Managing IP hosted a virtual Americas Awards event today, April 7, to recognise remarkable intellectual property achievements by law firms and in-house teams last year.
Registrants joined us online to find out who won, and why, in a whole host of categories. We had more than 50 awards, including the Americas In-House Team of the Year (Trademark), which was presented by Incopro.
See all the winners below (the shortlists are here).
You can watch the event here. You can also watch the acceptance speeches and read about some of the winners here.
The winners can contact our Americas business development manager George Reeves to discuss various opportunities to share their achievements with our audience and the IP community.
We hosted the EMEA Awards 2021 event last month (see the winners here). We now turn our attention to the Asia-Pacific Awards 2021, which will be hosted on June 17.
Congratulations to all the winners.
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
ARGENTINA
Firm of the Year
Marval O’ Farrell & Mairal
BRAZIL
Patent
Daniel Law
Trademark
Montaury Pimenta Machado & Vieira de Mello
Copyright & Design
Bhering Advogados
CARIBBEAN
Firm of the Year
Miniño Abogados
CENTRAL AMERICA
Firm of the Year
LatinAlliance
CHILE
Firm of the Year
Sargent & Krahn
COLOMBIA
Firm of the Year
Cavelier Abogados
ECUADOR
Firm of the Year
CorralRosales
MEXICO
Patent
Arochi & Lindner
Trademark
Olivares
PANAMA
Firm of the Year
Icaza González-Ruiz & Alemán
PERU
Firm of the Year
Barreda Moller
URUGUAY
Firm of the Year
Cervieri Monsuárez
NORTH AMERICA
CANADA
Copyright
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Patent Contentious
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Patent Prosecution
Smart & Biggar
Trademark Contentious
Gowling WLG
Trademark Prosecution
Borden Ladner Gervais
IP Boutique
Smart & Biggar
Practitioner of the Year (Copyright)
John Cotter, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Practitioner of the Year (Trademark)
Kelly Gill, Gowling WLG
Practitioner of the Year (Patent)
Steven Garland, Smart & Biggar
UNITED STATES
REGIONAL CATEGORIES
Patent Prosecution (Northeast)
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Patent Prosecution (South)
Haynes and Boone
Patent Prosecution (Midwest)
Honigman
Patent Prosecution (West)
Fenwick & West
Patent Contentious (Northeast)
Paul Hastings
Patent Contentious (South)
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Patent Contentious (Midwest)
Sidley Austin
Patent Contentious (West)
Fish & Richardson
Trademark Prosecution (Northeast)
Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu
Trademark Prosecution (South)
Pirkey Barber
Trademark Prosecution (Midwest )
Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson
Trademark Prosecution (West)
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Trademark Contentious (Northeast)
Kirkland & Ellis
Trademark Contentious (South)
Pirkey Barber
Trademark Contentious (Midwest)
Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson
Trademark Contentious (West)
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Copyright (East)
Oppenheim + Zebrak
Copyright (West)
Loeb & Loeb
NATIONAL CATEGORIES
Patent Prosecution
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Patent Contentious
Kirkland & Ellis
Trademark Prosecution
Fenwick & West
Trademark Contentious
Debevoise & Plimpton
Copyright
Loeb & Loeb
Appellate
Sidley Austin
ITC
Fish & Richardson
Life Sciences IP Litigation
Arnold & Porter
IP Transactions
Latham & Watkins
PTAB
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
IP Boutique
Fish & Richardson
Practitioner of the Year (PTAB)
Richard Giunta, Wolf Greenfield & Sacks
Practitioner of the Year (Patent Prosecution)
Fangli Chen, Proskauer Rose
Practitioner of the Year (Trademark Prosecution)
Glenn Gundersen, Dechert
Practitioner of the Year (IP Transactions)
Cullen Taylor, Hogan Lovells
Practitioner of the Year (Appellate)
Lisa Blatt, Williams & Connolly
STATE CATEGORIES
Practitioner of the Year (Litigation)
California
Jonathan Waldrop, Kasowitz Benson Torres
Colorado
William Cochran, Cochran Freund & Young
Delaware
Anne Shea Gaza, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor
DC Metro
Amy Wigmore, WilmerHale
Georgia
Mitchell Stockwell, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Illinois
Michael Harris, Arnold & Porter
Massachusetts
Frank Scherkenbach, Fish & Richardson
Michigan
J Michael Huget, Honigman
Minnesota
Betsy Flanagan, Fish & Richardson
New York
David Bernstein, Debevoise & Plimpton
Pennsylvania
Robert Baron Jr, Ballard Spahr
Texas
