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