0)156 59 60 61 261 DCL Avocats...... + 35226 00 11 1 262 De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés...... +33(0)1 56 64 00 00 263 Deris...... +90 212 252 6122 264 Di Blasi Parente & Associados...... +55(21) 3981 0080 265 Hirsch...... +33(0)1 53 23 92 10 266 Hoffmann Eitle...... +49 89 92 40 90 268 Jacob Avocats...... +33(0)1 73 02 02 10 269 Laude Esquier Champey...... +33(0)1 75 44 47 00 270 Lazareff Le Bars...... +33 (0)1 40 01 10 10 271 Licks Attorneys...... +55 21 3550 3700 272 LGV Avvocati...... +39 02 5406971 273 Lombardi Molinari Segni...... +39 02 896221 274 Maschietto Maggiore Besseghini...... +39(0)2 87 239 400 275 Meyerlustenberger Lachenal ...... +41 44 396 91 91 276 Mina Lanfranconi & Associati - Milalegal...... +39 02 7209 5422 278 Orsingher Ortu Avvocati Associati...... +39 02 89075050 279 PESTALOZZI...... +41 44 217 91 11 280 Prinz & Partners...... +49 89 599 887 0 282 Promark...... +33(0)1 56 59 60 80 284 SIB Legal...... +39 055 263 381 281 Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh...... +1613-232-2486 286 Studio Torta...... +39 011 561 1320 288 Valérie Perrichon Avocats ...... +33 (0)1 43 12 50 60 289 Véron & Associés ...... +33(0)1 47 03 62 62 Patent & Trademark Attorneys Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

5, rue Daunou 75002 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 41 40 00 73 Fax: +33 (0)1 42 66 02 10 [email protected] www.abinitio.eu

Annick Pairault Frédérique Marie-Marthe Claire Melka David Ramain Amith Qureshi Haefelé Jost

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Trademarks, Designs, Copyrights and Created in 2007, Ab initio is a law firm specialized in Domain names providing legal advice and assisting clients in Europe and abroad on all questions related to trademarks, Protecting designs, domain names as well as copyrights and IP rights protection strategy unfair competition. Availability searches Expertise, creativity and responsiveness characterize All filing formalities our commitment when assisting our clients in All prosecution actions acquiring, defending and assessing IP rights. IP portfolio management Whatever your business may be, whether local or Defending international, we provide strategies and solutions Legal analysis and advice adapted to your specific needs. Watch services (Trademarks, Company As we are reactive, business conscious and flexible in names and domain name) our working methods, clients appreciate our in-house Use inquiries counsel style. Procedures relating to domain names Administrative oppositions Ab initio*...because IP is a major concern of any business project and should be dealt with...*from Letters of formal notice and Pre-dispute the beginning. negotiations Appraising Audit of IP assets and rights Financial valuation of IP assets Drafting contracts Coexistence agreements Licenses Assignments

CONTACTS

Annick Pairault, Partner: [email protected] Claire Melka: [email protected] Frédérique Haefelé, Partner: [email protected] David Ramain: [email protected] Marie-Marthe Jost: [email protected] Amith Qureshi: [email protected]

236 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Patent & Trademark Attorneys

16, rue Médéric 75017 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 44 69 27 50 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 69 25 41 www.boettcher.fr

Benjamin Parzy Bruno Lavialle

BUSINESS POSITIONING

French Patent and Trademark Founded in 1876, Cabinet Boettcher is one of the oldest industrial Attorneys property firms in France. The Boettcher family, who held the firm European Patent and Trademark almost eighty years, and the four generations of outsiders who Attorneys succeeded, have developed the firm in such a way to keep it a human scale structure and to foster customer loyalty. Cabinet

Boettcher now consists of 25 people assisting and counselling Patents a varied and eclectic clientele from small and medium-sized Trademarks companies to multinationals active in many sectors of the Designs economy. Patents are the historical scope of action of Cabinet Boettcher IP protection strategy whose engineers share expertise and curiosity in varied technologies, enabling them to be efficient in physical, mechanical IP rights search and survey and electronic / electrical engineering. Technology survey Cabinet Boettcher also has a highly developed activity in trade Financial evaluation of IP assets marks and designs. The lawyers of the firm provide their services Contracts to clients within all sectors. The firm is also active in the field of Disputes and litigations copyright, unfair competition and contracts related to intellectual property. Cabinet Boettcher has close ties with foreign associates and legal attorneys specialized in industrial property rights, enabling the firm to assist its clients in the acquisition, exploitation and protection of their property rights both in France and abroad. Thus, Cabinet Boettcher is able to provide its customers a targeted strategy to protect their intellectual property, in line with their industrial, commercial and financial objectives.

CONTACTS

Bruno Lavialle, Partner: [email protected] Stéphane Lemaire: [email protected] Marie-Flore Ribeyron: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 237 Patent & Trademark Attorneys Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

22, avenue de Friedland 75008 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 43 59 66 67 Fax: +33 (0)1 43 59 02 65 www.cabinet-flechner.com

Albert Eidelsberg David Bilquey Olivier Eidelsberg BUSINESS POSITIONING

Patents Cabinet Flechner was established as Cabinet Carsalade Du Pont in Trademarks 1919 in Paris. Since then, we have taken in charge the IP interests of a wide range of clients, from Multinational firms to Medium Design and Copyrights or Small size firms as well as individual inventors. We practice Domain names all aspects of IP law and our professionals have an extensive Handling of contentious matters experience for representing our client in France, Europe (EPO or & Litigation proceedings OHIM) and overseas. We form a group of associated patent and trademark attorneys with three other French and European patent and trademark attorney firms, namely Cabinet Aymard & Coutel, Cabinet Faber and Cabinet Van der-Heym. This allows our team of attorneys to have backgrounds on the whole sprectrum of technical and IP legal fields, while at the same time maintaining a relatively medium size so as to be able to provide our customers high quality technical and legal services at an affordable price and the individualized service that can be only provided by firms of our size. We handle prosecution of patent applications before the French and European Patent Office, for our own French and foreign clients and on the basis of instructions received from our associates from abroad, in particular from Germany, USA and Japan. All our patent attorneys are fluent in English and most of them are also fluent in German. We have developped a particularly well versed experience in opposition proceedings at the European Patent Office. We provide comprehensive advice and services on all trademarks matters. Our trademark attorneys all have a double educational degree, both in Trademarks Law and Business Administration and are fluent both in English and German. They have a considerable experience in trademarks searches and filings both in France and abroad. Furthermore, we have a unique experience for carrying out opposition proceedings, in particular at the French Patent Office and the OHIM, being in charge of the worldwide watching of a high number of well-known trademarks. CONTACTS

Albert Eidelsberg: [email protected] David Bilquey: [email protected] Olivier Eidelsberg: [email protected]

238 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Patent & Trademark Attorneys

18, Avenue de l’Opéra 75001 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 55 35 93 33 Fax: +33 (0)1 55 35 93 30 [email protected] www.lambert-conseils.com

Pascale Lambert Stève Félix Stéphanie Bois Silvia Bertolero

Marine Deniau Fanny Martins Jean Luc Sophie Delaveau Chesneau BUSINESS POSITIONING

IP Strategy, prosecution, audit, Lambert & Associés advises notable brands as well as assessment and management of IP small and medium size companies in the protection and rights valuation of their assets in France and in the EU. Its array Availability searches and filing of IP of clients is very diverse with a special focus on major rights sport organizations, web companies, fashion designers, pharmaceutical groups and wineries (of course…). Contracts and agreements: negotiation, drafting, legal advice The firm is reputed for providing comprehensive and Licensing, sponsoring and responsive IP services with a realistic business approach, franchising and provides a sharp analysis of the needs of their Dispute resolution, Litigation, Anti- clients, working closely with the legal and marketing counterfeiting strategy, Customs departments in order to define a relevant strategy for IP procedures prosecution and litigation cases. Unfair competition law The team is known for its reactivity and the quality of its Sports law legal analysis resulting in a high level of success rate in litigation cases, especially before the French/EU Office. For all your IP rights: Well established in France for more than 30 years, Trademarks Lambert & Associés with its 2 experienced partners Designs Pascale Lambert & Stève Félix and dynamic team, will Patents definitely be a good bet. Domain names Copyrights Personality rights OFFICES PARIS LE MANS PERPIGNAN CONTACTS

Pascale Lambert, Partner: [email protected] Stève Félix, Partner: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 239 Patent & Trademark Attorneys Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

22, rue Seguin 69002 LYON France Phone: +33 (0)4 78 72 26 36 Fax: +33 (0)4 37 65 92 26

Inès Tripoz Alexander Adrien Métivet Julie Cahen Thurgood

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Prosecution Cabinet Tripoz was created in 2009 and is a boutique law Patent application filings (French firm specializing in intellectual property, offering its clients & International) value-added service in all fields of IP, ranging from protection of intangible assets to defense in infringement and/or unfair Examination proceedings competition matters. Trademark and design filings To meet growing demand, the firm has expanded and moved Domain name registration / between the Rhône and Saône, in the rejuvenated district of management Lyon Confluence.

Exercise of Rights The patent department comprises several engineers specializing in the chemical, pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic IP searches, studies, consultancy, sciences, and is headed up by two senior attorneys, Inès and contracts Tripoz and Alexander Thurgood, assisted by our junior Litigation & contentious proceedings attorney Adrien Métivet, and further technical associates. Inventor’s rights Following significant development of the trademark department, Julie Cahen, trademark attorney, has joined to Decision-making Advice swell the ranks of the firm in the New Year. Start-up counselling One of the firm’s distinguishing features is its specialization in Optimizing start-up protection litigation management and accompanying start-ups in their IP audits IP strategy, both in France and internationally. The firm is also well positioned as an advisor of choice in the handling of generic pharmaceutical company litigation. Established and recognized in the pharmaceutical and chemical fields, the firm’s members are highly competent and can offer a range of language support to interface with clients. The firm remains nonetheless accessible to small businesses and individuals, whilst displaying the same technical excellence and discipline of equivalent large, international, firms. The firm’s leitmotif is its commitment to quality and innovation, ensuring client satisfaction. CONTACTS

Inès Tripoz, Managing Director: [email protected] Alexander Thurgood: [email protected] Adrien Métivet: [email protected] Julie Cahen: [email protected]

240 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Patent & Trademark Attorneys

10, rue d’Aumale, 75009 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 48 74 86 94 Fax: +33 (0)9 70 63 01 64 www.inscripta.attorney

Agnès Doyen Manuel Roche

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Trademarks Full-service boutique IP and IT firm. Industrial designs INSCRIPTA is a French IP law firm founded in 2012 by registered and Copyright experienced French and European trademark and design attorneys. Domain names & internet Patents INSCRIPTA aims to value IP assets as part of a company’s business Contracts and strategy. Legal consultations INSCRIPTA provides high-quality and competitive professional Litigations services related to trademarks, industrial designs, copyright, patents, information and communication technologies.

A team of experts Characterized by their energy, experience and efficiency Organized to be flexible, available and responsive Assisted by qualified administrative professionals

An appropriate support To understand your expectations and determine your needs To provide first advice and quotation free of charge To set up a realistic and practical tailor-made strategy By implementing comprehensive, competitive and pre-approved fees

A thorough follow-up by Guiding and advising you during proceedings Reminding you of important deadlines Reporting and accounting Keeping you informed about legal news and major case-law

A global IP approach Working closely with patent engineers in various technical fields Cooperating with lawyers and attorneys at law in commercial law, corporate law, competition law, labor law, tax law

CONTACTS

Agnès Doyen, Partner: [email protected] Manuel Roche, Partner: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 241 Patent & Trademark Attorneys Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

15, rue Emile Zola 69002 Lyon France Phone: +33 (0)4 78 37 75 16 Fax: +33 (0)4 78 92 88 58 [email protected] www.ixas-conseil.com

Martin P. Schmidt Vanessa Darbouret Jean-Philippe Schouller BUSINESS POSITIONING

Intellectual Property Rights The future of any industrial firm is dependent upon Patents : prior art search, right-to-use studies, its creativity and its ability to serve sophisticated, filing and prosecution of patent applications, evolving needs of global markets. Nowadays there is post-grant procedures in English, German and no growth without innovation. Intellectual property French rights are powerful tools in support of strategic development. Trademarks, domain names : trademark clearance search, filing prosecution and Development costs are so high that an early registration of applications, opposition and assessment of the future right to practice is of appeal proceedings paramount importance prior to deciding to allocate Design protection and copyrights major resources. Technical watch, surveys and monitoring (state of the art, freedom to operate, areas of Innovation raises complex strategic and legal patentability) issues: obtaining the most efficient protection at a Identification and analysis of the scope of third reasonable price, creating economic value through party rights IP rights and knowhow, avoiding infringement of third party IP rights, resolving conflicts related to IP rights in the most efficient way. Strategic and legal counseling Strategic analysis of IP related aspects of IXAS Conseil provides a synthesis of legal accuracy innovation, due diligence audits and strategic thinking. IP assets are viewed as Audit, assessment, management and business assets which need, directly or indirectly, to development of intellectual property assets generate a competitive advantage to their owner, Formulation of strategy to obtain competitive and to create value. advantage by means of legal protection (including patens, knowhow and contracts) IXAS Conseil is admitted to represent directly Technology transfer: Strategic analysis and before the EPO, OHIM, INPI (France) and DPMA legal implementation (Germany), and can work directly in English, French and German for patent drafting, legal counseling Litigation of IP rights (including alternative and negotiations as well as for oral proceedings. For dispute resolution) court litigation we cooperate with the attorney-at- Legal advice and counseling in the field of IP law chosen by the client or with a limited number law (French, German and European law) of specialized attorneys selected by us, ensuring premium litigation service at a reasonable price. OFFICES

LYON PARIS MARSEILLE BESANÇON

CONTACT

Martin P. Schmidt, CEO: [email protected]

242 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Patent & Trademark Attorneys

4, avenue Hoche 75008 Paris Tél. : 01 56 59 76 76 Fax : 01 56 59 76 75 www.marchais.com

Guillaume Emmanuelle Philippe Martini- Marine Le Bihan- Laurine Marchais Limouzy Berthon Journé Fageot

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Prosecution Created in 2001 from the previous expertise of its Clearance searches, trademark and design founders, the boutique firm MARCHAIS & Associés filing strategies worldwide, management of is a human sized law firm entirely dedicated to examination and registration proceedings advising, prosecution and litigation in the field of and deadlines intellectual and industrial property law, offering to its clients a real and close partnership.

