Intellectual Property Magazine is delighted to announce the shortlist for IPM Awards 2011.

The team was overwhelmed with the sheer quantity and quality of the entries, with candidates displaying a wealth of innovation, dedication and hard work.

The shortlist:

Intellectual Property Awards for Business

INNOVATIVE IP STRATEGY DESIGN OR EXECUTION

■ Allied Security Trust

■ New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc

■ Lupin Pharmaceuticals

OUTSTANDING IP PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT/DEVELOPMENT

■ New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc

■ Tetra Pak

■ Pernod Ricard

■ Lupin Pharmaceuticals

■ Mars

Intellectual Property Awards for Law Firms

DOMAIN NAME ONLINE/STRATEGY OF THE YEAR

■ Hogan Lovells

■ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

■ Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

COPYRIGHT LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR

■ Allen & Overy

■ Berwin Leighton Paisner

■ Blake Dawson

■ Wiggin

■ Uhthoff, Gomez Vega & Uhthoff

IP LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR IN AN EMERGING MARKET

■ Chadha & Chadha

■ Remfry & Sagar

■ Mehmet Gün & Partners

■ Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii

■ Becerril, Coca & Becerril

■ Jackson, Etti & Edu

■ Wragge & Co

■ Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

TRADEMARK LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR

■ Kenyon & Kenyon

■ Grau & Angulo

■ Simmons & Simmons

■ Wragge & Co

■ Vossius & Partner

■ Allen & Overy

■ Bristows

■ Arnold & Porter

PATENT LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR

■ Cabinet Beau de Loménie

■ Olswang

■ Bristows

■ Hogan Lovells

■ Allen & Overy

■ Simmons & Simmons

■ Wragge & Co

■ Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt

Individual Intellectual Property Awards

IP LAWYER OF THE YEAR

■ Anna-Lena Wolfe, Tetra Pak

■ Gary Wilson, Harrison Goddard Foote

■ Simon Clark, Berwin Leighton Paisner

■ Juanita Brooks, Fish & Richardson

■ Kelly Gill, Gowling, Lafleur Henderson

■ Kristina Rosette, Covington & Burling

■ Jeffrey Randall, Paul Hastings

■ Peter Kather, Preu Bohlig & Partner

YOUNG IP LAWYER OF THE YEAR

■ Jennifer Uno, Harrison Goddard Foote

■ Wilson L White, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

■ Christopher Stothers, Arnold & Porter

■ Chelsea Loughran, Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

CEO OF THE YEAR

■ Daniel P McCurdy, Allied Security Trust

■ Fran Nevrkla, PPL