It’s been an active year for intellectual property hiring across the country, and Pennsylvania firms are no exception to the trend.

Most recently, Pepper Hamilton announced earlier this month that it had hired IP partner John Isacson from Perkins Coie in Washington, D.C. Pepper Hamilton also added two IP partners earlier this year from Andrews Kurth Kenyon, now called Hunton Andrews Kurth. Isacson said in a statement that Pepper Hamilton’s large health sciences department was a good fit for his IP practice, which is focused on pharmaceuticals and biologics.