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At FB Rice, our mission is to inspire our attorneys and staff to best serve our clients as they navigate the complex world of IP. Since our founding, we’ve been supporting the IP ecosystem to create value and prosperity in Australia and across New Zealand and South-East Asia. Creating value begins with our world-leading expertise across biotechnology, chemistry, computer and electrical sciences, engineering and medical devices. There’s always an FB Rice team member who can confidently advise clients on the most complex matters. At the heart of our firm lies our commitment to integrity, client success, and a distinctive personal touch in every interaction. Our independent status ensures we stay firmly client-centric, protected from the shifting influences of external pressures or stakeholders. We’re real people who build genuine partnerships based on trust by being open, approachable, and totally focused on clients’ needs. We work with a broad range of domestic and international clients including manufacturers, software companies, universities, hospitals, co-operative research centres and research institutes, ranging from start-ups to global corporations. Our expertise and versatility has led to FB Rice enjoying a significant share of provisional patent filings in Australia and significant growth in national phase filings. We are also often tasked to act in Australian patent oppositions for both patent applicants and opponents, delivering many successful outcomes for both domestic and international clients. Working alongside law firms in a range of matters including litigation support and due diligence also remains an important part of our business. Our trade marks team has expertise across several industries and company types, from bold startups to established enterprises looking to lead their market. We also offer the highest quality strategic advice to clients who require protection for their industrial designs. Meanwhile, our Research and Development (R&D) tax consulting division, which supports organisations seeking to benefit from the Australian Government’s R&D Tax Incentive program, demonstrates how we constantly learn in order to better serve clients at all stages of the IP cycle. We believe creating and maintaining a strong internal culture is integral to serving our clients. We take great pride in our staff and are firm supporters of gender equality, as demonstrated by our inspiring team of outstanding women leaders. We also support diversity and strive to maintain a healthy and balanced work environment for our staff. Our dedication to IP excellence has earned us industry recognition, including multiple accolades and top-tier rankings. At FB Rice we empower innovation, create value, and protect what matters most—ensuring the world’s greatest ideas are safeguarded and strengthened. Network Memberships: AIPLA, AIPPI, FICPI, INTA, APAA, IPTA, CIPA, IPSANZ, LESANZ, RACI.

FPA Patent Attorneys (FPA) is an independent, top-tier Australian-based patent attorney practice with expertise in patent and design filing, prosecution and oppositions in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. We also have particular insights into Indonesia. We support clients in these jurisdictions and in each technology space. Our clients include worldwide listed companies as well as Australia’s leading universities, research organisations and start-ups. FPA comprises a team of patent attorneys qualified in a range of science and engineering disciplines including materials science, chemical and civil engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, physics, organic and inorganic chemistry, biotechnology, agriculture and pharmaceuticals. Our practice is led by 12 Principals and 8 Senior Associates and is supported by a group of patent attorneys, patent scientists, patent engineers and patent administrators. Our patent attorneys have many years of expertise, advanced qualifications and a proven record of success. Discover more about our expertise. FPA is a private incorporated, registered attorney firm that is wholly owned by QANTM Intellectual Property Limited, an Australian Securities Exchange listed company. QANTM IP also owns the longstanding patent attorney firm Davies Collison Cave Pty Ltd, Davies Collison Cave Law Pty Ltd, Davies Collison Cave Asia Pte Ltd and Advanz Fidelis IP Sdn Bhd (ADVANZ). Why choose FPA Patent Attorneys? When you partner with FPA, you gain access to experienced patent attorneys, and some of the finest minds in the industry. We seek to be the best at what we do - to exceed our client expectations every time. Our efforts have been recognised, with FPA this year being awarded Australian Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year in the Managing Intellectual Property Stars IP Patent Firm Survey, which is based on the results of client interviews and surveys. Thanks to our exclusive strategic relationship with Herbert Smith Freehills, we also provide access to Australia’s best intellectual property litigators, licensing and technology transfer legal practitioners and trade mark attorneys. Complementary commercial law services include competition and anti-trust, tax, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and equity capital markets. We have a long history in advising on contested proceedings, assisting in more court actions than our competitors. Since 2000, FPA Patent Attorneys has accumulated experience in over 100 Australian oppositions. We are experienced through all stages, from filing through to attendance at hearings. Our oppositions practice covers a very broad range of technologies. FPA work with and support IP practitioners including litigators and commercial lawyers throughout our region and worldwide. Learn more about our services. More than a Patent Attorney FPA believe that the patent attorney relationship should involve more than a mere following of client instructions. We invest our time into understanding global industries and getting to know the business of our clients. This approach enables us to become a strategic advisor and to be better placed to foreshadow risk and maximise opportunities for clients in any situation. Last updated 22nd July 2019