Legal and pre-contentious advice MARCHAIS & Associés now comprises 10 people Consultations on IP rights (trademarks, including 5 lawyers, some being former Trademark designs, copyright), oppositions in France Agents, and 5 experienced paralegals, with and worldwide, cease and desist letters, both a prosecution department and a litigation due diligence department within a single structure, creating then a real synergy for the protection and defense of the IP rights of their clients worldwide. Litigation Trademark, patent, design and copyright infringement actions, unfair competition actions, customs actions, UDRP and other domain names proceedings Arbitration, mediation

Negotiation and contracts Main IP related contracts (assignments, licenses, coexistence agreements) and their recordal

CONTACTS

Guillaume Marchais : [email protected] Emmanuelle Limouzy : [email protected] Philippe Martini-Berthon : [email protected] Marine Le Bihan-Journé : [email protected] Laurine Fageot : [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 243 Patent & Trademark Attorneys Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

2, rue du général Delanne 92200 Neuilly sur Seine France Phone: +33 1 46 24 56 40 [email protected]

www.partenaires-pi.fr

Gaëlle Loinger- Malaurie Mélissa Benamran Pantanacci Cassanet

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Creating assets: Our ambition is to promote the creation of value for our clients by an Prosecution in EU and worldwide optimal use of the intellectual property. through our strong network for Anticipation is our key advantage for approaching with serenity all Trademarks and Design matters intellectual property issues faced by our clients. Our organization is Managing assets: designed to promote reactivity and interactivity. Management of portfolios, legal Our expertise, combining the legal but also economic opinion, contracts dimension of intellectual property assets, allows us to fully Defending assets: understand our clients’ needs and to offer them relevant Watch services, litigation in France and innovative solutions. We have developed partnerships with and worldwide through strong professionals offering complementary services to offer our clients a partnerships with IP litigators 360° support, responding to their expectations. Valuating assets: Our involvement with our clients allows us to address each new IP strategies (definition and project with professionalism and enthusiasm, and to propose implementation), IP valuation pragmatic solutions. Whether for a one-time question or to define and implement a real intellectual property strategy, we support our clients in a customized relationship. Intellectual property is an essential tool for the development and sustainability of companies.

CONTACT Gaëlle Loinger-Benamran: [email protected] Malaurie Pantanacci: [email protected] Mélissa Cassanet: [email protected]

244 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Patent & Trademark Attorneys

31, rue Tronchet 75008 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 43 12 86 12 Fax: +33 (0)1 43 12 86 13 www.tmark.fr

François Valérie Dorey Nadine Royer Olivier Thrierr Deschamps BUSINESS POSITIONING

IP strategy definition and development TMark specializes in European and French intellectual Filing and prosecution of trade mark and property law and is a member of the French National design applications Association of IP Attorneys (CNCPI). The firm was founded in 1993 on the shared belief in focusing on meeting the Enforcement and protection of IP rights client’s special needs and expectations. Today, our team Audit and assessment of portfolios of all types of IP rights of 25 members of staff and 3 partners are all committed to delivering first-class services that are tailored to each client’s particular requirements, regardless of whether the client is a large multinational company or an individual business person. TMark was created on the basis of a philosophy that we continue to stay true to. We believe in a personalized and direct client approach where comprehension of commercial needs and technical constraints is a priority. Pro-activity, proximity, openness to the world and adherence to a strict code of ethics are the cornerstones of TMark.

CONTACTS

François Deschamps: [email protected] Valérie Dorey: [email protected] Nadine Royer: [email protected] Olivier Thrierr: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 245 Patent & Trademark Attorneys Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Hamburgo 260 Col. Juárez C.P. 06600, Mexico City Mexico Phone: + 52 55 5533 5060 Fax: + 52 55 5208 8387 [email protected] www.uhthoff.com.mx

Javier Mario Ignacio Uhthoff-Orive Ponce W Dominguez- Torrado BUSINESS POSITIONING

uhthoff, gomez vega & uhthoff, S.C. remains as leader of the Anti-Counterfeit and Enforcement Intellectual Property forum in Mexico. The firm’s vision is Biotech and Pharma to be the most prestigious and recognized law firm with Copyrights global reach. Its mission is to provide quality services Corporate in business law with the highest standard of ethics and values. Domain Names Entertainment Law The firm was founded in 1905 and since has been filing, Foreign Trade and Customs maintaining and enforcing patents, trademarks and Franchises other mechanisms designed for IP protection. Now also Health and Environmental providing legal counsel in the corporate, business, sports, entertainment and regulatory areas of law the firm Information Technology collaborates with its clients not only in the acquistion and Licensing preservation of their intellectual property rights but also Litigation in the defense and enforcement of those rights through Patents IP litigation, anti-counterfeiting and enforcement actions, customs seizures and border measures, thus handling all Personal Data Protection types of legal actions related to the protection of IP rights Plant Breeder’s Rights before administrative and judicial authorities. Comprised Regulatory by 11 partners and 60 associates, the firm has expanded Sports Law its core IP practice to cover more services with the intention of providing an integral service to clients; in Trademarks short, the firm handles the A to Z of Intellectual Property but is also involved in other legal areas.

OFFICES

MEXICO GUADALAJARA

CONTACT Javier Uhthoff Orive: [email protected] Mario Ponce: [email protected] Ignacio Dominguez - Torrado: [email protected]

246 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Financial advisors

26, avenue des Champs Elysées 75008 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 56 68 75 00 Fax: +33 (0)1 56 68 75 01 www.bryangarnier.com

Olivier Garnier Greg Revenu Thibaut De Smedt Olivier Beaudouin Falk Müller-Veerse Managing Partner, UK Managing Partner, Partner, France Partner, France Partner, Germany France

Guillaume Nathan Robert Pfeiffer Philippe Patricot Jacques Demaël Jay Marathe Partner, France Managing Director, Managing Director, Executive Advisor, Managing Director, UK France Switzerland Germany

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Investment Banking Bryan, Garnier & Co is a leading European investment bank in the Mergers & Acquisitions technology, media and telecommunications sector (TMT). Fund raising Our franchise provides full-service investment banking solutions Public M&A to emerging companies and large corporations, as well as private Initial Public Offering and public investors focused on the technology, media and Brokerage telecommunication markets. Equity Research Bryan, Garnier & Co European TMT franchise comprises more than 60 professionals based in London, Paris and Munich, including senior investment bankers, equity research analysts and specialist sales with exceptionally deep industry expertise and knowledge about the TMT landscape. OFFICES Bryan, Garnier & Co is authorized and regulated by the FCA in the United Kingdom, the SEC in the USA, is a member of the London LONDON Stock Exchange and Euronext, and is active on all European capital PARIS markets. MUNICH NEW YORK GENEVA NEW DELHI

CONTACTS

Olivier Garnier, Managing Partner Guillaume Nathan, Partner, Business Services Greg Revenu, Managing Partner Robert Pfeiffer, Managing Director, Media Thibaut De Smedt, Partner, Software Philippe Patricot, Managing Director, TMT Olivier Beaudouin, Partner, Technology & Cleantech Jacques Demaël, Executive Advisor, TMT Falk Müller-Veerse, Partner, TMT Jay Marathe, Managing Director, Cleantech

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 247 Venture Capital Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Headquarter Office 30 Bis, rue Sainte-Hélène 24-26, place de la Madeleine 69287 Lyon Cedex 02 75008 Paris France France Phone: +33 (0)1 76 74 81 14 Fax: +33 (0)4 26 46 11 29 [email protected] www.hiinov.com

Pierre-Henri Valérie Gombart Dentressangle

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Saas, Paas, data driven Founded in 2012 by entrepreneur-investor pairs, Hi Inov is technologies the venture capital arm of investment holding Dentressangle BtoB collaborative and mobile Initiatives, owned by Norbert Dentressangle, founder of transport applications, industrial IoT and logistic namesake. Smart transportation With €70 M under management, Hi inov has gathered around E-services, digital media and its dual expertise mainly entrepreneurs as limited Partners of Hi social networks inov 1, and SNCF, that picked up Hi inov as its manager for SNCF Digital Ventures

The main objective of our investments is to promote and support the growth of innovative companies in the digital economy, transmitting values and entrepreneurial management practices OFFICES that made the success of family founded or accompanied business. PARIS Hi Inov is involved in equity investment amounts between €1 LYON M and €8 million, and a minimum quota of 15% of the capital of the target company. Hi Inov holds 5 investments : Geolid, Mensquare, Commerce Guys, TagCommander and Famoco.

Hi inov is an active investor systematically represented in the governing bodies.

With experiences in various trades, Hi Inov supports entrepreneurs in their project to promote growth in the fastest and most efficient way.

CONTACTS

Pierre-Henri Dentressangle: [email protected] Valérie Gombart: [email protected]

248 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

16, rue Milton 75009 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 48 24 40 40 Fax: +33 (0)1 48 24 43 30 [email protected] www.mark-france.com

Jean-Marie Christophe Gilbert Charles-Antoine Frédérique Clémence Alexia Algoud Degrave Piat Joly Renard Chareton Degrave

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Expertise Availability, Reactivity, Pragmatism Audit and financial valuations of IP For the past 15 years, the law firm @MARK has been attentively rights providing counsel and assisting clients from all horizons: large Availability searches corporations, both foreign and French, as well as small or IP rights protection strategy medium size structures. Responses to Office Actions @MARK’s goal is to advise, protect and defend its clients’ Pre-dispute negotiations trademarks, designs and other IP-related works with responsiveness and creativity, as well as by building close IP rights portfolio management connections with its interlocutors. Contracts (assignments, licenses, joint ownership) @MARK’s defining feature is to tackle IP-related issues globally, from IP rights portfolio management (trademarks, designs and Case prosecution domain names) to litigation where appropriate, while constantly Trademark watch services advising on their strategic implications, all over the world. Domain names Skills and range of expertise E-reputation and social medias Founded in 2000, @MARK is composed of a team of 18 Filings in France and abroad professionals (6 attorneys, 6 legal counsels, 6 paralegals) at Trademarks your service to audit your IP-related rights and define the best Designs protection and defense strategies. Domain names By means of a particularly effective network of foreign attorneys, Implementation of the protection of @MARK is able to assist you all over the world. copyrighted works @MARK operates naturally in France as well as worldwide in all Litigation aspects of economy (food-processing, large retailers, perfume and cosmetics, banking and insurance, traditional cutlery Emergency proceedings and glassware, textile and fashion, communication agencies, Infringement actions audiovisual production, sports, public institutions, Grandes Actions pertaining to unfair écoles, media and information technology … ). competition Seizures “You are unique, stay this way” CONTACTS

Jean-Marie Algoud, Partner: [email protected] Cabinet Atmark Christophe Degrave, Partner: [email protected] Gilbert Piat, Partner: [email protected] @atmarkavocats Charles-Antoine Joly, Partner: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 249 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

10, boulevard Haussmann 75009 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 53 05 15 00 Fax: +33 (0)1 53 05 15 05 [email protected]

www.bardehle.fr

Julien Fréneaux Dominique Rebecca Delorey Marie-Claude Dupuis-Latour Pellegrini

Jean-Claude Viviane Azard Axel Munier Clément Jaffray Combaldieu

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Patent Litigation As one of the largest IP firms in Europe with offices in France, Germany, Patent Prosecution Italy and Spain, BARDEHLE PAGENBERG offers full service in Intellectual Property, including all procedures before the patent and trademark Trademarks offices as well as litigation before the relevant courts. Designs Copyright BARDEHLE PAGENBERG combines the professional expert knowledge of attorneys-at-law, patent engineers, trademark-specialized attorneys, Domain Names technical advisors and qualified legal counsel, providing dedicated IT Law support in procuring, safeguarding and enforcing the IP rights for a Employee Inventions high-profile French and international clientele. Selected teams provide Unfair Competition Law top-quality services tailored to the specific needs of the client and the characteristics of the case. Licensing Competition/Antitrust BARDEHLE PAGENBERG attorneys have extensive experience in negotiating, reviewing and drafting license agreements, particularly as OFFICES regards the development and licensing of IP and related technology- based services. PARIS MUNICH MILAN DÜSSELDORF BARCELONA

CONTACT

Julien Fréneaux: [email protected]

250 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

Av. El Polo 401 of 610 Lima 33 Perú Phone: +511 713 9960 Fax: +511 718 4000 [email protected] www.barlaw.com.pe

Adriana María Inés Barrera Herrera

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Trademarks BARLAW arises from the experience gained by its members in Copyrights activities related to the protection of Intellectual Property of national Patents and foreign clients, as well as the field work carried out in application Anti Piracy of legal measures against product piracy and counterfeiting, which Anti Counterfeiting Enforcement its founding members have performed for 20 years. This experience Internet is embodied in a broad knowledge of protection and defense of E-commerce and domain Intellectual Property in Peru, and also of the legal procedures that names this specialty requires before different public entities. Data Protection Professionals in BARLAW provide legal advice and defense that meet Sanitary and Regulatory registration the highest quality standards, with a personalized approach in an opportune and efficient manner, acting coordinately with the design, implementation and execution of strategies that allow our clients to maintain an efficient management of issues related to Intellectual Property in business. Intellectual Property practice is performed altogether with corporate affairs required by our clients, which include commercial contracts, incorporation of companies and its internal regulation, legal management and other affairs of commercial nature that are connected to corporate matters, and therefore, take part in the permanent practice of BARLAW.

