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has an office in Beijing, also announced in February plans to open another China-based office, in Shanghai.
SNR Denton snags former Howrey partner
SNR Denton announced in February that Robert F. Kramer has joined the firm as a partner in its IP and technology practice.
Robert F Kramer Kramer is a former Howrey
LLP patent litigation partner and will be based in SNR Denton’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices.
Kramer serves as lead counsel representing technology companies in patent infringement cases in district courts throughout the US, as well as before the ITC.
“Rob has a long and successful track record representing technology companies in patent cases involving electronics, networking and data transmission systems, light emitting diodes (LEDs), telecommunications, semiconductors and other technologies,” said Rob Hanson, head of SNR Denton’s IP and technology practice.
“He brings with him an extensive network of relationships that will continue to grow the firm’s IP team.”
Kramer lived in Tokyo, Japan, for several years and was registered to practise law in Japan as well as a member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association while representing Asian companies in patent infringement cases in the US district courts and ITC.
“Te firm’s global presence, along with its desire to grow an IP practice which is responsive to today’s market, represented a true opportunity for me and my clients,” said Kramer.
Other partners who have recently joined SNR Denton’s growing IP practice include Martin Bruehs, Charles Bruton and Scott Cummings.
IP specialists to join Brodies Robert Buchan
Scottish law firm Brodies LLP has appointed IP specialists Gill Grassie and Robert Buchan, from Maclay Murray & Spens LLP, as partners. Buchan and Grassie will join the firm’s specialist litigation
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"HINTZ HAS REPRESENTED CLIENTS IN A WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRIES COVERING TECHNOLOGIES INCLUDING SEARCH ENGINES, FINANCIAL SERVICES, BARCODE SCANNING AND INTERNET-RELATED BUSINESSES."
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experience, is part of client service expansion for the firm’s New York presence.
“John is a seasoned litigator who has worked on all aspects of patent disputes and has litigated
in federal courts throughout the country and before the International Trade Commission (ITC),” said Kenneth Bezozo, New York office managing partner. “Adding John supports our goal of broadening and deepening our IP litigation practice.”
Hintz has represented clients in a wide range of industries covering technologies including search engines, financial services, barcode scanning, Internet- related businesses, telecommunications, computer simulations, commodity chemicals, polymers, process control instruments, medical devices and life sciences. He also has significant transactional, licensing and counselling experience, including advising clients on the IP aspects of mergers and acquisitions and on the licensing of IP assets.
and dispute resolution and technology teams, with Buchan starting in March and Grassie to follow in the summer.
Buchan has more than 12 years’ experience of IP and IT dispute work and has acted for high profile brands in passing off, trademark and parallel important claims and domain name disputes, as well as patent infringement and patent entitlement disputes.
Grassie, who is an expert on the Nominet dispute resolution panel, has specialised in IP and IT dispute resolution for more than 20 years, in sectors including luxury goods, pharmaceuticals, food and drink, and energy and motoring. She has also worked with Bristows’ IP litigation unit in London and with a commercial firm in Germany.
Bill Drummond, managing partner of Brodies, said: “Te appointment of Gill and Robert will, I believe, give us unparalleled expertise in the Scottish legal marketplace and provide our clients with advice from lawyers of the very highest calibre.”
Haynes and Boone bags new partner in New York
John Hintz has moved to the New York office of Haynes and Boone LLP as partner. Te addition of Hintz, an IP litigator with more than 20 years’
New partner for Winston & Strawn
Winston & Strawn LLP has appointed technology, media and IP litigator Paul D. McGrady Jr as partner of its advertising, marketing & entertainment law practice in Chicago. McGrady will join Winston & Strawn from Greenberg Traurig.
Te author of McGrady on Domain Names and McGrady on Social Media, McGrady has handled more than 300 proceedings under the Uniform Domain Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), as well as cases brought under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and foreign domain name dispute policies. He previously served as in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 retailer focusing on trademarks, franchising, advertising and shareholder/member relations, and serves as an adjunct professor of law at DePaul University College of Law, teaching cyberlaw.
“I was attracted to Winston because of its acclaimed media, IP and technology litigators and look forward to contributing my experience with matters at the junction of IP, IT and social/mobile media to the team offerings,” said McGrady.
Fish & Richardson elevates 19 to principal
IP firm Fish & Richardson has announced that 19 attorneys have been named principals. Te new
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