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trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, and she handles litigation matters related to all of these, as well as unfair competition. She has represented clients across the US in complex litigation involving varied technologies ranging from computer soſtware and semiconductors to patio furniture and household products.


Baim also counsels clients and handles various transactional matters, including the negotiation of licences, global trademark clearance, brand development, trademark prosecution and portfolio management.


Baim earned her JD from the University of Michigan Law School. She also holds a BS in engineering, focused in civil and environmental engineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan.


“As a seasoned attorney with more than 12 years of experience, Stacy significantly enhances our robust IP practice,” said Michael Switzer, partner- in-charge of Ulmer & Berne’s Chicago office.


Te addition of Baim continues the rapid growth of Ulmer & Berne’s Chicago office, which has expanded from three attorneys in 2009 to 22. Te firm has recruited experienced attorneys from well known Chicago and national law firms, and has introduced and enhanced its service offerings to meet the growing needs of its clients.


CMS adds partners to Europe offices


Blank, who joined CMS in 2001, carries out forensic and advisory work in the field of unfair competition, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and trademark law. In her forensic work, the focus is on major German and international companies, in particular, in connection with interim injunctions. She advises companies ahead of product launches and on new marketing methods and concepts, especially where new media are involved. Blank is a member of the German Association for Intellectual Property and Copyright Law (GRUR).


Kamps has been a member of the IP/IT and media team of the Cologne office of CMS since 2005. His practice focuses on all legal questions regarding information law compliance including data protection/privacy, information technology law, e-commerce/e-media, copyright law, unfair competition law, and media/press law.


He is also assistant professor for information law at the Cologne-based International Film School.


Anne-Laure Villedieu Dr Heike Blank Michael Kamps


Fiſty partners have been appointed to CMS Cameron McKenna across Europe, including four who practise intellectual property.


Frank Linde Te promotions span 12 offices


across key sectors and practices including competition, corporate, employment, energy, financial services, TMT and real estate.


New partners in CMS’s IP practice are Anne- Laure Villedieu (Paris); Dr Heike Blank and Michael Kamps (Cologne); and Frank Linde (Hamburg).


Villedieu studied for postgraduate degrees in business and communication law at the Sorbonne and joined CMS in March 1998. She has published extensively in both French and English.


Linde specialises in IP and competition law. He studied law at Hamburg University, gaining a postgraduate LLM at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has been with CMS Hamburg since March 2005.


Duncan Weston, managing partner of CMS in London commented: “Our 50 new partners in various offices across Europe will strengthen the scope and scale of our practice areas and will add depth to the sector expertise that we offer our clients.”


Catherine Wolfe inaugurated as ITMA president


Te Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA) inaugurated its new president, Catherine Wolfe, in London on April 19, 2012.


At the inauguration Wolfe set out her priorities for the medium term. She said ITMA is


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“ITMA WILL BE LOOKING INTO CARBON MEASUREMENT AND TRACKING AND OFFSETTING, SO WE CAN BE GREENER, WITH A SMALLER FOOTPRINT.”


developing a “non-core skills” programme with the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys aimed at both organisations’ members. Te initiative focuses on confidentiality, ethics, employment law, company law and record management.


Wolfe, who replaces Maggie Ramage as president, said her long-term goal was to reduce ITMA’s carbon footprint. “I hope ITMA can help make the planet a better place. ITMA will be looking into carbon measurement and tracking and offsetting, so we can be greener, with a smaller footprint,” she said.


Wolfe qualified as a registered trademark attorney and European attorney in 1997. She is a partner at Boult Wade Tennant.


Bird & Bird promotes four in IP Lars Huisman


Bird & Bird LLP has promoted four IP attorneys to partner across its international offices. Te new partners are Ulrike Gruebler, Lars Huisman, Jennifer Jones and Anna Wolters.


Jennifer Jones


Gruebler, based in Bird & Bird’s Hamburg office which opened in May 2011, practises both contentious and non- contentious IP law, largely within the media sector, which is a strong focus there.


Huisman, from Te Hague, is an IP lawyer working particularly with clients in the fields of life sciences and agriculture/food.


Jones is a London-based IP lawyer with a strong focus on life sciences. Before turning to law she studied and researched in the field of biotechnology.


Wolters, from the Düsseldorf office, practises IP law, particularly patent litigation and pharmaceutical law, and also has a strong life sciences sector focus. She has a doctorate in the patentability of biotechnology inventions.


Te firm promoted 12 laywers in total, across disciplines. Tey bring the total number of internal promotions to partner to 15 since the beginning of the current financial year, alongside 20 lateral partner hires in the same period.


David Kerr, chief executive, comments: “It’s always great to see our talented lawyers develop and we’re delighted to make these promotions. Tese appointments demonstrate the strength of expertise we have in our sector groups and across our international offices. I look forward to seeing how these new partners further build our offering to key industry targets across the world.”


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