Dechert

Dechert’s intellectual property practice offers a notable combination of IP counseling expertise and litigation prowess. The firm has a vast array of industry sector specialisms, including a comprehensive life sciences practice that entails IP and transactional services. The firm's practice area specialties span from patent litigation, patent counseling and prosecution, trademark & copyright counseling, trademark litigation, trade secret litigation, and IP licensing and transactions. Key offices for the firm include Philadelphia, New York and Boston.

Notable IP practitioners: Katherine A Helm, Noah Leibowitz, Martin J Black, Diane Siegel Danoff, Andrea Reid.

Helm Chairs the global IP practice and heads the IP litigation group.

2023

"Andrew Wilkins and his team are very responsive and efficient at identifying inventions and preparing patent filings. Andrew is very strategically savvy and his team is technically and legally proficient."

"They are extremely responsive and creative."

"They are smart, creative and aggressive (albeit fair) on behalf of their clients. They have expertise at both trial and appellate levels. "

"They are zealous advocates in the classic (good) sense."

"They are a very strong team. We value the great teamwork, especially with co-counsel, and their creative, thorough and appropriately aggressive way of working."

Recent patent representations for the firm include Sanofi, Biogen, and Eli Lilly.

Trademark case studies show the firm worked with Zara, one the world’s largest fashion retailers, providing trademark clearance and prosecution advice, infringement and brand enforcement.