CONTACT

Adriana Barrera: [email protected] María Inés Herrera: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 251 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

C: 7% Paseo de los Tamarindos No. 400-A, Piso 9 M: 68% Col. Bosques de las Lomas 05120, Y: 100% K: 0% México, D.F.

R: 227 Phone: +(52 55) 5261 0400 G: 112 Fax: +(52 55) 5261 0496 B: 37 [email protected] twitter: @bashamlegal www.basham.com

Martín Michaus Eduardo Kleinberg José Hinojosa Jorge Vega Adolfo Athié Claudio Ulloa

BUSINESS POSITIONING Basham, Ringe y Correa is a leading full-service law firm in Latin Industrial Secrets America. Established in Mexico in 1912, Basham draws on a century Trademarks and Copyright of experience assisting its clients in conducting business throughout Litigation and Licensing Mexico and abroad. Industrial Creations The firm’s large group of lawyers and support staff are committed to Franchising maintain the highest professional and ethical standards. In addition, Patents Basham’s lawyers actively participate in worldwide associations, as well as in international transactions. This in turn improves the firm’s growing capacity to serve its clients by constantly adjusting to the dynamics of the global business environment for over a century. OFFICES The firm’s clients include financial institutions, individuals, medium- MEXICO sized companies and prominent international corporations, such as the The Coca-Cola Company, The Walt Disney Company, Diageo, Old MONTERREY Navy, GAP, Dreamworks, America Movil, Kia Motors, Sherwin Williams, QUERÉTARO Goodyear Tiger, Crossfit, among others. The intellectual property practice group of Basham is one of the largest and most important in Mexico and is dedicated to the protection of some of the world’s most famous trademarks, patents and copyright.

The firm provides legal assistance in connection with patents, industrial models and designs, trademarks and names, slogans, copyright, and all other related legal matters.

The firm’s IP services are very broad and encompass all aspects including developing strategies, advising on tax issues, carrying out civil, administrative and criminal litigation, and developing measures to protect IP rights and prevent piracy.

We operate in the Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Chinese languages. CONTACTS

Martín Michaus: [email protected] Eduardo Kleinberg: [email protected] José Hinojosa: [email protected] Jorge Vega: [email protected] Adolfo Athié: [email protected] Claudio Ulloa: [email protected]

252 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

Centre d’Affaires Edouard VII 3, Square Edouard VII 75009 Paris France Phone: +33(0)1 42 68 60 00 Fax: +33(0)1 42 68 60 11

[email protected]

www.twobirds.com Yves Marc Anne-Charlotte Géraldine Bizollon Schuler Le Bihan Arbant

Stéphane Michel Alexandre Ariane Marion Leriche Matas Vuchot Mole Barbier BUSINESS POSITIONING

IP PRACTICE IP PRACTICE With the largest IP Group in Europe, numbering over 300 dedicated Patents, Trade secrets, practitioners, Bird & Bird has established an unsurpassed international Trademarks, Designs, Copyright, reputation for its intellectual property expertise and is consistently rated as Domain names, Unfair a leader in the field. competition Bird & Bird’s French IP team is itself one of the largest IP teams in France Litigation with 17 lawyers dedicated to IP, one patent attorney and 3 paralegals. With Actions before IP Offices two offices in Paris and Lyon, the team’s practice covers the full spectrum Brand management of IP services from prosecution (with the exception of patent prosecution) Transfer of technology and to litigation and transactional work. The team’s client base encompasses Licensing leading multinationals as well as SMEs and start-ups in numerous sectors Media such as Telecoms, electronics, food & beverage, media, sports, or the Due Diligence pharmaceutical industry. The team was very proud to win the Golden Award for ‘Best Life Sciences Team’ at the ‘Trophées du Droit’ 2016. TECH & COMMS PRACTICE TECH & COMMS PRACTICE IT & Telecoms contracts (including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and Led by 7 partners, our Tech & Comms Team is organised around key areas, cloud computing issues) including IT, Data Management, Data protection, Internet, e-commerce IT and Tech project management and Telecoms, which makes our offering one of the most attractive on (outsourcing, offshoring, near the French market. Our highly flexible and individualized approach to shoring) providing legal solutions is driven by an in-depth understanding of our clients’ strategic goals and objectives. We are renowned for our creative Data protection (compliance, and often original solutions, some of which have shaped the global risk management, binding technology and communications landscape. Our clients can count on us to corporate rules) incorporate pioneering, highly complex technology in order to stay ahead Data management (database, of their competitors (including: agile development methodologies, big data, open data, big data) internet of things, cloud services, cyber and IT security)– we advise them in E-commerce, electronic assessing the legal risks and helping to safeguard their interests in a digital signature and cryptology world. Cyber security OFFICES IT disputes We have offices in key business centres across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, The Hague, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Skanderborg, Stockholm, Sydney and Warsaw. CONTACT IP TEAM TECH & COMMS TEAM

Yves Bizollon, Partner: [email protected] Stephane Leriche, Partner: [email protected] Marc Schuler, Partner: [email protected] Michel Matas - Partner : [email protected] Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan, Partner: Alexandre Vuchot, Partner: [email protected] [email protected] Géraldine Arbant, Partner: [email protected] Marc Schuler, Partner: [email protected] Ariane Mole, Partner: [email protected] Marion Barbier, Partner: [email protected] Géraldine Arbant, Partner: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 253 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

63, avenue Maréchal de Saxe 50, rue Copernic BP3167 - 69406 Cedex 03 Lyon 75016 PARIS France France Phone: +33 (0)4 72 60 53 93 Phone: +33 (0)1 44 90 17 10 Fax: +33 (0)4 72 60 53 94

www.bismuth.fr

Yves Bismuth Mathieu Martin Delphine Jaafar Barbara Vinogradoff BUSINESS POSITIONING

Computer law, IT Law For more than 40 years, Bismuth has been offering Drafting and negotiating contracts advice and assistance across a spectrum of legal disciplines to businesses, public and private sector IT expertise in all types of transactions or disputes. Public Procurement The Firm has in particular developed a highly Litigation experienced practice in legal issues raised Contract manager by communication technologies: information Software asset management technology, including new technologies, as well as telecommunications law. The Firm has also extensive Information and Communication experience in all areas of intellectual property. Technologies (ICT) Internet Precursor in these legal issues, Bismuth puts its knowledge and expertise to the services of its E-commerce clients in order to help them choose the adequate Cyber Monitoring / Cyber-crime legal strategy. ehealth The Firm advises national and international actors Data protection in the world of software publishing and digital Cross media / Transmedia inclusion. Bismuth has also set up a recognized Open data / Big data cross-disciplinary competence relevant to the public and private actors in the area of Telehealth. Networks

Intellectual Property Rights Legal council – Branding – Litigation Copyright – Databases Designs and models, Patent, Semi-conductor product, Trademarks OFFICES

63, avenue Maréchal de Saxe 50 rue Copernic BP3167 - 69406 Cedex 03 Lyon 75016 PARIS France France Phone: +33(0)4 72 60 53 93 Phone: +33(0)1 44 17 37 87 Fax: +33(0)4 72 60 53 94 CONTACTS

Yves Bismuth, Partner: [email protected] Mathieu Martin, Partner: [email protected] Delphine Jaafar, Partner: [email protected]

254 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

Agustín Manuel Chávez 1 - 001 Avenida de Europa 29 - 1° Col. Centro de Ciudad Santa Fe Madrid 28020 Mexico, D.F. 01210 Spain Mexico Phone: +34 91 192 00 17 Phone: +52 555 292 5232 [email protected] [email protected] www.bgbg.mx www.bgbg.es

Carlos A. Federico De Hector E. Juan Bello-Hernandez Palacio-Ruiz Guzman- F. Bonequi Cabañas Rodriguez

Noe Lilia Miguel Pascacio-Montijo Aguilar Gallardo-Guerra

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Data Protection Established in 2001, the firm Bello, Gallardo, Bonequi y García, TMT (Telecoms, Media & Technology) S.C. (BGBG) has become a significant player in the Mexican Intellectual Property legal market, meeting the growing need for specialised legal Litigation/Dispute Resolution counselling. The versatility of its members allows BGBG to Banking & Finance offer personalised services in each of its areas of practice. Corporate/M&A Professionalism, quality services and a results-driven culture Energy and Infrastructure distinguish BGBG from other major law firms in Mexico. A Government Procurement real global expertise, hands-on experience and an excellent Insurance/Reinsurance academic background constitute the main assets of its members.

OFFICES MEXICO SPAIN

CONTACTS

Intellectual Property, Lilia Aguilar, [email protected] Telecoms, Media, & Technology, M&A., Carlos A. Bello-Hernandez, [email protected] Dispute Resolution, Litigation, Juan F. Bonequi, [email protected] Corporate, M&A, Federico De Palacio-Ruiz Cabañas, [email protected] Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate, M&A, Insurance, Miguel Gallardo-Guerra, [email protected] Data Protection, Hector E. Guzman-Rodriguez, [email protected] Energy and Infrastructure, Noe Pascacio-Montijo, [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 255 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Av. Circunvalación del Club Golf los incas 154, Oficina 302, Santiago de Surco, Lima PERÚ Phone: +511 321 2626 [email protected] www.brdaabogados.com

Jose Barreda Gonzalo Barreda Gisella Barreda

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Patents BRDA abogados is an intellectual property law firm incorporated Utility models by attorneys and engineers, all specialized in intellectual property Industrial designs law, currently recognized for giving their clients a specialized and personalized service of highest quality. Patents utility models and industrial designs litigation By combining the experience obtained from several generations of Trademarks leading intellectual property attorneys as well as a long professional Copyrights experience in leading intellectual property firms with the dynamism Domain names required by the current clients, our firm is proud to offer an efficient Unfair competition service, worrying not only in proposing the best legal strategy, but Corporate law also in giving the immediate response that businesses nowadays Advertising require. Litigation

CONTACT José Barreda: [email protected] Gonzalo Barreda: [email protected] Gisella Barreda: [email protected]

256 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

131, boulevard Malesherbes 75017 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 45 74 03 98 Fax: +33 (0)1 45 74 02 51 [email protected]

www.cabinet-escande.com

Michel-Paul Ghyslaine Rajot Hélène Huet Diane de Valbray Benjamin Fabre Escande

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Litigation and counselling Cabinet MP ESCANDE is a recognized niche structure Patents specialized in all areas of Intellectual Property law (Patents, Trademarks, Designs, Copyright, geographical indications Trademarks and appellations of origin, disputes related to patronymic Industrial designs and models names...). Geographical indications and The firm is also involved in conflictual and parasitic unfair appellations of origin competition cases. Copyright Cabinet MP ESCANDE’s main areas of intervention concern Unfair competition and parasitism luxury, automotive, food processing, wine products, Patronymic names glassware, furniture, sports, publishing, mechanical industry, banking and artistic creations. Portfolio management and audit Trademarks Its international clients consist of businesses and individuals. Industrial designs and models The firm assists them in the establishment and management Surveillance of client’s rights of their rights in administrative and judiciary proceedings, Interventions with the Customs wether civil, criminal, arbitration or mediation. authorities A department is specifically dedicated to brand portfolios Trademarks management and Designs in France and abroad. This department also oversees intellectual property securities in connection with customs.

