Intellectual Property

Cleary Gottlieb understands that our clients’ most valuable assets are often their intellectual property, products and technology. We offer our clients the complete range of legal services for enforcing and defending, as well as commercializing, exploiting and acquiring, all types of intellectual property. As part of a leading full-service global practice, Cleary Gottlieb lawyers command the resources to address the issues that impact intellectual property throughout the world.

We have considerable depth in the full array of intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks. Clients in financial services, telecommunications, information technology, e-commerce, computer hardware and software, consumer products, media and entertainment, metals and mining, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and other industries rely on us to address their most important issues involving intellectual property rights.


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Practice Highlights

Cleary Gottlieb Named a 2011 “Go-To Law Firm” for Intellectual Property

Cleary Gottlieb has been named to Corporate Counsel’s 2011 list of Go-To Law Firms for the nation’s top 500 companies for Intellectual Property.

Go-To Law Firms were chosen from an American Lawyer Media (ALM) national survey of General Counsel at Fortune 500 companies, coupled with in-depth research and analysis of various public filings and resources.

The Go-To Law Firms are included in the 2011 edition of In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies, published by ALM.