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Bronze - Firms: litigation
Recommended - Firms: prosecution
Recommended - Firms: transactions
Marshall Gerstein & Borun earns the highest recommendation for its patent prosecution, freedom-to-operate and competitive landscape analysis, IP due diligence and transactional work: “Its professionals are deeply knowledgeable about the science as well as the law and work hand-in-hand with in-house counsel in giving business-targeted strategic IP guidance.” It has an outstanding leadership team in place, with Pamela Cox serving as IP transactions chair; Heather Kissling as prosecution chair; Benjamin Horton as litigation leader; Julianne Hartzell as medical device captain; Jeffrey Sharp as managing partner; Randall Rueth as electrical and computer technologies head; and Michael Furmanek as industrial and mechanical technologies head. The recipient of much praise, Cox is “responsive, pragmatic and experienced. She really understands her clients and is phenomenally quick on the uptake, with an ability to spot issues that others do not. She is a delight to work with on cross-border pharmaceutical and biotechnology deals.” One of Horton’s successes has been to establish Marshall Gerstein as a go-to for ITC investigations. Next up are Thomas Duston and Sandip Patel, the former a hard-hitting trial lawyer and the latter an all-rounder with extensive court and post-grant experience. Patel works closely with Mark Izraelewicz who, together with Kevin Flowers and John Labbé, makes the firm a go-to for high-exposure pharmaceutical and biotechnology litigations. There is depth to all practices here: Sharp, Rueth and Furmanek possess refined prosecution skills and have the magic touch when it comes to procuring commercially valuable rights, as do life sciences mavens Michael Muczynski and immunology PhD Katherine Neville, and medical devices maestro Jeremy Kriegel. Joining Cox in the transactions rankings, Robert Gerstein and Julie Watson are both highly adept licensing professionals, negotiators and strategists.
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