OFFICES

Correspondant: Tour Generali, 149 avenue Louise 1050 Brussels - Belgium

CONTACT

Catherine Molina: [email protected] / Phone: +33(0)1 45 74 74 39

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 257 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

131, boulevard Malesherbes 75017 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 84 16 75 35 Fax: +33 (0)1 84 16 75 34 [email protected] www.cbdavocat.com

Patrice de Candé Julien Blanchard Claire Herissay- Alix Phiquepal Margaux Negre- Ducamp d’Arusmont Carillon

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Trademarks CANDÉ-BLANCHARD-DUCAMP (CBD) is a law firm, composed Designs and Models, Copyright of Attorneys-at-law at the Paris Bar, entirely dedicated to litigation in the field of intellectual and industrial property Internet, Domain names (trade marks, designs, patents, software, copyright, domain Patents names, etc.). Litigation, Legal Disputes, The three Partners of the firm, Patrice de Candé, Julien Contracts, Consulting Blanchard and Claire Herissay-Ducamp, have numerous years Industrial Property Rights of experience in this field. We advise and assist French and foreign large-scale Companies, in industries as varied as the luxury industry (textile, leather goods, jewellery, watch-making, cosmetics, etc.), the pharmaceutical, building, insurance, banking and computer industries. Our team intervenes in all proceedings aimed at defending our Clients’ intangible assets (Infringement or Unfair competition actions; Customs or Arbitration proceedings, etc.) with French Courts (Regional Courts, Commercial Courts, Criminal Courts) as well as European Courts (Court of First Instance of the European Communities and Court of Justice of the European Union), and with both the French Office (INPI) and the Community Office (OHIM). Outside of France, our Law Firm has built up a network of specialized foreign colleagues recognized for their expertise and efficiency. Our Law Firm places great emphasis on offering the most in- depth and most reactive service possible, while working very closely with our Clients, in a cost-effective manner. CANDÉ-BLANCHARD-DUCAMP works in collaboration with Cabinet M-P ESCANDE. CONTACTS

Patrice de Candé, Partner: [email protected] Julien Blanchard, Partner: [email protected] Claire Herissay-Ducamp, Partner: [email protected]

258 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

Rome I-00187 Milan I-20121 Via XXIV Maggio 43 Via G. Verdi 2 Italy Italy Phone: +39 06 4662 21 Phone: +39 02 7215 71 Fax: +39 06 46622600 Fax: +39 02 7215 7224 [email protected] [email protected] www.chiomenti.net

Carlo Filippo Gregorio Francesco Paolo Croff Modulo Consoli Tedeschini Bertoni

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Corporate - M&A Intellectual Property. The Firm has significant expertise and Capital Markets experience in the development, acquisition, protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights (such as trade Finance marks, domain names and other distinctive marks, patents, Banks, Insurance and other designs, models, know-how, commercial secrets, and unfair Regulated Entities competition) and in the protection of such rights in legal Real Estate proceedings. The Firm’s practice encompasses preparation Litigation - Arbitration and negotiation of transfer, licence, distribution, franchising, merchandising, sponsorship, advertising and technology Insolvency and Restructuring transfer agreements in light of specifically applicable Tax intellectual property legislation. EU, Competition and International Law Information Technology. Studio Chiomenti assists in all Administrative Law issues relating to intellectual property rights in the Internet Employment Law context, including websites, multi-media products, on-line services, software, electronic banking and financial services TMT - Intellectual Property and and digital distribution of protected works. The Firm assists Information Technology in connection with information protection, information Energy technology agreements, the law on the protection of personal Infrastructure and Public Works information and related corporate policies. The Firm has Contracts specialised knowledge in the negotiation of technology development, licence and acquisition agreements through complex joint ventures and outsourcing structures. OFFICES

MILAN LONDON NEW YORK SHANGHAI ROME BRUSSELS BEIJING HONG KONG

CONTACTS

Carlo Croff, Senior Partner: [email protected] Filippo Modulo, Managing Partner: [email protected] Gregorio Consoli, Co-Managing Partner - Marketing and Communications: [email protected] Francesco Tedeschini, Head of Corporate - M&A: [email protected] Paolo Bertoni, Head of TMT - Intellectual Property and Information Technology: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 259 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

146-150, avenue des Champs-Elysées 75008 Paris France Phone: + 33 (0)1 56 59 60 61 Fax: + 33 (0)1 56 59 60 79 [email protected] www.clery-avocats.eu

Alain Cléry Coralie Devernay BUSINESS POSITIONING

The firm operates both in CLÉRY - AVOCATS, established in 1987, by Alain Cléry, is a French the field of counseling and boutique law firm dedicated to all areas of Intellectual Property law. litigation: Coralie Devernay has become Partner in 2014. Trademarks All lawyers of the firm hold an advanced postgraduate degree Patents in Intellectual Property law. Alain Clery also holds a certificate Know-how and trade of specialization in Intellectual Property law and the law of New secrets Technologies, Computer and Communication. Coralie Devernay Copyright received Legalbiznext’s 1st prize in 2003. Designs If litigation is historically the favoured practice, the Firm also assists Unfair competition clients even before the launch and implementation of projects and / or new products, and assists in the development and defense of their Designations of origin and Intellectual Property rights. It also conducts legal audits of Intellectual geographical indication Property portfolios required in industrial restructuring. Its areas of Personality rights intervention and its activities are thus very broad spectrum. Press Law The Firm intervenes in all French courts (civil, commercial, Advertising Law administrative and / or criminal) and European courts (EUIPO, EGC, Sports law ECJ) competent in Intellectual Property law. Computer Law and New It advises and assists a diverse client portfolio, including the luxury, Technologies agro-food, liquor, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, design, architecture, interior decorating, automotive equipment, communication and the press areas... It is also regularly invited by major «full service» law firms, requiring assistance in Intellectual Property rights, and finding in Cléry Avocats, TEAM a reliable, efficient and discreet partner. Vigilant on Professional Ethics, the Firm will always place the client’s The size of the Firm and its interests above all by giving the best advises regarding its needs and team spirit, allow to focus on / or issues. availability, track records and To complement the activities of the Firm, Alain Clery and Coralie the quality of relationships with Devernay also take part in animations surrounding Intellectual each client, who will have all Property Law and Procedure at the Bar Training School of Paris, or to the time the same interlocutor. other professionals.

CONTACTS

Alain Cléry, Partner: [email protected] Coralie Devernay, Partner: [email protected]

260 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

9, avenue Jean-Pierre Pescatore L-2324 Luxembourg Phone: +352 26 00 11 1 Fax: +352 27 12 51 81 www.dclavocats.eu

Dorothée Ciolino Nadine Cambonie Pauline Walter Emilie Macchi

BUSINESS POSITIONING

IP/IT DCL Avocats is an independent business law firm which Protection of intellectual rights gathers lawyers, all committed to entrepreunership and willing to build a long-lasting relationship with Management of trademarks and domain their clients in the long-run. name protection Management of artistic property protection Availability, reliability and outstanding service are the Information technologies milestones of DCL Avocats, each partner having a Implementation of websites (general terms close relationship with his/her clients. and conditions, legal notice) All with a long-standing experience and coming from Development agreements and software different practices and backgrounds, the partners licence agreements of DCL Avocats are able to grasp the issues taken Protection and management of databases in their global context in order to meet the needs of Protection of private life of the employees (IT their clients. Charter) Protection and management of personal data DCL Avocats is able to assist the enterprise all along its life in its investment and restructuring strategic Infringement procedures – Seizure by choices, its day-to-day issues or in the context of customs conflict management. E-Payment M-Payment DCL Avocats’ partners are sensitive to the various risks TELECOM met by the business and, as such, are committed to find hands-on and pragmatic solutions to their issues Phreaking by bringing the right mix of social skills, professional Management of litigation experience and social insight.

We are members of :

l’Association Luxembourgeoise des Juristes de Banque (ALJB) la Chambre Française de Commerce et d’Industrie de Luxembourg (CFCI) l’Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs (ILA).

CONTACTS

Dorothée Ciolino: [email protected] Pauline Walter: [email protected] Nadine Cambonie: [email protected] Emilie Macchi: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 261 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

9, rue Boissy d'Anglas 222, avenue Louise 75008 Paris 1050 Brussels France Belgium Phone: +33 (0)1 56 64 00 00 Phone: +32 (0)2 664 01 64 Fax: +33 (0)1 56 64 00 01 Fax: +32 (0)2 664 31 16 [email protected] [email protected] www.degaullefleurance.com

Franck Bauchet Georgie Courtois Frédéric Destal Louis de Gaulle Julien Horn Jean-Marie Job Rhadamès Killy Anne-Hélène Le Trocquer

Serge Lederman Francine Frédéric Manin Charles-Edouard Cécile Frank Valentin Thibault Verbiest Jean-François Le Péchon Renault Théard-Jallu Vilotte Joubert BUSINESS POSITIONING

Intellectual Property - Information De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés is a full-service law firm Technologies covering all the areas of Intellectual Property, Information Patents and Technology transfers Technology, Data Protection, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Trademarks, Design and Models, Domain Healthcare, Media, Entertainment and Sports. names It is recognized as one of the most powerful teams on the Literary and Artistic property French market. Internet and Electronic Commerce Medias Clients laud the ability of De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés Sports to propose an integrated and transversal service as it is Litigation also capable of bringing its expertise in other areas (such as Tax Law, EU Law, M&A and Corporate, Public Law, Life Sciences - Biotechnology - Labor Law) when needed on a specific matter. Healthcare Medical products and medical devices As a result of its unique and business-oriented positioning, regulations De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés has gained wide recognition Contracts from clients and peers and has been awarded numerous Health Data and Protection of Data awards. Subjects Litigation

CONTACTS

Franck Bauchet: [email protected] Serge Lederman: [email protected] Georgie Courtois: [email protected] Francine Le Péchon-Joubert: [email protected] Frédéric Destal: [email protected] Frédéric Manin: [email protected] Louis de Gaulle: [email protected] Charles-Edouard Renault: [email protected] Julien Horn: [email protected] Cécile Théard-Jallu: [email protected] Jean-Marie Job: [email protected] Frank Valentin: [email protected] Rhadamès Killy: [email protected] Thibault Verbiest: [email protected] Anne-Hélène Le Trocquer: [email protected] Jean-François Vilotte: [email protected]

262 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

Inebolu Sokak, No. 5, Deris Patent Building, Kabatas/Setüstü, 34427 Istanbul / Turkey Phone : +90 212 252 6122/23 - 249 7010/11 - 292 6000 [email protected]

www.deris-legal.com

Mehmet Nazım Aydın Nükhet Serra Coral Emre Kerim Yardımcı Okan Can Banu Nur Barbur Deris

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Industrial Property Rights Based in Istanbul, Turkey, Deris has a 104 years of history for establishment and protection and enforcement of IP rights and Trademarks/Brand Protection consists of two legal entities, namely Deris Patents &Trademarks Patents Agency A.Ş. which counsels, files, prosecutes, registers and manages IP rights worldwide, and Deris Attorneys-At-Law Partnership ( Designs Law firm) which provides legal counsel, assistance in contentious and non-contentious matters and representation before civil and Geographical indications commercial courts. These two entities operate together and feed Plant varieties each other to address the client’s needs and requirements in the most confidential, effective and cost efficient way. Chip topographies The Team consists of 25 attorneys at law, 27 registered trademark Domain names and patent attorneys and European Patent Attorneys.

Copyright The Law Firm is specialized to handle exclusively IP-IT-Media related cases. It has an agile and cost conscious approach in pragmatically Unfair competition combining and coordinating tailor made solutions in complex matters and has also a very strong Patent litigation team led by its founder Other related areas of partner Mr. Aydın Deriş working in cooperation with the in house practice patent attorneys of the prosecution firm. Media and entertainment We consider IP rights to be assets and we have structured our own Database organization to provide services with a proactive approach and to offer the clients a complete range of legal services. Our approach Data protection and privacy aims to facilitate our client’s business decision by identifying upfront potential sources of conflict; eliminating as far as feasible legal E-Commerce uncertainty; assessing each and every detail which might affect Reputation management the parameters of protection and enforcement, in order to avoid unnecessary litigation and ensure trouble free and uninterrupted Consumer protection operation. With such approach, Deris counsels many private equity and venture capital societies in their investments on innovative Advertising structures. Competition Law Deris Law firm has been active in technology licensing for many years now. With e-commerce and data privacy being a very important agenda in today’s Turkey, the firm provides more and more services in these areas to retailer companies, online shopping platforms, telecommunication companies and banks. Within the scope of the enforcement of clients rights active in the media and entertainment business, Deris is also actively involved in combating pirate broadcasting of movies through Turkish websites or other broadcasting channels by other infringers before the Turkish Authorities. In the future, the firm intends keeping its’ niche IP-IT-Media Focus approach by extending into areas overlapping with IP-IT-Media such Advertising, Competition Law, Telecommunication Law with a view to continue being the reference law firm in Turkey. CONTACT

Banu Nur Barbur: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 263 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Av. Presidente Wilson, 231 - 13º andar Centro – 20030-905 Rio de Janeiro – RJ Brazil Phone: +55 (21) 3981-0080 Fax: +55 (21) 3891-0090 [email protected]

www.diblasi.com.br

Paulo Parente Gabriel Di Blasi

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Intellectual Property Di Blasi, Parente & Associados is a Brazilian intellectual property Technology Transfer firm headed by partners Gabriel Di Blasi and Paulo Parente Marques Mendes. They have been providing legal services together to both Franchising domestic and foreign clients for nearly thirty years. Domain Name Services Customs & Anti-Counterfeiting They have built a team of lawyers and professionals – experts in Business Transactions their fields, serving clients in an array of industries, with specialized experience in the areas of aerospace, biotechnology, chemistry, Corporate Law and Contracts consumer goods, electronics, food and beverage, mechanics, Competition (Antitrust) pharmacology, physics, plant varieties, sports and entertainment, Regulatory & Administrative telecommunications, veterinary medicine and others. Tax (Related to IP) Entertainment Law The Firm operates in all areas of intellectual property in Brazil and provides related legal services in business law, contracts, regulatory law, antitrust law, unfair competition, technology transfer, franchising, consumer rights and corporate law, including their implications on tax and foreign exchange control laws. With solid patent and trade mark prosecution teams and a proven legal department to defend and protect clients’ intellectual property rights, including litigation solutions, Di Blasi, Parente & Associados is committed to exceeding client expectations and delivering world class service.

CONTACT

Paulo Parente Marques Mendes, Partner: [email protected] Gabriel Di Blasi, Partner: [email protected]

264 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

137, rue de l’Université 75007 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 53 23 92 10 Fax: +33 (0)1 47 23 49 13 [email protected] www.cabinet-hirsch.com

Marc-Roger Jean-Marc Elizabeth Georgia Devos Christophe Guangtao Bu Hirsch Lefrançois Simpson Andral BUSINESS POSITIONING

Patents The close collaboration between the legal team of Hirsch & Trademarks and Designs Associates and the lawyers and engineers of our sister firm Copyright matters Hirsch & Partners produces a powerful synergy which cannot but strengthen the performance of Hirsch & Associates. Domain name disputes Unfair competition matters The almost daily relationship between the lawyers/barristers of Hirsch & Associates and the attorneys and IP specialists of Hirsch & Partners creates a symbiosis of which our clients are the prime beneficiaries both in terras of effectiveness and in terras of costs.

