About WIPR Rankings

About WIPR Rankings

Welcome to WIPR Rankings—the home of authoritative, well-researched, business-essential rankings of intellectual property law firms and lawyers.

Our aim is to provide a global audience of leading in-house counsel and private practice lawyers with the most comprehensive and rigorous insights into the IP landscape.

We launched our independent rankings after identifying space for a nimble player, with high credibility, to provide an enhancement to current offerings from a fresh market position.

Our experienced team is led by rankings editor Baron Armah-Kwantreng, formerly head of research at Chambers and Partners; and supported by Sarah Speight, a senior writer for WIPR and LSIPR and now also a WIPR Rankings research analyst.

We currently focus our attention on four jurisdictions: UK, Germany, China and USA, and three practice areas: Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets.

The first half of 2024 saw us release the UK Trademarks Rankings and Germany Trademark Rankings. Later this year we will launch: Global Trade Secrets; China Patent Rankings; China International Trademark Rankings, China PRC Trademark Rankings, USA Trade Secrets; USA Patent Rankings; USA Trademark Rankings; and finally, UK Patent Rankings.

WIPR Leaders 2024 is our flagship global rankings project which features profiles of more than 2,000 leading IP practitioners from 86 countries on all six continents. WIPR Leaders is a dynamic project which will be updated throughout the year, based on new market intelligence gathered by our research team.

Finally, we work closely with our editorial team to research and vet WIPR Diversity Top 100. We run an annual survey on diversity in IP, which allows industry professionals to nominate those individuals for the exceptional work they are performing within the industry.

These results are combined with extensive in-house research to identify and recognise the best individuals in four categories: Influential Women; Diversity Champions; Trailblazers; and Change Drivers.

WIPR Rankings Submissions

Our team follow a four-pronged approach to ensure robust and informed results:

1. Submissions: Firms are invited to submit evidence of the work that they and their practitioners have concluded in the previous period to justify their inclusion in the relevant rankings. You can nominate clients and others as referees, and include comments from them, in the submission.
2. Client referees: All referees will be contacted via email asking them for non-attributable feedback on your firm relative to the practice area being ranked. Referees may also be asked if they would like to speak to a researcher for a follow-up conversation.
3. Telephone interviews: As part of the vetting process, selected lawyers will be invited to speak to the researcher in more detail about the firm’s submission. During these calls, they may be asked about their experience and appraisal of other firms in the relevant area. Any comments used in the editorial from these conversations will be anonymised.
4. In-house research: Our team underscores the responses from law firms and their referees with our own internal research using a variety of regulatory and other resources.

2024 Rankings Calendar

Click here to access our calendar.

2024 Rankings Submissions

Click here to access UK Patent Rankings.
Click here to access UK Trade Secrets.

Queries

For submission or editorial queries please contact:

Baron Armah-Kwantreng
Rankings Editor
World IP Review
Email: barmah-kwantreng@worldipreview.com
Tel: +44 (0)203 301 8226

Sarah Speight
Senior Writer & Research Analyst
World IP Review
Email: sspeight@newtonmedia.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)203 301 8236

For commercial opportunities please contact:

Graeme Cathie
Publisher/Commercial Sales
World IP Review
Email: gcathie@newtonmedia.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 203 301 8228