Companies with the Most Patent Attorneys and Brokers
The next checklist ranks the highest 25 corporations with probably the most registered patent legislation professionals. All of those corporations have 100+ patent attorneys/brokers. I additionally embrace a be aware following the agency with some details about how the numbers have modified since 2010.
- Fish & Richardson (Regular)
- Finnegan Henderson (Down 50+, Spin-off corporations, together with Bookoff McAndrews & McNeill Baur)
- Wilson Sonsini (Greater than doubled, principally new attorneys/brokers)
- Knobbe Martens (Regular)
- Kilpatrick Townsend (Huge development from merger of corporations)
- Foley & Lardner (Regular)
- Baker Botts (Regular)
- IBM (Regular)
- Perkins Coie (Greater than doubled)
- Morrison & Foerster (Regular)
- Cooley (Greater than doubled, principally new attorneys/brokers)
- Sterne Kessler (Some development)
- Morgan Lewis (Some development)
- Jones Day (Some decline)
- Schwegman Lundberg (Doubled)
- Wolf Greenfield (Doubled)
- Banner & Witcoff (Some development)
- Polsinelli PC (Enormous development, together with of us from Novak Druce; Dorsey; and so forth. and likewise new attorneys)
- Johnson & Johnson (firm)
- Alston & Chook (Regular)
- Kirkland & Ellis (Regular)
- Haynes and Boone (Development – principally new attorneys)
- Mintz Levin (Doubled – principally new attorneys)
- Qualcomm (Some development)
- Harness IP (Some decline)
Companies with the most important losses of parents since 2010 embrace Kenyon & Kenyon (agency closed — 150 individuals); Brinks (all the way down to 86 from 160, of us left to go to a number of totally different locations); Woodcock (most joined BakerHostetler); Blakely Sokoloff (agency closed an many joined Womble Bond but additionally spin-off corporations of Jaffery Watson; Nicholson De Vos); Connolly Bove (agency closed); Fitzpatrick Cella (Agency closed with many becoming a member of Venable); Ropes & Grey (a number of of us left to different corporations, together with spin-off Haley Guiliano); Novak Druce (a number of poaching, together with by Polsinelli; Duane Morris, and so forth.).
The checklist has a some huge caveats. (1) The info comes from the USPTO register, and a few attorneys are usually not good at updating their info. For instance. Kenyon & Kenyon closed its doorways in 2016, however 30+ registrations nonetheless checklist the agency. (2) A variety of of us use their dwelling (or another) deal with relatively than agency deal with for the registration. (3) Retired of us usually don’t replace their registration.
