Practice Areas & Industries: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Aspects of our intellectual property practice include:

• With 13 IP attorneys listed in the 2006 Best Lawyers in America, Kilpatrick Stockton ranks first in the nation among full service law firms for the third consecutive year.
• Kilpatrick Stockton's Intellectual Property Department achieved a number 15 world ranking according to PLC Cross-border Quarterly magazine's 2006 Global Intellectual Property Super League.(October 2006)

Recent intellectual property engagements include:

• We are defending Google Inc. in the Southern District of New York in two high profile suits alleging that its Google Print Library Project infringes copyright laws.
• We are defending Red Hat Inc. in a high-profile patent infringement suit involving open-source software.
• We are defending adidas America in a high-profile patent infringement suit in the Eastern District of Texas brought by Nike.

Kilpatrick Stockton combines strong and zealous advocacy with professionalism. "Clients described the team as being 'rigorously professional' in its conduct of complex cases." Chambers USA 2004. "Kilpatrick Stockton has 'an outstanding practice with great lawyers from top to bottom.'" Chambers USA 2005.

Aspects of our patent litigation practice include:

• Represented clients in patent suits in the district courts of more than 25 states and the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
• IP Law and Business ranked Kilpatrick Stockton in the top 10 of law firms in its 2006 national patent litigation survey (July 2006).
• IPLaw360 ranked Kilpatrick Stockton in the top 10 in its survey and ranking of the top 100 patent litigation practices in the United States (February 2006).
• IP Law and Business ranked the firm's patent litigation practice as one of the top 20 in the United States (May 2004).
• Managing Intellectual Property ranked Kilpatrick Stockton in the top 10 of law firms in North America in patent litigation (October 2002).
• We handled over 120 filed patent infringement suits in the last 5 years.

Our intellectual property attorneys are experienced and knowledgeable:

• The patent litigation team includes over 35 attorneys who concentrate in patent litigation; the team partners with other of the firm's 95+ intellectual property attorneys and 130+ commercial litigation attorneys, and other of the firm's attorneys (including those concentrating in antitrust, licensing, tax, and other areas), as needed
• More than 50 Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys are registered patent attorneys.
• Scientific and engineering degrees in virtually every discipline; former engineers, scientists, patent examiners, and law clerks to federal judges
• 7 IP attorneys hold a Ph.D. in their field; 17 hold masters degrees