OUR 2026 SPONSORS & PARTNERS
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Platinum Partners
Bonabry
Website: www.bonabry.de
Bonabry is a team of experienced and specialized patent and IP litigators united in the belief that the most excellent solutions for our clients require independent and inventive thinking supported by a working environment that implements the ideas of tomorrow. The team is composed of five partners (Dr Alexander Harguth, Carl-Alexander Dinges, Daniel Hoppe, Dr Jan Peter Heidenreich and Konstantin Schallmoser), two counsels (Christian Holtz and Dr Sarah Salaschek) and two associates (Alice Pasch and Isabel Werner). The new offices are based in Hamburg, Munich, and Paris.
Bonabry represents its clients in all areas of IP litigation and licensing. Their services include patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, designs, and related fields such as competition law and pharma regulatory law. The key industries include life science and pharma, telecommunication and network technology, automotive, industrial engineering, semiconductors, electronics and software, cosmetic and consumer goods as well as luxury goods and fashion.
Cozen O'Connor
Website: www.cozen.com
Founded in 1970, Cozen O’Connor has over 925 attorneys across 32 cities in North America and Europe. As a full-service firm, we offer award-winning intellectual property, litigation, business law, and government relations practices, with experience across all economic sectors. The 50-lawyer IP group advises on all patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and unfair competition matters, from clearance and procurement to litigation. In today’s competitive and digital economy, protecting trade secrets is more challenging than ever due to increased employee mobility, data theft, and a shifting legal landscape. Cozen O’Connor’s multidisciplinary team helps businesses navigate these complexities, enforce rights across jurisdictions, and litigate high-stakes trade secret and unfair competition cases nationwide.
Fish & Richardson
Website: www.fr.com/industries/life-sciences
Fish & Richardson has represented pioneering life science innovators from our earliest days. We work closely with life sciences companies to help them achieve their strategic IP goals through acquisition, partnering, licensing, financing, and enforcement. We do this by bringing a unique holistic approach to our clients’ IP matters, fostered by the collaboration between our patent prosecution, litigation, and regulatory practices. We have helped our clients build valuable patent portfolios worth billions of dollars, score big victories at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and win bet-the-company cases in court. When life sciences clients come to Fish to build an IP strategy, they know that we will leave no stone unturned when crafting creative and comprehensive solutions to maximize the value of their IP.
Goodwin
Website: www.goodwinlaw.com
Goodwin builds authentic, long-term relationships with many of the world’s most innovative investors, entrepreneurs, and disruptors across life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology, and financial industries. Our deep industry knowledge, paired with expertise in complex transactions, high-stakes litigation, and regulatory advisory, positions us as a trusted partner to clients shaping the future. Our Women’s Health + Wellness team has a longstanding record of representing companies leading this fast-growing sector. We have worked side-by-side with clients to overcome challenges that have historically slowed industry growth — from misunderstood or “taboo” health issues, to persistent underfunding, and perceptions that women’s health is risky. Today, our clients are driving critical innovation and investment, and we are proud to support them in expanding access to care and transforming the industry.
To learn more about our global law firm, visit www.goodwinlaw.com.
Marks & Clerk
Website: www.marks-clerk.com
Marks & Clerk is an international law firm specialising in intellectual property (IP) law. With a vast network of over 650 professionals across the world, including a qualified team of experienced patent and trademark associates, the firm offers comprehensive technical expertise covering all aspects of intellectual property matters, such as patents, trademarks, designs and copyright. Its services encompass worldwide protection, portfolio management, strategic advice, commercial guidance, licensing, enforcement, clearance and searches, validity and infringement opinions, due diligence and litigation. Operating through a network of offices in Canada, Europe and Asia, Marks & Clerk consistently delivers high-quality, seamless and cost-effective services to clients both locally and globally.
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Website: www.pbwt.com
Patterson Belknap is a New York based firm of approximately 200 lawyers. Our practice is global, and our dedication to our people and to our clients makes us the choice of many admired institutions and attracts exceptional talent to our firm.
Sterne Kessler
Website: www.sternekessler.com
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is a full-service intellectual property law firm that provides innovative solutions tailored to your business and industry. Since our founding in 1978, we have grown to become one of the largest IP specialty law firms in the United States. We collaborate across the full spectrum of IP to deliver real results for our clients—from patent and trademark prosecution, to patent litigation in federal district and appellate courts, strategic IP counseling, due diligence, and post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Our team includes attorneys, patent agents, and technical specialists with 100+ advanced degrees, including 60+ Ph.D.s,, in science and engineering disciplines. We work with the world’s leading innovators and brands, ranging from individual inventors and startups to renowned universities and Fortune 500 companies.