The alliance between our law firm and the teams of engineers and technologists of Hirsch & Partners is a key element of our success when it cornes to complex technical questions arising in asserting and defending patents thanks to the direct support provided by our scientific and technical staff.

The same applies to the teamwork between our law firm and the legal people of Hirsch & Partners regarding the protection of trademark and design rights.

CONTACTS

Marc-Roger Hirsch, Founding Partner Jean-Marc Lefrançois Elizabeth Simpson Emmanuelle Tévenin Elisabeth De Morelos Georgia Devos Christophe Andral Guangtao Bu

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 265 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Arabellastrasse 30 81925 Munich Germany Phone: +49 89 92409-0 Fax: +49 89 918356 [email protected] www.hoffmanneitle.com

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Patents With a workforce of more than 400 persons and a history spanning Utility Models more than 120 years, HOFFMANN EITLE is one of the largest, most well-established and most renowned intellectual property consultancy Trademarks firms in Europe. Designs Copyright Law The primary objective of our firm is to provide the best possible services IP Contracts & Licenses to our clients, by focusing on quality, efficiency, responsiveness and customization of our services. Unfair Competition Law

IP Due Diligence To achieve this aim, our firm is structured around an international IP Litigation & Nullity team of more than 100 highly qualified and experienced European Proceedings representatives and attorneys-at-law, which come from more than 10 countries and work exclusively in the field of intellectual property.

OFFICES With such a wealthy human capital, both in qualitative and quantitative terms, we provide one of the most complete, homogeneous, and modular services in Europe for intellectual property. In particular, we MUNICH fulfill the specific needs of our clients: LONDON DÜSSELDORF In all legal and technical fields of intellectual property, in litigious as HAMBURG well as non-litigious proceedings MILAN In an unrivalled geographic area in terms of size and significance, MADRID by the countries in which our European patent attorneys have national qualifications (Germany, France, Belgium, UK, Italy, Spain, and Netherlands)

In all configurations of work (individual, collaborative, cooperative, multidisciplinary, multinational…). We have a strong francophone team of more than 10 specialists in patents.

CONTACTS

Olivier Catania, Specialist in French patent law: [email protected] Dr. Matthias Kindler, Partner Patents: [email protected] Holger Stratmann, Partner Patent Litigation & Licensing: [email protected] Wedig von der Osten-Sacken, Partner Trademarks & Designs: [email protected] Michaela Ring, Partner Trademarks & Designs: [email protected]

266 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

“A good intellectual property lawyer must act locally while thinking globally”

INTERVIEW WITH Michaela Ring Partner, German Attorney-at-Law, Certified Specialist IP Lawyer D.R. What distinguishes your firm standards and these standards of the respective nationalities from other firms? are enhanced by the diversity of optimizes both the negotiating HOFFMANN EITLE was esta- HOFFMANN EITLE’s exper- skills of the lawyer as well as his/ blished more than 100 years ago tise. her interaction with internatio- as a German law firm and has nal clients. In a nutshell, a good grown gradually and organically In your opinion what makes a intellectual property lawyer since then while continuing to good intellectual property lawy- must act locally while thinking maintain high values and stan- er? globally. dards. As Oscar Wilde so wisely said: Today it epitomizes an inter- “Only the best is good enough”. What are the next IP challen- national law firm at its best. In In my opinion, this must be a ges? addition to its European offices benchmark for a good intellec- Globalization has, however, in London, Düsseldorf, Ham- tual property lawyer. Legal and its downside. The current eco- burg, Milan and Madrid, the technical excellence needs to be nomic market facilitates the head office in Munich employs coupled with an understanding manufacturing and sale of pro- 29 nationalities. Our professio- of commerce and intuition, duct imitations. From a legal nals include not just European, together with an understanding perspective, it has become easier German, British, and Italian of the client’s needs and creati- to research, and consequently patent and trademark attor- vity as well as flexibility. Howe- identify, IP infringements neys, but also Spanish, Dutch ver, a further essential quality is throughout the market using and Belgian patent attorneys. maintaining the client’s goals at the Internet. If an infringer is This expertise is additionally all times. located in Germany or in ano- rounded out by professionals A good IP lawyer requires not ther Member State of the EU, holding qualifications as US only legal understanding and the case can be settled swiftly, and Chinese patent attorneys. expertise within his or her field, for example by attaining a pre- In my personal opinion, this is but also entrepreneurial skills so liminary injunction. a unique setup and conducive as to be able to provide the client However, it is still difficult to to the highly efficient operation with reasonable, pragmatic and enforce a preliminary injunc- of the firm on an international expeditious advice and solution when the infringer is level. HOFFMANN EITLE’s tions. Due to the globalization located outside the EU. In most international team serves its of the market, an IP lawyer also non-EU countries preliminary clients’ needs both transnatio- needs to comprehend all facets injunctions are not enforceable. nally and across disciplines, of international markets, kee- The challenge in this market is thereby ensuring that clients ping the aspects of intercultu- it to achieve a global harmoni- always receive full-service sup- ral and deviating jurisdictions zation of the legal provisions to port. Our clients benefit from in mind. An understanding and ensure “fair play” on the inter- the high HOFFMANN EITLE awareness of the idiosyncrasies national market.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 267 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

28, avenue du Président Wilson 75116 Paris France Phone: +33(0)1 73 02 02 10 Fax: +33(0)1 73 02 02 20 www.jacobavocats.com

Julie Jacob Charlotte Galichet Frédéric Leplat Domitille Huart Marie Hirot Maxime Ramos- Guerrero

BUSINESS POSITIONING

New technologies The Firm Jacob Avocats offers tailored legal solutions to its Media customers, but beyond the consulting dimension, the firm also offers strategy and personalized support over time. Online gaming IP/IT Jacob Avocats acts as a true partner for companies and personalities that represents their brand and image. A new type of law firm was E-commerce born in this world that experience profound and quick changes. Copyrights & Trademarks Julie Jacob is a regular contributor on all e-commerce issues, Litigation computer law, online games, pre paid cards, litigation regarding Data protection & data privacy computers and networks, media in the digital environment, brands Media entertainment, media, etc. advertising Internet & e-business E-business websites and market-places (B2B and B2C) Blogs / podcasts E-marketing and E-advertisement Personal data protection Consumer protection legislation User generated contents Computer Law Sales and services contracts Web Affiliation, Web-hosting, outsourcing High-tech plate-form High-tech storage, data security High tech services Software Media / Communication / Telecoms Telecommunication networks and services Music / Radio Video / Television / Cinema (VOD) Advertising Press Access providers

CONTACTS

Julie Jacob, Partner: [email protected] Charlotte Galichet, Attorney IP/IT: [email protected]

268 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

4, rue Quentin Bauchart 75008 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 75 44 47 00 Fax: +33 (0)1 75 44 47 01 www.lecspartners.com

Olivier Richard Victor Sophie Nathalie Claire Laude Esquier Champey Havard Duclos Karpik Machureau BUSINESS POSITIONING

Business litigation Laude Esquier Champey specializes in business Acquisitions/post-acquisition litigation. Shareholder lawsuits Banking/Finance The firm has 20 attorneys whose practices are Securities laws dedicated to managing and resolving disputes Insurance both in France and internationally.

White collar crime The firm primarily acts on behalf of French and Collective procedures international groups, large companies, SMEs and Construction/Real estate directors and officers operating in a wide variety Transportation of economic sectors. Estates Commercial litigation Anticipating and managing conflicts, analyzing Commercial contracts risks, developing strategies, resolving crises, Distribution arrangements achieving settlements or implementing effective Consumer law judicial proceedings, are at the heart of the firm’s Product defects activity and expertise.

Competition and unfair practices Led by six seasoned partners with a significant Distribution networks track record in negotiations and litigation, the firm IP/IT litigation defends its clients’ interests efficiently and with Copyright determination, arriving at pragmatic solutions Trademarks that are adapted to the financial and strategic Design protection risks at stake. Patents Personal data The firm represents its clients before all types of Press and media jurisdictions (judicial, administrative, arbitral).

Internet Laude Esquier Champey is recommended for Employment litigation «the quality of its advice, the timeliness and Individual and collective litigation effectiveness of its services, its strong results and Restructuring and redundancy plans the supreme availability of its attorneys.» Works council notifications and consultations Union representation

CONTACTS

Olivier Laude, Partner: [email protected] Richard Esquier, Partner: [email protected] Victor Champey, Partner: [email protected] Sophie Havard Duclos, Partner: [email protected] Nathalie Karpik, Partner: [email protected] Claire Machureau, Partner: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 269 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

22, rue du Général Foy 75008 Paris France Phone : +33 (0)1 40 01 10 10 [email protected]

www.lazareff-lebars.com

Simon Christiaën

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Intellectual Property Offering advisory, litigation and arbitration services, Lazareff Le Patents Bars has developed a highly regarded intellectual property practice, particularly in the area of patents. Designs Copyrights Our areas of expertise include mechanical engineering, electronics, Trademarks, domain names information technology, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and Licensing parapharmaceuticals, medical equipment and procedures, food products, chemistry and cosmetics. In this respect, we rely on the Infringemenet assistance from several patent engineers. Protection and valuation of property rights As advisors, we assist clients in deploying best practices with Building IP portfolios regard to patent, design and trademark registrations, managing IP portfolios and anticipating issues related to international expansion, in order to guard against the depreciation of their intangible assets Litigation or malevolent intentions of potential competitors. We provide advice Patent litigation / arbitration that is tailored to the environments in which companies are evolving IP litigation in today, particularly in respect to new export markets, and ensure Unfair competition litigation that their rights are rigorously protected at all times. IP management and strategy In the event of a dispute or situation of crisis, we represent clients before courts of law, particularly the Paris Court of First Instance and Court of Appeals, state agencies and intergovernmental organizations such as INPI, OHIM, WIPO, EPO, USPTO, OAPI, ARIPO as well as arbitral tribunals (particularly the ICC). OFFICES

PARIS BRUXELLES NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO

CONTACT

Simon Christiaën, Partner: [email protected]

270 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

Rua da Assembleia, 10 - 41º andar 20011-901 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil Phone: +55 21 3550 3700 Fax: +55 21 3550 3777 [email protected] www.lickslegal.com

Liliane Roriz Nuno Carvalho Otto Licks Carlos Aboim

Rodrigo Souto Eduardo Hallak Ricardo Nunes Maior BUSINESS POSITIONING

Patent Litigation Licks Attorneys is a top tier, recognized as a successful firm handling large Strategic Patent Prosecution and strategic IP, food and drug and internet projects in the country. Over the last 20 years, its attorneys have handled complex patent prosecution, Policy Making and Government litigation, policy making and regulatory matters, giving advice to companies Relations seeking to protect top blockbusters in Brazil. Unfair Competition The firm has offices in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre and Tokyo, Trademark offering a comprehensive range of legal services related to the development, Copyright deployment and use of technology. The firm aggressively invests in technical and human resources to provide a unique blend of technical and Food and Drug, Life science legal expertise. It has the largest patent litigation practice, and can offer Cyber Law, e-commerce and the complete range of services involving the acquisition, enforcement and software licensing of IP rights in Brazil. Cyber Security, Privacy Licks has a strong expertise in the areas of Intellectual Property, Life Counseling and Transactional Sciences, Food & Drug, Cyber Law, Telecommunications and Oil & Gas. The firm has been growing steadily, while expanding into areas of practice Regulatory closely associated with its core capabilities. Antitrust and Competition Law Complex Business Litigation The success rate stands above the competitors and the firm is involved in the most significant lawsuits in Brazil. It is the most proactive firm assisting clients to successfully expedite patent examination before the Brazilian Patent Office. The firm represented the largest number of clients in cases against the Brazilian Food and Drugs Administration (ANVISA), working mainly for the international pharmaceutical research community. Licks has a motivated and multi-lingual team, with the background and capabilities to advise companies of all sizes from across the globe. The client portfolio includes Fortune 500 companies as well as several global companies. It has a number of foreign-trained attorneys and partners – some of whom have more than 20 years’ experience.

CONTACT

Otto Licks, Partner: [email protected] Carlos Aboim, Partner: [email protected] Eduardo Hallak, Partner: [email protected] Rodrigo Souto Maior, Partner: [email protected] Liliane Roriz, Partner: [email protected] Ricardo Nunes, Partner: [email protected] Nuno Carvalho, Partner: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 271 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Via Privata Cesare Battisti, 2 20122 Milan Italy Phone: +39 02 5406971 Fax: +39 02 54069730 [email protected] www. avvocati.it

Luigi Goglia Simona Lavagnini

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Intellectual Property, Media and LGV Avvocati is an independent law firm founded in 2003 in Entertainment Milan (Italy). LGV specialises in IP and business law and has IT, Internet and E-commerce a large client base, both domestic and foreign. The firm has Corporate and Business acquired considerable wide-ranging legal experience, principally Advertising in respect of innovative business ventures. LGV values a Competition and Antitrust dynamic and international professional team environment and Litigation and Arbitration has created a department specifically focused on the Korean Korean Department market, in addition to a business desk dealing with Germany German Desk and other German-speaking countries. Moreover, LGV is a firm accustomed to managing cases of a transnational nature. In litigation LGV offers an unrivalled competence, acquired over the years in relation to enforcement programmes concerning both national and international profiles.

