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IAM Ranks Crowell & Moring in Patent 1000 2024

Firm News | 2 min read | 06.06.24

Washington – June 6, 2024: Intellectual Asset Management recognized Crowell & Moring in its IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners guide, awarding the firm a gold band ranking as one of the top three firms handling patent litigation and transactions in Belgium, and a silver ranking for the firm’s Chicago office. The firm was also recommended nationally in the United States for trade secrets litigation. This marks the eleventh consecutive year that the firm has been ranked in the guide in Belgium.

IAM notes of the firm’s Brussels practice: “Offering nothing short of excellence, Crowell & Moring maintains a stellar reputation for its watertight IP litigation, strategy and regulatory services.” The publication recognized Crowell’s Chicago office as a “full-service IP outfit…that stands out as ‘an able and formidable firm’, boasting “some of the best patent litigators in the world who can be trusted with any matter.’”

Individual lawyers recommended in the guide include:

Belgium

  • Jan-Diederik Lindemans (Gold – Belgium, Litigation and Transactions)
  • Kristof Roox (Gold – Belgium, Litigation and Transactions)
  • Jurgen Figys (Silver – Belgium, Litigation and Transactions)
  • Matteo Mariano (Bronze – Belgium, Litigation and Transactions)

United States

  • William H. Frankel (Silver – United States: Illinois, Litigation)
  • James R. Sobieraj (Silver – United States: Illinois, Litigation)
  • Laura A. Lydigsen (Bronze – United States: Illinois, Litigation)
  • Mark H. Remus (Bronze – United States: Illinois, Litigation)
  • Joseph F. Hetz (Recommended – United States: Illinois, Prosecution)
  • Anne Elise Herold Li (Recommended – United States: National, Trade Secret Litigation)
  • Andrew D. Stover (Recommended – United States: Illinois, Prosecution)

IAM Patent 1000 conducts over 1,800 interviews with in-house counsel and other lawyers to gather market intelligence on leading firms and individuals and develop its recognitions. To see the firm’s full rankings in the Patent 1000, please visit here.

About Crowell & Moring LLP

Crowell & Moring is an international law firm with operations in the United States, Europe, MENA, and Asia. Drawing on significant government, business, industry, and legal experience, the firm helps clients capitalize on opportunities and provides creative solutions to complex litigation and arbitration, regulatory and policy, and corporate and transactional issues. The firm is consistently recognized for its commitment to pro bono service, as well as its programs and initiatives to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.  

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