Polsinelli’s Intellectual Property Department includes a cross-functional team of attorneys who serve all of our clients' intellectual property needs in various technologies worldwide. Our clients rely on our expansive experience and knowledge to achieve holistic strategies – from due diligence to filing, development, enforcement, defense and beyond – in venues around the world, all within a single law firm.

Our team is regularly called upon by clients to serve as international counsel and advise on intellectual property matters and strategies that span across multiple worldwide jurisdictions. Our IP attorneys are familiar with international clients’ cultures and their corporate needs through our own representations and relationships, so that we are able to serve the international clients better.  In addition, we engage with the international community via direct interaction with clients from across the world, as well as through our extensive network of international law firms. Our relationships with foreign associates allow us to receive and understand the latest developments within the international marketplace, and our attorneys regularly meet with and partner with our foreign associates to create the worldwide portfolios that our clients demand. Similarly, our many foreign associates seek our attorneys’ national competence for their clients’ U.S. filing strategies. Our comprehensive approach helps clients maximize their IP portfolios and advance their business objectives.

Clients find that Polsinelli speaks their language: our team’s diverse backgrounds and skill sets allow us to speak to our clients in their native tongue; establish connections through shared backgrounds and perspectives; and leverage our acumen and technical prowess; to guide them through their most complex issues. We work every day to support our clients’ broad needs abroad.

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Could European Courts Soon Be Litigating and Enforcing U.S. Patents?
Key Takeaways European courts test jurisdiction over U.S. patents for the first time. Onesta IP, LLC, a patent assertion entity, has asserted two U.S. patents against BMW in a court in Munich, Germany following a decision by the Court of Justice for the European Union that expands the ability of European courts to hear disputes involving other countries’ patents. Foreign enforcement could reshape litigation strategy and leverage. Differences in how European courts approach injunctions may create new incentives for patent owners to test enforcement outside the U.S. U.S. courts may resist, but enforcement risk is far from resolved. The outcome of the dispute is uncertain, but the dispute raises legal and policy issues with major implications for businesses that locate portions of their
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The EU AI Act, The World’s First Comprehensive AI Regulatory Scheme
In our last update, we relayed reports of the final roadblocks to adoption of the EU’s AI Act. The AI Act has been in development in the EU since 2017 when the European Council called for a “sense of urgency to address emerging trends including artificial intelligence…, while at the same time ensuring a high level of data protection, digital rights and ethical standards.” The EU sought to gain buy-in at the “Trialogue” level – the European Parliament, the EU Commission, and the Member States -- before 2024 to avoid any entanglement with the 2024 EU elections. These concerns have apparently been resolved following extensive negotiations between the Trialogue stakeholders. The specifics of the compromise reached can be found in the Council of the
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