We are proud to be one of the most highly regarded IP specialty law firms, and we have cultivated an environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating. And we’re honored that our attorneys and staff have voted Sterne Kessler as a Washington Post “Top Workplace” for 10 years running.
Gold Partner
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP
Website: www.axinn.com
Axinn combines the skills, experience and dedication of the world's largest firms with the focus, responsiveness, efficiency and attention to client needs of the best boutiques. The firm was established in the late 1990s by lawyers from premier Wall Street firms with a common vision: provide the highest level of service and strategic acumen in antitrust, intellectual property and high-stakes litigation. Axinn's lawyers have served as lead or co-lead counsel on nearly half a trillion dollars in transactions and, in the last 10 years alone, have handled more than 300 litigations.
Barnes and Thornburg LLP
Website: btlaw.com
Barnes & Thornburg’s Intellectual Property Department, with more than 130 attorneys and
professionals is one of the largest intellectual property practice groups found in a full-service law firm. Our practice covers a broad spectrum of services, including strategic IP portfolio services, prosecuting and litigating patents, trademarks and copyrights, enforcement of patents and trademarks, and defense of IP enforcement actions. Our IP practice advises and helps a diverse and multinational roster of clients. From electrical and mechanical engineering to chemistry and microbiology to computer technology and business methods – our attorneys’ background and experience in several technical disciplines position us to meet a variety of sophisticated business and inventorship needs.
Life Sciences
Barnes & Thornburg provides a wide range of interdisciplinary legal services to organizations engaged in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical and laboratory devices, health services, and bioinformatics. Most of the lawyers in our biotech practice have educational and practical research experience pertinent to the biotechnology industry and many hold advanced degrees in organic chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, genetics, immunology, and microbiology. We understand chemistry, biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device technologies. In addition, our intellectual property practice includes professionals with advanced degrees in molecular biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, biology, pharmacology, immunology, microbiology, biotechnology, bioengineering, physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, and civil engineering.
Our team represents a wide array of clients in this industry from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Some of our representative clients include 3M Company, DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, Johnson & Johnson, H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Co., and Hillenbrand.
Gowling WLG
Website: gowlingwlg.com/en/services/ip-litigation-strategy
From complex patent and trade secret litigation in life sciences and technology to cross-border disputes before national courts and the Unified Patent Court (UPC), our lawyers combine deep sector insight with the global reach needed to win in high-stakes matters.
We understand the science and the strategy behind innovation. Our team helps clients safeguard breakthrough biologics, defend cutting-edge therapies, and protect the algorithms and data powering the next wave of AI-driven discovery.
With more than 1,500 legal professionals worldwide, Gowling WLG is trusted by the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, and technology innovators to protect what drives discovery.
We don’t just defend IP - we use it to drive innovation forward and ensure you win and retain a competitive advantage.
Groombridge Wu
Website: www.groombridgewu.com
Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP is a patent litigation firm. We try cases in court, in arbitrations, in the International Trade Commission, and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and we argue appeals before the Federal Circuit. We are nationally recognized thought leaders on patent issues, as well as on issues of social justice. And we are teachers, training the next generation of patent litigators. We have a long track record of achieving successful outcomes for our clients both in the courtroom and in the boardroom.
Maiwald Intellectual Property
Website: www.maiwald.eu/en
As one of Germany’s largest and best-known firms in the field of intellectual property (IP), providing optimal services to our clients is of paramount importance to us. Our team comprising about 250 people in Munich and Düsseldorf works closely with each other and with foreign associates, always with an eye to the client’s particular needs, regardless of the particular industry or type of company, whether start-up, medium-sized firm or large corporation, in Germany and worldwide. We at Maiwald will do everything to ensure that all your IP matters are handled with competence and commitment.
You can rely on Maiwald’s wide-ranging expertise. We provide a full range of services covering all aspects of IP law. Our highly qualified patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law unite all of the most important skills one would expect of an interdisciplinary team: sound legal knowledge, business proficiency and a broad range of technical and scientific know-how. And, it goes without saying, absolute professionalism, efficiency and close attention to the needs of each individual client. So you may be assured of receiving the best possible advice on all IP-related issues based on our proven competence and industry knowledge.
