We represent Fortune 500 companies and emerging startups in high‑stakes patent disputes and provide portfolio‑focused counseling to help clients protect, strengthen, and monetize their innovations. We litigate in the busiest U.S. patent venues and before the International Trade Commission and Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and we guide clients through U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proceedings and worldwide patent strategy.

Trial and venue experience for complex patent disputes

Our first-chair trial lawyers have decades of experience litigating sophisticated intellectual property matters in U.S. district courts, before the U.S. International Trade Commission and in arbitrations involving patent and licensing disputes. We are positioned in key litigation markets – with offices in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. – and regularly handle matters in active patent venues such as the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, District of Delaware, and the Northern and Central Districts of California, as well as proceedings at the ITC, appeals at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and matters reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.

Technical fluency across industries and standards-based technologies

Our team includes lawyers with technical degrees spanning electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, industrial engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, systems engineering, and operations research. This technical foundation supports work across a wide range of technologies and sectors, including high tech, semiconductors, telecommunications, life sciences, software and mobile applications, financial services, energy, agribusiness, consumer products, and transportation. We also handle matters involving standards‑based technologies (including, for example, Bluetooth and 2G/3G/4G/5G NR, WiFi, 802.11, and video codecs) and disputes addressing royalties for standard‑essential patent portfolios subject to FRAND/RAND obligations.

USPTO proceedings and coordinated global strategy

Many of our attorneys are registered to practice before the USPTO. By combining litigation and USPTO experience, we guide clients through post‑grant procedures, challenging or defending validity and, where appropriate, strengthening patents prior to assertion. Our experience includes reexaminations, inter partes review, and post‑grant review, including filing, strategy, and evaluating likely outcomes for patents at issue in diligence matters. We also coordinate worldwide approaches by managing foreign oppositions outside the United States.

Counseling that creates business value

Our patent prosecution, counseling, and IP due diligence work focuses on creating value in clients’ patent portfolios, supporting both large, multinational corporations and startup companies. We have obtained and assisted in the procurement and management of hundreds of U.S. and foreign patents (and trademarks), negotiate technology transactions and license agreements, conduct IP due diligence for M&A, and provide opinions on intellectual property matters.