Awards
HGF wins big at the Managing IP EMEA Awards Ceremony 2025
April 2025
The Annual Managing IP Awards: EMEA Awards 2025 were announced last night, and HGF are proud to have won 7 awards.
The Managing IP Awards are highly recognised and respected across the world in the IP sector, and we would like to congratulate all our colleagues on their well-deserved awards. This prestigious recognition follows another year of exceptional work and is a testament to the success of the whole HGF team across Europe, who have worked extremely hard to provide excellence to their clients.
HGF won the awards for:
• European Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year
• UK Patent Disputes Firm of the Year (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms)
• IPEC Firm of the Year
• Ireland Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year
• Benelux Trademark Firm of the Year (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms)
• Ireland Practitioner of the Year (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms) – Craig Thomson
• Pan-European impact case award for its work on J 0001/24 (2024)
This year was a record breaking year HGF’s European team with 23 nominations. The categories we were shortlisted for are:
Europe
- Patent Disputes (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms)
- Patent Prosecution
- EPO Proceedings Firm of the Year
- Trademark (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms)
Benelux
- Trademark (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms)
- Patent (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms)
United Kingdom (England)
- Patent Disputes (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms)
- Trademark Disputes (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms)
- Patent Prosecution
- Trademark Prosecution (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms)
- IPEC Firm of the Year
- UPC Firm of the Year
- Patent Practitioner of the Year (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms) – Rachel Fetches
- Rising Star of the Year (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms) – Christie Batty
Ireland
- Patent Prosecution
- Trade Mark Prosecution
- Practitioner of the Year (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms) – Craig Thomson
- Rising Star of the Year – Sean McDonagh
Netherlands
- Trade Mark Prosecution
- Practitioner of the Year (Patent & Trademark Attorneys) – Alexander Hagen
United Kingdom (Scotland)
- Prosecution
- Practitioner of the Year – Gary Wilson
- Rising Star of the Year – Caroline Pigott
For the full list of winners click the button below.
