Overview
Steptoe’s Intellectual Property Group received five practice and 18 individual mentions for lawyers in the 2015 edition of Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine’s IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners. In addition, Steptoe partners Roger Parkhurst and Charles Schill, both based in the firm’s Washington office, were again singled out as “Luminaries.”
The IAM Patent 1000 is a guide designed to identify the top patent prosecution, licensing and litigation practitioners in key jurisdictions worldwide. The results are based on a five-month long research process in which IAM conducted telephone interviews with patent specialists around the globe.
The following Steptoe partners are ranked in the IAM Patent 1000:
- John Abramic – Litigation (United States: Illinois)
- Bill Abrams – Litigation (United States: California)
- Steve Adkins – International Trade Commission (United States: National) and Litigation (United States: DC Metro Area)
- Tim Bickham – Litigation (United States: DC Metro Area)
- John Caracappa – Litigation (United States: DC Metro Area)
- Tom Filarski – Transactions and Litigation (United States: Illinois)
- Harold Fox – Post-Grant Procedures (United States: National) and Prosecution (United States: DC Metro Area)
- Robert Kovelman – Transactions and Prosecution (United States: California)
- John Molenda – Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (United States: National) and Litigation (United States: New York)
- Jay Nuttall – Litigation (United States: Illinois)
- Roger Parkhurst – Luminary (United States: DC Metro Area)
- Tom Pasternak – Litigation (United States: Illinois)
- Brooke Quist – Prosecution (United States: California)
- Charles Schill – International Trade Commission (United States: DC Metro Area) and Luminary (United States: National)
The firm’s Intellectual Property Group is ranked in the following practice areas in the IAM Patent 1000:
- Litigation (United States: California)
- Litigation (United States: DC Metro Area)
- Litigation (United States: Illinois)
- Prosecution (United States: California)
- Transactions (United States: Illinois)
Read more on the rankings in Intellectual Asset Management.