Potter Clarkson helps companies, organisations and individuals across all sectors of business to understand, create, protect and defend the commercial value of their innovations anywhere in the world through intellectual property rights. As a full-service intellectual property law firm with expertise in patents, trade marks, designs, litigation, licensing and consultancy, Potter Clarkson provides specialist support in all areas of IP including: Identifying what can be protected. Securing IP rights. Realising the full value of clients’ assets with smart commercial arrangements. Helping clients develop the value of their innovations by enforcing their rights against competitors. Putting in place a managed IP strategy so that clients can maximise commercial opportunities. Potter Clarkson is recognised for its wide-ranging technical and legal expertise, progressive thinking, business knowledge, deep commercial insight and approachability. The firm’s experts make it their business to understand the practical challenges facing their clients, as well as their commercial ambitions for the future. Providing the very highest quality of client service, strategic advice and ‘right first time’ delivery, Potter Clarkson ultimately measures its own success by the success of its clients. What makes the firm different? As a firm, Potter Clarkson has one clearly defined purpose: Creating value from innovation. This provides the context and meaning for the work their attorneys and solicitors do every day. They are committed to using their expertise to solve the IP challenges their clients face so that their innovations achieve commercial success. Through the firm’s integrated service lines, deep sector knowledge and genuine interest in innovative ideas, the firm offers a complete IP solution to every challenge and opportunity their clients face. Built for success The firm is recognised as a top-tier firm in Europe, with offices in multiple EU-member states, having received accreditations from the IP profession’s leading benchmarking organisations and programmes. With the infrastructure to match its credentials as a leading European firm, there is a commitment to continuous improvement in the quality of its services by investing in its people and systems. The 200-strong specialist team operates from dedicated offices in the UK, Sweden, Denmark and Germany, supported by an established network of overseas attorneys to provide expert advice, wherever clients want to take their product or brand. Having been in business for more than 130 years, the firm takes great pride in its heritage, but is firmly focussed on the future. That’s why Potter Clarkson invests heavily in shaping its services and products around the needs of innovative businesses.

Grüneberg Global IP turned the traditional law firm model on its head, to set the gold standard for in-depth, cost-efficient patent counsel. In an evolving market, Grüneberg Global IP offers cost savings for patent budgets. With innovative office concepts and paper-free law practice management systems, the firm reduced overhead, bringing prices to competitive levels. State-of-the-art cloud-based file and docket management software provide robust cybersecurity and increased efficiency, within a reasonable technology budget. The firm’s experienced attorneys and staff maintain high quality. Several team members have previously worked at the International Trade Commission, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in-house positions, large general-practice firms, and IP boutiques. While the firm itself started in 2017, the firm’s staff leadership has worked in managerial and supervisory roles in larger, high-volume patent prosecution firms and in-house at large companies, thus carrying forward decades of institutional knowledge in an innovative, efficient environment. The attorneys at Grüneberg Global IP prosecute U.S. and international patent applications with skill and experience. Thousands of U.S. patents have issued as a result of the efforts of the attorneys on the Grüneberg Global IP team. Using the full menu of options available at the USPTO, Grüneberg Global IP pursues optimized, strong patent protection. The firm prides itself on detailed analysis of office actions with fast turnaround, avoiding extensions and facilitating greater familiarity with cases, both for applicants and Examiners. The firm also coordinates global prosecution and portfolio management. Maintaining relationships with patent firms globally, the attorneys at Grüneberg Global IP consolidate strategies and take the work off of in-house counsel. With its low-overhead model, Grüneberg Global IP can prosecute