IAM is a leading business media platform for professionals in the intellectual property industry. The IAM 1000, published annually, identifies the top 1,000 leading patent practitioners throughout the world.
Reed Smith is ranked as a top firm for litigation in France and the United States: Pennsylvania.
According to IAM, “the firm comes into its own on contentious briefs” in Paris, and in Pennsylvania, “its IP lawyers can resolve even the most intractable and multi-faceted spats”.
Lawyers individually ranked for Europe include Marina Cousté and Francois Jonqueres in Paris and Anette Gärtner in Frankfurt.
In the United States, Nicolas Barzoukas and Peter Chassman in Texas, Rudolf Hutz in Delaware, and Kirsten Rydstrom in Pennsylvania are each individually ranked.
Globally, Reed Smith's Intellectual Property, Information & Innovation Group comprises more than 100 lawyers and handles a wide range of IP matters involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition and trade secrets, transactions, and domain name disputes.
The IAM rankings reflect the increasing strength of the group, which has been working to enhance its European platform and US offering over the past few years with strategic lateral hires.
The full rankings can be viewed on the IAM Patent 1000 website pages.
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