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Stephenson Harwood adds partner in HK with CC hire

Stephenson Harwood has bulked up its Hong Kong office with the hire of Audrey Shum, who will join from Clifford Chance (CC) as a partner in the firm's intellectual property (IP) department on 24 February. Shum, who specialises in both contentious and commercial IP work, was with CC for around six years, most recently as a consultant. She previously worked at Bird & Bird. Her hire takes Stephenson Harwood's Hong Kong IP practice to two partners.
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Trademark filings see global decline in 2009

International trademark filings at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) dropped by 16% in 2009, amid a 12% decline in US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) filings, reports The National Law Journal. The WIPO dip stems from a global economic slowdown and restrained consumer demand around the world, said Francis Gurry, WIPO's director general.
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Quinn Emanuel seals hire of A&O partner for Germany office launch

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is set to launch its second office in Europe with the hire of a German partner from Allen & Overy (A&O). The US litigation firm has chosen to set up its first continental European office in Mannheim, Germany, with the hire of local A&O patent litigation partner Marcus Grosch, who will join Quinn Emanuel along with a team of associates
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Hammonds shuts up shop in Munich in wake of Eversheds departures

Hammonds is to close its Munich office in the wake of the departure of a five-lawyer team to Eversheds. The national firm has opted to pull out of Munich from 31 March and instead enter into a referral agreement with local patent law firm Gulde Hengelhaupt Ziebig & Schneider (GHZS).
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Lovells trio depart to launch New York office for US litigation firm

Three Lovells lawyers have quit the firm to launch a New York office for Minneapolis-based firm Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi, reports The Am Law Daily. The three Lovells lawyers - partners David Leichtman and Hillel Parness and of counsel Bryan Vogel, who will join Robins Kaplan as a partner - are based in New York and focus on intellectual property (IP) and the pursuit of claims on behalf of artists against corporations that appropriate the works of those artists.
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CC litigator takes up new role as London IP chief at Baker Botts

Clifford Chance (CC) has lost its last dedicated intellectual property (IP) litigator in London with the departure of Peter Taylor to Baker Botts. Taylor joined the US firm's London office in November after serving more than a decade as a partner at the magic circle giant.
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Arnold & Porter bulks up London IP practice with hire of Milbank team

Arnold & Porter has strengthened its London intellectual property (IP) practice with the addition of a team from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy. The Washington firm has picked up IP veteran David Perkins and three associates from fellow US firm Milbank, which will now no longer practice IP law in the City.
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International Edition

A&O recruits Latham partner in Paris as quartet quit US firm

Allen & Overy (A&O) has recruited a Latham & Watkins litigation partner in Paris in one of four partner departures from the US firm, reports The Am Law Daily. Jean-Christophe Tristant, an intellectual property (IP) licensing and litigation lawyer, is set to join A&O in Paris after the magic firm yesterday (7 January) announced the hire of a six-lawyer Clifford Chance team in the French capital.
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US IP associate pleads guilty in connection with insider trading case

A former associate at US firm Ropes & Gray has been identified as a key player in the Galleon Group insider trading probe, reports The Am Law Daily. Former Ropes intellectual property associate Brien Santarlas pleaded guilty last Thursday (10 December) to stealing information about firm clients and passing that information on to other sources for insider trading purposes.
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Bird & Bird

Still top of the tree for IP-heavy technology work, the firm has managed rapid international expansion in recent years...
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