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Howrey partner duo depart for Olswang and McDermott in Brussels

Two partners have left Howrey's Brussels office to join Olswang and McDermott Will & Emery in the Belgian capital. Patricia Cappuyns joins Olswang's intellectual property (IP) group today (1 September) after five years at Howrey, where she made partner in January 2009. Her client portfolio includes MEGA Brands, DSM, Sara Lee and Elvis Presley Enterprises.
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Simmons adds to City IP practice with Howrey partner hire

Simmons & Simmons is set to boost its intellectual property (IP) practice with the hire of Howrey City partner Marjan Noor. Noor will join Simmons next week (6 September) in the firm's London office. She was previously a partner with Taylor Wessing and joined Howrey two years ago.
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DLA adds partner duo to Hong Kong base with two new appointments

DLA Piper has boosted its Asia presence with two appointments for the firm's Hong Kong base, including a new head of finance. Matthew Glynn, DLA's head of intellectual property and technology (IPT) for the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, has seen his role extended to cover the whole of the Asia region. He is set to relocate from Dubai to Hong Kong, with his new role effective immediately.
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Five-partner Hogan Lovells IP team quits for move to DLA Piper in LA

DLA Piper has recruited a five-partner team from Hogan Lovells' intellectual property (IP) practice in Los Angeles, reports The National Law Journal. The group includes Richard de Bodo, a former IP practice leader at Hogan Lovells whose clients have included Dow Jones, News Corp and Panasonic.
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ECJ Advocate General rejects proposal for unified European patent litigation system

The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared that plans to form a European Patents Court are incompatible with EU treaties, marking a setback in the long-running campaign to create a centralised patent litigation system in Europe. The Council of the European Union requested the opinion of the ECJ last June, with the Advocate General's response on 2 July stating that: "As it stands at present, the envisaged agreement creating a unified patent litigation system is incompatible with the treaties."
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Hammonds and Bakers brew up Chelsea FC beer sponsorship deal

Hammonds and Baker & McKenzie have landed roles on Chelsea Football Club's sponsorship deal with Singha Beer, making the Thai brand Chelsea's official beer.
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Dealmaker of the Week: Avril Martindale, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

In 1999, Avril Martindale, an intellectual property (IP) partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, was tapped by the Ford Motor Company to negotiate the IP aspects of its $6.45bn (£4m) acquisition of Volvo Cars. A decade later, Martindale's IP advice was sought after once more in a deal with Ford, but this time it was China's privately-held Zhejiang Geely Holding Group that was seeking her expertise. Could Freshfields help the Chinese carmaker acquire Volvo, the Swedish auto company Ford was looking to sell? It was an audacious plan: a $625m (£392m) per year grossing Chinese company with no international experience going after a $15bn (£9.4bn) per year grossing Swedish company owned by the oldest car maker in America.
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Clydes recruits Middle East IP chief from DLA

Clyde & Co has boosted its Middle East intellectual property (IP) group with the hire of a partner from DLA Piper. Joycia Young, who specialises in IP and franchising, was head of IP for the Middle East, South Asia and Africa (MESA) region at DLA and was based in the UK top 10 firm's Dubai office. Major deals she worked on at DLA included advising Abu Dhabi media city twofour54 on on filing for trademark registration of its brand in 20 countries throughout the MESA region.
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Howrey boosts presence in Germany with Duesseldorf office launch

Howrey is set to launch in Duesseldorf with the hire of Christoph Lenz, the local office head of intellectual property (IP) firm Bardehle Pagenberg. The new base will open for business in September 2010 and will specialise in patent litigation. Lenz will head up the office alongside one associate, and work closely with Joachim Feldges, the managing partner of Howrey's Munich office and co-chair of the firm's IP practice.
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Expansive RPC recruits intellectual property partner from Arnold & Porter

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has added to its intellectual property (IP) practice with the hire of Arnold & Porter partner Clive Thorne. Thorne, who joined the firm on Monday (5 July), specialises in IP litigation and arbitration and has acted in a wide variety of patent, industrial design, copyright, trademark and IT litigation and arbitration matters.
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