CONTACTS

Luigi Goglia: [email protected]

272 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

Via Andegari, 4/A 20121 Milan Italy Phone : +39 02 896221 [email protected]

www.lmlaw.it

Renato Manuela Valentina Bocca Soligo Bonomo

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Corporate and commercial The Firm advises its clients – including pharmaceutical companies, Domestic and international energy multinationals and telecom operators – in the protection of litigation and arbitration their intellectual property rights both in court and contractually. Mergers and acquisitions - The Firm’s professionals specialized in this field of law advise mainly Private equity in connection with litigation related to the protection of patents, Insolvency and corporate trademarks, confidential information, design rights, copyrights restructuring and unfair competition; they also handle the negotiation of license Capital Markets agreements and provide support in connection with extraordinary Real Estate transactions relating to companies owning large portfolios of patents Banking and finance and trademarks. Administrative law «Litigation on trademarks and licenses represents, according Energy to clients, the cornerstone of the practice... Clients praise the Intellectual property professionals: «excellent staff, always on top of events», states a Competition client, «they are capable of building strong arguments on facts»

CONTACT Renato Bocca, Partner: [email protected] Manuela Soligo, Partner: [email protected] Valentina Bonomo, Senior Associate: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 273 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Via Vivaio 6 20122 Milan Italy Phone: +39 02 87 239 400 Fax: +39 02 87 239 439 [email protected] www.mmlex.it

Massimo Aurelio Maggiore Assenza

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Litigation & arbitration The digital economy is essentially based on binary logics. We are Personality rights here to add a third dimension to that thinking. Personal data protection Our law firm was established in 2007 as a boutique with the Environmental energy ambition of covering a vast array of practice areas of interest for Natural resources business clients. Yes, a vast array but not anything. We decided to use two golden rules: first, follow your passions. The founding Administrative law partners have put their interests from outside the legal business Antitrust & competition law at the centre of their idea of a law-firm and decided they should Commercial contracts seek to assist primarily businesses that operate in those areas Insolvency law of interest; second, be holistic. We believe lawyers’ added value lays in the ability to look at matters from as many visual angles Mergers & acquisitions private as possible. The time of chinese walls between legal issues equity seems to be fading away. The Internet has dissolved the idea IT & new media of boundaries and dramatized the concept of interdependence. Intellectual property This holds very true for legal issues. Real estate Our IP and IT department, with this in mind, has developed skills Health & Safety and expertise in all legal areas that are of relevance for advice in the fields of Intellectual Property and Information Technology. The department, headed by Massimo Maggiore, currently counts two partners and four associates and regularly advices on matters that constantly intersect IP and IT, and namely competition law, data protection, contract law, consumer laws. We are also well established litigators in our fields of practice and assist companies both before courts of law and independent administrative bodies, such as the competition authority, the data protection authority or the telecommunication authority.

The industrial sectors that we assist with IP law matters include food, electronic goods, publishing, biotechnology, toys, web marketing, motion picture and entertainment. Our work in IT Law is mainly focused on cloud computing, social lending platforms, behavioural advertising solution providers, software integration, e-commerce.

CONTACTS

Massimo Maggiore, Partner: [email protected] Aurelio Assenza, Partner: [email protected]

274 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

Forchstrasse 452 Postfach 1432 8032 Zürich Switzerland Phone: +41 44 396 91 91 Fax: +41 44 396 91 92 www.mll-legal.com

Michael Ritscher Simon Holzer

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Technology, Media and The IP team of Meyerlustenberger Lachenal is an outstanding Telecommunication group of professionals in all areas of IP law. Michael Ritscher, Trademarks, Design and who heads this team, has an extensive track record of patent, Advertising trademark and copyright enforcement for large and mid-sized corporations not only in Switzerland but also in many other Patents and Pharmaceutical Law jurisdictions, often as lead counsel. When it comes to arbitration, Michael Ritscher is regularly acting as counsel and his experience as extra-official judge at the Zurich Court of Commerce also predestines him as arbitrator or chairman in complex arbitration. Simon Holzer heads the firm’s patent & life science group. He OFFICES has substantial experience in both advising and representing clients in complex national and international patent disputes ZURICH extending across a wide range of technologies, including GENEVA pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and medical devices. He also ZUG consults for pharmaceutical companies on a wide array of drug- LAUSANNE related issues, such as marketing authorisation procedures and regulatory data protection. Simon Holzer is also very active in BRUSSELS the field of geographical indications as it relates to IP issues and has provided extensive expert opinions on this subject in court proceedings and to the Swiss authorities. Simon also acts as adjunct judge at the Swiss Federal Patent Court and as an arbitrator in IP arbitration proceedings.

With offices in Zurich, Geneva, Zug and Lausanne Meyerlustenberger Lachenal is present in the most important economic centers in Switzerland. Meyerlustenberger Lachenal is also one of the few Swiss law firms with an office in Brussels to assist its clients with their needs as related to EU regulations. Thanks to our years of experience with international clients, we have access to a broad-based network of first-class foreign law firms. In this way we ensure that our clients always receive the best legal advice possible from trusted partners worldwide.

The working languages of Meyerlustenberger Lachenal include German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Arabic, plus some of our professionals are also fluent in Italian, Portuguese and Chinese. CONTACTS Michael Ritscher: [email protected] Simon Holzer: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 275 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Via della Posta n. 8 20123 Milan Italy Phone: +39 02 7209 5422 Fax: +39 02 7004 6954 [email protected] www.milalegal.com

Elisabetta Marina Letizia Giovanni Mina Lanfranconi Nuvoli Zilli

Gilberto Cavagna Mariangela Ilaria Giulia di Gualdana Liuzzi Gargiulo Sala BUSINESS POSITIONING

Advertising Milalegal is a law firm that specializes in Intellectual Property Branding Rights, Industrial Law and Advertising Law, with a focus in the Film, Media, Entertainment, Design and Fashion sectors. Cinema Copyright Milalegal was founded by Elisabetta Mina and Marina Lanfranconi Counterfeiting who each have more than a decade of experience working in the Intellectual Property Departments of major international Design law firms, in Italy and abroad. They both have strong academic Digital Media backgrounds, which include Masters of Law (LL.M.) in Intellectual Commerce Property Law, obtained in the United Kingdom. Fashion All professionals at Milalegal combine academic excellence with Games and Competitions extensive work experience and personal expertise. Image Rights Milalegal, collaborates with an international network of Know-How professionals that specialize in Intellectual Property Rights as Licensing, Franchising and well as other areas of law. The technical experts are chosen in Distribution accordance to the clients needs. Music Patents and Models Publishing Social Network and Communication Technology Television Trade Secrets Unfair Competition Websites CONTACTS Elisabetta Mina: [email protected] Marina Lanfranconi: [email protected]

276 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

“It is not the strongest of the species that sur- vives, but the most responsive to change” (Charles Darwin)

INTERVIEW WITH Elisabetta Mina Marina Lanfranconi Partner Partner D.R. What distinguishes your firm Why did you choose to found your drafting of commercial agreements from others? firm? in the IP field most particularly in Milalegal combines the areas of We decided to start our new firm licensing, franchising, film making industrial properties with intel- in order to be able to offer to and financing, fashion and design lectual property while keeping a our clients, a new and different law. problem-solving approach. We approach based on simple and Recent deals include the drafting aim to create a new breed of lawy- to the point answers while conti- and negotiating of cross border ers incorporating interaction with nuously giving them strategic legal licenses in the fashion sector, assis- both the community in which we advice. ting National and International serve, as well as with our stakehol- co-productions and financing of ders. Through such interaction, How is your team organized and movies and Tv Series, participating we seek to actively contribute to what are your areas of expertise? in the formulation of self-regulatory the process of establishing the We both deal with the area of rules in the gaming sector, assisting applicable rules and standards of Intellectual Property and with the the Italian Furniture Association in law, especially regarding new and area of Industrial Property. We the Implementation of IP Self-Re- emerging sectors. work closely in order to address gulating Guidelines, acting in requests with a joint approach. To anti-counterfeiting judicial procee- In your opinion what makes a achieve excellence in matters of dings, assisting Italian Luxury good intellectual property lawy- law, a comprehensive knowledge brands in defending its image brand er? of the subject is necessary but no and reputation rights. We are convinced that passion longer sufficient. At Milalegal, for the work, the ability to pro- we commit ourselves daily to seek What are the next IP challenges? pose creative legal solutions by out the most effective methods According to us, the next challenges addressing new areas of laws and to be used by our professionals are undoubtedly the 3D printer, the technical knowledge in specific when providing legal services to circulation of image rights and the sectors, make a good intellectual our clients on the basis of the fol- dynamic effects of communication property lawyer. Being able to lowing principles. on trade marks. experiment new means of exploi- 1. Creativity ting intangible assets from a legal 2. Materiality How do you keep abreast of the standpoint, with also an excellent 3. Clarity latest developments in IP? quality. Experience is essential. We 4. Engaging We are very close with our stakehol- both have more than a decade of ders and actively participate in semi- experience working in the Intel- You are very active in negotiations nars and all IP initiatives. lectual Property Departments of and contract drafting: what are the major Italian and International specificities of your practice? law firms. We are indeed specialized in the

Milalegal wants to standout-to-speed: in May 2016 our app will be online and it will be rich of news, cases and useful tips (including a mini game in it!), this will allow us a smarter relationship with our clients, colleagues and anyone who wants to interact with us! Follow us! www.milalegalapp.com

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 277 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Via Privata Fratelli Gabba, 3 20121 Milan Italy Phone: +39 02 89075050 Fax: +39 02 62086008 www.orsingher.com

Matteo Orsingher Fabrizio Sanna Marco Consonni Domenico Colella

BUSINESS POSITIONING

E-commerce Internet & New Orsingher Ortu - Avvocati Associati is an independent law firm which Media specializes in complex transactions, advisory work and litigation notably in the fields of intellectual property, new media & information Publishing technology, corporate & finance, antitrust, competition & trade and Industrial Design labour laws. Our partners have all developed their professional skills Gaming in prominent international law firms and have brought those skills to a tailored, client-focused structure. Engineering Media & Entertainment Our intellectual propriety, new media & information technology group has a specific focus on the TMT- related industries and is Pharmaceuticals, Life sciences highly committed in partnering with individuals and businesses to & Biotech enhance: Luxury & Fashion • creative intellectual works Such as works of literature, music, figurative art, architecture, Advertising & Promotions cinematography, photography and new media, as well as software, Software & Cloud- deployed databases and designs, all of which are protected by copyright law. services Industrial products can also be protected by national and Community exclusive rights in designs if registered, and by unregistered Technology Community exclusive rights in designs (for a shorter time). Telecommunications • proprietary information Technical know-how - Proprietary information includes know-how that resolves a technical problem in a new way; it can be protected as a patent, as a utility model or by exclusive rights over secret information. Business know-how - Marketing information applied to the pursuit of business is one type of information in this category that can be protected as secret information and through competition law. Personal data of customers, potential customers and employees - The use of the personal data of third parties collected by a business is governed by the provisions of the Data Protection Code, which sets the limits to data processing and the forms permitted. • competitive positioning tools Trademarks - All of the distinctive signs of a business, including registered and de facto trademarks, the name or trade name, the firm, signs, domain names, and the packaging and forms of the products are protected against passing off and unwarranted copying by competitors. Company style - All elements used in crafting the identity of a business in the marketplace including advertising campaigns, slogans, signage,the interior design of sales outlets and marketing strategies are protected individually and as a whole by the provisions of the Industrial Property Code and competition law. Promotional tools - Web sites and their domain names are protected by the provisions of the Industrial Property Code and competition law. Advertising campaigns, sponsorships, home shopping and prize competitions are regulated and in some cases protected by special rules.

CONTACT

Matteo Orsingher: [email protected] Fabrizio Sanna: [email protected] Marco Consonni: [email protected] Domenico Colella: [email protected]

278 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

Loewenstrasse 1 8001 Zurich Switzerland Phone: +41 44 217 91 11 Fax.: +41 44 217 92 17

www.pestalozzilaw.com

Lorenza Ferrari Hofer Thomas Legler Clara-Ann Gordon

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Trademarks, copyrights, designs Whether you want to protect an innovation, market a brand, and patents plan and develop IT structures, engage in a joint research Know-how and trade secrets project, act as a sponsor, do business over the Internet, handle personal data, obtain advice on telecommunication services, Domain names, trade dress and prevent a competitor from infringing your IP rights, or bring company names your advertisement into line with Swiss law, Pestalozzi’s IP & Licensing, franchising and TMT lawyers are the right choice. sponsoring We provide our clients with results-oriented, effective and Unfair competition and anti- realizable solutions for all aspects of intellectual property counterfeiting/piracy (IP), unfair competition and data protection law, as well as Research and development telecommunications and media and technology law (TMT). Data protection and privacy Naturally, also in connection with dispute resolution and M&A Computer, Internet and information transactions. technology (IT) As part of one of Switzerland’s most respected law firms, we Telecommunications serve each client’s needs with broad expertise and innate Social media integrity. We understand IP & TMT as a strategic key value of Advertising growing significance, as well as a means to protect and fuel our clients’ core business success. Media Pharmaceutical products and medical devices Foodstuffs Distribution and technology transfer Product liability

OFFICES

ZURICH GENEVA

CONTACTS

Lorenza Ferrari Hofer, (Zurich) Head of IP & TMT: [email protected] Thomas Legler, (Geneva) Partner: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 279 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Rundfunkplatz 2 D-80335 Munich Germany Phone: +49 89 599 887 0 Fax: +49 89 599 887 211 www.prinz.eu

Dr. Werner Thomas Kitzhofer Jochen Sties Dr. Bernhard Dr. Alexander Ute Feldmann Sulzbach Pfleiderer González

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Physics Founded in 1928 but with roots going back to 1900, Prinz & Electrical engineering Partner is a boutique IP firm that provides specialist advice on every area relating to the protection and litigation of patents, Electronics trademarks and designs in Germany and internationally. Telecommunications/ Multimedia Prinz & Partner create innovative IP solutions that help their Mechanical engineering clients achieve their commercial objectives. They deliver those solutions with clarity and an uncompromising commitment to Materials science service and quality. Chemistry Pharmacy The firm has 6 partners, 16 patent attorneys, attorneys at law and IP professionals. This size of team not only allows Prinz & Biotechnology Partner to provide the level of resources their clients need to Medicinal Products manage their regular work but also the flexibility to react to any Trademarks increases in the volume of work clients require during the busiest Unfair Competition Law times. Design law and design Prinz & Partner’s patent attorneys are all members of the German protection Patent Bar Association as well as being authorised to represent Domains clients before the European Patent Office and the Office for Seizure of Infringing Goods Harmonization in the Internal Market in Alicante, Spain. Copyright and Software The firm’s attorneys are also qualified to manage trademark and design portfolios and provide advice on all IP-related matters.

