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Cantor Colburn LLP is the fastest growing U.S. patent firm over the last ten years (Juristat). Cantor Colburn is the #3 U.S. law firm for utility patents, #4 for design patents, and #8 for trademarks (IP Law360 and Ant-like Persistence). Cantor Colburn is one of the largest full-service intellectual property law firms in the country, with more than 100 attorneys and agents providing counsel to clients around the globe from offices in Hartford, Washington, D.C., Houston, Atlanta, and Detroit. With highly specialized knowledge and in-depth understanding of clients' businesses, the firm supports the technological innovations that are driving the world economy. Exceptionally well versed in a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, the firm assists clients in a broad spectrum of industries, including software, aerospace, mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, biotechnology, medical devices, and chemical engineering.
At Morgan Lewis, we work in collaboration. We work around the clock and around the world—always ready, always on—to respond to the needs of our clients and craft powerful solutions for them. From our 29 offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, we work with clients ranging from established, global Fortune 100 companies to enterprising startups.
We provide comprehensive litigation, corporate, finance, restructuring, employment and benefits, and intellectual property services in all major industries, helping clients address and anticipate challenges across vast and rapidly changing landscapes. And we approach every representation with an equal commitment to first understanding, and then efficiently and effectively advancing, the interests of our clients and arriving at the best results.
Our team encompasses more than 2,000 legal professionals, including lawyers, patent agents, employee benefits advisers, regulatory scientists, and other specialists. If a client has a question, we’ll immediately find the person in our global network with the answer. If there’s a shift in the legal landscape, we’re on top of it, and our clients will be too.
We focus on both immediate and long-term goals with our clients, harnessing our resources from strategic hubs of commerce, law, and government across North America and in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. You’ll find us everywhere from New York to Dubai, San Francisco to Beijing, and London to Washington.
Founded in 1873, we stand on the shoulders of more than 140 years of achievement, but we never rest on our reputation.
Kramer Levin provides proactive, creative and pragmatic solutions that address today’s most challenging legal issues. Headquartered in New York, with offices in Silicon Valley and Paris, our firm fosters a strong culture of involvement in public and community service. We regard it as imperative that we maintain an environment where people from diverse backgrounds can flourish. Over the past three years, 62% of new Kramer Levin partners were promoted from within and 50% were women.
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with offices in Texas, New York, California, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai, providing a full spectrum of legal services in technology, financial services, energy and private equity. With more than 600 lawyers, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest U.S.-based firms by The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer and The Lawyer.
Merchant & Gould's intellectual property practice is about innovation. Our lawyers use creative strategies designed to expand on the potential of new ideas and to capitalize on opportunities that go beyond even our clients' toughest expectations.
Approximately one-half of the M&G's practice involves securing, licensing, maintaining and counseling relative to intellectual property matters. The other half involves dispute resolution, litigation and appeals. Within this framework, our attorneys focus on the following areas of intellectual property practice: Appellate, Chemical & Life, Copyright, Electrical & Software, Licensing, Litigation, Mechanical, Post-Grant Review Proceedings, and Trademark.
Pepper Hamilton LLP is a multi-practice law firm with more than 500 lawyers nationally. The firm provides corporate, litigation, intellectual property and regulatory legal services to leading businesses, governmental entities, nonprofit organizations and individuals throughout the nation and the world.