Intellectual Property Practice
King & Spalding offers clients a full-service intellectual property practice that combines proven first-chair trial and business lawyers with true scientific specialists. The firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group consists of more than 100 IP professionals, including more than 70 lawyers and patent agents with technical degrees, located in our Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Houston, New York, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. offices.
We provide our clients with services across the spectrum of IP work, including:
- Patent litigation before the district courts, appellate courts, and ITC
- Trademark and false advertising litigation
- Copyright, trade secret, domain name, and corporate espionage litigation
- Patent prosecution and strategic counseling in all major technologies
- Trademark prosecution and strategic counseling worldwide
- IP government relations with Congress and the Executive Branch
The group has been recognized as a leading practice in Corporate Counsel’s “Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies?” survey of the Fortune 250 (top 3 national ranking), IP Law & Business magazine, and Managing Intellectual Property’s “2011 World IP Survey,” and our lawyers have been recognized as leading practitioners by publications such as Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers In America, International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Patents and Trademarks), Euromoney Publications’ Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Experts and World’s Leading Trademark Law Experts, SuperLawyers, and Legal Elite.
Intellectual Property Trial Practice
King & Spalding litigators have a passion for winning lawsuits and are recognized for their accomplishments in the courtroom. The National Law Journal named the firm to its “Defense Hot List” for two years in a row. Forty-four of our trial lawyers are named in the prestigious The Best Lawyers in America. We have nine active members of the Fellows of The American College of Trial Lawyers and eight retired members.
Thirty-nine of our litigation partners have been named as leaders by Chambers USA. King & Spalding has decades of experience litigating the world’s most sophisticated intellectual property matters. Our intellectual property lawyers’ experiences include:
- More than 100 cases tried to verdict, including jury and bench trials
- Over 100 appellate cases argued, including cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court
- Over 500 cases settled favorably prior to trial
- Over 200 cases decided on summary judgment.