Norton Rose Fulbright
Website: www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en
We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 3,000 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.
Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; consumer markets; transport; technology; and life sciences and healthcare. Through our global risk advisory group, we leverage our industry experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.
Pinsent Masons
Website: www.pinsentmasons.com
Pinsent Masons international Life Sciences practice is one of the best in Europe.
Their team, comprising more than 100 sector specialists, many of whom are leading individuals in their field with relevant scientific degrees (some to Ph.D.) and experience, drawn from industry, is dedicated to helping their clients continue to develop cutting-edge strategies that use the law as a business enabler to positively impact their bottom line.
The team acts for businesses globally on complex market shifting transactions; cutting edge R&D collaboration; partnering and licensing deals; the most high profile, business-critical patent and regulatory litigations; and hugely impactful anti-trust investigations and litigations.
Comprising some of the world’s leading life sciences experts, the team works with senior management and in-house legal teams to navigate complex regulatory environments, develop effective risk management strategies, and spot and convert opportunities.
Potter Clarkson
Website: www.potterclarkson.com
Leading European intellectual property law firm, Potter Clarkson helps companies, organisations, and individuals across all sectors of business to understand, create, protect, and defend the commercial value of their innovations anywhere in the world. Its 200-strong specialist team of patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys, litigators, and licensing specialists, operate from dedicated offices in the UK, Sweden, and Denmark.
Potter Clarkson is widely recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, particularly renowned for its expertise in life sciences disputes. The firm’s contentious practice regularly handles high-profile litigation across major jurisdictions worldwide, including proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) and, more recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC). With multiple actions currently underway, Potter Clarkson is actively leveraging the EPO’s existing procedures to obtain Unitary Patents and enforce patent rights across Europe through the UPC.Potter Clarkson is widely recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, particularly renowned for its expertise in life sciences disputes. The firm’s contentious practice regularly handles high-profile litigation across major jurisdictions worldwide, including proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) and, more recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC). With multiple actions currently underway, Potter Clarkson is actively leveraging the EPO’s existing procedures to obtain Unitary Patents and enforce patent rights across Europe through the UPC.
Potter Clarkson is widely recognised as one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms, particularly renowned for its expertise in life sciences disputes. The firm’s contentious practice regularly handles high-profile litigation across major jurisdictions worldwide, including proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) and, more recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC). With multiple actions currently underway, Potter Clarkson is actively leveraging the EPO’s existing procedures to obtain Unitary Patents and enforce patent rights across Europe through the UPC.
Reddie & Grose
Website: www.reddie.co.uk
Reddie and Grose is a European IP firm with offices in London, Munich and Cambridge. Our life sciences team is made up of specialist hubs that allow us to offer tailored services across the entire IP spectrum. This blend of specialism and diversity is recognised as one of our key strengths.
Our biotech hub is based out of our Cambridge office and has decades of experience taking clients from university spin-off to IPOs, as well as being experts in obtaining plant variety protection. Our London team specialises in managing the global patent portfolios and supplementary protection certificate strategies of multi-national companies based in the UK and Europe. In Munich, the team focuses on contentious pharmaceutical cases, regularly representing clients in EP opposition proceedings and advising on European product launch and litigation strategies.
Combining all this knowledge ensures that are clients will always benefit from rounded, commercially aware, advice of the highest standard.
Solution Partners
Divergent Language Solutions
Website: divergentls.com
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Website: www.iprally.com
Purpose-built for patent professionals, IPRally’s Graph AI search engine leverages deep technical understanding to deliver the most accurate results possible, with speed and minimal effort. Trained specifically on patent data, it delivers highly accurate results with speed and minimal effort. AI assistants act as a personal co-pilot, helping IP and R&D teams move from initial question to final deliverable.
The Smart search feature enables multi-file, multi-format searches with minimal preparation – simply drag and drop any materials and let the AI synthesize them into a rich query. The upcoming IPRally Agent delivers accurate, human-verifiable search reports within minutes for faster patenting decisions.
Founded in Finland in 2018, IPRally has become one of the country's fastest-growing tech companies, trusted by industry leaders like Google, Dolby and RPX, as well as PTOs, law firms, and academic institutions.
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