Reinhold Cohn Group

Firm Details: 

Number of partners: 26

Number of lawyers: 58

Languages: English, French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Firm Overview: 

Reinhold Cohn Group (RCG) is Israel's leading intellectual property consulting firm. RCG offers expertise with a full breadth of intellectual property consulting services, including protection, asset management, due diligence, litigation, and legal services. The firm operates in all IP areas, such as patents, trademarks, designs, copyrights, open source, plant breeders' rights, etc.

The group includes the intellectual property attorneys firm Reinhold Cohn & Partners and the law firm Gilat, Bareket & Co. The collaboration of patent attorneys with experience in a wide range of technological and scientific disciplines with legal professionals results in a unique and effective platform for maximizing the returns on a client's intellectual property assets by ensuring optimal protection.

Main Areas of Practice: 

The firm covers an extensive range of IP services: drafting and prosecuting patent applications in Israel and abroad, licensing, managing IP portfolios, providing opinions on IP issues, advice on patent, trademark, design infringement and validity, litigation, commercialisation and enforcement of IP rights. The group operates in several professional departments:

Life Sciences & Chemistry: Operates in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical compositions and equipment, molecular biology, organic and inorganic chemistry, agriculture, nanotechnology, biochemistry, pharmacology, food technology, diagnostics, greentech and related fields.

Hi-Tech: Encompasses expertise in a wide range of technologies, including computers (hardware and software), computer-based inventions, electrical engineering and electronics, electro-optics, cellular technology, databases, multi- and digital-media, integrated systems and processes, semiconductor devices and related processes, communications and telecommunications, Internet, computer-based business methods, storage, etc.

Technology/Mechanics: Operates in mechanics and engineering and specializes in various engineering domains such as automotive, aerospace, maritime materials, and agriculture. Other expertise is optics, medical devices and equipment, agricultural and water technologies, consumer products, packaging and handling of merchandise and materials, military technologies, dentistry, etc.

Physics: Operates in optics, electro-optics, acoustics, electrical engineering, optical communication, optical and electronic information storage, semiconductor-based technologies, medical devices, nanotechnology, etc.

Medical Devices: An interdisciplinary field combining various areas of expertise, including engineering, life science, physics, electronics, material science, software, pharmaceuticals and others. This field demands an innovative multidisciplinary approach, and therefore, ad hoc teams of professionals are formed to handle specific projects, each one handling the aspects within their technological area of expertise.

Trademarks: Provides strategic and legal counselling relating to the selection of trademarks and their proper use, planning, implementation and management of international trademark portfolios for local and international clients. The department conducts searches to ascertain the degree of freedom to operate, and provides opinions regarding availability for use and inherent registrability. It handles trademark filing, prosecution and registration, as well as domain name registration, drafts trademark-related agreements, and maintains worldwide trademark watches.

Designs: Specialises in consulting its clients on optimal means to protect designs. The department deploys a selection of strategies and tactics for filing designs, occasionally alongside drafting patent applications pertaining to the same subject matter, in order to consider all aspects of protection and enforcement of respective rights.

Gilat, Bareket & Co., Attorneys-at-Law: 

Gilat, Bareket & Co. is one of the leading intellectual property law firms in Israel, specializing 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. The firm's areas of its expertise include patent and trademark litigation, protection of designs and copyright, and structuring and negotiating IP-related contracts and transactions. The firm helps its customers with R&D and license agreements, knowledge acquisition and technology transfer agreements and agreements vis-à-vis collective rights management societies. The firm also provides a service of enforcement of brand owners' rights to prevent the import and distribution of counterfeits and imitations. Other areas of expertise include 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 cooperation with foreign companies.

In addition, the firm provides general legal assistance in other fields, e.g., 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. Several of Gilat, Bareket & Co. attorneys at law also hold academic degrees in sciences. Extensive legal knowledge and experience, as well as technological and scientific insights, enable Gilat, Bareket & Co. to offer an effective and optimal legal protection strategy that considers each client's intellectual property assets in light of its general business strategy.

Rankings:  

RCG and its team are internationally renowned for excellence and are continually ranked in the top tiers in leading international and local guides such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Managing Intellectual Property, WTR1000, IAM 300, IAM 1000, Who's Who Legal, D&B Israel, and BDI.

International Work: 

Reinhold Cohn Group is internationally and locally recognised as a leader in intellectual property. The Group takes pride in its diverse client base, which includes multinational corporations operating in Israel, large Israeli companies, public companies traded on NASDAQ and other stock markets, academic institutions, start-up companies (at various stages of development), mid-stage corporations, private investors and funds, scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors. Among our clients are international foreign companies and corporations that use our services exclusively for drafting and filing applications in Israel and other jurisdictions.