Business leaders trust Ropes & Gray to handle their business-critical intellectual property matters. For more than 130 years, our IP litigation practice group has succeeded in protecting and enforcing our clients’ interests in high-stakes litigation and counseling. Our practice group has the experience and knowledge to handle any matter with IP implications, and specializes in matters involving patents, trade secrets, trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, false advertising and unfair competition.

We represent both IP owners and accused infringers in every key intellectual property litigation court in the United States, including the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas; the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California; the District of Delaware; and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. We also litigate disputes before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), including the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB); the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC); and tribunals around the world. With IP litigation attorneys in six U.S. offices as well as in Japan and South Korea, we are able to work efficiently with clients worldwide to devise strategic solutions that meet their business objectives.

Ropes & Gray serves clients in all areas of intellectual property law, including:

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Arbitration
• Copyright Infringement
• Freedom to Operate
• International Strategy and Coordination of Proceedings
• ITC Proceedings / Section 337
• Patent Litigation
• Post-Grant Proceedings, Including Proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
• Administrative trials before the PTAB, including inter partes review, post-grant review and derivation proceedings
• Other post-grant proceedings, including ex parte reexaminations
• Trademark & Related IP Litigation
• Trade Secrets