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TOP IP FIRMS
| Firm |
Number of
Mentions |
| Finnegan, Henderson |
12 |
| Howrey Simon |
11 |
| Kirkland & Ellis |
10 |
| Jones Day |
9 |
| Baker Botts |
8 |
| Alston & Bird |
7 |
| Fish & Neave |
6 |
| Fitzpatrick, Cella |
6 |
| Leydig, Voit |
6 |
| Banner & Witcoff |
5 |
| Foley & Lardner |
5 |
| Greenberg Traurig |
5 |
| Vinson & Elkins |
5 |
| Carlson, Gaskey |
4 |
| Conley Rose |
4 |
| Faegre & Benson |
4 |
| Fish & Richardson |
4 |
| Rader, Fishman |
4 |
| Sidley Austin |
4 |
| Firms mentioned most often for litigation and patent prosecution |
| METHODOLGY
We asked the general counsel of the Fortune 250 which primary firms they used for IP litigation and for patent prosecution. This is how we advised the GCs in making the selection: "Primary outside counsel can be the firms that are on the company’s preferred list; the ‘go-to’ firms; firms that handled the most important cases in the previous year; firms used most often; and/or firms with the most billings. You decide."
We received 133 responses from companies. Of those, 130 provided litigation firms, and 82 provided prosecution counsel. For companies that participated last year, we included their responses on the survey forms. They were free to update their outside counsel. |
FIRMS THAT PROSECUTED THE BEST PATENTS IN 2002
| IP LITIGATORS |
NUMBER
OF MENTIONS |
| Finnegan, Henderson |
9 |
| Kirkland & Ellis |
8 |
| Howrey Simon |
7 |
| Jones Day |
7 |
| Alston & Bird |
5 |
| Baker Botts |
5 |
| Leydig, Voit |
5 |
| Fish & Neave |
4 |
| Fish & Richardson |
4 |
| Foley & Lardner |
4 |
| Sidley Austin |
4 |
| Vinson & Elkins |
4 |
| Banner & Witcoff |
3 |
| Fitzpatrick, Cella |
3 |
| Fross Zelnick |
3 |
| Harness, Dickey |
3 |
| Mayer, Brown |
3 |
| Pattishall, McAuliffe |
3 |
| Perkins Coie |
3 |
| Rader, Fishman |
3 |
| Weil, Gotshal |
3 |
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| PATENT PROSECUTORS |
NUMBER
OF MENTIONS |
| Howrey Simon |
4 |
| Baker Botts |
3 |
| Conley Rose |
3 |
| Finnegan, Henderson |
3 |
| Fitzpatrick, Cella |
3 |
| Greenberg Traurig |
3 |
| Alston & Bird |
2 |
| Banner & Witcoff |
2 |
| Brooks & Kushman |
2 |
| Burns, Doane |
2 |
| Cantor Colburn |
2 |
| Carlson, Gaskey |
2 |
| Faegre & Benson |
2 |
| Fish & Neave |
2 |
| Jones Day |
2 |
| Kirkland & Ellis |
2 |
| MacMillan, Sobanski |
2 |
| McDonnell Boehnen |
2 |
| Oppenheimer Wolff |
2 |
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| (IP Law & Business, July 2003) |
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