Ropes & Gray Ranks Highly in World Intellectual Property Review Global Trade Secrets Rankings

Ropes & Gray ranked highly in the edition of the World Intellectual Property Review 2024 Global Trade Secrets rankings.

Highlighting the firm’s expertise, the WIPR Global Trade Secrets Rankings guide notes, “Ropes & Gray’s trade secret team, noted by peers for “excelling in litigation”, provides an advisory service covering all aspects of trade secrets protection at all stages of the development lifecycle of the key technologies, processes, systems and products, among others, at the core of our clients’ business models.” “Collectively, Ropes and Gray’s attorneys have handled more than 100 trade secret investigations and were one of the first law firms in the US to apply for and be granted an ex parte seizure order under the Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act.”

The ranking highlights individuals including IP litigation senior counsel Peter Brody, who heads Ropes & Gray’s Trademark, Copyright, False Advertising and Trade Secret practice, IP litigation partner and trade secrets specialist David Chun, and IP litigation counsel Evan Gourvitz, who achieved a positive settlement in trade secrets litigation for portfolio company Exactech and its subsidiary XpandOrtho.

The ranking also notes IP litigation partner Matt Rizzolo and IP litigation counsel Cassandra Roth and Matthew Shapiro, who hosted an edition of the firm’s Talkin’ Trade podcast on developments at the US International Trade Commission on the theme of “Trade Secrets, False Advertising, Antitrust, Oh My!”