Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, a leading international intellectual property law firm with 85 attorneys and patent attorneys and Baratz& Co., a leading corporate and commercial law firm with 35 attorneys, today announced that the firms are merging. The merged firm, Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz, will include 120 attorneys and patent attorneys operating in Israel from offices in Tel Aviv, ... Read more

Michelle Deng Ph.D., a senior counsel at PCZL, is invited to present at the 28th Annual World Trade Day, one of the largest international trade conferences in the northeast region. Dr. Deng will discuss global business related intellectual property issues, focusing on strategies to maximize commercial outcome while minimize intellectual property risks. About 550 business attendees participated in the 27th ... Read more

This coming Sunday, May 12, 2013,  Mark Cohen - Senior Partner and Head of the Life Science Group - is set to participate in TEDxBGU. The event, hosted by Ben Gurion University, will bring together various speakers, all presenting "ideas worth spreading". Mark will discuss THINK: Innovate. Inventions, Innovations, and Value Creation. To learn more about the event and how to watch the ... Read more

PCZL co-sponsored the April 30 Tech Crunch Road Show start-up battlefield competition in New York City. 13 Israeli and Brazilian start-ups presented their companies to an audience of tech industry insiders. The audience then voted for its favorite start-up. The US Israel Business Council organized the event. The event drew a crowd of 230, including executives from numerous PCZL high-tech ... Read more

PCZL is very proud to be a sponsor of the conference “Best Practices in Intellectual Property 2013: International Perspectives on Creating and Extracting Value,” to be held in Tel Aviv on May 29, 2013. Partners Zeev Pearl, Guy Yonay and Hadar Solomon will be participating in panels alongside leading figures in the IP monetization field. Zeev Pearl is a founder and the ... Read more

On April 29, 2013, Yossi Markovich, a Partner at PCZL, will be hosting a convention on the Memorandum of Design Law, together with Dr. Chagai Vinitzki and Dr. Victor H. Bouganim, both from the Shaarei Mishpat College. The protection of designs in Israel is still derived from the Mandatory Ordinance of 1924.  In January 2013, the Ministry of Law published the ... Read more

PCZL is proud to announce that both the International Law Office and Lexology awarded Dor Cohen Zedek, a Partner at PCZL, the 2013 "Client Choice Award" in the "Intellectual Property: Trademarks" category.  The winner is selected from a pool of more than 2,000 individual client assessments. Dor is a Partner in the Trademarks, Designs and Litigation Groups in PCZL’s Herzliya office, ... Read more

PCZL is proud to announce its ranking as one of the two leading patent firms in Israel. As in previous years, Dun & Bradstreet ("D&B") ranked the leading patent firms in Israel using the highest quality standards.  A number of factors were taken into consideration in ranking the firms, including the number of patent attorneys and professional employees, the clients, and ... Read more

Mark S. Cohen Chair of the Life Science Practice Group of Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer represents Prolor Biotec in its patent and licensing matters, and represented PROLOR on patent and licensing matters as related to the OPKO purchase of PROLOR.  PROLOR is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing longer-acting proprietary versions of already approved therapeutic proteins. The all-stock ... Read more

The goal of the European patent system, to have a central patent court whose judgements are effective for the whole of the European Union, is now clearly in sight. The Agreement on the Unified Patent Court was signed by 24 EU member states on 19th February 2013 and plans are in place for its establishment during 2015. There have been ... Read more