Practice Leader: Gary M. Hoffman
Dickstein Shapiro’s Intellectual Property (IP) Practice of more than 85 IP attorneys combines decades of litigation experience with a robust procurement and asset management practice to devise strategies that help clients protect IP assets while maximizing their value. The firm handles all aspects of intellectual property work, including litigation, asset management, patent and trademark procurement, counseling, and licensing. Dickstein Shapiro assists clients in developing intellectual property programs that are indispensable to the realization of primary business objectives and that, at the same time, minimize the risk of litigation. The firm’s IP attorneys represent a variety of companies active in the electronics, semiconductor, communications, computer hardware and software, Internet distribution and operations, chemical, medical device, and biotechnology industries, among other areas of technology.
The firm’s IP Practice has been widely recognized as among the best in the business. Chambers USA ranked the firm as one of the top IP practices in Washington, DC, and praised the practice’s “straightforward approach.” The firm also was listed as a top patent firm and a top trademark firm by Intellectual Property Today and listed as a leading IP firm by Managing Intellectual Property magazine. In addition, trial wins by the practice have been ranked among the top verdicts in the country by The National Law Journal and IP Law & Business.
Members of the IP Practice are recognized leaders in intellectual property law, and they have lectured extensively in the United States and overseas for groups such as the American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Practising Law Institute. In addition, the firm’s IP attorneys have published, co-edited, and written chapters in numerous books, such as BNA’s Patent Litigation Strategies and Aspen’s Intellectual Property Opinions, and have authored many articles on intellectual property issues. The practice’s IP attorneys prepared the Intellectual Property Primer for the Association of Corporate Counsel, the first edition of which was so well received in 2003 that a second and third edition were released in 2005 and 2008.