JUVE Comment

This traditional IP boutique maintains a busy patent litigation practice across a broad range of technologies. Midsized clients from different sectors such as mechanical engineering, consumer goods and medical devices deliver a steady stream of litigation work. This is rooted in the team’s traditionally excellent contacts among midsized companies as well as law firms and patent attorney firms in Germany, which lead to regular referrals. For example Guillaume Henry represented German provider of telecommunication cables Telenco against Preformed Line Products.

This strong connection to Germany also led to the team’s first UPC-related work. While not acting alone at the European court, the team was consulted regarding questions in French law by a German law firm in a case for a medical device company. This is a start, but competitors such as the similarly positioned IP boutique Armengaud Guerlain are already further ahead when it comes to taking the lead for clients in UPC cases.

Strengths

Patent litigation focusing on pharma, mechanics and electronics.

Recommended individuals

Dariusz Szleper, Guillaume Henry (“highest legal expertise combined with great eloquence in presenting the facts”, “broad knowledge of patent law”, competitors)

Team

5 lawyers

Clients

Litigation: Telenco against Preformed Line Products over support structure for cables in telecommunications; Hoffmann-La Roche against Biogaran over a biosimilar (withdrawn 2024); Symbioken against Eria Systèms over centrifugation and agitation device (settled 2024); MAF Agrobotic against Unitec SpA over sorting machine for fruit and vegetables; Atelier Robert against Emily over agricultural machine (ended 2025); CoorsTek Bioceramics against CeramTec over colour of ceramic material; Kindermann against Barco over wireless technology.