Managing IP Americas Awards 2021: all the winners revealed
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Managing IP Americas Awards 2021: all the winners revealed

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We hosted a virtual event to celebrate the winners of the 16th annual Managing IP Awards

Managing IP hosted a virtual Americas Awards event today, April 7, to recognise remarkable intellectual property achievements by law firms and in-house teams last year.

Registrants joined us online to find out who won, and why, in a whole host of categories. We had more than 50 awards, including the Americas In-House Team of the Year (Trademark), which was presented by Incopro.

See all the winners below (the shortlists are here).

You can watch the event here. You can also watch the acceptance speeches and read about some of the winners here.

The winners can contact our Americas business development manager  George Reeves to discuss various opportunities to share their achievements with our audience and the IP community.

We hosted the EMEA Awards 2021 event last month (see the winners here). We now turn our attention to the Asia-Pacific Awards 2021, which will be hosted on June 17. 

Congratulations to all the winners.



 


 

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

ARGENTINA

Firm of the Year

Marval O’ Farrell & Mairal


BRAZIL

Patent

Daniel Law

Trademark

Montaury Pimenta Machado & Vieira de Mello

Copyright & Design

Bhering Advogados


CARIBBEAN

Firm of the Year

Miniño Abogados


CENTRAL AMERICA

Firm of the Year

LatinAlliance


CHILE

Firm of the Year

Sargent & Krahn


COLOMBIA

Firm of the Year

Cavelier Abogados

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ECUADOR

Firm of the Year

CorralRosales

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MEXICO

Patent

Arochi & Lindner

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Trademark

Olivares

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PANAMA

Firm of the Year

Icaza González-Ruiz & Alemán


PERU

Firm of the Year

Barreda Moller


URUGUAY

Firm of the Year

Cervieri Monsuárez



NORTH AMERICA

CANADA

Copyright

Osler Hoskin & Harcourt

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Patent Contentious

Osler Hoskin & Harcourt

Patent Prosecution

Smart & Biggar

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Trademark Contentious

Gowling WLG

Trademark Prosecution

Borden Ladner Gervais

IP Boutique

Smart & Biggar

Practitioner of the Year (Copyright)

John Cotter, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt

Practitioner of the Year (Trademark)

Kelly Gill, Gowling WLG

Practitioner of the Year (Patent)

Steven Garland, Smart & Biggar



UNITED STATES

REGIONAL CATEGORIES

Patent Prosecution (Northeast)

Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner

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Patent Prosecution (South)

Haynes and Boone

Patent Prosecution (Midwest)

Honigman

Patent Prosecution (West)

Fenwick & West

Patent Contentious (Northeast)

Paul Hastings

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Patent Contentious (South)

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

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Patent Contentious (Midwest)

Sidley Austin

Patent Contentious (West)

Fish & Richardson

Trademark Prosecution (Northeast)

Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu

Trademark Prosecution (South)

Pirkey Barber

Trademark Prosecution (Midwest )

Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson

Trademark Prosecution (West)

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

Trademark Contentious (Northeast)

Kirkland & Ellis

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Trademark Contentious (South)

Pirkey Barber

Trademark Contentious (Midwest)

Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson

Trademark Contentious (West)

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Copyright (East)

Oppenheim + Zebrak

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Copyright (West)

Loeb & Loeb


NATIONAL CATEGORIES

Patent Prosecution

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

Patent Contentious

Kirkland & Ellis

Trademark Prosecution

Fenwick & West

Trademark Contentious

Debevoise & Plimpton

Copyright

Loeb & Loeb

Appellate

Sidley Austin

ITC

Fish & Richardson

Life Sciences IP Litigation

Arnold & Porter

IP Transactions

Latham & Watkins

PTAB

Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner

IP Boutique

Fish & Richardson

Practitioner of the Year (PTAB)

Richard Giunta, Wolf Greenfield & Sacks

Practitioner of the Year (Patent Prosecution)

Fangli Chen, Proskauer Rose

Practitioner of the Year (Trademark Prosecution)

Glenn Gundersen, Dechert

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Practitioner of the Year (IP Transactions)

Cullen Taylor, Hogan Lovells

Practitioner of the Year (Appellate)

Lisa Blatt, Williams & Connolly



STATE CATEGORIES

Practitioner of the Year (Litigation)

