Awards
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.
Managing IP Awards / IP Stars
- EPO - Firm of the Year award, 2022-2023
- Europe - Firm of the Year award - Patent Prosecution, 2019-2020
- Germany - Firm of the Year award - Patent Prosecution, 2021, 2025
- Germany - Firm of the Year award - Patent Contentious (Patent & Trade Mark Attorney Firms), 2019, 2023
- Winner "IP Stars Top Tier Firm" award 2013-2024
- Tier 1 in Patent disputes - patent & trade mark attorney firms and Patent Prosecution, 2025
- Tier 3 in Trade mark - patent & trade mark attorney firms, 2025
- Europe - Impact Case of the Year award - Sanofi v Amgen, 2025
- Recommended in UPC Litigation, 2025
- 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
IAM Patent 1000
- Consecutively awarded Gold Rating (Highly Recommended) in Prosecution and Nullity, as well as European Patent Office since 2013
- Consecutively classified Recommended for Patent Infringement Proceedings Germany since 2017
- Consecutively classified Recommended for IP Transactions Germany since 2017
- Consecutively classified Recommended for Patent Filing Procedures Spain since 2017
- Regular awarded attorneys: Andreas Stefferl; Frank van Bouwelen; Joachim Renken; Joseph Taormino; Morten Garberg; Leo Polz; Peter Klusmann; Thorsten Bausch; Veit Peter Frank, Clemens Tobias Steins, Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Gustavo Fúster Olaguibel; Silvia Bertran Valls („recommended“)
Legal500 Deutschland/EMEA
- Consecutively placed Tier 1 in the category Patent Prosecution since 2010
- Consecutively placed Tier 2 in the category Patent Litigation since 2016
- Tier 2 classification in the category Patent Attorneys: Patent Litigation, 2024
- Tier 3 classification in the category Trademark Law, 2025
- 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
- Consecutively calssified as Leading in the category Patent prosecution since 2017
- Classified as Highly Recommended in the category Patent litigation 2026
- Classified as Excellent in the category Trademark prosecution and Trademark litigation 2026
- Recommended attorneys: Markus Müller, Henrik Vocke, Dorothea von Renesse, Peter Klusmann, Gregor König, Michael Pfeifer, Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Holger Stratmann, Clemens Tobias Steins, Isabelle Kuschel, Michaela Ring
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