Contacts:
Dr. Andreas von Falck, Dusseldorf
Burkhart Goebel, Madrid
Raymond A. Kurz, Washington, D.C.
Eric J. Lobenfeld, New York

Our Intellectual Property group helps drive your business growth by protecting and leveraging your ideas and innovations, your brand, and your creative works. With more than 400 lawyers, specialists, and paralegals worldwide, we combine a strategic, global outlook with local knowledge and a keen understanding of the technological and business factors involved in this area of law. Hogan Lovells is one of the few truly global intellectual property law firms consistently ranked in the top tier of legal directories like Chambers for the impact of our work on patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights. We advise companies of all sizes and in virtually all industries across the life cycle of IP assets, from development to commercialization and licensing through to maturity. We also have a deep understanding of and advise on a broad range of issues in closely related areas such as e-commerce, data protection, IT contracts, and all types of media work.

We handle IP litigation in U.S. and European courts, the International Trade Commission, and other forums throughout the world. Many of our lawyers have scientific backgrounds and hold advanced degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering, biochemistry, computer science, or physics, helping us to fully understand the scientific principles underlying patents and processes. Our lawyers regularly collaborate with colleagues in more than 40 offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in areas such as antitrust, corporate, tax, and government regulatory, including issues relating to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency. With our worldwide footprint and broad knowledge, we stand ready to address your intellectual property issues wherever they arise.

• Top-tier ranking for intellectual property globally, Chambers Global, 2010
• Recognized as a top patent firm, Intellectual Property Today, 2010
• Recognized as a top trademark firm, Intellectual Property Today, 2010
• Recommended for intellectual property in New York, Japan, Russia, and Poland, PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, 2009
• Identified as a leading firm for intellectual property in China, Germany, Hong Kong, and Japan; highly recommended in England, France, Italy, Russia, and the Netherlands; recommended in Vietnam; PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, 2009
• Leading IP practices in Colorado and Northern Virginia, Chambers USA, 2010
• Top-tier ranking for intellectual property in Europe, Chambers Global Europe-wide, 2010
• Top-tier practice in Germany (for both patent litigation and trademark) and Russia; recognized IP practice in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain, Chambers Europe, 2010
• Recognized IP practice in the UK, Chambers UK, 2010
• "IP Firm of the Year," Asian-Counsel magazine awards, 2009 & 2010
• Top-tier ranking for intellectual property in Asia, Chambers Global Asia-Pacific, 2010
• Top-tier ranking for intellectual property in China (Foreign Firms), Hong Kong, Japan (Foreign Firms), and Vietnam (Foreign Firms), Chambers Asia, 2010"
• European Trade Mark Firm of the Year," Managing Intellectual Property Global Awards, 2009 & 2010