Thanks to the Pfizer vaccine, Clifford Chance’s IP team are now the firm’s biggest stars
The UK’s authorisation of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is the latest development in a nine-month long mandate for Clifford Chance’s IP team.
Osborne Clarke fends off Stephenson Harwood in IP partner hire
Osborne Clarke is hiring a Bird & Bird partner, just months after Stephenson Harwood said it was hiring IP specialist Tim Harris. In September, Stephenson Harwood released a statement on the hire of Harris, in which IP partner Alexandra Pygall said: “Adding a lawyer of Tim’s calibre, with heavyweight patent litigation experience, strengthens our existing […]
Kirkland files second claim against Ocado in patent dispute
Kirkland & Ellis has filed a second claim against online supermarket and retailer Ocado on behalf of its client AutoStore. In October, AutoStore instructed the US firm as it alleged Ocado unlawfully sold its technology – with parallel claims filed in the UK and US. This claim relates to patents Ocado filed in 2014, with […]
Kirkland files multimillion-pound IP dispute against Ocado
Kirkland & Ellis has filed a claim on behalf of AutoStore against online grocery giant Ocado, alleging that it unlawfully sold its technology. AutoStore is suing Ocado in parallel claims in the UK and US over the alleged breach, filing papers at the High Court in London and the International Trade Commission in the US. […]
BCLP loses US data privacy trio to Greenberg
The chair of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP)’s global data privacy and security practice has joined Greenberg Traurig in the US, alongside a partner and an associate in his team. The duo includes Colorado-based partner David Zetoony, who will join Greenberg’s Denver office and Chicago-based partner Jena Valdetero, who will keep practising in the same […]
Two hires in a fortnight: Stephenson Harwood recruits IP partner
Stephenson Harwood has pulled of its second lateral hire in a matter of weeks, this time bringing in an IP partner from Bird & Bird. The firm has hired partner Tim Harris, who spent over 13 years at its UK rival. The lawyer, who joined Bird & Bird as an associate in 2007 and became […]
Supreme Court rules against A&O and Powell Gilbert client Huawei in landmark IP case
Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE have lost out in a major Supreme Court decision over the infringement of patents and how corporates enter into global licensing arrangements. Huawei was appealing against previous decisions made in favour of Conversant and Unwired Planet. In one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2019, Huawei and ZTE […]
Clydes makes double hire in cyber and IP
Pinsent Masons’ cyber head has left the firm, joining Clyde & Co alongside an associate from his team. Ian Birdsey joins Clydes in London after eight years at Pinsent Masons and was made partner in 2016. Seaton Gordon, who is an associate in Birdsey’s team, is also joining Clydes. Birdsey advises corporate, SME and insurer […]
Cooley’s IP practice hit with another loss
Another IP partner has left Cooley in the wake of a nine-lawyer exodus at the end of June. IP partner Charlie Winckworth, who joined Cooley at the start of last year from Hogan Lovells, has left the firm. He leaves one week after Cooley lost fellow IP partner Nick Bolter, four associates, a paralegal, and three […]
Morgan Lewis raids Cooley with nine-strong team hire
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has hired a team of nine from Cooley’s London office, in a move intended to boost its IP capabilities. The US firm has taken on a group led by IP partner Nick Bolter, who has been with Cooley since its London launch. He joins alongside four associates, a paralegal, and three […]
Data practices will be the new oil for thirsty law firms
Since the coronavirus pandemic started, data privacy work has been non-stop. But for the experts working in this area, it is the culmination of a process that has been long in the making.
The Virus Diaries: Hogan Lovells’ Valerie Kenyon on getting her schedule just right
“Why have I not walked the dog every day at 6.30am since we’ve had her? It is a beautiful time in the morning,” says Valerie Kenyon, London partner and co-head of Hogan Lovell’s global products law practice. The Hogan Lovells lifer set off on a three-week business trip in February not expecting to come back […]