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Our Patent practice combines the technical and legal knowledge necessary to help you develop global strategies and make your patents work for you. We provide the full range of patent law services and focus on helping you to achieve your commercial objectives by maximizing your protection, building assets, protecting in key markets and developing revenue streams for patentees, investors, licensees and business partners. The broad scientific and technical backgrounds of our global Patent team also enable us to understand and advise on a wide range of technologies, meaning we will rapidly gain a full understanding of your IP assets so we can better protect them. Our lawyers have degrees in a wide range of scientific subjects. We draw on that intel to truly assess your intellectual properties and patent them in a way that is enforceable and defendable. We work for some of the world's largest life sciences research institutions, chemical companies, financial transaction providers and energy producers, providing IP counseling on products and processes from inception to marketing. Whatever your sector and however cutting edge your IP, our experienced patent lawyers will ensure your interests are protected at all times, including during mergers and acquisitions. Our global lawyers are experienced in all aspects of patents law. Our recent experience includes: providing world-wide patent prosecution and litigation counselling services to a world leader in power generation and water technologies for utilities, independent power producers and industrial applications, including advising on all aspects of power generation equipment, as well as renewable power sources providing domestic and global patent prosecution and counselling services to one of the largest internet-based retailer in the US, and a global leader in the field of e-commerce. Our intellectual property strategic and legal counsel for this high-level client includes advice in relation to web services, online retail and consumer electronics serving as lead IP patent prosecution counsel to a Fortune 500 chemical/wood/consumer products company, supervising patent prosecution and counselling in all of the client’s core business areas providing global patent and trademark prosecution and litigation services to a leading printed flexible and rigid plastic packaging manufacturer IP consulting/prosecution for an FI leader’s cryptocurrency invention, TM clearance searching/rendering for a worldwide product launch, and IP transactional negotiations serving as lead US IP counsel to a global leader of hygienic disposable absorbent product manufacturing equipment, including patent prosecution, counselling, transactional, and litigation services; successfully prosecuted key US patent matters for our client Areas In Intellectual Property Intellectual Property IP Audits and Assessments IP Litigation IP Transactional Trademarks, Trade Dress and Copyrights Trade Secrets Key contacts Cedric Lam Partner Hong Kong SAR, Asia Dr. Anette Gärtner, LL.M (Edinburgh) Partner Frankfurt, Germany Latest Insights legal updates Innovation Agenda 2025/2026 - The latest trends in global patents and trade secrets law legal updates The reality of patent claims using artificial intelligence: USPTO publishes AI guidance legal updates United States halts work with Russian Patent Office, while Russia lessens foreign intellectual property protections legal updates US-China Trade Agreement—Pharma impacts Latest News firm news Eversheds Sutherland Strengthens Intellectual Property Bench on West Coast with Partner Erik Chancellor Smith firm news 33 Practices Nationally Recognized in 2024 US News-Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” Rankings firm news Anticipating Growth Eversheds Sutherland Moves to Larger, State-of-the-Art Office in Austin awards & rankings San Diego Super Lawyers Recognizes IP Partner Jose L. 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Our patent lawyers provide the full range of patent law services including drafting, filing and protecting IP; and licensing and monetizing portfolios.

Our Patent practice combines the technical and legal knowledge necessary to help you develop global strategies and make your patents work for you.

We provide the full range of patent law services and focus on helping you to achieve your commercial objectives by maximizing your protection, building assets, protecting in key markets and developing revenue streams for patentees, investors, licensees and business partners.

The broad scientific and technical backgrounds of our global Patent team also enable us to understand and advise on a wide range of technologies, meaning we will rapidly gain a full understanding of your IP assets so we can better protect them.

Our lawyers have degrees in a wide range of scientific subjects. We draw on that intel to truly assess your intellectual properties and patent them in a way that is enforceable and defendable.

We work for some of the world's largest life sciences research institutions, chemical companies, financial transaction providers and energy producers, providing IP counseling on products and processes from inception to marketing. Whatever your sector and however cutting edge your IP, our experienced patent lawyers will ensure your interests are protected at all times, including during mergers and acquisitions.

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Our global lawyers are experienced in all aspects of patents law. Our recent experience includes:

providing world-wide patent prosecution and litigation counselling services to a world leader in power generation and water technologies for utilities, independent power producers and industrial applications, including advising on all aspects of power generation equipment, as well as renewable power sources
providing domestic and global patent prosecution and counselling services to one of the largest internet-based retailer in the US, and a global leader in the field of e-commerce. Our intellectual property strategic and legal counsel for this high-level client includes advice in relation to web services, online retail and consumer electronics
serving as lead IP patent prosecution counsel to a Fortune 500 chemical/wood/consumer products company, supervising patent prosecution and counselling in all of the client’s core business areas
providing global patent and trademark prosecution and litigation services to a leading printed flexible and rigid plastic packaging manufacturer
IP consulting/prosecution for an FI leader’s cryptocurrency invention, TM clearance searching/rendering for a worldwide product launch, and IP transactional negotiations
serving as lead US IP counsel to a global leader of hygienic disposable absorbent product manufacturing equipment, including patent prosecution, counselling, transactional, and litigation services; successfully prosecuted key US patent matters for our client

Cedric Lam

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Hong Kong SAR, Asia

Dr. Anette Gärtner, LL.M (Edinburgh)

Partner

Frankfurt, Germany

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