JUVE Patent’s Ones to Watch 2024 – the full overview

This year, eight of the 17 Ones to Watch candidates that JUVE Patent identified as up-and-coming talents with an interesting career path are women. This indicates that more female partners are coming to the fore in European patent litigation practices.

However, the JUVE Patent Ones to Watch are by no means all lawyers. With Lars Grannemann and Emily Nikolic, two patent attorneys with litigation experience have found their way onto the list. Edward Cronan, a young UK barrister, is also among this year’s Ones to Watch.

The candidates come from the countries for which JUVE Patent publishes rankings on the patent litigation markets. Six lawyers come from Germany, five from the UK and three each from France and the Netherlands. JUVE Patent did not publish a Ones to Watch list for UPC litigation.

In December, JUVE Patent published a ranking for UPC litigation for the first time. However, the editorial team decided not to publish an accompanying Ones to Watch list because it is a new market for all representatives working at the new court. No matter whether junior or senior litigator, partner or associate, lawyer or patent attorney, all UPC representatives had the same starting conditions.

Nevertheless, during research JUVE Patent found that working for the UPC offers young litigators greater opportunities to present themselves in the market than was previously the case in national litigation.

These are the JUVE Patent Ones to Watch 2024 for national markets in alphabetical order. Read JUVE Patent’s detailed profiles on each of the 17 patent litigators:

• Yasmine Azzaoui is associate at Schertenleib, an IP law firm based in Paris.
• Toby Bond is a junior partner at Bird & Bird’s London office.
• Edward Cronan is junior IP barrister at London-based 11 South Square.

• Andreas Duensing is based in Stuttgart. He is counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
• Corin Gittinger is a principal associate at Freshfields’s Berlin office.
• Lars Grannemann from Düsseldorf firm Cohausz & Florack is one of the few patent attorneys in the list.

• Caitlin Heard is based in London. She is junior partner at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang.
• Emily Nikolic from London IP firm Carpmaels & Ransford is the second patent attorney in the list.
• Anais Pallut is senior associate at August Debouzy, based in Paris.
• Marie-Ange Pozzo di Borgo, counsel at Gide Loyrette Nouel, is based in Paris.

• Lisa Rieth is counsel at Arnold Ruess and is based in Düsseldorf.
• Moritz Schroeder is counsel in Bird & Bird’s Düsseldorf-based litigation team.
• Emma Stok is an associate at Bird & Bird. She is on the IP team in Amsterdam.
• Jarieke Timmerman is an associate at BarentsKrans, based in The Hague.

• Carlos van Staveren is counsel at Bird & Bird, based in Amsterdam.
• Andrew Wells is junior partner in Herbert Smith Freehills’ IP team in London.
• Alexander Wiese is the youngest partner at Düsseldorf-based IP firm Wildanger.