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Leading the market & understanding your issues & protecting your inspiration & acting internationally, while thinking locally & complete confidence & that’s IP with Bird & Bird

A truly international firm & organised around our clients & passion and insight & connecting with our clients’ vision & commercial advantage & where service matters & that’s Bird & Bird

Recent highlights of work

  • We have been acting for Nokia against IPCom, in the biggest and longest running patent litigation in the communications sector, resulting in over 60 of IPCom's patents being found invalid. Bird & Bird has acted on the litigation in the UK, Germany and Italy (and the EPO) which is ongoing but with the bulk of the issue now being resolved, the result has been an overwhelming success for Nokia. This work has seen the team win ‘TMT Team of the Year’ at the 2013 Legal Business Awards and ‘Highly Commended’ in the FT Innovative Lawyer Report in 2012.
  • Over the years our advice to long-term client Mattel Inc, has included representing them in the first pan-European unregistered design right injunction against Simba Toys in respect of a design for a doll, as well as in trade mark proceedings against an App manufacturer and distributer, relating to Mattel’s world-renowned Scrabble game.
  • We successfully represented the European Central Bank in eight parallel patent revocation proceedings relating to anti-counterfeit technology which was, according to the patentee, allegedly contained in the Euro banknotes. We coordinated responses through our offices in Germany, Spain, Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as well as through associated firms in Austria and Luxembourg. We continue to represent ECB on this matter in Spain.
  • We represent the world's leading luxury group Richemont in a number of their prominent international IP enforcement cases, including multi-national litigation for their leading brands Cartier and Montblanc.
  • As well as providing strategic commercial advice in Europe and Asia, we are acting for Honeywell in various patent infringement proceedings in Germany, Italy and Poland and are also co-ordinating proceedings in Turkey and Portugal. We have also provided advice and coordination for Honeywell at the EPO and in a number of other EPC states.

Contacts

Christian Harmsen

Christian Harmsen

Partner
Germany

Call me on: +49 (0)211 2005 6000
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Macdonald-Morag

Morag Macdonald

Partner
UK

Call me on: +44 (0)20 7415 6000
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News & Events

  1. 1806-2018

    Artificial Intelligence in the UK: ready, willing and able?

    A panel from the 'House of Lords', the second chamber of the UK parliament, has recently released its report on AI titled, AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?.

  2. 1506-2018

    Screening of FDI - EU and national developments

    Currently, certain European Union ('EU') Member States (see the map below) maintain screening mechanisms for foreign direct investment ('FDI'). FDI can be described as non-EU persons or entities setting up or purchasing (parts of) EU businesses.

  3. 1406-2018

    Poland: Changes required to your Work Regulations or Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), if you want to monitor your employees

    As of 25 May 2018, every employer in Poland that applies any form of employee monitoring must adjust their internal regulations.