applications within competitive flat-rate pricing structures. The attorneys at Grüneberg Global IP have experience with numerous counseling, freedom-to-operate, and post-grant matters. The firm frequently provides freedom-to-operate, invalidity, and noninfringement opinions for clients. In addition the attorneys at Grüneberg Global IP have performed product IP-clearance projects, and have helped clients navigate pharmaceutical Hatch-Waxman exclusivity and subject matter eligibility. The firm also achieved positive outcomes for clients in reexamination and in inter partes review. When in-house counsel needs to operate on a budget, the firm can work within agreed-upon price ceilings to provide thorough outside patent counsel with predictable costs. Large corporations, including Fortune 50 companies and Fortune Global 200 companies trust Grüneberg Global IP with building patent portfolios and operating in competitive IP environments. The firm serves companies in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, supporting in-house counsel in chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, construction, AI, machine learning, electronics, and tools and machinery industries. Clients have expressed high levels of satisfaction with the firm’s handling of their patent matters, as well as with the firm’s flexibility to offer competitive pricing. The firm is 100% women- and ethnic minority-owned, and includes diverse representation at all levels. Varied backgrounds strengthen the firm and provide wide-ranging perspectives. Last updated 16th January 2026

Potter Clarkson helps companies, organisations and individuals across all sectors of business to understand, create, protect and defend the commercial value of their innovations anywhere in the world through intellectual property rights. As a full-service intellectual property law firm with expertise in patents, trade marks, designs, litigation, licensing and consultancy, Potter Clarkson provides specialist support in all areas of IP including: Identifying what can be protected. Securing IP rights. Realising the full value of clients’ assets with smart commercial arrangements. Helping clients develop the value of their innovations by enforcing their rights against competitors. Putting in place a managed IP strategy so that clients can maximise commercial opportunities. Potter Clarkson is recognised for its wide-ranging technical and legal expertise, progressive thinking, business knowledge, deep commercial insight and approachability. The firm’s experts make it their business to understand the practical challenges facing their clients, as well as their commercial ambitions for the future. Providing the very highest quality of client service, strategic advice and ‘right first time’ delivery, Potter Clarkson ultimately measures its own success by the success of its clients. What makes the firm different? As a firm, Potter Clarkson has one clearly defined purpose: Creating value from innovation. This provides the context and meaning for the work their attorneys and solicitors do every day. They are committed to using their expertise to solve the IP challenges their clients face so that their innovations achieve commercial success. Through the firm’s integrated service lines, deep sector knowledge and genuine interest in innovative ideas, the firm offers a complete IP solution to every challenge and opportunity their clients face. Built for success The firm is recognised as a top-tier firm in Europe, with offices in multiple EU-member states, having received accreditations from the IP profession’s leading benchmarking organisations and programmes. With the infrastructure to match its credentials as a leading European firm, there is a commitment to continuous improvement in the quality of its services by investing in its people and systems. The 200-strong specialist team operates from dedicated offices in the UK, Sweden, Denmark and Germany, supported by an established network of overseas attorneys to provide expert advice, wherever clients want to take their product or brand. Having been in business for more than 130 years, the firm takes great pride in its heritage, but is firmly focussed on the future. That’s why Potter Clarkson invests heavily in shaping its services and products around the needs of innovative businesses.

Jacobacci & Partners has 95 professionals in 15 offices in 3 countries in Europe (Italy, Spain, and France), supported by 350 paralegals and administration staff. Our team of highly specialized professionals manage a portfolio of around 120,000 brands for clients of all types: we provide assistance in all areas of brand management, ranging from registration of a company logo to fighting against counterfeiting on a global scale. We work with the client to build a strategy that aims to correctly value, protect and defend their intellectual property rights. IP professionals in the firm’s trademark department have specialties in fashion and cosmetic industries, food, automotive, mechanical, pharmaceutical and agriculture sectors, to cite a few. Jacobacci & Partners manages over 100,000 patents across a wide variety of subject matter, from mechanics to electronics and software, from industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry to biotechnologies and nanotechnologies. We represent clients in the filing of patents at the national, European and international level and have been involved in complex patent litigation