Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, a Chicago-based intellectual property law firm, is opening an office in Raleigh/Durham, N.C., with the hiring of two local patent attorneys who the firm hopes will help expand its existing client ties there.

Brinks Hofer is hiring Allen Baum and Josh Elliott as partners from the Raleigh-based Hutchison Law Group, and the new office will open on July 15, the Chicago firm said in a press release.