K&L Gates LLP and 16 lawyers across the firm’s global platform have been recognized among the world’s leading trademark practices and professionals in World Trademark Review’s annual WTR 1000 rankings, a comprehensive survey of leading trademark practitioners in more than 80 key jurisdictions worldwide.

As a firm, K&L Gates was ranked in the following categories:

• International (recommended)
• Australia (enforcement and litigation)
• Australia (prosecution and strategy)
• United Kingdom (England and Wales, prosecution and strategy)
• United States (Illinois, prosecution and strategy)
• United States (Massachusetts, Firms)
• United States (Texas, Firms)

Recommended individual lawyers ranked in the 2024 edition include:

• London partner Arthur Artinian (United Kingdom: England and Wales)
• Boston of counsel Kathleen Burch (United States: Massachusetts) 
• Boston partner David Byer (United States: Massachusetts)
• Hong Kong of counsel Winnie Chan (China and SARs: Hong Kong)
• Chicago partner Alexis Crawford Douglas (United States: Illinois)
• Melbourne partner Jonathan Feder (Australia)
• Austin partner Christopher Graff (United States: Texas)
• Chicago partner Sana Hakim (United States: Illinois)
• Seattle partner Pam Jacobson (United States: Washington)
• Washington, D.C., partner Susan Kayser (United States: DC Metro Area)
• Pittsburgh partner Curtis Krasik (United States: Pennsylvania)
• Austin partner Stewart Mesher (United States: Texas)
• Melbourne partner Chris Round (Australia)
• Chicago partner Kathryn Starshak (United States: Illinois)
• Melbourne partner Tony Watson (Australia)
• Beijing partner Edward Yao (China and SARs: China: Foreign)

Now in its fourteenth year, the World Trademark Review 1000 survey is one of the industry’s highly regarded publications and is based on face-to-face and telephone interviews with hundreds of lawyers and clients in the trademark industry, taking into account depth of expertise, market presence, and the level of work typically handled.

K&L Gates’ IP practice has more than 250 lawyers and professionals – including more than 100 registered patent lawyers, agents, and technology specialists with technical or advanced science degrees, nearly 30 with doctorates – who devote their practices to helping clients establish, enforce, and leverage their intellectual property rights worldwide. Through its members across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Australia, K&L Gates’ IP practice filed more than 5,400 patent applications and 4,550 trademarks worldwide in 2023.