Reinhold Cohn & Partners

The firm: Reinhold Cohn Group is the leading intellectual property firm in Israel. As the largest and earliest established IP firm, RCG offers premier expertise in filing, prosecution, renewals, protection, oppositions, opinions, due diligence, freedom to operate, enforcement, litigation, licensing, commercialisation and evaluation, portfolio management and strategic counselling in all areas of intellectual property such as patents, trademarks, designs, copyrights, open source, plant breeders’ rights etc.

The group includes the patent attorneys firm Reinhold Cohn & Partners and the law firm Gilat, Bareket & Co. As a full-service intellectual property firm, Reinhold Cohn Group includes over 245 employees: among them over 70 are patent attorneys and attorneys at law.

Reinhold Cohn Group and its team of professionals are internationally renowned for excellence and are continually ranked in the top tiers in leading international and local guides.

Reinhold Cohn Group takes pride in the diversity of its clients, which include multinational corporations operating in Israel, large Israeli companies, NASDAQ and other stock exchange companies, academic institutions, start-up companies (at various stages of development), mid-stage corporations, private investors and funds, scientists, entrepreneurs and inventors. Among the firm’s clients, international foreign companies and corporations exclusively seek its services for drafting and filing applications in Israel and in various other jurisdictions. Clients benefit from the services the group offers, based on the implicit appreciation of its expertise in intellectual property, and stemming from the top-quality service extended to each client.

The group operates through several professional departments – life sciences and chemistry, hi-tech, mechanics and technology, physics, medical devices, nanotechnology, trade marks and designs.

The law firm of Gilat, Bareket & Co. is one of the leading intellectual property firms in Israel, specialising in litigation and legal protection of intellectual property rights in patents, technologies, brands, designs, creative works and inventions. With years of professional experience, Gilat, Bareket & Co. garners recognition for successfully litigating landmark cases and representing domestic and international clients in the areas of its expertise, including patent and trade mark litigation, protection of designs and copyright, structuring and negotiating IP-related contracts and transactions, R&D agreements, licence agreements, knowledge acquisition and technology transfer agreements and agreements vis-à-vis collective rights management societies, enforcement of brand owners’ rights to prevent import and distribution of counterfeits and imitations, investment agreements, obtaining financing from the governmental Office of the Chief Scientist and other institutional investors, non-disclosure agreements, distribution agreements, internet law and strategic co-operation with foreign companies.

In addition, the firm provides general legal assistance in other fields, eg, company law, competition law, antitrust and property law, and successfully represents its clients before the courts in Israel and before the Patents, Designs and Trademarks Registrar.

Gilat, Bareket & Co. includes 23 attorneys at law, several of whom also hold academic degrees in sciences. Extensive legal knowledge and experience, as well as technological and scientific insight, enables Gilat, Bareket & Co. to offer an effective and optimal legal protection strategy which considers each client’s intellectual property assets in light of its business strategy in general.

The firm’s partners also publish articles in international magazines and recently co-authored a new book Intellectual property law in Israel (2013). The book derives from the chapter on intellectual property law in Israel in the Encyclopedia of Laws (IEL) published by the internationally renowned Kluwer Law International.