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Marks & Clerk is an international group of intellectual property service providers, encompassing patent attorneys, trade mark attorneys, lawyers and consultants.Including partners, it currently employs over 300 legal practitioners worldwide and over 550 other staff. [1]
Ranked #1 in six out of seven IP categories, more than any other law firm. (The Legal 500, 2019) [10] Ranked as a Tier 1 law firm in more than a dozen U.S. and international IP categories. (IAM Patent 1000, 2019) [11] Named “D.C. Intellectual Property Litigation Department of the Year” (The National Law Journal, 2018, 2019) [12]
In October 2019, the firm moved its main office to Cranford, New Jersey. In 1983, the firm became Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentilk LLP. In 2010, Lerner David opened offices in Guangzhou, China. [3] [4] The firm was the first American intellectual property law firm located in the Pearl River Delta.
Some sources [3] state that Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin purchased Schwarz's patent from his widow in 1898, while others claim that the count used the design. However, Hugo Eckener, who worked with Count Zeppelin, dismissed these claims: "Count Zeppelin negotiated with Herr Berg's firm for the purchase of the aluminium for his own ship.
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German: Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; [1] 8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s. He founded the company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.
Sugimura was founded in 1923 by patent attorney and engineer Nobuchika Sugimura. [4] [5] The firm specializes in providing legal services in the acquisition, protection and consultation of Japanese IP rights, and is repeatedly ranked among the top Japanese patent and trademark firms. [6]
Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1915, photograph by Theodor Hilsdorf. The company was founded by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the inventor of the zeppelin airship and engineer Alfred von Soden-Fraunhofen in 1915 in Friedrichshafen, Germany as a subsidiary of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, to manufacture gears for zeppelins and other airships. [7]
The firm also prepares and prosecutes foreign and domestic patent applications, as well as trademark and copyright applications. On average, more than 300 patents per year are issued by the U.S. Patent Office with Fitch Even listed as the legal representative. [6] The firm also filed over 470 trademark applications in 2006. [7]