Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
When your intellectual property is on the line, you need trial-ready advocates that deliver technical depth and global reach.
We represent clients in high-stakes disputes across patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights, combining deep industry knowledge with courtroom excellence.
Our team is battle-tested in the venues that matter most - from United States (U.S.) district courts and the Federal Circuit to the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and more.
We solve complexity, bringing strategic insight, technical fluency, and relentless execution to every matter. Whether enforcing your rights, defending your market position, or resolving disputes through negotiation or alternative dispute resolution, we align every move with your business objectives.
- Patent litigation
- Trademark litigation
- Copyright litigation
- Trade secret litigation
Our capabilities at a glance
400
+
IP lawyers and professionals
26
Offices represented
200
+
IP litigators
240
Represented over 240 clients in cross-border IP litigation cases over the last 10 years
30
+
years working as one cross-border team
50
+
team members with technical degrees
10
+
years of in-depth knowledge of the UPC having been involved in the foundation of the new court system
50
%+
Represented more than half of the world’s best 100 global brands
Hear from our clients and industry leaders
Hogan Lovells is experienced in patent litigation and especially has a lot of resources to handle IP cases over different jurisdictions. It also has a professional team to handle complicated situations. We trust and rely on the firm.”
Chambers Europe 2024 (client quote)
Total commitment to the client, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Every need met and every problem considered, and a clever, innovative solution found.”
Legal 500 UK 2025, London: Patent Litigation (client quote)
Cross-jurisdictional guide to IP laws
Our Global Class and Collective Actions team defends the world’s leading companies in their most complex, high-stakes disputes. With seamless coordination across jurisdictions and deep local and industry insight, we deliver effective strategies and get results - no matter the issue, no matter the market.
Representative experience
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6
OPPO in UPC and German litigation against Nokia relating to alleged 4G and 5G Standard Essential Patents (SEPs).
Shenzhen Transsion in German and UPC litigation relating to 4G SEPs.
ZTE at the European Court of Justice in Huawei v. ZTE, a landmark case for the whole telecoms industry and patent law community.
An automotive manufacturer in an ITC win, finding both noninfringement and invalidity on semiconductor-related technology, as well as favorable rulings in multiple parallel Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) cases in a large litigation campaign, resulting in a favorable settlement.
PPG Industries in a multi-year bet-the-company patent infringement dispute against arch-competitor Sherwin-Williams Co. over beverage can coatings, securing a unanimous jury trial verdict of noninfringement.
Bristol-Myers Squibb in enforcing its portfolio in relation to Sprycel® in the European Union (second medical use, communication with pharmacies).
Eli Lilly in various proceedings for infringement of the German part of the European patent EP 1 313 508, protecting the client's blockbuster product Alimta® in relation to a second medical use patent on the co-administration of the active substance pemetrexed together with vitamin B12.
LG and Toshiba, and third-party Google, in an ITC action filed by Straight Path involving allegations of patent infringement in mobile devices and applications, including Google Hangouts, Google Talk, and YouTube. Succeeded in getting Talk and Hangouts excluded from the case which forced a favorable resolution.
Astronics in a UK patent infringement action brought against it by Lufthansa Technik AG relating to voltage supply apparatus.
Major computer manufacturers against claims for copying levies in Germany and a major German collecting agency in a landmark case dealing with the distribution of copying levies.
Won a summary judgment on eve of trial for major software company in a competitor case involving vulnerability databases and related technologies.
Secured an asset freezing injunction in Hong Kong in relation to the protection of encryption technology for TV content.
Successfully asserted copyright and breach of contract claims against a former licensee of voice biometric software.
A major software company in competitor patent infringement, copyright infringement and breach of contract action involving electronic design automation and semiconductor IP technologies.
An online marketplace in defense of a trade mark infringement case which was appealed all the way to the UK Supreme Court.
Merck & Co., Inc. in the UK aspects of the world’s largest same name dispute involving major cross border litigation spanning EMEA, the Americas and Asia Pacific, concerning rights to the MERCK trademark and trade name.
Baxter in a trademark dispute concerning parallel importation of one of its oncology drugs.
A global pharmaceutical corporation in a High Court trademark infringement action.
LG Energy Solutions on its multi-year trade secret dispute over electric vehicle batteries with SK Innovation (SKI), which resulted in a US$1.8bn settlement between the two companies.
Rolls-Royce in trade secret misappropriation proceedings brought by SonicBlue Aerospace, which claims that Rolls-Royce allegedly misappropriated trade secrets relating to permanent magnet thrusters.
Awards and recognitions
European Patent Disputes Firm of the Year
Managing Intellectual Property (MIP)
2024
Foreign Patent Firm of the Year – Japan
Global IP Awards
2024
Patent Law Firm of the Year – Italy
Global IP Awards
2024
UK Impact Case of the Year for Anan Kasei Co. & Anor v Neo Chemicals & Oxides
Managing Intellectual Property (MIP)
2024
Band 1 for Patent Litigation/Solicitors in Germany
JUVE Patent
2024
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