A special focus of the firm is litigation relating to all areas of patent, trademark, domain, competition, and copyright law. OFFICES The firm is increasingly involved in combatting product piracy and trademark infringement at trade fairs and, when required, BERLIN organising border seizures for their clients. MUNICH Prinz & Partner is the German member of AIPEX, a European HAMBURG alliance of independent IP law firms, with round about 100 professionals. The firm regularly holds seminars and workshops on current IP topics.

CONTACTS

Dr. Werner Sulzbach: [email protected] Dr. Bernhard Pfleiderer: [email protected] Thomas Kitzhofer: [email protected] Dr. Alexander González: [email protected] Jochen Sties: [email protected] Ute Feldmann: [email protected]

280 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

55 Metcalfe Street Suite 900 1000 De La Gauchetière Street West PO Box 2999 Station D Suite 3300 Ottawa ON K1P 5Y6 Montreal QC H3B 4W5 Canada Canada Phone: 613-232-2486 Phone: 514-954-1500 Fax: 613-232-8440 Fax: 514-954-1396 www.smart-biggar.ca

Steven Garland Mark Evans François Guay John Knox Alistair Simpson BUSINESS POSITIONING

Patents Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh is Canada’s largest firm Patent industry specializations include: life practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology sciences, pharmaceutical, chemical, electrical/ law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and electronic, industrial/mechanical, software, Calgary. Since our inception over a century ago, we have Internet and information technology sectors. been dedicated to one purpose: delivering unparalleled IP. Our dedication to providing the best IP service, advice and solutions permeates everything we do and is why the world’s Trademarks most innovative and sophisticated businesses look to us to Preparing, filing and prosecuting trademark protect, exploit and defend their intellectual property rights. applications in Canada and throughout the world. We provide our clients with a combined depth of legal experience and technical expertise matched by no other firm Copyright & Media in the country. As a result, we are able to provide and leverage Acquisition and registration of copyright. the right skills, knowledge, resources and solutions — all to our clients’ competitive advantage. Virtually every member Industrial Designs of our firm has an engineering or scientific background, and dozens of our practitioners also have post-graduate degrees in Protecting aesthetic features of useful articles their respective areas of practice. This, combined with business through industrial design registrations. know-how, legal talent and expertise, is the hallmark of our practice. Licensing & IP Transactions Leveraging value of IP assets through Our technical depth and understanding of the law mean that technology transfer and licensing agreements. we can very efficiently understand, analyze and articulate the subtleties of our clients’ innovations and rights with confidence. IP Management & Strategic Counselling Whether we are drafting a patent application for a cutting-edge Advising and counseling clients on the electronic advancement, negotiating a complex biotechnology- based multinational licence agreement, or successfully arguing development and management of their IP for pharmaceutical trade dress protection before the Supreme portfolios. Court of Canada, our analytical training and depth of experience in all technical areas enable us to identify and exploit otherwise Litigation unknown competitive opportunities to obtain the best possible Full IP litigation services in both the Federal Court IP protection. and superior courts of Canada.

OFFICES

OTTAWA TORONTO MONTREAL VANCOUVER CALGARY

CONTACTS Steven Garland, Partner: [email protected] John Knox, Partner: [email protected] Mark Evans, Partner: [email protected] Alistair Simpson, Partner: [email protected] François Guay, Partner: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 281 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

62, avenue des Champs-Elysées 75008 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 56 59 60 80 Fax: +33 (0)1 56 59 60 88 www.promark.fr

Alain Berthet Bénédicte Elisabeth Berthet Sarah Husslein Aline Mugard Clotilde Biron Devevey

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Intellectual Property Law Founded in 1991, Promark is an European boutique law firm of six Litigation and prosecution avocats, including three partners, and dedicated only to intellectual property. Trademarks Copyright Promark advise clients in all aspects of intellectual property law from pre-filing searches to defending client’s rights before the civil and Registered Designs criminal courts. Domain names With a strong expertise in Community trademarks and designs all Searching and clearance our lawyers may also prosecute and litigate before the OHIM and Patent litigations the European courts in Luxembourg. Trade secret Our lawyers stay abreast of the latest developments in the field of Licensing intellectual property through membership of various national and Customs procedures international IP organisations such as APRAM, ECTA, INTA, AIPPI Advertising and marketing law and PTMG. Internet Law Among our range of services we also assess the value of IP rights, manage customs procedures, draft all kinds of agreements and Unfair competition law contracts. Franchising law Our clients are active in all types of industries and notably food and Pharmaceutical Law beverages, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, media, software, electronic devices, chemistry, automobile and trucks, apparels, luxury… We always try to be reactive and to offer tailored solutions to our clients needs. Each of PROMARK’s clients is unique, each case requires a specific approach. PROMARK’s lawyers are well versed in their clients’ sectors of business, with an intimate understanding of their expectations and their constraints, particularly budgetary ones. PROMARK’s success in building long term client relationships is both evidence of a pragmatic and efficient approach and also one of its greatest rewards.

CONTACTS

Alain Berthet: [email protected] Bénédicte Devevey: [email protected] Elisabeth Berthet: [email protected]

282 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

“Our lawyers are both counselor-prosecutors and litigators”

INTERVIEW WITH Alain Berthet Partner D.R. What distinguishes your firm from tion through to contentious enfor- sons, we shouldn’t name clients, but others? cement actions. Moreover, in some we’ve represented French industry Each Promark lawyer practices sectors we also possess technical leaders in all industries. The value in both France and the European domain expertise. For instance, our that we add is recognized by clients Union, and is qualified and expe- patent partner Elisabeth Berthet is from around the world: for instance, rienced not only in strategic coun- also a doctor of pharmacy, and this we’ve registered CTM in the name seling and prosecution work but also domain expertise recently helped of Indian, Jordanian, Russian, Tuni- in contentious enforcement actions. us defeat a request for a preliminary sian, Vietnamese, Brazilian, Cana- When our clients file design and tra- injunction in France, even though a dian, Chilean, and Taiwanese firms. demark applications, we can iden- similar injunction had been entered Since the implementation of tify the best strategy by relying on in several other countries. the CTM system in 1996, we’ve our litigation experience in defen- acquired a strong knowledge of ding attacks and enforcing rights. How do you organize your client the OHIM and Luxembourg court And when our clients face litigation, management and relationships? procedures. Every year since 2010, we can defend their portfolios more Each client has a dedicated Promark Promark has ranked among the top efficiently thanks to our deep fami- team consisting of a partner, an asso- 5 French filers of Community tra- liarity with their registration strate- ciate and a paralegal. This single demarks. Clearly, we’re involved in gies. This complementary approach team of professionals manages all more Community trademarks and is very useful in all our matters. issues, offering continuity and res- designs than most other French ponsiveness throughout the entire firms. It’s important to distinguish here relationship. And whenever it’s Two examples of recent Promark between two kinds of IP firm. useful, a client’s Promark team can successes are at the OHIM. We Most firms consist of some lawyers call upon any other Promark lawyer successfully opposed the trademark who are IP counselor-prosecutors, and benefit from the full range of PINK in classes 38 and 41 in a CTM and others who are litigators. Rare Promark’s collective experience and application for PINKTROTTERS, are the firms like Promark where expertise. and the trademark AQUA ROUGE the same lawyers are both counse- Our attorneys are well supported by in class 3 in a CTM application for lor-prosecutors and litigators. Pro- a strong back office of eight expe- ACQUAROSSA. mark was one of the first firms in rienced paralegals, which is impor- France to pursue this approach, and tant for an IP firm of our size. How do you do keep current with it remains one of the few French IP From a financial standpoint, it’s the latest developments in IP? firms able to accompany clients in important to highlight Promark’s We invest in staying current. Spe- this manner. cost-management strategy: we like cifically, we invest in training, and to begin all matters with a cost esti- in access to the most robust IP Is your expertise industry-fo- mate and a fee agreement. Billing databases. We also publish articles cused? surprises just aren’t possible that and give lectures on our specialty. Almost every sector is represented way, even on less-predictable liti- For instance, for 13 of the last 14 in the Promark client portfolio: gation matters. Everybody benefits years I’ve given lectures in trademark technology, media, sports equip- from this approach. law at the Paris-Panthéon Univer- ment, cosmetics, and especially the sity. In addition, Elisabeth Berthet pharmaceutical and food industries. Could you tell us more about your collaborates as the French expert Moreover, in all of these sectors, we track record? for GenericsWeb, the international deeply understand the business The Promark litigation depart- database on patent litigation in the activities of our clients, thanks to ment has a positive record of suc- pharmaceutical field. Knowing and the way we accompany them from cess, acting for both claimants and understanding the most current law strategic counselling and prosecu- defendants. For confidentiality rea- is one of the keys to our success.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 283 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Corso dei Tintori, 25 50122 Florence Italy Phone: +39 055 263 381 Fax: +39 055 263 3800 [email protected] www.siblegal.com

Pier Luigi Gabriele Carloalberto Roncaglia Lazzeretti Giovannetti

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Intellectual property and Studio Legale SIB has been established by a group of attorneys long patents specialized in the field of intellectual property. Data protection With offices in Florence, Milan and Rome, and a liaison office in New Unfair competition York, Studio Legale SIB provides judicial and extra-judicial assistance Trademarks in Italy and the European Community and legal advice to Italian and foreign clients, including some of the world’s most prestigious Fashion Law companies in the fields of luxury goods, fashion, entertainment, information technology and pharmaceuticals. Studio Legale SIB works in the fields of intellectual and industrial property and unfair competition. We handle all matters relating to OFFICES trademarks and distinctive signs, domain names, denominations of origin, geographical indications, patents, designs and models, FLORENCE copyright, fashion law, antitrust law and privacy & data protection . MILAN In particular, Studio Legale SIB provides extra-judicial and judicial ROME assistance, in both civil and criminal cases, as well as the drafting of agreements regarding intellectual property rights. NEW YORK We handle all aspects of anti-counterfeiting, including liaising with the Police and Customs authorities, the coordination of experts and investigators, the drafting of briefs during preliminary investigations and the filing briefs of intervention as aggrieved parties in criminal proceedings. Thanks to our equal expertise in civil and criminal matters as well as to perfect fluency in the most important foreign languages, Studio Legale SIB is able to offer highly personalized assistance in intellectual property law, conciliating the peculiarities of each single case with the client’s overall protection and budget concerns.

CONTACTS

Pier Luigi Roncaglia: [email protected] Gabriele Lazzeretti: [email protected] Carloalberto Giovannetti: [email protected]

284 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

“China and Internet are certainly the next challenges”

INTERVIEW WITH Pier Luigi Roncaglia Managing partner D.R.

What is your firm’s DNA ? Why is your firm headquartered in great results in these areas, but we Studio Legale Sib is an Italian IP Florence? are certainly still at the beginning of boutique law firm, exclusively Indeed, usually the big IP firms are the project. We want to make sure dedicated to contentious and tran- headquartered in Milan or Rome, that we are able to offer the same sactional work in the industrial but I’m originally from Florence, so quality of services in China as what and intellectual property field. The I was able to attract talent to the city. we offer in Italy, before make our firm was born inside one of the The brain of our firm is certainly in presence in China official. This is oldest prosecution firms in Italy, Florence, but we also have satellite challenging, but we are very happy called Società Italiana Brevetti. offices in Milan and Rome, and to have the chance to develop across After having been its litigation litigate a lot of cases both in Rome these frontiers. branch since the 90’s, in 2009 we and Milan, so in terms of costs and felt pressure in the market decided control of every day court work, it Is there a recent legal battle you to launch the boutique. We started is certainly an advantage to have won, or a significant case you with a strong client base but the offices in both of the cities. We also would like to comment on? decision of going independent have an office in New York, which is We recently won the appeal in the helped us acquire new clients. more convenient for us in order to Italian portion of the long-standing Today we are key partners of pres- visit our U.S. clients. and worldwide case between Gucci tigious names in the fashion and and Guess. Gucci claimed, inter alia, luxury industries. We are also very What are the next IP challenges? that Guess willfully put in place a active in the IT and digital business, I would say China and Internet are broad parasitic activity of imitation representing the IT and entertain- certainly the next challenges, at least of its products and distinctive signs ment giants. We are very strong in for our firm. in order to take free advantage of trademark law. Despite the down- China has become one of the main Gucci’s worldwide reputation. We turn we constantly grew in terms markets for our luxury clients, and represent Gucci in Italy, one of the of work volume, which allowed us they need our assistance to enforce main “battlefields” of this multi-ju- to invest in human resources. In their rights there, to educate the risdiction case. After an unfavorable 2013 we acquired a new partner, public on how to identify genuine judgment against Gucci in the first Francesco Rossi, from one of the products from counterfeits, and to instance, we succeeded in obtaining leading Italian IP firms. We have keep online platforms clean. All this an important statement of law prin- recently extended our expertise, work is very important and requires ciple, in which the Court of Appeals focusing on privacy and data pro- a lot of effort from our side. held Guess liable for unfair compe- tection law. Our specialty is a tai- Actually, two years ago in China tition through “parasitism.” This is lor-made approach to every kind of we started some very important one of the very few decisions about case and our equal expertise in both enforcement programs (both on parasitic unfair competition that the civil and criminal enforcement. and offline) on behalf of one of our Court of Milan has given in the last Foreign clients appreciate our out of most important clients in the luxury 30 years and is very important to court enforcement activity, which business, and one of our associates, Italian law market. We will see how is a very consolidated practice in the Riccardo Facchin, is based in Bei- this case will now be decided by the firm. jing. So far, we have achieved some Supreme Court.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 285 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

