Awards
Feedback from the IP community
Year by year, the IP community continues to honour our firm with positive feedback and awards. These are a sign of appreciation for the passion and dedication we invest on behalf of our clients as an intellectual property law firm. However, what our international team enjoys receiving most of all is personal feedback from our clients upon successful completion of a project.
Managing IP Awards / IP Stars
- EPO - Firm of the Year award, 2022-2023
- Europe - Firm of the Year award - Patent Prosecution, 2019-2020
- Germany - Firm of the Year award - Patent Prosecution, 2021
- Germany - Firm of the Year award - Patent Contentious (Patent & Trade Mark Attorney Firms), 2019, 2023
- Winner "IP Stars Top Tier Firm" award 2013-2023
- Tier 1 in Patent disputes - patent & trade mark attorney firms and Patent Prosecution, 2023
- Awarded attorneys: Thorsten Bausch, Mike Gruber, Niels Hölder, Leo Polz, Anne Katrin Schön, Michaela Ring (TOP 250 Woman in IP), Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Peter Klusmann, Georg Siegert, Luis José Soriano Albert, Joseph Taormino (IP Stars); Claudia Unsin, Lasse Weinmann (Notable Practitioners); Michael Pfeifer, Marcel-Xavier Peigné (Rising Stars)
IAM Patent 1000
- Consecutively awarded Gold Rating (Highly Recommended) in Prosecution and Nullity, as well as European Patent Office since 2013
- Consecutively classified Recommended for Patent Infringement Proceedings Germany since 2017
- Consecutively classified Recommended for IP Transactions Germany since 2017
- Consecutively classified Recommended for Patent Filing Procedures Spain since 2017
- Regular awarded attorneys: Claus Thomas Becher („Highly recommended“); Andreas Stefferl; Frank van Bouwelen; Joachim Renken; Joseph Taormino; Morten Garberg; Leo Polz; Peter Klusmann; Thorsten Bausch; Veit Peter Frank, Clemens Tobias Steins, Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Gustavo Fúster Olaguibel; Silvia Bertran Valls („recommended“)
Legal500 Deutschland/EMEA
- Consecutively placed Tier 1 in the category Patent Prosecution since 2010
- Consecutively placed Tier 2 in the category Patent Litigation since 2016
- Tier 2 classification in the category Patent Attorneys: Patent Litigation, 2022
- Consecutively placed Tier 4 in the category Trademark Law since 2018
Leaders League
- Consecutively placed Leading in the category Germany - Patent: prosecution since 2017
- Classified as Excellent in the category Germany - Patent: litigation 2023
- Classified as Excellent in the category Trade marks: Trademark litigation 2023
- Classified as Highly Recommended in the category Trademark prosecution 2023
- Recommended attorneys: Thorsten Bausch, Henrik Vocke, Leo Polz, Thomas Becher, Lasse Weinmann, Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Holger Stratmann, Niels Hölder, Clemens Tobias Steins, Christian-Holger Folz, Michaela Ring, Wedig von der Osten-Sacken
Chambers Europe/National
- Consecutively placed Tier 1 in the category Patent Prosecution for Germany somce 2012
- Consecutively placed Tier 4 in the category Patent Litigation for Germany since 2018
- Regular awarded attorneys: Peter Klusmann, Thorsten Bausch (Band 2); Joseph Taormino (Band 3) und Leo Polz (Band 4).
JUVE (-Patent)
- Consecutively placed Tier 1 in the category Patent Litigation/Patent Attorneys since 2012
- Consecutively placed Tier 3 in the category Patent Litigation/Lawyers since 2016
- Consecutively placed Tier 4 in the category Trademark and Design Law since 2016
- Regularly recommended lawyers for "Patent Filing": Thorsten Bausch, Mark Jones, Peter Klusmann, Matthias Kindler, Markus Müller, Georg Siegert, Peter Schweighart, Andreas Stefferl, Leo Polz, Joachim Renken, Joseph Taormino