Cohn, de Vries, Stadler & Co. (CDS-LUTHI Group)

Firm Details: Cohn, de Vries, Stadler & Co. (CDS-LUTHI)

Senior Partners: Dr Ilan Cohn, David de Vries, Svetlana Stadler

Number of partners: 8

Number of associates: 6

Number of other fee-earners: 21

Languages: Hebrew, English, French, Russian

The Firm:

Cohn, de Vries, Stadler & Co. (CDS), a member of the CDS-LUTHI IP Group, is an influential and contemporary IP firm that was established in December 2020 by eight former, senior partners from an Israeli leading IP Group, several of whom are internationally renowned and ranked in the most highly regarded professional directories – among them Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, IAM 300 Global Leaders, IAM 300 Strategy, IAM 1000, Who’s Who Legal and IP STARS. These partners, along with the team of attorneys who joined them in forming the firm, bring together many decades of professional experience in providing high-quality IP services under one roof in a state-of-the-art set-up.

Main Areas of Practice:

Expertise:

The firm’s professional IP expertise, technical knowledge and business vision spans a wide range of IP disciplines, technologies, industries and markets. The team include patent attorneys with a broad range of technological backgrounds, attorneys at law and others. The technological backgrounds of the patent attorneys include biotechnology, chemical engineering, chemistry, computer sciences, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, physics and more. In addition to patents, the firm’s professional team has proven expertise in other IP disciplines including designs and trademarks.

The professional team includes twelve patent attorneys, four attorneys at law, eleven paralegals and additional staff.

The firm’s clients come from a variety of industries, including aggrotech, chemistry, foodtech, life sciences, digital health, medical devices and equipment, pharmaceuticals, cleantech, consumer products, manufacturing processes, automotive, water technologies, renewable energy, military technologies, mechanical engineering, aviation, space, construction and engineering, electronic devices, manufacturing technologies, packaging, semiconductors, optics, electro-optics, laser systems, digital printing, imaging, communications, computer science, electronics, telecommunications, big data, information storage, information security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, material sciences, electrical and electronic engineering and MEMS among others.

The firm also assists clients in monetizing their IP assets in licensing, selling and/or enforcing their IP rights.

Holistic approach:

With such proficiency, CDS provides its clients with a holistic approach to IP services that is customized to meet the client's business and business development strategy needs. Those needs are met by taking into consideration the state of technological development, competitive landscape, business model and other variables with the goal of maximizing value.

CDS is a one-stop professional service provider for knowledge and IP-based enterprises to build and grow value and revenue-generating IP assets. The firm integrates decades of expertise in an extensive range of IP disciplines to offer comprehensive IP services, from the in-depth analysis of a patent landscape and expert advice on how to better protect knowledge and ideas to the build-up of high-tier value-generating portfolios of patents and other IP assets.

The firm endeavors to foster an authentic partnership with its clients and, through its flexible and creative approach to intellectual property, to enable them to actualize their goals, develop their business, and protect and profit from their IP assets.

Services:

The firm provides a wide range of services that cover IP strategy consulting, IP due diligence, freedom-to-operate studies, patentability studies, invention mining, commercialization, M&A consulting and IP licensing, in addition to servicing clients in drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications worldwide, filing and prosecuting design and trademark applications, as well as maintenance of IP rights. The firm is highly experienced in assisting clients in procuring and maintaining IP rights throughout the world and in representing foreign clients before the Israeli Patent Office.

Clients:

CDS provides intellectual property services to a diverse clientele which includes early-stage start-ups, private inventors, technology-based companies, technology transfer companies of academic institutions, multinational private and public global corporations, private and institutional investors and more. Hundreds of loyal clients have chosen to follow the founding partners to the new firm. These loyal clients were joined by over a hundred new clients that engaged the firm for handling their IP matters.

In October 2022, Cohn, de Vries, Stadler & Co. (CDS) formed CDS-LUTHI – a multifaceted intellectual property group – together with Israel's leading IP law firm Luthi & Co. CDS is the Group's IP procurement arm, while Luthi & Co. is its legal arm.

Contact: Dr Ilan Cohn

Tel: + 972- 73-398-9000

Email: [email protected]