Via Viotti, 9 10121 Turin Italy Phone: +39 011 561 1320 Fax: +39 011 562 2102 [email protected] www.studiotorta.com

Luigi Franzolin Cristina Baldini Francesca Boggio Elisa Tricerri

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Patents WE ARE IN THE FUTURE OF YOUR IDEAS Drafting, filing and prosecution of patent Founded by Vincenzo and Secondo Torta in 1879 when applications worldwide Edison invented the electric light bulb lamp, Studio Torta Designs and utility models is one of the oldest and most prestigious companies Validity and freedom-to-operate opinions specialized in intellectual property with its headquarter Patent searches in Italy. Patent surveillance The Torta firm of the 21st century is organized asa Patent enforcement large partnership corporation where new generations of motivated IP professionals are entrusted to continue Trademarks the long and successful history towards new important Availability searches and opinions achievements. Filing and prosecution of trademarks worldwide A heterogeneous team of a 50 IP attorneys supported by a skilled staff of paralegals offers tailored IP strategies Trademark enforcement to companies of any size and individuals through a wide Trademark surveillance variety of IP services. Other services Studio Torta provides comprehensive services related to Software protection and enforcement IP matters from the filing up to the enforcement of IP Copyright protection and enforcement rights. Domain names protection and Studio Torta supports its clients in English, French, enforcement German, Spanish and Japanese. Contracts Evaluation of IP rights Several Studio Torta professionals are members of International patent and trademark Associations, including Education and Training INTA, AIPPI, FICPI, LES, UNION, ECTA, MARQUES, PTMG.

OFFICES

CONTACTS

Luigi Franzolin: [email protected] Francesca Boggio: [email protected] Cristina Baldini: [email protected] Elisa Tricerri: [email protected]

286 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms

“Our keyword is responsiveness: clients need solutions now, on a global basis, and this is what we strive to provide” INTERVIEW WITH Luigi Franzolin Partner D.R.

As one of the oldest IP firms and build informed positions on new tax exemption on income deriving in Italy and Europe, how has legal topics, for the benefit of our from intangible assets) that the Ita- your firm managed to inno- clients. lian Government introduced to fos- vate constantly since 1879? Management is innovation-driven. ter industry’s efforts in innovation. “Move with times” is our definition One of the firm directors is in charge Recently, we also experienced an of the term “innovate”. Innova- of what we call “R&D projects”, i.e. increase in enforcement matters. One tion is essential nowadays to satisfy new projects for streamlining internal of the main concerns for our clients, clients’ requests and needs, which procedures, increasing automation especially when it comes to trade- are influenced by the fast changes in and maximizing overall efficiency, marks, is the enforcement of their the IP landscape brought about by with an aim to provide clients with rights on the web and the fight against the digital world, globalization and good quality at competitive costs. counterfeiting. Thanks to a side-by- the increasing number of IP tools side collaboration with the competent for the protection and the enfor- How did it go for your firm last authorities (Guardia di Finanza cements of IP rights worldwide. year, and what is the next step? and Customs), we obtained In our opinion, innovating invol- Last year was exceptionally good. excellent results for our clients. ves three complementary spheres We consolidated our patent and of actions, namely in the techni- trademark work with a very impor- How do you accompany your clients cal, legal and management areas. tant new Italian client acquired at everywhere in the world while Our firm’s choices are concrete evi- the end of 2014, and succeeded in staying in line with the IP trends? dence of our efforts to innovate. gaining further important domes- A paramount factor for IP pro- On the technical side, one tic and overseas clients that will tection is being involved in the of our key features is a very keep us very gladly busy this year clients’ projects at each stage of the well-balanced mix of junior and in the years to come. Serving product life, from design to expan- and senior attorneys collabora- our overseas clients as a leading sion on international markets. ting as a team. Hence, our clients European IP firm is our next goal. Being knowledgeable about issues benefit from both our younger Selecting an Italy-based firm for and trends in the different jurisdic- professionals’ knowledge of new handling European IP work is not tions is indispensable to think ahead technologies and our longstanding IP always an obvious choice for Ameri- and develop the appropriate filing, experience and expertise, combined can or Asian clients, but experience prosecution, surveillance and enfor- to provide prompt and clear answers. shows that we are able to make cement strategies with the client. Working groups within the firm are international clients happy with Establishing a client-specific network focused on specific IP areas (ranging, our quality and competitive rates. of counsels in the countries of interest e.g., from UPC to web enforcement) to the client is the best choice to ensure and professionals in each group attend What are the current trends that any issue in a given country is conferences and seminars on the issue in the Italian IP market? handled efficiently by an attorney at hand. The knowledge and expe- Recent statistics show a significant who is familiar with the client’s pro- rience acquired by each member is pri- increase in patent filings by Italian ducts or services, and has appro- marily shared with the other members companies after a period of stagna- priate background and experience. of the group for discussion, then with tion. Besides a new optimism due Our key-word is responsive- the remaining colleagues in a mon- to improved economy fundamen- ness: clients need solutions thly meeting, called an “educational tals in the country, an important now, on a global basis, and this lunch”. In such a way, our professio- incentive to boost IP protection is what we strive to provide. nals stay updated, share experience is the so called “Patent Box” (i.e.

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 287 Law Firms Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players

109, boulevard Haussmann 75008 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 43 12 50 60 Fax: +33 (0)1 43 12 50 65

www.perrichon-avocats.fr

Valérie Perrichon Sophie Texier- Julie Bianconi Neyrat

BUSINESS POSITIONING

Trademarks The firm Valérie Perrichon, whose activity is entirely devoted to Designs and models intellectual property, is specialized in Trademark law, designs, company names, trade names, domain names, appellations of Corporate names, trade origin, copyrights, customs, infringement and unfair competition names actions. Domain names The firm assists clients in all stages of life of their intellectual property Appellations of origin rights, guides and assits them for their protection, promotion and Copyright defense, both in France and abroad by providing innovative and Internet law customized solutions. Unfair competition The firm that represents clients before administrative and judicial authorities, is involved in many industries such as fashion and fashion accessories, jewelry, new technologies, tourism and entertainment, consumer goods, food industry, finance, insurance, education and training... Valérie Perrichon, exercizing for almost twenty-five years, offers her clients a specialized and personalized expertise and a cross offer in council and litigation within the same structure. The firm, attentive to the needs and expectations of its clients, guarantees each of them, whether it be SMEs or large French and international groups, reactivity, creativity, dynamism and tailored advice. Valérie Perrichon relies on a network of foreign counsels and lawyers of high quality, built over the years.

CONTACTS

Valérie Perrichon, Founding partner: [email protected] Sophie Texier-Neyrat, Legal Counsel: [email protected] Julie Bianconi, Paralegal & Office Manager: [email protected]

288 INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE Innovation-Technology & Intellectual Property Key Players Law Firms 1, rue Volney 75002 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 47 03 62 62 Fax: +33 (0)1 47 03 62 69 www.veron.com

Pierre Véron Isabelle Romet Thomas Bouvet Sabine Agé Amandine Métier Of Counsel Partner Partner Partner Partner

Eddy Prothière Isabelle Bertaux Caroline Levesque Marta Mendes Moreira Dora Talvard Attorney-at-law Attorney-at-law Attorney-at-law Attorney-at-law Attorney-at-law

Agathe Caillé Florence Jacquand Céline Ruste François Perrin Chantal Nouvellet Attorney-at-law Attorney-at-law Economic litigation Scientific consultant Documentation and Research consultant

Peggy Decock-Caveng Catherine Strophair Sophie Vaugon Paul Caughey Legal translator Legal translator Legal translator Graphic Designer BUSINESS POSITIONING

100 % patent litigation Véron & Associés assists French and foreign companies in the prevention and resolution of disputes involving patents, trade secrets and plant breeders’ rights. Litigation, strategic advice, negotiation, arbitration OTHER OFFICE and mediation are all facets of our practice. Thanks to our multidisciplinary team, consisting of 29 people including LYON 12 attorneys-at-law, an economic litigation consultant and a professor 3, cours Charlemagne of physics and chemistry, we are able to simultaneously address the 69002 Lyon legal, financial and technical aspects of a case, in all sectors of industry. FRANCE With the help of our graphic designer, we create all types of visual aids in support of our demonstrations. Phone: +33 (0)4 72 69 39 39 Fax: +33 (0)4 72 69 39 49 International strategies are developed in coordination with an open network of foreign colleagues. We actively participate in the construction CONTACTS of the Unified Patent Court and we help our clients get prepared. Pierre Véron: [email protected] Sabine Agé: [email protected] Isabelle Romet: [email protected] Amandine Métier: [email protected] Thomas Bouvet: [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL REPORT & DIRECTORY SERIES 2016 I LEADERS LEAGUE 289 GIVE AN INTERNATIONAL TURNING POINT TO YOUR CAREER

NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, WE BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A VARIETY OF COMPELLING REASONS TO GET AN LLM DEGREE. CHECK OUT OUR BRAND NEW WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION !

Address: 15, avenue de la Grande Armée Email: [email protected] a company of 75116 Paris France Web Site: www.findyourllm.com Phone Number: + 33 1 45 02 25 45 36 M&A AND GROWTH FINANCING TRANSACTIONS LED IN 2015 CONFIRMED LEADERSHIP IN TECHNOLOGY

Leading Technology, Media and Telecom franchise in Europe with more than 60 professionals

Capital reorganization of

(NYSE Alternext : ALMDG) Acquired by Sale of the Founders’ Stake to Secondary MBO LBO around

Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed and the Management Team April 2016 December 2015 January 2015 December 2015 October 2015 Advisor to the Sellers Sole Advisor to the Buyer Sole Advisor to the Sellers Sole Advisor to the Buyer Sole Financial Advisor

Sold Private Placement Acquired by Private Placement Acquired by to

$ 17 100 000 Undisclosed Undisclosed € 10 000 000 Undisclosed October 2015 October 2015 September 2015 July 2015 June 2015 Sole Placement Agent Sole Advisor to the Sellers Sole Advisor to the Seller Sole Manager Advisor to the Sellers

57% acquired by Investment in Acquired by Private Placement Private Placement Growth Financing € 25 000 000 INVUS Undisclosed Undisclosed $ 23 000 000 (Sole Investor) June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 February 2015 February 2015 Sole Advisor to the Sellers Sole Financial Advisor Sole Advisor to the Buyer Sole Placement Agent Sole Manager

Bryan, Garnier & Co is an international growth Bryan, Garnier & Co provides equity research, Bryan, Garnier & Co is a fully registered broker focused independent investment bank with sales & trading, private and public capital dealer authorized by the FCA in Europe, FINRA operations in London, Paris, Munich, Geneva, raising and M&A services to growth companies in the USA and is a member of the LSE and New York and New Delhi. and their investors. Euronext.

For more information, please contact Anna Emelianenko : [email protected] www.bryangarnier.com 16 TH JUNE 2016 9TH EDITION • NEW YORK

NEW YORK, CROWNE PLAZA TIMES SQUARE

INTERNATIONAL GENERAL ONE-TO-ONE ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES COUNSEL AWARDS MEETINGS LAW FIRM AWARDS

• 14 panels of interactive round tables • Seated lunch • Schedule your business meetings • Prestigious gala dinner • Intellectual property / • Rewards the most outstanding Legal, • Meet who matters most to you • Key practices in the spotlight: information technology Tax and IP Departments Corporate and IP

D. FEDER M. SCHECTER B. SCHELKOPF J. BLACK Director of Patents Chief Patent Counsel Chief IP Counsel Head of IP Portfolio Management IBM ABB Merial Boeing

J. CONKLIN T. COLLINS M. SCANLAN M. MALINA Chief IP Counsel IP Director Director of litigation Chief Patent Counsel Coty Bombardier T-Mobile Citigroup

MEET LEADING IP FIRMS Kilpatrick, Alston & Bird, Fitzpatrick, Fross Zelnick, Knobbe MEET LEADING CORPORATE IP LEADERS Martens, Cooley, Sterne Kessler, Kenyon & Kenyon, Smart & Paypal, Boeing, ABB, Hasbro, IBM Corporation, Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh, Dimock Stratton, TMI Associates, Citigroup, Canon, Schneider Electric, LVMH, Sugimura, Marval O’Farrell & Mairal, CCPIT, Carey, Dennemeyer, Boehringer Ingelheim, T-Mobile, Reckitt Benckiser, Barreda Moller, Olivares, D Young & Co, Cabinet Plasseraud, Cemex, Canam Steel, Bombardier Aerospace, Nokia, Jacobacci & Partners, Hoffmann Eitle, Herrero & Asociados... Verizon, Coty, Merial, Vringo, Aramark...

www.ilasummit.com INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: Olivier Wallois - [email protected] - +33 (0)1 45 02 25 44