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Intellectual property
Our intellectual property (IP) group helps drive your business growth by protecting and leveraging your ideas and innovations, your brand and your creative works. With more than 390 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 IP law firms as recognised by legal directories.
We advise companies of all sizes and in virtually all industries across the lifecycle of IP assets, from development to commercialisation 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 US and European courts, the International Trade Commission and other forums throughout the world and handle the IP and technology law aspects of major corporate and commercial transactions.
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 products and processes. With our worldwide footprint and broad knowledge, we stand ready to address your IP issues wherever they arise.
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