Awards and Rankings
Feedback from the IP community
Year by year, the IP community continues to honour our firm with positive feedback and awards. These are a sign of appreciation for the passion and dedication we invest on behalf of our clients as an intellectual property law firm. However, what our international team enjoys receiving most of all is personal feedback from our clients upon successful completion of a project.
IP Stars by Managing IP
- Tier 1 - Patent prosecution (2026)
- Tier 1 - Patent disputes - patent & trade mark attorney firms (2026)
- Tier 2 - UPC litigation (2026)
- Tier 3 - Trade mark - patent & trade mark attorney firms (2026)
- Patent stars: Thorsten Bausch, Thomas Gniadek, Peter Klusmann, Gregor König, Anne Katrin Schön, Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Georg Siegert, Dorothea von Renesse
- Trade mark stars: Isabelle Kuschel, Michaela Ring
- Notable practitioners: Marcel-Xavier Peigné, Timo Pruss, Carla Roth, Joseph Taormino, Claudia Unsin, Lasse Weinmann
- Rising stars: Irene Martin Badajoz, Sebastian Giese, Michael Pfeifer, Jonas Smeets
- Top 250 Women in IP: Anne Katrin Schön
IAM Patent 1000
- Gold – Prosecution and nullity (Germany) (consecutively since 2013)
- Gold - European Patent Office (EPO) (consecutively since 2013)
- Silver – Unified Patent Court (2026)
- Bronze – Infringement Proceedings (Germany) (2026)
- Recommended – IP Transactions (Germany) (consecutively since 2017)
- Silver – Prosecution (Spain) (2026)
- Recommended attorneys: Thorsten Bausch, Silvia Bertran Valls, Elisabeth Engelhard, Axel Esser, Veit Peter Frank, Morten Garberg, Peter Klusmann, Gregor König, Gustavo Fúster Olaguibel, Leo Polz, Joachim Renken, Carla Roth, Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Andreas Stefferl, Clemens Tobias Steins, Holger Stratmann, Joseph Taormino, Frank van Bouwelen, Dorothea von Renesse, Miguel Ángel Martínez
Legal 500 Germany/EMEA
- Tier 1 - Patent Prosecution (consecutively since 2010)
- Tier 1 - Patent Litigation: Patent Lawyers (2026)
- Tier 2 - Patent Litigation: Solicitors (consecutively since 2016)
- Tier 3 - Trademark Law (2026)
- Recommended attorneys: Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Holger Stratmann, Matthias Kindler, Peter Klusmann, Klemens Stratmann, Leo Polz, Joseph Taormino, Georg Siegert, Christopher Furlong, Michaela Ring
Leaders League
- Leading – Patent Prosecution (consecutively since 2017)
- Excellent – Trademark Prosecution & Trademark Litigation (2026)
- Highly Recommended – Patent Litigation (2026)
- Recommended attorneys: Peter Klusmann, Gregor König, Isabelle Kuschel, Markus Müller, Michael Pfeifer, Michaela Ring, Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Clemens Tobias Steins, Holger Stratmann, Henrik Vocke, Dorothea von Renesse
Chambers Europe/National
- Consecutively placed Tier 1 in the category Patent Prosecution for Germany since 2012
- Consecutively placed Tier 4 in the category Patent Litigation for Germany since 2018
- Regular awarded attorneys: Peter Klusmann, Thorsten Bausch (Band 2); Joseph Taormino (Band 3) und Leo Polz (Band 4).
JUVE (-Patent)
- Consecutively placed Tier 1 in the category Patent Litigation/Patent Attorneys since 2012
- Consecutively placed Tier 3 in the category Patent Litigation/Lawyers since 2016
- Consecutively placed Tier 4 in the category Trademark and Design Law since 2016
- Regularly recommended lawyers for "Patent Filing": Thorsten Bausch, Mark Jones, Peter Klusmann, Matthias Kindler, Markus Müller, Georg Siegert, Peter Schweighart, Andreas Stefferl, Leo Polz, Joachim Renken, Joseph Taormino
World Trademark Review 1000
- Bronze firm 2025 for the EUIPO, Germany, and Spain
- Silver Ranking 2025 Recommended Individuals: Michaela Ring
- Bronze Ranking 2025 Recommended Individuals: Isabelle Kuschel