North America - United States • Intellectual property
Ropes & Gray LLP
The intellectual property group at Ropes & Gray LLP represents a broad range of domestic and cross-border clients in all major patent litigation forums, with particular expertise in proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board as well as the International Trade Commission. Steven Pepe in New York chairs the firm’s IP litigation practice group and is highly experienced in multijurisdictional patent infringement litigation. In Silicon Valley, Jim Batchelder represents tech clients in a variety of IP disputes, David Chun has experience litigating in district and appellate courts, and Jim Davis and Andrew Radsch are experienced in patent disputes relating to a broad range of technical fields. The group also includes Washington DC lawyers Kevin Post, who handles patent disputes for high-tech and life sciences companies, and Matthew Rizzolo, who leads the firm’s group in Section 337 proceedings before the International Trade Commission.
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'Ropes has a strong team with knowledge of the top patent courts and alternative forums for challenging patent invalidity. Ropes takes unique and novel arguments and has success, which is very important in the evolving and challenging space.'
- 'The Ropes and Gray patent litigation group provides outstanding legal services, including being very responsive, managing expectations, and providing excellent outcomes in litigation. I strongly recommend Ropes and Gray.'
- 'We have enjoyed seeing the Ropes & Gray team bring the best tradition of creativity and excellence to the table on a host of occasions. Their substantive legal expertise is top-shelf and they are so collaborative.'
Key clients
- Collision Communications
- LG Electronics
- Teradyne
- Forescout Technologies
- Emerson Electric
- Godo Kaisha IP Bridge
- Exactech
- NetApp
- MACOM Technology Solutions
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Steve Pepe