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Fish & Richardson Receives Top Rankings in 2023 Edition of IAM Patent 1000: The World's Leading Patent Professionals

Fish & Richardson has received the elite "Gold Band" national ranking in the litigation category in the 2023 edition of IAM Patent 1000: The World's Leading Patent Professionals. Fish also received national rankings in the International Trade Commission, plaintiff, post-grant, and prosecution firm categories.

Fish's offices in California, Delaware, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Texas, and Washington, D.C., also received high rankings in the prosecution and litigation categories.

IAM singled out 11 Fish attorneys as leading attorneys in their field nationwide: Ruffin Cordell, Michael McKeon, and Joseph Colaianni in the International Trade Commission category; Jonathan Singer in the life sciences litigation category; Michael Hawkins, David Holt, John Phillips, Karl Renner, and Timothy Riffe in the post-grant proceedings category; and John Dragseth and Frank Scherkenbach in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit category.

In total, the organization identified 81 Fish attorneys as "leading patent professionals" in their regions:

  • John Adkisson
  • Jeremy D. Anderson
  • Gwilym Attwell
  • Michael Autuoro
  • James Babineau
  • Edmond R. Bannon
  • Jeffrey Barclay
  • David M. Barkan
  • Gregory Booker
  • Samuel Borodach
  • Brian Boyd
  • Jack Brennan
  • Juanita Brooks
  • Carl Bruce
  • Christian Chu
  • Joseph V. Colaianni
  • Ruffin B. Cordell
  • Michael Cox
  • Ahmed Davis
  • Lauren Degnan
  • Roger Denning
  • Christopher Dillon
  • John A. Dragseth
  • Corrin Drakulich
  • J. Peter Fasse
  • J. Patrick Finn III
  • Michael Florey
  • Janis Fraser
  • Todd Garcia
  • Kurt L. Glitzenstein
  • Christine Goddard
  • Noah Graubart
  • J. Kevin Gray
  • Christopher Green
  • Joshua Griswold
  • Michael R. Hamlin
  • Michael Hawkins
  • John F. Hayden
  • Michael Headley
  • Tracy Hitt
  • David Hoffman
  • David L. Holt
  • Martina Tyreus Hufnal
  • Sushil Iyer
  • Nick Jepsen
  • David E. A. Jordan
  • Aamir Kazi
  • Adam Kessel
  • Thad C. Kodish
  • Lawrence Kolodney
  • Phyllis K. Kristal
  • John R. Lane
  • Christopher Marchese
  • Douglas E. McCann
  • Ryan McCarthy
  • Michael McKeon
  • Anita L. Meiklejohn
  • Susan E. Morrison
  • Wes Musselman
  • Stuart Nelson
  • Jayme Partridge
  • John Phillips
  • Deanna Reichel
  • W. Karl Renner
  • Timothy W. Riffe
  • Thomas Rozylowicz
  • Frank Scherkenbach
  • Eric Schulman
  • Adam Shartzer
  • Jonathan Singer
  • Jonathan Solomon
  • Seth Sproul
  • Terry Stalford
  • Rich Sterba
  • Benjamin Thompson
  • John Thornburgh
  • Hans R. Troesch
  • Matthew Wernli
  • Linhong Zhang
  • Tony Zhang
  • Michael T. Zoppo

The IAM Patent 1000 identifies the top patent practitioners in key jurisdictions around the globe. The guide is compiled after an exhaustive qualitative research project to identify outstanding firms and individuals across multiple jurisdictions. When identifying the leading firms, factors such as depth of knowledge, market presence, and the level of work on which they are typically instructed were all taken into account, as well as positive peer and client feedback.