22 AWA attorneys across six jurisdictions featured in IAM Patent 1000
IAM has released the 2025 edition of the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals.
For the first time, Hongyue Li in China, Joanna Applequist in Sweden and Astrid De Ro in Switzerland have been included in the rankings as recommended individuals.
They join the following AWA attorneys already listed in the individual rankings:
- Emmanuel Flamme, Dieter Heck and Marc Lerho in Belgium,
- Stefan Borch Bilfeldt, Eva Carlsson, Sidsel Hauge, Lasse Henze, Kim Garsdal Nielsen, Michael Bech Sommer, Joacim Lydén, Mikkel Roed Trier and Vibeke Warberg Rohde in Denmark,
- Carsten Lous in Norway,
- Mikael Henriksson, Anders Isaksson, Louise Jonshammar, Niklas Mattsson, Simon Markström and Mattias Pierrou in Sweden.
Spanning litigation and prosecution categories and covering six jurisdictions across Europe and Asia, AWA has 22 attorneys listed as recommended individuals in the IAM Patent 1000.
In addition to the recommended individual rankings, AWA’s patent prosecution practice was recognised in Belgium, China, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. In Sweden, the litigation practice was also recommended.
AWA was further recognised in the international category for firms that have established a global presence and in the European Patent Office (EPO) category. Eva Carlsson and Niklas Mattsson were also listed as recommended individuals in the EPO category.
The IAM Patent 1000 is the definitive resource for identifying world-class individual and firm-wide private practice patent expertise. The guide was compiled following an extensive research process that included reviewing detailed firm submissions and interviewing numerous attorneys-at-law, patent attorneys and in-house counsel.