Netherlands

Firm overview

In an innovative, knowledge-intensive market, the value of an organisation largely depends on IP rights. An effective patent, trademark or design strategy saves and can even make money. For strategic choices involving their IP portfolios, clients naturally wish to receive advice from different perspectives – and NLO provides comprehensive, tailor-made advice.

Our industry-driven teams of European patent attorneys combine complementary knowledge and expertise, so that every type of issue can be addressed and we can guarantee the continuity and quality of our services so that clients receive prompt, efficient service. We also have cross-industry expert teams for specific areas of interest, such as our focus groups for health, artificial intelligence and our in-house US practice team.

NLO is one of the largest full-service European IP consultancy firms with locations in the Netherlands and Belgium. We offer a unique combination of technical and legal expertise with insight into the business environment in which clients operate. This distinguishes the 70 European patent attorneys at NLO and 15 European trademark and design attorneys at NLO Shieldmark.

The specialists of NLO and NLO Shieldmark also have the most up-to-date knowledge of the IP market at their disposal, which they use in order to provide optimum management for clients’ IP portfolios. By combining our expertise, NLO is able to provide clients with the most comprehensive advice possible.

Firm overview

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER is a leading European intellectual property law boutique. It is the top choice for high-stakes cross-border IP litigation, including at the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”).

Its international team of around 130 dedicated IP professionals across five countries combines legal and technical expertise in patents, trademarks, copyrights, design rights, and trade secrets to protect innovation worldwide.

Patents & the UPC

Recognising the importance of the UPC from the start, HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER has quickly become one of the leading firms representing parties before the UPC. With extensive experience in cross-border patent disputes and involvement in many of the early cases at the UPC, the firm’s teams leverage their deep expertise and strategic approach in navigating the challenges and opportunities of the system.

Trademarks, Copyrights & Design Rights

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER offers comprehensive legal advice and litigation services in trademarks, copyrights, and design rights. The firm represents clients before national and European courts and authorities, ensuring effective management and enforcement of IP portfolios.

Trade Secrets

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER provides comprehensive and strategic protection of trade secrets, helping clients safeguard their confidential business information and technological innovations. Services include risk assessment, compliance strategies, litigation and dispute resolution.

Further services

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER moreover assists and represents clients in various fields closely related to IP, such as pharmaceutical regulatory law, unfair competition, media and advertising law and all IP-related contracts. Also in these fields, HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER is your trusted partner. https://www.hoyngrokhmonegier.com/

Firm overview

Over the last century we’ve been lucky enough to have played a part in protecting some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions and high profile brands. You can trust us to know IP law inside out, to be curious, and to connect the dots to reach solutions others don’t.

We will provide you with a team, rich in real-world experience, comprising experts who have worked at the forefront of pioneering technologies. A substantial number of our lawyers hold qualifications in scientific or technical fields, meaning we are often called upon for our specialist knowledge and insight on large international mandates. We are respected for our creative and original solutions.

We offer both litigation and transactional support in relation to all IP rights, from small innovative projects to the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes.

Our approach has always been centred on client service, collaborating and innovating with our clients to create bespoke solutions that make their lives easier. This includes: our 'twobirds Pattern' product, a proprietary, in-house patent valuation and analysis tool, that allows us to landscape, analyse, and value patent portfolios in an automated and sophisticated way; and our innovative and dynamic Brand Protection Reporting Portal, which uses dynamic charts that give clients an up-to-date overview of their risk profile at any given time.

Talk to us to find out how our tools, experience and our genuine passion for IP can help you devise a strategy that will help to maintain your competitive edge, whilst protecting and optimising your IP in the best way possible.

Internationally Bird & Bird has over 400 IP lawyers, attorneys and legal professionals across our 29 offices, many of whom have known each other and worked together for years, meaning we're all on the same page and offer consistency and quality that runs through all levels of seniority. We are therefore ideally placed to devise and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation strategies and,in the future, to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.

Office Locations: Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and United States of America

Firm overview

Kilburn & Strode is Europe’s market leader in premium intellectual property work. Clients seek us out to solve their most challenging issues by handling their most complex, business-critical, legal and commercial matters.

For more than 100 years, we have been trusted to provide strategic IP advice and navigate the complex world of IP for an impressive roster of clients of all sizes, including some of the world’s most impressive innovators and leading brands.

Organisations look to us when IP is critical to their business goals and, ultimately, their success. Experts in strategy, enforcement, risk, and global portfolio management, our focus on high-profile, high-pressure, high-stakes work makes us first-choice partners for when the IP really matters.

From ensuring new medical technologies come to market that save millions of lives to helping carbon mitigating technologies succeed – we make a positive impact. Outside of the world of science and technology, we champion diversity and social responsibility and give back through our Innovation for All Foundation which donates 1% of profits annually to charity.

Kilburn & Strode is the only European IP firm ranked in the top tier for both trade mark and patent prosecution in all five of the major legal directories.

With offices in London (HQ), Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Munich, and liaison offices in San Francisco and Boston, we’re the only firm to connect these centres for European IP with the pulse of Silicon Valley and the heartbeat of America’s hub for life sciences. 

We’re Europe’s leading premium IP firm, the firm companies hire when business success depends on IP success.

Learn how we can help: www.kilburnstrode.com