Patent Litigation
Companies facing high-stakes patent disputes require sophisticated industry and legal knowledge. Perkins Coie has built a premier patent litigation practice by focusing on clients’ needs.
Few firms can match the strength of our patent practice. Our team of more than 120 experienced patent litigators are highly skilled at analyzing technology, with over 80% holding degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, life sciences, and other fields. Our clients benefit from the insight of numerous former Federal Circuit law clerks, a former solicitor and deputy general counsel for intellectual property law at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and a former lead administrative patent judge at the PTAB.
We protect our clients with a team of winning patent trial lawyers who have won jury trials in places like the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, Northern District of California, and District of Delaware. They are aided by leading in-house jury consultants and an in-house graphics team to make persuasive presentations at all phases of a case—from preliminary injunction motions to claim construction, summary judgment, trial, and beyond. We can support large, highly sophisticated clients, yet also efficiently serve emerging companies with smaller budgets.
Deep Client Commitment and Industry Knowledge
We apply our legal and technical acumen to solve problems efficiently and advance our clients’ business goals, both short-term and long-term. We learn technology and follow industry trends to anticipate issues and get up to speed quickly when disputes arise. As a result, we are leaders in cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, smartphones, cloud storage, social media, e-commerce, LED lighting, gaming, autonomous vehicles, consumer products, medical devices, and pharmaceutical drugs and biologics.
Recognized Leader in Major Venues
Our team regularly represents clients in high-stakes patent matters around the country. We have litigated more than 350 patent cases in the past two years, with achievements that include wins on motions to dismiss, summary judgment, and after bench and jury trials. We have also resolved many disputes by negotiation of favorable settlements. We are proud to be recognized for our success in obtaining major patent litigation victories for clients.
Our practice offers experience in the major centers of district court patent litigation, including courts in Northern, Central, and Southern California; Delaware; Chicago; New York; and East and West Texas. Other distinctions include a sophisticated International Trade Commission Section 337 practice that has been involved in several landmark investigations and a top-tier post-grant practice before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board, where we have handled more than 800 inter partes review proceedings. And when cases go up on appeal, we have one of the nation’s leading Federal Circuit practices. Since 2016, we have had a record of 64 wins, 17 losses, and 9 mixed decisions in Federal Circuit patent appeals and mandamus proceedings.
How we help clients
- Patent litigation in district courts throughout the country
- Patent appeals
- Post-grant proceedings
- Hatch-Waxman litigation
- ITC Section 337 investigations
- Pre-litigation patent assertion and responses to patent assertions
- Patent opinions
- State of the art (patent landscape) searches and opinions
- Patent due diligence
- Patent valuation
Our Team
100+ patent litigators with science degrees
300+ patent litigations (2022-present)
800+ post-grant proceedings (to date)
75+ ITC Section 337 proceedings (to date)
Awards and Recognition
- Ranked globally, nationally, and regionally in Intellectual Property by Chambers USA, Chambers China, and Chambers Global.
- Named a “Litigation Leader” in intellectual property litigation in the BTI Litigation Outlook 2022, 2023, and 2024 reports.
- Ranked among the top 10 Most Active law firms for patent litigation defense and post-grant proceedings in the 2024 Lex Machina Patent Litigation Report.
- Ranked for patent litigation, ITC litigation, post-grant proceedings, patent prosecution, trade secrets, patent transactions in the 2024 IAM Patent 1000.
- Ranked for patent litigation, ITC litigation, post-grant proceedings, patent prosecution, and life sciences: IP by Managing IP.
- Named an “Inclusion Champion” in the Diversity Lab’s 2021 and 2022 Blueprint Surveys for our firm leadership’s diversity and inclusion efforts.
- Named to the 2021 and 2022 ChIPs Honor Roll for our IP practice and firm leadership’s diversity and inclusion initiatives by ChIPs and Diversity Lab.
- Named a finalist for The American Lawyer Intellectual Property Litigation Department of the Year in 2019 and 2021.
- Named by Law360 as an Intellectual Property "Practice Group of the Year" in 2019.
