INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FIRM ANALYSIS
Firm Briefings
based Leydig Voit & Mayer has positioned itself well, offering a full-range of IP services to clients based in the region. “They have it all, prosecution, management, and litigation skills,” says one rival, describing the breadth of the firm’s capabilities, which were utilized by Sandoz, Horizon Pharma, and GenVec over the past year. “While there are a few Chicago firms competing with them, not many can offer the same variety of IP services.” Since the start of 2012, Robert Green and John Kilyk have been two of the firm’s most active partners. Kilyk, referred to by a peer as “a patent genius,” does prosecution work for GenVec on patent applications pertaining to the malaria vaccine. Green handles litigation matters for clients such as Horizon Pharma patent suit against Par Pharmaceutical. Horizon claims Par Pharmaceutical infringed on multiple patents for Horizon’s Duexis novel tablet formulation, which is used to treat arthritis. Marshall Gerstein & Borun “The attorneys aren’t just people you would trust your company with, but also individuals you could literally trust with anything,” enthuses one client about the IP practice at Marshall Gerstein & Borun. Another client adds, “Our experience with the firm was much more personal than with other firms and they delivered on all of our business goals that we set for them.” The strength of the firm’s IP group is on the non-contentious side, where there patent strategy and patent prosecution teams have received a high volume of praise from their peers. “They have a lot of attorneys with technical backgrounds working at the firm and it only gives them more of a leg-up when drafting and protecting their client’s patents.” Amgen and Merck are two of Marshall