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A breath of fresh air on the Israeli IP scene, one-stop IP shop Cohn de Vries, Stadler & Co was established in December 2020 by three senior partners from another gold-tier firm ranked in this chapter. The experts’ vast and broad experience, as well as stellar reputation, has attracted hundreds of clients, from private innovators and start-ups to domestic and foreign corporations. Doctor of biology Ilan Cohn has his hands full with the patent portfolios of Can-Fite BioPharma, the Strauss Group and Solo Gelato. “Ilan’s holistic, creative and flexible approach to IP helps us to achieve and maximise our monetisation goals”, one referee says. Another founding partner David de Vries has a degree in mechanical engineering and over three decades of experience drafting, devising airtight strategies and dispensing incisive advice. “Quick and precise, David has an unparalleled understanding of engineering. He is very frank – if he feels there is something wrong with the patent, he will make it very clear.” He currently represents the Keter Group and Headovations; he has also been assisting Wheelchairs of Hope pro bono with its global patent registration. “Ilan and David work so well as a team.” Trilingual Svetlana Stadler shines in non-contentious matters related to her academic background – physics. An expert in chemistry and materials engineering, Edith Sokol is the first port of call not only for global corporations but also leading Israeli universities. “Edith is a distinguished, hands-on, dedicated professional who knows how to build a strategy for IP protection worldwide. Above all, she has the skills and sensitivity to assist in defusing delicate situations, and is always pleasant and charismatic.” Excelling in a slew of complex technical fields – applied physics, microelectronics and electro-optics – Myriam Schnur draws on her 15 years of IP experience to draft, prosecute and manage technology-related patents.
Ilan Cohn has extensive experience in the field of intellectual property gained over more than three decades, most of which as a senior partner in a leading IP firm in Israel, where, among others, he led the life sciences and chemistry department.
Dr Cohn advises all IP stakeholders, including innovators, investors, technology incubators and small and large corporations, on how to build value in intellectual property and how to use it as a strategic asset. Dr Cohn also has extensive expertise in managing in-depth processes of IP due diligence, IP-based transactions and IP monetisation. He has been involved in and has often led IP monetisation activities, including licensing, selling and enforcing IP assets.
Dr Cohn’s practice is multidisciplinary in nature, servicing clients across a very wide range of technology disciplines, including life sciences, agricultural technologies, food technologies, consumer products, renewable energy and water technologies.
Dr Cohn has been involved in the founding of IP-based companies, while building their intellectual property into assets that yielded handsome returns to investors and shareholders. He is a member of the boards of directors of several companies, including chair of two companies (one of them public).
Dr Cohn has taught and coached generations of patent attorneys and has often served as an examiner in examinations for patent attorneys.
He has authored many articles published in the Israeli press and professional journals.
Dr Cohn taught in the past IP courses at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and has been teaching an IP strategy course at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for several years.
He has organised and chaired professional international conferences in Israel that were held under the auspices of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and has lectured at many conferences in Israel and abroad.
Dr Cohn continuously receives top-tier ranking in all leading international and local directories, including IAM 300 Strategy and IAM 300 Global Leaders.
Dr Cohn holds a PhD from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1989).
Cohn, de Vries, Stadler & Co is a modern and dynamic firm that was established in December 2020 by eight former partners from a leading Israeli IP firm, including partners of international renown and ranking in the most highly regarded professional directories – among them Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, IAM 1000, IAM 300 Strategy and IAM 300 Global Leaders. These partners, together with the other attorneys who joined them in forming the firm, bring together under one roof many decades of professional experience in providing high-quality IP services, in a state-of-the-art set-up.
The professional team includes twelve patent attorneys, four attorneys-at-law and eleven paralegals.
Expertise
The firm’s professional IP expertise, technical knowledge and business vision span a wide range of IP disciplines, markets, industries and technologies. The professionals include patent attorneys with a broad range of technological backgrounds, attorneys-at-law and others. The technology backgrounds of the patent attorneys include physics, mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, biotechnology, computer sciences and others. In addition to patents, the firm’s professional team has proven expertise in other IP disciplines, including designs and trademarks.
The firm serves clients from a range of industries, including agritech, foodtech, life sciences, digital health, medical devices and equipment, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, cleantech, consumer products, processes manufacturing, water technologies, renewable energy, military technologies, mechanical engineering, automotive, aviation, space, construction and engineering, manufacturing technologies, packaging, electronic devices, semiconductors, optics, electro-optics, laser systems, imaging, digital printing, communications, computer science, electronics, telecommunications, information storage, information security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data, material sciences, electrical and electronic engineering, MEMS and more.
The firm also assists clients in monetising their IP assets in licensing, selling and/or enforcing their IP rights.
Holistic approach
With such expertise, Cohn, de Vries, Stadler & Co is equipped to provide its clients with a holistic approach to IP services that is tailored to meet the clients’ business and business development strategy, taking into consideration the competitive landscape, state of technological development, business model and other factors to maximise value.
Cohn, de Vries, Stadler & Co is a one-stop professional service provider to knowledge and IP-based enterprises for building and growing value and revenue-generating IP assets. The firm combines many decades of expertise in leading IP professionals from a very wide range of IP disciplines to offer a full gamut of IP services, from in-depth analysis of a patent landscape, expert advice on how to better protect knowledge and ideas, through to the build-up of high-tier value-generating portfolios of patents and other IP assets.
The firm strives to foster a true partnership with its clients and, through its flexible and creative approach to intellectual property, enable them to achieve their goals, expand their business, and protect and profit from their IP assets.
Services
The firm offers a wide range of services that includes IP strategy consulting, IP due diligence, patentability studies, freedom-to-operate studies, invention mining, M&A consulting, commercialisation and IP licensing.
These professional services are on top of servicing clients in drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications worldwide, filing and prosecuting design and trademark applications, as well as maintenance of IP rights. The firm’s staff is highly experienced in assisting clients in procuring and maintaining IP rights throughout the world and in representing foreign clients before the Israeli Patent Office.