California

Jonathan Waldrop, Kasowitz Benson Torres

Colorado

William Cochran, Cochran Freund & Young

Delaware

Anne Shea Gaza, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor

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DC Metro

Amy Wigmore, WilmerHale

Georgia

Mitchell Stockwell, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

Illinois

Michael Harris, Arnold & Porter

Massachusetts

Frank Scherkenbach, Fish & Richardson

Michigan

J Michael Huget, Honigman

Minnesota

Betsy Flanagan, Fish & Richardson

New York

David Bernstein, Debevoise & Plimpton

Pennsylvania

Robert Baron Jr, Ballard Spahr

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Texas

William Peterson, Morgan Lewis & Bockius

Washington

Melanie Mayer, Fenwick & West



IMPACT CASES

CANADA

Yves Choueifaty v Attorney General of Canada

Firm(s): Osler Hoskin & Harcourt


Nova Chemicals Corporation v Dow Chemicals Company

Firm(s): Smart & Biggar


Apotex v Bayer

Firm(s): Goodmans and Osler Hoskin & Harcourt


Miller Thomson v Hilton Worldwide Holding

Firm(s): Bereskin & Parr


Costco Wholesale Canada v Simms Sigal & Co

Firm(s): Kugler Kandestin


York University v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency

Firm(s): Osler Hoskin & Harcourt


Pentastar Transport Ltd v FCA US

Firm(s): Bereskin & Parr


Ontario (Energy) v Quality Program Services

Firm(s): Richards Buell Sutton


GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals v Canada (Health)

Firm(s): Norton Rose Fulbright


Amgen v Pfizer Canada ULC

Firm(s): Norton Rose Fulbright


Salt Canada v John W Baker

Firm(s): McMillan


Hospira Healthcare v Kennedy Trust

Firm(s): Blake Cassels & Graydon and Sprigings IP Law



MEXICO

Bayer Healthcare v Mexican Intellectual Property Office (IMPI)

Firm(s): Basham Ringe y Correa



UNITED STATES

Allen v Cooper

Firm(s): Ryan Park, Deputy Solicitor General of the State of North Carolina


Apple v Fintiv

Firm(s): Jonathan Waldrop, Darcy Jones and Marcus Barber, Kasowitz Benson Torres

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Centripetal Networks v Cisco Systems

Firm(s): Paul Andre, Lisa Kobialka and James Hannah, Kramer Levin

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Ezaki Glico v Lotte International America

Firm(s): John Dabney and Mary Hallerman, Snell & Wilmer

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Georgia v Public.Resource.Org

Firm(s): Eric Citron, Goldstein & Russell


Illumina v Ariosa Diagnostics

Firm(s): Edward Reines and Derek Walter, Weil Gotshal & Manges


In re Medline Industries

Firm(s): Janet Marvel, Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson


Romag Fasteners v Fossil

Firm(s): Lisa Blatt, Williams & Connolly; Jonathan Freiman, Wiggan and Dana


Thryv v Click-To-Call Technologies

Firm(s): Adam Charnes and Mitchell Stockwell, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton


USPTO v Booking.com

Firm(s): Lisa Blatt, Williams & Connolly; David Bernstein and Jared Kagan, Debevoise & Plimpton



SPECIAL AWARDS

Americas In-House Team of the Year (Patent)

Gilead Sciences


Americas In-House Team of the Year (Trademark)

3M Company


Americas Practitioner of the Year

María Fernanda Castellanos, Brigard Castro (Colombia)


Americas Firm of the Year

Baker McKenzie




Research methodology

The Managing IP Awards programme is the most comprehensive and widely respected IP law firm awards event in the world. Now in its 16th year, the programme covers a broad range of IP practice areas and more than 30 jurisdictions. Read about the practice areas and award categories at ipstars.com.

Each year our research analysts obtain information from thousands of firms, IP practitioners and their clients through interviews, email and online surveys.

Before compiling the shortlists, our researchers evaluated the work data supplied by firms and, where applicable, reviewed publicly available information such as court and IP office records. They focused on work done or concluded in the previous year, particularly looking for case studies that were of great significance to clients and/or IP law and practice. Firms or individuals can also be shortlisted based on the researcher's independent research findings.

The research for the IP STARS rankings and the Managing IP Awards programme is rigorous and impartial. There is no fee to pay to participate in our research, but participation does not guarantee recognition. The awards are not influenced by any commercial relationship with Managing IP, and no firm or individual can pay to influence the results. Any firm, regardless of its ranking in IP STARS, can win an MIP award.

The Managing IP Awards programme is distinct and separate from any other legal industry awards programmes organised by Euromoney and promoted on our website.

If you have any questions about the MIP Awards programme please contact Kingsley Egbuonu.



History of the MIP Awards

Managing IP launched its awards programme in 2006. The ceremony attracts hundreds of guests from private practice and in-house as well as prominent figures in the IP industry. It is regarded as the premier IP law firm awards event in the legal industry. In total, more than 1,000 guests attended the ceremonies in 2019 and 2020.

To find out who won in 2020, see EMEA Awards here, Americas Awards here, and Asia-Pacific Awards here. You can search and find all the previous MIP award winners on this website.

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