William Peterson, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Washington
Melanie Mayer, Fenwick & West
IMPACT CASES
CANADA
Yves Choueifaty v Attorney General of Canada
Firm(s): Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Nova Chemicals Corporation v Dow Chemicals Company
Firm(s): Smart & Biggar
Apotex v Bayer
Firm(s): Goodmans and Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Miller Thomson v Hilton Worldwide Holding
Firm(s): Bereskin & Parr
Costco Wholesale Canada v Simms Sigal & Co
Firm(s): Kugler Kandestin
York University v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency
Firm(s): Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Pentastar Transport Ltd v FCA US
Firm(s): Bereskin & Parr
Ontario (Energy) v Quality Program Services
Firm(s): Richards Buell Sutton
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals v Canada (Health)
Firm(s): Norton Rose Fulbright
Amgen v Pfizer Canada ULC
Firm(s): Norton Rose Fulbright
Salt Canada v John W Baker
Firm(s): McMillan
Hospira Healthcare v Kennedy Trust
Firm(s): Blake Cassels & Graydon and Sprigings IP Law
MEXICO
Bayer Healthcare v Mexican Intellectual Property Office (IMPI)
Firm(s): Basham Ringe y Correa
UNITED STATES
Allen v Cooper
Firm(s): Ryan Park, Deputy Solicitor General of the State of North Carolina
Apple v Fintiv
Firm(s): Jonathan Waldrop, Darcy Jones and Marcus Barber, Kasowitz Benson Torres
Centripetal Networks v Cisco Systems
Firm(s): Paul Andre, Lisa Kobialka and James Hannah, Kramer Levin
Ezaki Glico v Lotte International America
Firm(s): John Dabney and Mary Hallerman, Snell & Wilmer
Georgia v Public.Resource.Org
Firm(s): Eric Citron, Goldstein & Russell
Illumina v Ariosa Diagnostics
Firm(s): Edward Reines and Derek Walter, Weil Gotshal & Manges
In re Medline Industries
Firm(s): Janet Marvel, Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson
Romag Fasteners v Fossil
Firm(s): Lisa Blatt, Williams & Connolly; Jonathan Freiman, Wiggan and Dana
Thryv v Click-To-Call Technologies
Firm(s): Adam Charnes and Mitchell Stockwell, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
USPTO v Booking.com
Firm(s): Lisa Blatt, Williams & Connolly; David Bernstein and Jared Kagan, Debevoise & Plimpton
SPECIAL AWARDS
Americas In-House Team of the Year (Patent)
Gilead Sciences
Americas In-House Team of the Year (Trademark)
3M Company
Americas Practitioner of the Year
María Fernanda Castellanos, Brigard Castro (Colombia)
Americas Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Research methodology
The Managing IP Awards programme is the most comprehensive and widely respected IP law firm awards event in the world. Now in its 16th year, the programme covers a broad range of IP practice areas and more than 30 jurisdictions. Read about the practice areas and award categories at ipstars.com.
Each year our research analysts obtain information from thousands of firms, IP practitioners and their clients through interviews, email and online surveys.
Before compiling the shortlists, our researchers evaluated the work data supplied by firms and, where applicable, reviewed publicly available information such as court and IP office records. They focused on work done or concluded in the previous year, particularly looking for case studies that were of great significance to clients and/or IP law and practice. Firms or individuals can also be shortlisted based on the researcher's independent research findings.
The research for the IP STARS rankings and the Managing IP Awards programme is rigorous and impartial. There is no fee to pay to participate in our research, but participation does not guarantee recognition. The awards are not influenced by any commercial relationship with Managing IP, and no firm or individual can pay to influence the results. Any firm, regardless of its ranking in IP STARS, can win an MIP award.
The Managing IP Awards programme is distinct and separate from any other legal industry awards programmes organised by Euromoney and promoted on our website.
If you have any questions about the MIP Awards programme please contact Kingsley Egbuonu.
History of the MIP Awards
Managing IP launched its awards programme in 2006. The ceremony attracts hundreds of guests from private practice and in-house as well as prominent figures in the IP industry. It is regarded as the premier IP law firm awards event in the legal industry. In total, more than 1,000 guests attended the ceremonies in 2019 and 2020.
To find out who won in 2020, see EMEA Awards here, Americas Awards here, and Asia-Pacific Awards here. You can search and find all the previous MIP award winners on this website.
