‘Feels like home’: IP litigator returns to Baker McKenzie

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‘Feels like home’: IP litigator returns to Baker McKenzie

July 24 2025
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Benjamin Kelly, the firm’s fifth IP partner hire in a little over one year, has experience in patent and trade secret disputes involving complex technologies

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