for over 150 years dating back to an infringement action concerning Edison’s light bulb. The Local Business Development Team is composed of a selected group of trademark and patent attorneys having principal business activity in the small and local regions of Italy, France and Spain, with a client portfolio mainly devoted to SMEs. The aim of the team is to collect and share best practices for assisting the SMEs in the local regions and to foster business development in those areas with the aim to share inside the entire Jacobacci group such best practices among the colleagues. The firm’s code of ethics is regularly updated, respecting and enhancing the concept of diversity through its diversity policy, which ensures all employees are treated equally with regard to diversity and inclusion. With a female CEO, and many women in central roles, we cannot fail to be a company projected towards inclusion and ever greater gender equality. Numerous corporate social initiatives have been set up in view of a company policy that harmonizes economic objectives with the social and environmental ones of the reference territory, with the aim of preserving the environmental, social and human heritage for present and future generations. These initiatives relate to the quality, reliability and safety of the product, but also to the safeguard of the environment and health and energy saving, according to a management approach that considers not only strong economic results, but also the wider impact that the company produces, through its work, on society and the environment. In order to improve working conditions and create a better place and working environment for everyone, the leadership of Jacobacci & Partners has launched the JforYou project starting in January 2023. This project represents an organic and continuous plan, comprising concrete initiatives, dedicated to all people working in our company, with the aim of improving the work environment and promoting a better work-life balance. Network MembershipsINTA, ECTA, GRUR, PTMG, MARQUES, AIPPI, FICPI, AUTM, LES, LESI, INDICAM, Union des Fabricants

Aishani Partners is a new-age, partner-led firm built on precision, accountability, and strategy. The firm was founded by Ms. Aditi Verma Thakur along with Mr. Vikram Pratap Singh (former equity partners of Ediplis). We are trusted by businesses of all sizes - tech companies, deep-tech startups, academic innovators, consumer brands, and established businesses across international geographies - for our ability to translate complex technical concepts into strong, defensible rights. Our intellectual property practice has been supporting the full lifecycle of protection and enforcement – patents, trademarks, designs, and copyrights – along with licensing, brand protection, and technology transfer. For those operating beyond India, we coordinate cross-border filings and international portfolio management through a vetted counsel network. We serve our clients across their core needs: corporate and commercial contracts, intellectual property, data and confidentiality, as well as dispute-prevention with pragmatic settlements when issues arise. Our approach blends legal accuracy with commercial sense – so every counsel from our side is executable, evidence-ready, and designed to scale with your business. Trust is non-negotiable. We maintain an ethical practice, strict confidentiality, and clear communication. The outcome: faster decisions, fewer disputes, and legal foundations that scale as your business grows – from the first contract to international expansion. Our firm has received the following awards and recognitions from national and international legal publications (among others): 1. Named ‘Firm To Watch’ for Intellectual Property in 2026, by Legal 500;2. Named ‘ALB India’s Firm To Watch’ in 2026, by Asian Legal Business of Thomson Reuters;3. Recognized as ‘Trusted Talent’ Firm by IP Stars 2026;4. Recognized as ‘Notable Firm’ for Patent Prosecution, Trademark Prosecution, Trademark Litigation and Copyright in 2026, by Asia IP; 5. Recognized as ‘Notable Firm’ for Intellectual Property in ALB Asia IP Rankings 2026 of Thomson Reuters;6. Ranked Firm for ‘Intellectual Property’ in 2026, by Benchmark Litigation; parallelly recommended for Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi city practices;Our partners have received the following awards and recognitions from national and international legal publications (among others): 7. Awarded ‘Copyright Lawyer of the Year’, at the 2023 Women in Business Law Awards (APAC), of the Delinian group (asialaw, IP Stars, and others);8. Nominated in the category of ‘Woman Lawyer of the Year’ at ALB India Law Awards 2026;9. One of ‘Top 15 IP Lawyers Across Asia’ for 2021 by Asian Legal Business of Thomson Reuters;10. ‘IP Star’ in India by IP STARS, since 2021;11. ‘Distinguished Practitioner’ by asialaw Profiles, since 2023;12. ‘Litigation Star’ for IP in India by Benchmark Litigation since 2025;13. 'Leading Individual/ Partner’ by the Legal 500, since 2022;14. One of ‘Top 100 IP Lawyers In India’ by Asia IP, since 2020.15. ‘Recommended Individual’ by the World Trademark Review 1000, since 2020 (Silver category since 2024);16. Named amongst ‘Top IP Lawyers in India’ by ALB India of Thomson Reuters since 2020;17. Amongst 'Top 30 Female Lawyers', in the 2022 India list of Asian Legal Business of Thomson Reuters;18. ‘Leading Lawyer’ by the Legal Era Magazine (India), since 2022.