Bird & Bird’s IP team is recommended for contentious and non-contentious IP work. For trade mark work the senior practitioners are supported by IP associates.
Notable patent practitioners: Manuel Lobato.
Notable practitioners: José Miguel Lissén, Mariano Santos, Antonio Cueto and María Fernández.
Case highlights include preliminary injunctions against Paper Plane Partners for the IOC and regulatory compliance work for the gaming industry. Portfolio management also featured.
Patent
The firm represented Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories against Novartis on generics patent litigation which delineated procedural boundaries between unfair competition and patent infringement. It also advised Valeo to pursue invalidity action against a Spanish utility model.
Trade mark
The practice represented an industrial manufacturing supplier in anti-counterfeiting litigation which culminated in a pan-European injunction. It also acted for the Olympic Committee in an unfair competition case.