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Fenwick & West handles significant litigation, corporate, intellectual property and tax matters for clients throughout Asia and Europe. The firm has close working relationships with leading law firms in jurisdictions where clients are active including: Japan, China, India, Taiwan and the various countries of the European Union. We are able to make selections among multiple firms in each jurisdiction to suit each client's particular business and legal needs. This allows us to complete filings directly via the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
The firm's IP Group is recognized as a leader in international IP portfolio management; for example, the Trademark Group manages international registration and policing for some of the largest technology trademark portfolios in the world, currently prosecuting over 12,500 applications and registrations in over 160 jurisdictions worldwide.
The firm routinely handles corporate transactions, venture capital financing, licensing transactions and litigation in foreign jurisdictions for its U.S. clients, and represents a growing number of foreign technology companies throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East on U.S.-related transactions. The firm has particular expertise in the IP issues related to outsourcing.
Our Tax Group is continually recognized as one of the top tax practices in the United States, particularly in the areas of cross-border transactions and transfer pricing.
Fenwick is also Safe Harbor compliant, committed to handling all data subject to the European Union Directive on Data Protection and/or the Federal Data Protection and Information Commission of Switzerland in accordance with the Safe Harbor Principles of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
For more information about our International Practices, please contact Ralph Pais at rpais@fenwick.com or 1.650.335.7148.
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