Rankings & Recognitions
World Trademark Review 1000 Recognizes K&L Gates IP Lawyers as Trademark Leaders in 2025 Edition
K&L Gates LLP and 17 lawyers across the firm’s global platform have been recognized among the world’s leading trademark 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 (Firms: enforcement and litigation)
- Australia (Firms: prosecution and strategy)
- United Kingdom (England and Wales, Firms: prosecution and strategy)
- United States (Illinois, Firms: prosecution and strategy)
- United States (Massachusetts, Firms)
- United States (Texas, Firms)
- United States (Washington, Firms)
Recommended individual lawyers ranked in the 2025 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)
- London partner Simon Casinader (United Kingdom: England and Wales)
- 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)
- Pittsburgh partner Curtis Krasik (United States: Pennsylvania)
- Frankfurt partner Daniel Marschollek (Germany)
- Frankfurt counsel Manuel Merling (Germany)
- 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 15th 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 boasts more than 250 lawyers and professionals – including more than 115 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. The practice filed more than 5,535 patent applications and 4,455 trademarks worldwide in 2024. The firm remains the only globally financially integrated law firm offering clients IP services across four continents.
K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents. The firm represents leading multinational corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals.