Its clients are clear: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, born of a 2004 marriage between Hale and Dorr and Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, ranks among the country’s leading intellectual property firms. Of its 1,143 attorneys, 60 are IP partners and 108 IP associates (150 hold technical degrees). The firm reinforced its reputation during 2013 as an IP litigation powerhouse, representing household-name clients in major patent litigation.
Among them was Monsanto Co., maker of Roundup Ready weed-resistant soybeans. Wilmer helped secure a victory for Monsanto in Bowman v. Monsanto Co. before the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices affirmed decisions by federal circuit and district courts that producing new crops of soybeans containing Monsanto’s patented weed-resistant trait without its permission was infringement.
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